The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-13
IT, Long Island Mails.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
In your Of this day paper regard to the
Long Island Railroad and the mails several Inaccuracies
occur.
Az learn the care, tbs company claimed TO be made
second cass road which could give tnen 800 per mile
$40 GEO. lees oxe seventh netting IS 65I duble the
amount awarded to third class road they have here
tofore been rated. They claim this upon the ground
that they additional services the delivery Of ell the
mails Ut Brooklyn Greenport and the intermediate sta
oos-soch rs delivering the mail for all the cod OF
Long Is!s nd beard steamboat the harbor oGGreen
port and also At the expeIfe OF horse wagon man,
and the evIages to tale ard receive the mails from and
to their depot at Brooklyn TO and from the New York
Post Office each day. In addition they agree the De-
partment would pay SIC 0G0 snnun they would run
seosod mail each day. on their cars for about fifty mi
of the island Your figure statement only tells part Of
the truth and is therefore entirely faacious Il well
that than half Of the mail mater iseuing
from and returning TO residents OF Brooklyn and Will
kAsburg ard their vicinies is deposited and received
BY Long Flanders through the New York Post Office,
tho Department paid the increase demandsd the whole
cost Of the msi In Guiding mail sgents) the island
(exOusvs of Brooky Williamsburg would be about
94 oto for daily mail each way feon New York to
1oatague Point lao miles, including all side routes
By your statement. ths receipts from all the Offices
con Long Island the mail matter for which passes over
this road" 40. No~ please say what portion OF
tho SIC Coo per snBum received At the Brook yn post
Office (Which sill be much increased the next four ysars
goes TO the ents from which ult you form
idea Of tbs mount that should the credit OF
Long sIspd for mail matter depcstd and received at
the New York post Office, and then zil be prepared
show that L1Dg Island will have redit at the depart.
neps, the iOc eassd pay ia awarded Bat all this is
not ths point OF the case.
have cnveTred with some Of the managers Of
the company, and they uniformly discsim any dispos
tiou TO conflict with the seests oonvenieaces of the
Long Islanders OF TO have disagreement with the de-
parent They the deps eiera "a 328 for the
services herenbeitre stated and declined to oer any
end they feel that they have the right decline
the offer, and ee Justified in doing, from the fsct
that the department received proposals. from individuals
to carry oaiy mail for twenty miles Of the Island aud
weekly natl for the residue OF The side of the
islapd and psy - 0c0 for that service and tri
weekly mail Is estsb the north side Of the island
IL ~ cot FROM 81 COO TO $1,000, making 0, from
to S12 600 for about half the services rendered BY
the ccmpapy and the mail matter by this mode OF
veyaDce, will he received, an average twenty hours
LATER than by railroad.
conclude by q quotation from your commupca.
ton. This simple statement will we ID think show
intelligent Of all parties who are answerabe for any
injury which may be experienced from
the change referred TO in the mail arrangement on
Iong Island" LONG ISLANDER
Long Island, Aug. IL, 1853.
-rocer ct the South End makes ii out, by close
- that he loses by tasters 175 pounds of