Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-11-12
w POSTAL CHANaEs.-The Baltimore

eE- POSTAL CHANGRs.-The Baltimore
Sun of Saturday announces that Postmas-
Ter Adreon has addressed its publishers,
informing them of certain changes that
have been made in the mails intended for
the Shenandoah Valley route. Upon this
subject, the Sun, which has been foremost
I'm the correction of these disadvantages
in the mail facilities, speaks as follows:
Postmaster Adreon notifies Us by brief
! letter, which We print in another column,
| of certain changes that have been made in
the mails intended for the Shenandoah
Valley route. II is gratifying to lind that
! the Postofiice Department at Washington,
through the superintendent OF the third
division of the railway mail service, has
taken some action in respect to the great
discrimination in the mail service against
the city of Baltimore as compared with
similar service enjoyed by other cities. 1t
/ Is equally gratifying to be Informed by
Postmaster Adreon that ''endeavors Will
be made to have other changes that will
conduce to the accommodation of the pub
lic." We looked for nothing less from
| Col. Adreon, whose own interests are
bound up liz Baltimore, and who knows
what the business needs of our people are.
Among the foremost of our these needs is
quick dispatch and close connections on
mail routes, and service not inferior in
any way to that granted TO other cities.
By the changes OF which he notifies us
very little, ii any, is gained in the mode of
transporting the mails on the Shenandoah
Valley route over the service which 1t
supersedes, and which was, and unfortu-
nately still is, a just cause of complaint.
1t was obviously unfair to divide the
morning mail for the Shenandoah valley
mail route, sending one part OF the matter
for that route via Weyerton and the other
to Waynesboro', Va, lS5 miles, reaching
there at . As, and then sending from that
| place to Hagerstown such portions of the
mail as had to be distributed between
| Waynesboro' and Hagerstown. By the
change announced by Postmaster Adreon
the morning mail for the Shenandoah VAL
| lev route will now be sent to HagerstOwn
| reaching there at 1890 A. NJ. Ii will be
detained at that point until $40 Z. NJ,
! when it will be forwarded over the Shen-
andoan Valley Railroad, arriving ut
Waynesboro' at 1918 p. NJ, too late TO be
distributed. The break in connections at
Hagerstown thus entails loss of five
hours and ten minutes in point of time,
while the service occupies in transit fif-
teen hours, or but little more than fifteen
miles all hour, the actual distance between
Baltimore and Waynesboro, via Hagers-
town, being but two hundred anG thirty
| miles. Whilst this is the mail service ac-
corded Baltimore, the fast mail from Phil
adelphia, which was put Oh to compete
" it'll the business of this city, is run from
Philadelphia at the rate of thirty-tivc
miles an hour. The evening mail is now
sent to Waynesboro' over the Virginia
Midland, and is some improvement over
the former arrangement. Nothing has
yet been done to relieve Baltimore of the
disadvantage to which it is subjected in
INNING the morning mail over the Shen-
andoah Valley route.