The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-20
our ST. LOUIS LETTER.
More Postal Expsriments-A Municipal
Mensgsrie-A Double Water
Works System.


ST. LOUIS, Aug 1.-Postmastcr Har-
lows's scheme for railway postal service
In the city, by means of the street car
lines, has been abandoned for the pres
emit, because satisfactory financial ar
rangements cannot be made with the
roads which would have to carry the
mail. The pneumatic tube postal SER
vice will be put into operation In the
fall, and it is likely that visitors to the
city will then be able to see remarka-
BILE postal convenience between the
central and southern part Of the city
In full swing. The postal demands OF
st. Louis are not content with this,
however, and the department has or
dered ten new sub-stations to be estab-
lished in the outlying districts,
The Geological garden in Forest
park, which was established q few
years ago by the gift of a few buffalo
to the city, has been added to SO con-
stantly, from year to year, that it is
now considered by collectors to be
worth nearly fifty thousand dollars.
The city legislators have just dis
covered that there are lot of animals
worth looking after out there, and
have appropriated a large sum Of
money to build comfortable quarters
for them, and to buy others. The
Park commissioners, as they succeeded
one another, have carried out general
plan of buying only tame animals, and
there is not one ferocious zone in the
whole enclosure now devoted to them.
st. Louis will soon be the only city
in the United STATES with two systems
OF water works in constant opere tiOn.
In these days, when the most ordinary
water works plant costs between enc
and two million dollars, most cities are
glad to have one system in good condi-
ton. BY n popularity of this city's
laws, the revenue from the sale of the
water can be used only for the extern
sion of the water works, and conse-
quently there is always plenty Of money
to carry out the plans of the engineers.
The Water commissioner is now MAX
ing arrangements to build one water
works station to supply the suburbs
exclusively, and he will have it finished
a short time after the new city water
works are completed. The minor sta
ton will pump water to places within
six miles of the city. Some of these
suburban towns are so high that they
can't be reached by the ordinary city
pressure, and without the proposed
system they would have to build works
of their own or depend on cisterns and
wells.
This summer in St Louis is going to
show many fewer sunstrolkes than there
were last summer. Sunstrokes are
things that can't be helped in a large
city, where people will work hard dur
ing the hot months and eat and drink
carelessly. AS matter of course, there
are more sunstrokes in tenement
houses, where people are huddled to-
gether, than there are where there is
more room. Since last year the tene-
ment house district of the city has lost
fully one third of Its population, partly
because of the railroads entering the
town, which tore down numbers of the
rickety dwellings, ana partly because
great effortg hove been made by real
estate men to fill up the suburbs
through the sale of houses and lots on
cheap plans. The fast roads, which
were extended into every part of the
town, made it possible for the me-
chanics and even the Industrious la
borers to live on the edge of the city,
in pure air and near the parks, and at
the same time to get to their work in
season. Last year many people died
in their beds at home. overheated.
This year there has not been one case
of the kind reported, and the sum
stroke physicians have had little to do.
Designs for the statue of Gep Sher-
man, which is to be put in front of the
city hall at st. Louis are being made
not only by the artists here, but by
several sculptors in Paris, who want to
get foothold in America. AS soon as
the hall is ready for the statue prize
is to be offered for the best design,
the only condition being that the figure
must be equestrian. 1t is believed by
the artists that there will be at least
ten designs in the competition.