Show THE MAIL CHUTE New York Sun SunAn SunAn SunAn An interesting sight the hall ball of ot a great modern office building presents is the mail malt chute It is a lofty building soaring toward the sky sl and with many tenants and the mail chute runs from top to bottom with an opening oper on every floor through which letters are dropped All day long letters are sliding down that chute Standing at any time of ot day in the busy hall ball you may see through its glass front letters flitting silently past you down the chute though it is in the hour or two at the end of ot the day da when in inmany Inmany inmany many offices the days letters letter are gath gathered gathered gathered ered up and mailed that they hey come thickest and fastest Maybe you stand looking at the tube and see it silent and vacant and then thena a single letter flits past coming Into view at the ceiling and disappearing at atthe atthe atthe the floor with a movement so quick that you ou could scarcely follow it with your our eye And then comes a shower of letters chasing one another down the chute and then another shower and then a few seconds pause and then thoi fairly shooting past a big thick letter lettera a package that goes by like an express train that had been waiting for the sig signal signal signal nal to show a clear trade Then more showers and shoals and blocks of ot letters and then stragglers straggler and single letters letters of all alii sorts of ot shapes and sizes and colors and most of ot them going straight down endwise in the most businesslike way but occasionally you see one that does not move moe like that some single letter that with the tube at the moment all to itself sort of ot saunters down tipping to one side and the other a it goes and you may imagine that this is a let letter letter letter ter on some lighter topic than business and that so is not In so much of ot a u hurry But It was only for a brief interval that this lighter easier moving letter had the tube alone for now they are coming again shooting straight down letters in droves and flocks and hurries burries and singly and in twos and three and heavy letters that go by like lightning and then more dozens and scores and streams of ot letters letters dropping end endlessly endlessly endlessly lessly |