The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-04
POSTAL sERvTcE UNDER HAYES.
How the Mails nre Carried In Rhode Island
Contract Secrets.

NEWPORT r. l.. July 3.--Some very curl
Gus information has been obtained through n
mishap TO the mall yesterday being carried
hence to WEXFORD. All the New York. Western.
md southern mails due here at 10 A. NJ. were
not received until nearly 7. NJ. In conse-
qucncc Of the now mail arrangement with the
United States Inland Mail Transportation Com
pany Washington. u. c. During the past four
yenrs the Wexford Railroad ana Steamboat
Company have carried the mails between this
point and Wexford junction. but when the bids
wcr" opened and contracts awarded curly in the
present year for the ensuing four years. II was
found that Emil s. Friedrich. treasurer OF the
foregoing company. had hid IS. ss7 per year. the
bid Of the Wexford Railroad Company being
It would appear that this company never in.
tcndto carry out contract themselves provided
they can sublct it,, and IN the sublettng the
bread OF life is taken from the poor tel
lows who had previously done the work.
and who had bid again. This company. il is
nscertnined. put in among twentv-sevcn other
bids, one for carrying the mail hence to Wick,
ford. Rhode Island and for carrying the postal
matter between Newport and Portsmouth,
Rhode Island. In the past eight years an
honest. hard working man Ind performed the
work in the last instance for the pttqnce Of $500
E,nr. having TO travel siSty-siX miles week.
The Inland Mail Transportation Company
mas Iof S.''rctary a i1rmer oihcer,3 the ray
and, Observed MIR. Friedrich yesterday' he IS
thoroughly acquainted with all the workings of
day when the bids were opened and awarded
nm officer Of the United States Inland Mail
Transportation Company called upon Mr..
Miller, in Wall street New York President Of
the Wexford Company, and told him that there
was in the Office lower bid than the Wexford
Company's. and desired to know If he would
make any arrangement.
From this fact II Is claimed by the Wexford
Company that there IL collision between the
Transportation Company and the clerks or
other officials in the Post Office by which the
amounts Of the various bids are mnde known
60 the Secretary the ex-ofilcial in the Pay De-
partmcntl. thus enabling this concern to bid
few dollars lower and demand money Of those
who desire to carry the mail.
In the case Of the Portsmouth. X. J., bid. the
sum was only $40 year less. and yet Fried
rich, the treasurer of the company. yesterday
demanded u large sum from the last Ports
mouth carrier 50 that he might get the mail.
and the poor fellow was Obliged Ia take from
the bank the savings Of over five years. in order
10 satisfy this Post Office vulturc.
Tho members Of the Congressional delegation
have had these matters explained 10 them. and
they look upon the affair us Il legitimate
swindle.
The T. S. I. VI. T. Co. had no boat here ycstcr-
day morning, and when they found that the
Wexford Company would not be parties to any
such base work. they had to get some old trap
OF Il boat to take the early mail. They broke
down near Gould Island. so that the mail was
delayed in going and coming. and the whole
nciariOus system exposed.