Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-09-17

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The RAILWAY POST OFFICE sYSrEM
The New Cars to run between this civ ana
Washington on M enday Ni.ht
Third Assistant Postmas ter -C}ensrai za,.,u
has been in this city for the past week, m AIM
the final arrangements to put into effect the
Of which he has been engaged, under the d.ree'
tion OF General Blair, for some time
past.
The preparations are now in such state OF
forwardness as to permit the beginning OF the
work on the through line between this CITY and
Washington next Monday night Two of th,
new cars will start at that time-one from this
city and one from Washington. The nsoessa-
ry experiments have already been made
The Postmaster General has long had the
subject before him Of introd ucing railway post
offices ON the principal roads in the United
States, and cars are now running on one
route-that between Chicago and Clinton. The
application Of the system here, with Improved
cars, arrangements adequate TO the transaction
OF the immense postal business OF the Atlantic
States, required moro time and the generaI
cooperation Of the railroad com panies ian e.
sential condition, as the Department has NO
means OF constructing the new cars that are
needed,) had to be secured. Most Of the obsta.
cles have been removed; the necessity OF adopt
ing the improved system appears to be se-
hnoWledged the Camden and Amboy and the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad COMPANIES are
constructing cars; the Erie Company mas aIeo
begun the work. and some OF the manaeere ef
the four companies which comprise the Boston
nne nave partially agreed to undertake 1t.
Other companies will dou ubtless enter into the
arrangement; but nothing will now prevent
the complete success Of the plan The rail.
way post Office system may be considered es-
THE WASHINGTON LINE
The cars which start on Monday night have
already been alluded IT, They contain three
or four hundred pigeon holes each for postal
matter, with every convenience for the distri.
button Of the mails. The force required for
the work on each railway post office will con-
sist OF one superintendent (who will be kind
of postmaster) and four clerks. On the Wash
ington line, mails will be taken for all the prin.
cipal points-Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia,
Eavre de Grace, Baltimore and some other
points; as well as for places connecting with
these cities. Distributions will be made for
stations not on the regular line, in such man.
ner as will enable the postmaster to whom the
matteEis delivered to send 1t forward at once,
and without the ordinary asserting processes
through which SO many delays occur.
The great yalne Of the new system will not
be apparent until railway postofhce are placed
on all the lines; but the immediate gain to
persons residing In this CITY, Philadei phia and
Washington, who send letters between these
points, will be three or four hours Packages
which must now be in the postoffice a. six
O'Clock, in order to be sent by the half past
seven o'clock express train mail, can be for
warded on Monday and afterwards by the
cars at the moment Of starting. Then the let
ters are to be distributed on board, that on ar.
riving at any place on the route, they may be
put into the hands OF the carriers, and at once
delivered to the persons to whom they are d.
rected.
The Washington morning mail will be pre.
pared on the cars for the first morning delivery
In the city, instead OF waiting, as now, for the
in many cases a most important saving Of
time to our business community.
WHAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED.
But 1t is a principal feature of the system
that the tedious distributions of mails from
various parts OF the country, in our principal
cities, will be avoided. Letters coming from
for Boston, have, under the old plan, to be
brought to the New York Office; and because of
the time occupied in distributing and trans
ferrtng the matter the mail for the East 10 lost,
and the letters delayed not unfreq uently "A
Instead of this detention here and else where,
he mails, when the new system Is complete,
will be sent from one railway post office to the
other; and the authorities are particularly de.
sirous that the cars for the eastern route NAV
be ready at the earlies possible moment, so Is
Union the advantages that will hereafter be
extended to all important towns In the eoun-
try.
Railway post offices have been In use for
many years in France and England, with the
best results; and to the fact that our railroad
companies were almost without exception op-
posed to the system, because it would compel
them to adopt new time tables, and otherwise
incommode them, is principally due our fail.
ure to adopt it before now.
A few months hence, the Government malls
will be carried as rapidly as those OF the ex.
press companies, which, on account of the
speed with which they do the werk, have mo.
nopolized much Of the letter carrying busi-
ness.
The delays which enable passengers who
start for any given point at a time when let.
ter may be mailed, or subseq quentIy, to reach
their destination day or two before the letter
arrives, will no longer exist.
1t is the intention Of the officers charged with
the important work now in hand to place our
m all facilities on footing equal to those en-
joyed by any people in the worldly. 7. Post
FROM THE SOUTH