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Show S.n FitANCisco aiTvmde: The American people in their private capacity are no doubt tlie most enterprising en-terprising and progressive in tlie wnrlJ, but collectively "and when ailing through their government thi do not betray any such proclivities. pro-clivities. It is a notorious fact that the pneumatic tube-, which lias been utilized so extensively in foreign for-eign countries, is entirely unknown to our rostofficu Department. A number cf years ago an appropriation appropria-tion wa mnde by Congress for a tube in Washington, but it was so buiigllngrycoustructcd it proved a failure. Since then private corporations corpora-tions havu used the pneumatic sy stem w itli great succe-s. " "- |