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Show CAPITOL SHY SLOTS, CHUTES I BOXES Mailing Conveniences Not Missed Until Now, So Wonder Grows. With a bundle of letters in his hand, Heber J. Cummiugs, secretary of the state board of equalization, left his new offices on the fourth floor of the new eapitol early yesterday afternoon to find a mail chute or a letter box. For two hours he wandered through the corridors of the statehouse in his quest. Every few miles he would sit down on a marble step or lean against an ornate balustrate to rest. He still carried the letters in his hand. Finally, in the wilds of the west eor-ridor eor-ridor on the third floor, he met another an-other wayfarer. When the pedestrian got close enough. Mr. CummingB instantly instant-ly recognized him ! as Howard A. King, custodian of the building. ' ' Howard. ' ' said Mr. Cummiugs, wearilv, "where are the mail chutes or the letter boxes? I have walked around here for two hours looking for them, and I can't find them. Phew, I'm mat'-' ,, , a "There ain t any, confessed Mr. King. . The custodian spoke the truth. Evidently Evi-dently in their efforts to think of all things for the state government in its new florae, the eapitol commissioners forgot that Important modern convenience, con-venience, the mail chute. There is not one In the building. Most business structures struc-tures have them now glass troughs which extend up through every floor, with a Jetter slot at each, and a mail box on the ground floor to catch the letters, later collected by the postoffice department. In the rush attendant upon the installing in-stalling of many of tho state offices, before be-fore all the appurtenances of the eapitol were ready, no temporary mail boxes were installed. Mr. King said yesterday, yester-day, however, that a letter box would be placed today in a central part of the building, where the various state departments depart-ments may deposit their outgoing mall. Until yesterday none of the departments depart-ments which moved into the eapitol this week had noticed the lack of letter-mailing letter-mailing facilities, all of them being too deeply bnried in the work of getting settled to have any time for correspondence. |