Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-02
FIRST EDITION.
The POstat-Gnr Contract.
THE pRNNA. ROAD MAKES ITs PoINT-IETTER FROM
Mr.. JEWELL TO MIR. GARRETT.

THE PKFSA. ROAD MAKES ITs PoINT-IETTRR PROM
Mr.. JEWELL TO MIR. GARRETT.
The contest over the postal car question is
about settled. The Postmaster General, while
refusing to discriminate between tho two com
petitors, is under the necessity. OF doing the
best thing for the public service. He yesterday
sent the following letter to Mr.. Garrett
Hon. j. w. GARRETT, President Baltimore and
ONO Rdttrodd, Baltimore 1 have just been
informed by telegraph that the cars Of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, carrying the mailH from
Washington to New York, were stopped to-day
at West Philadelphia and the mails transferred.
have notice from Mr.. Scott that he will not
transport cars Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company over the road between Pha and New.
York. This will make transfer of the mails
from the Baltimore and Ohio cars unavoidable,
and will occasion delay. Mr.. Scott offers to take
our morning mail from Washington over the
Baltimore and Potomac Road at g. 10 o'clock,
and deliver 1t in New York one hour in advance
of the present. time. He also offers to take our
mails from New York at o 25 n. M, and deliver
them at Washington at 500 p. m., which would
bo leaving New York one hour later and arriving
at Washington five minutes earlier than under
the present arrangement. III the transfer at
West Philadelphia from your cars cannot be
avoided, the public good will require me to ac-
cept Mr.. Scotts offer. My sense of duty will
not permit mo to continue n service that must
prove unsatisfactory. The Post Office Depart
ment will not be involved in any controversy be-
tween your Company and that represented by
Mr.. Scott, but 1t is charged with the duty of con-
veying the mail by the apeediest routes, when
the expense il not thereby increased and it
must therefore contract i'll this instance with the
company that has the means of performing the
whole service without the delays incident to the
transfers referred to.
s MARSHALL JEWELL, Postmaster General.
LETTER FROM col. sCoTT-wuAT He PROPOSES TO
THE DEPARTMENT..
The following letter has been sent by Colonel
Scott TO the Postmaster G enersl
PHILADELPHIA, June 1, 1375-IIon. Marshall
jewell Postmaster General, Washington, ID. q.
For the reasons given you by Mr.. Kncass, IN his
letter, we are not carrying any of the cars OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Company over our road be-
tween Philadelphia and New York We shall
transfer the mails here to-day into our own
postal cars and will tafe them forward on the
local mail train ON which they are now running
to New York, 30 that no delay in present time OF
mails will occur. AS we control tho only steam
road connection between Washington and
New York that avoids horsepower move
mont through Baltimore, we can, If you
give the through mails to the Baltimore and
Potomac road, greatly improve the service for
the department and the public, and therefore
propose commencing tomorrow, II satisfactory
to the department, as follows We will take
the mails, putting them on postal car leaving
Washington at $40 o'clock in the morning, and
running bn6DCe TO DhyNleW JuuctiOn tnu thence
by MIR. Hinckley's slow mail train as now to Phil
adelphia. and then putting them on our limited
express, getting into New York one hour earlier
than the present mail train. which will in fact
give you an hour and ten minutes shorter time
between the depot in Washington and New York
tLan at present, and giving you an opportunity
to send the mails by all tho Sound boats and all
tho evening rail connections from New York.
through New England and elsewhere.
Going South we would propose to
put the postal car on the limited express, leay-
ing New York at o25 A. NJ, turn 1t over to MIR.
Hinckley's slow train at Philadelphia and deliver
it by the Baltimore and Potomac line at WASH
ngton at 5 20 Z. M, thus saving hour and 20
mn., between the time of starting the mail i'll
New York and its delivery in Washington. This
will give better time and facilities than can be
made by the Baltimore and Ohio road, and at
the same rates, and il you can prevail on Mr..
Hinckley to run the postal car on the limited
express over his line between Philadelphia
and Bayview Junction, we can leave
Washington an hour and fifteen minutes
New York at the same time, thus saw
ing you an additional hour and fifteen minutes in
that direction. And we can leave New York at
o. 25 and reach Washington at 4.1O an hour ear
lier than under the proposed arrangement You
are no doubt aware that the night mails in both
directions have boon run over the Baltimore and
Potomac road since July of last year. and have
been delivered with as great regularity, SAFETY
and dispatch as on any other route in the United
States. | believe the Baltimore and Ohio road
has been paid for the service rendered by the
Baltimore and Potomac line. We trust you will
feel it the interest of your department. az well
as of the public, to 80 order the mails at once
THOMAS A. ScoTT,
President Pennsylvania Railroad Company