Show OUR ST. ST LOUIS or More lo postal rostal tal Experiment A. A Muss Municipal V A Double Water i works Kr fem l V ST. ST Louis Loins Auy Aug Aug i. i Postmaster l. schei scheme for fOl rai railway way postal sei T in the city by means mean of tire the tle street car carlines carlines lines has been abandoned for the tho present present pres pres- ent oat because satisfactory ar ar- ar cannot be made with the c would aid have havo to c CaY y the tho roads loads which wo y snaiL malL The pneumatic tub tubo post postal l bee bee- tel vice mall wilt will be put into operation in the wi ut fall fail and itis It is likely that visitors to the fal city will then be bo able to t see a remarkable ble postal wi convenience between the tho central aud and southern part of the city i in iii lull full lul swing Ties The postal demands dEmands of ot St. St Louis are not content wih with this has ordered or or- however and the department to be established stab stab- dered ten nosY new sub stations in the outlying districts The he Zoological garden in in Forest t park parke which was established a. a few years 3 ago 0 by the gi gift of of- of u few v buffalo to tIre the city ha haw hat been added to so 50 constantly constanty con con- from year to year that it is isnow isnow is isnow stanty now considered by collectors to bo be thousand dollars worth nearly fifty The Tho city neary legislators have havo just discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered that there are arc a lot of ot animals worth looking after out there and lavo irivo appropriated a large sum of money to build comfortable quartets quarters for foe them and to btty buy others he The Park Panic commissioners as they succeeded one ode another have havo carried out a u general ore plan of buying only tamo tame animals and is not ono one ferocious one in the whole enclosure now devoted to them St. St Louis will wi soon be the tho only city with two systems in the tho United Sta States Stases es of water works in constant operation En n these days when the mos mosi ordinary works plant costs between one ono and two vores million dollars moat cities are ace glad to have one system in good condItio condi condl- tio tion By Hy a peculiarity of this city's laws tire the revenue from the sale sale of the water aws can be used only for the tire extension eden exten sion o ot of the tile water works and consequently consequently conse conse- q uen there Is al always ways plen plenty ty of money to carry cairy out ont the plans of tb the engineers The Water commissioner is now making malting malt male ing lug arrangements arrangement to build one water waterworks waterworks works station to supply the suburbs exclusively and he will wi have it finished a short tune time thre after the new city water waterworks waterworks works are completed The he minor station station staton sta sta- tion ton will wi pump water ater to places within six miles mies of the tire city Some of these suburban towns are aro so O high that they cant can't be reached by the ordinary ity and without the proposed pr pressure S stem th would hOS-would V V id have to build works work 1 pend and we S S This summer in St. St St Lo Louis Loutis ri going oi g to V show V Sll many fe fewer sunstrokes sunstroke than there were last summer Sunstrokes are things that cant can't be helped in a large city where people will i work hard during during dueing dur due ing the hot months and eat and drink carelessly As a matter o of are more sunstrokes in tenement houses where here people are huddled together to to- to together gether than there are where there is ismore ismore ismore more room Since last year the tene- tene m mint nt house district distrct of the tho tle city has hns hs lost fully third one-third of its I population partly party because of the railroads entering the town which tore down clown numbers of of the rickety dwellings ana ann partly party because great efforts have been made by real estate men to fill fl up the suburbs through the tire sale of or houses and lots on cheap plans plans The he fast fat ron roads s which were extended d into every part of the town made it possible for V the mechanics mechanics me me- and even the industrious laborers Ia- Ia borers boners to to live lve on the edge of the city in in l pure air aIr and near the parks and Ind at atthe atthe atthe the same time to get to t their work ork in season season L List year many people died in iu their b bids d' d sit at home overheated This year there thore has not been one case of the kind reported and the sunstroke sunstroke sun sun- stroke e ph physicians have had little to do Designs for the statue of or Gen Sherman Sherman Sher Slier man which is to be put in front of of the tho city hall ball bal at at St. St at Louis are being made not only bv bY the artists artst here but by several sculptors in Paris who ho want to get get a foothold in America America As soon as the hall hal is ii ready for the statue a prize Is to td be bo offered for lot the best design deslOn the tire on only lV condition being being that the tho fR figure r must ba equestrian It I i h believed by the artists that there will wi be at ten designs in the competition |