The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-20
REFORM THE POST OFFICE!
THE 'OSTLI NAN SERTICE ny THE
FiLL RITER STEfNBO.fT LINE.
Paying $4,000 ~ Year ro- Vnneccasary
Jrnnsportniicu ny Water why the W Water
Routes 4 ford Opportunities for Jobbcry


Paying $4,000 Year for Unnecessary
TrnnsportntIcu by Water why the W n,er
Routes \ ford Opportunities for .Jobbcry.
WARRINGTON, jan. IL With more than
nine thousand routes to manage. errors are un-
aVoilahlc in the decisions " the Post Oncc
Department. With n lax public sentiment in
rcgnrd To- the expenditure Of public money.
contractors can get petitions or any recon-
mondalions for any amount Of increased pay.
provided the increase brings Increased service.
\ contractor ia equally certain TO command the
services Of Congressman IN These matters. Out
of the tangled web Of li0 0o0 miles Of mail routes.
1t ia not possible to pick every useless route
these influences produce. II Is not posi-
Die TO specify each instance in which
fraud ia 40 conspicuous that the Post
Oncc authorities must be held responsible
for wasting the public money by following
bad advice. II is scarcely even possible to
prove this absolutely but II IL easier to mako
the proof strong in dealing with steamboat than
in dealing with railroad or other land routes
rail or n stage route is generally tho only
path between two points. A steamboat is only
one of two. sometimes one OF three. ways Of
reaching a place; there ia always the road /;
there n generally the railroad. The question
then l.. Of the two or Of the three routes has the
department taken the best Now whore there
are three the trade OF the country Is leaving
river and coast steamboats, and taking tho rail-
road. Tho department has done differently.
In 1857. l5.O94 miles 81 steamboat service. Of
which Clio were the California sea routes .rost
ii72 2O6 Prices had been reduced on every
imaginable commodity in 1876. and the sea
'o"''9 raw ~ ip'"'ou' S'' !" 'os' ''e u.pirt-
ment SGO6.7iG To- carry mails ON only 1859
a.. tvttl tf-. 81
,b ,,.,.,r,,,,,,,, ,.,il .ecc oao a., ,rn,s,,,,r,o
,'' ',pai'n''n' paul ',o'''' LOT lr"nSpo''n-
other largo transportation i'm the country paws
moro por milo for freight in 1877 tnnn in ise7.
The Post Omeo Department paid AZ cents on
steamboat routes; it paid lG.5 cents last year.
AZ" " - N'''" "'''"E nnn ''n''i AIns 'n" III
dealing with these routes the law gives tho de-
pertinent a wider discretion than In dealing
WITT ofLnr II has Nnr.l4.,' Tint disrr, lion
II, dir.s, ,,aiti,n t w. nnr,n"i trtr,b ~
| trtd. and eonitunrea ENamiing H., rest Of tha
country M which tho same state 81 affairs can
boz. tr. vi trun fh ffii'' ,.r|,it ~ STAT nro,,i
Long Island sound IA cre.iifei with an incronsr
of 30 prr cont. m h. rail r.rvire md 100 Nor
na. rrade ly -,eamboai grown ryI.d "a faat n.
/ trade hy Hudf TAX, Long Island Sound and
paiti - $40 inr,iailyf6r ifO miles ~ NAH trans
! pnitailun bv water ronfe4 ~ Rhode Island: il
INV MN ir, i,n I'm, n,i no,.. I'M rn,,s,d in
''.t DURING KS, a .,n.l,. ~ di.aetar5 "a
Tu,- t'r, nf ti.a i'd i'nrrI,in- hv which this
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SIN 90 l.67. bit fi. ,l.rartnent now pnys WITHIN
o,, .i,,6fi n- nm N tr ~. ",,i,qt M. ,rr rii
tran-i,ortntSn o thn s,, ,,inr ." ,hd iI rr ral.
VEIL Ilny .t,r,hI,t ,s, er..ari,' ms n,u,b ~
/ T., hrirg \ ,vt.f. ana oN Enodr i.i,nI Mi h.
I Boston ami Niw England milk '''''''' W. ~
r...'.ft, e. -an , ,.or 1,its sr,i, 10, ''',
/ ".-,s sloupl "a war. N fnraiei ronte 81 oio "
v.e, 80 se sf3,'I i,ri.. : n,'l -, a.,
~ ,,n "a vonr may nay. ia.n unm"cos.ar, II
/ Sas n,i eyorhitnni m. rni,,n h1nks for iSyi
80 ,,, IN, '',,'',,,ii w., s,,,. ,,. ,a.
SUN NV ''"i ..lE nus, I lll' sum- lI's Whs
/ H.. cnr,r,. b.l na.n ~, i,i T., ia
rn, w. ,,'i,.it F'ii nj, i ''',' All vi w
had it, Nev Ynrk mai sInuiird twice daily hy
Waited m .>..,i- f,r Inv 'r'a.fn., n,,y r'nJ
WV tod" IL however w'pld H.. iv ,,,i.I,ing
~. r"N,e ~ l,,~N. "mNll an hgirsi m.n run
/ Twice 1o,s On ms ak ,r,.n,scr, 49,. III,
/ C,iony s,"3mahi, en,nn,,,y III ,Inru .rb,
III ha- The IN enlsf.t n, The ianiwritnr of
C,rnnrii "to5 hxh II wn.9the bi ,i'' wns a.
times ill., price, 81 tla -i i... In war fitins
Six Wruks after this end. mont John Hauff
mndo a special eontract with the same iiua from
JIM, H. H. Srtt 30 1874 M ~ 5oD-elear nrotit
on asi wears pri.e. Si1.Olu Tn contract ma,
pnrcnily WAS not executed and another order
AZ the same rate recognizing service .
/ was signed oct II 1874 Tn. cnupnuy car.
Rod M. mails an, fher ,1nrisr and yrnra' re',-
/ ogui1.i" again al th. rate Of 100000 n year.
/ Successive .lsr- brought this service down a.
/ Sept. 80. 1870 no. Inst order being dated oct
ISIS This method required a new order every
quarter ans iclng probably something Of a
h bother + y T,n,r si,rnei Nh order illegal i'm
FORM Jan. g. 1876 Order No 81 ntinuing
general reniyertisius WIS in orlor on these