which will be laid under the streets.

When a letter is posted at any of the sub-stations, instead of lying in
the box until, the postman comes round to collect it, it will be
instantly sent through the tube and deposited on the cancelling desk at
the nearest station.

By this means a great deal of time will be saved; it is even said, by
the persons interested in the scheme, that a letter which now takes two
hours to go from Wall Street to the Grand Central Depot, can be sent by
the pneumatic tubes in less than ten minutes.

The Government has given out the contract for laying the tubes, and one
circuit is to be in working order by October.

It is said that the big dry-goods stores mean to make arrangements
whereby they can send their small parcels by tube instead of messenger,
and save a good deal of money now spent for horses and drivers.

The Pneumatic Postal system is in use in London, Berlin, and
Philadelphia, and has proved a great success wherever tried.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

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