New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-20
Collections Proportion Nlno OF
Srnsar Of daily fren ofpopus J. ter d-i'

The number of daily letter deliveries, in several
OF these places has been increased since this re-
porteane out. By comparing the number of Re
csvipg.hou:es in the towns mentioned Ia this t.
bic with the number Of Letter Receivers and SUB
Pos,masters in the first table, the difference will
be the number Of sub-ofices. These tables are
ofcisl, though the fret table being throughout for
l-54. the sums in the Last column. !. C.. the re-
cept,, are estimates, bned on the receipts for
1853. with Il per cent. added the usual annual
increase. Il will be seen that the great majority
Of the employed persons attached to the Eoglish
Post. Offices are those engaged In receiving, col
lectipg. and delivering tie letters and papers,
usually suy times Day. For example, Liver
POOL has oue Postmaster, and be hiss under him
65 clerks, q messengers s'amper ADD porters'
81 receivers, 20 sub. Postmssters. 20 carriers in
town. and for the sub-ofices and the rural de-
livery.
And let il no. be supposed that receiving
houses and delivery of letters By carriers are con-
fined 10 the large towns and cities Whsrerer
there Is Post Office, sub. office, or receIeiag-
Aorse, there are letter. carriers. One man often
serves several small Offices, delivering let
ters 10 the inhabitants on his walk going one
way ard on returning collects the letters az the
receiving house or sub-ofice, which he delivers
Of the principal Office. The rursl letter-carrers
often walk ten, fifteen and twenty miles day.
These carriers are paid by Government, from
the Post Office Fund usually from two TO five
dollars week, and 10 extra charge 10 made on
the letters for delivery. l. i. purely 8 free de-
livery. Every report and table Of figures from
the English Poet Office goes 10 show tina! this
sy,tem of letter distribution BY carriers aud re-
ceivers more than supports Itself, though not in
every individual instance.
The following facts will sfrd some idea Of
the British system: Taunton bad penny post
tia. extended 10 nineteen neighboEng villages.
The expense Of the Taunton penry.por was
$3.50 STEERING year, and the clear profits
E3C6 Teignmouth was connected with ak
places. had penny-pos ct cost Of 80 a
year, and i. brought clear profit - the
postal fund of c57. Warrington WAS connected
with eight villages the penny-post cost
Gl25 q year, and brought profit OF G257.
At that period (l53s) the penny-pOIts OF the
United Kingdom cost E27, -72, and brough.
revenue Of G49, 9S6, giving so, 1914 OF clear
profit. One more example: Between Edin-
bUrah and the villages in the vicinity, there was
in 1896 swe-penDy post. About l-7 this was
reduced to penny poet; and this is the result.
Quarter ending February 5, 1896, e'es 1920
letter.; gross receipts, Gl66. Quarter ending
April 5, le35, gives 81, 400 as the number Of let
tiers, snd TIE receipts E2l0. Bat why multiply
Instances
Somewhere IL the Seventeenth century, more
than 300 years ego, when New. York was a little
Dutch .ettlenel. Of few wooden houses, some
old burgOmsste, se. up Pos!-0fice near where
W.llst. Low ia. Then the Wild geese swan
about where CsnL.s.. 10, and foxes and wolves
built their sirs in the shady groves Of Union pak
and Fifth. avenue. Now the island 10 derse Cry
for half its length, and villages, schools and pop
ulous communities extend the other half There
are near twothirds Of a million people on this
strip Of land, fifteen miles in length and here Is
Wal!.s.., and here, hard BY, is Ik Pcs; -CHcs-
,,in Dutch-sn old Dutch church-xiih Just ex-
.etly the sane accommodations as in the dsSs Of
Rip Van Dam and Wouter Van Twiller. Are We
in tie middle Of TIE Nineteenth century, and in
this, the area Of freedom and enserprise-.he
great-the modern-the model Republic Of the
world Are these things real, or sre We romano
Ing, or INDUCING in dream Wesr not dream