Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-23
The Mai, Route TO Jefferson.

The Mail Route TO Jefferson.
For some years there have been mail
routes from this place TO Jefferson, Ash
tabula County, ms by way of Champion,
Bristol, Bloomfield, Orwell, &C., and the
other via Bazetta, Mecca, Greene, New
Lyme, &c. On each of these routes the
mail was carried three times per week,
and on alternate days. thus giving q daily
mail, through. Since the completion of
the Atlantic & Great Western Rail Road,
the mail has been carried on that Road
from this place to Bszetta, and thence by
hack TO Jefferson, as formerly. In the
advertisement for new lettings of msil
~routes' for the next four years, to
commence on the LIST of July next, pro-
posals are asked for carrying the mail
from Jefferson via Morgan, Orwell, Bloom
field. Bristol, (~Bristolville P. o. as before,
and thence via Mecca to B2zetta, thus
disseminating the route from Bristol di-
rect. via Champion, to this place, en-
tirely. Under the new schedule, as pro-
posed, the mail IA daily one) will arrive
at BaIetta at 6 o'clock. P. II. and as the
mail train on the A. & 6. W. Road, pass
es the BaIetta Station, going west about
/ o'clock P. III, the consequences will be
that al the mail matter from the north
ern part of this county land from Ashts-
bula County, which comes mostly by that
~route,) must lie ovsr at Bazetts some q
hours. Beside this, Inconvenience, snoth-
will be added. The hack which carried
the mail was a great convenience for pas
sengers who wished to come from the up
per part of the route to this place, and
we venture to say that three fourths Of
all the passengers were for this place. and
the proportion of correspondence wss
about the same. The effect of this new
arrangement viii be that it viii cost the
Post Office Department more to convey
the mail than by the old route, because
the passengers via the latter would near
ly il, not quite. pay all the expenses, and
by the new route, they will be non est"
Z. a. Brown. Esq, of North Bloomfield
wrote to the member from this District,
Gen. Garfield, who laid the matter before
the I'd Assistant Post Master General,
and received from him the following re-
ply:
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Contract OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, March 2, 1864.
SIR:-Referring TO the letter of Mr.. E.
A. Brown, of North Bloomfield, relative
| to Route 906l, / nave to state that the OBJ
iections TO the new arrangement are not
quite as forcible as he seems TO imagine.
lie alleges hat Champion is to be left
out in the cold altogether" whereas there
is no such Post Office as Champion" in
that section of the country, nor has there
been since 1883. He also alleges that let
ters between North Bloomfield and War
rem would have TO lie over at Bazetta III
til the next day. This could and would
be avoided by changing the schedule, at
| the proper time, so as TO make connec-
lions with the mail trains on the rail road.
! Between Warren and North Bloomfield,
a distance of II miles, there is no inter-
Yening Office but by commencing at Ba-
zetta, on the same rail road as Warren,
| there are two or three offices supplied by
the same route. However. it is the wish
of the Dept. to adopt such arrange
nlents a+will best accommodate the peo-
pie, and bidders can put in additional
proposals to commence at Warren instead
of Bazetta. The question will then come
up at the lettings.
Respectfully,
GEO. W. MCCLELLAN.
Second Assistant P. o. General.
Hon. J. A. Garfield, House Of Reps.
1t will be seen that the I'd Assistant P.
NJ. General is in error in regard to the Of
fee between Warren and North Bloom
field. The distance between those points
is I6 miles, and B~ristolville Post Office is
to be supplied. Beside that Office, there
should be one at Champion. For nearly
fifty years, With two or three short inter
walls, there has been an Office there, and
the principal reason why one has not been
asked for since its discontiuance in 1853,
is that the Office had been last supplied
by the mail going to Southington, Farm
ington, &C., and which did not pass
through the center OF the township of
Champion, but went via the estate road"
west of the center. That a post Office is
necessary for the convenience of the resi-
dents of Champion, there is no doubt,
and that a majority of its people desire it,
is equally certain.
We hope that proposals carrying the
mail via Champion, will be sent to the
Post Office Department, and as it can be
carried on that route much cheaper, on
account of the passengers, than via Nee
ca. if the price sskedis as low as 1t should
be. We hsye little doubt but that the peo-
ple on both routes viii be accommodated
with mails and ~conFeyanees for passen-
gers by the shortest methods.
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