The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-09
Our New York Letter.


Mail Service and was interested in learn
ing something about the general subject
and also about the vast number of com
plants which reach the New York post.
Office as TO letters lost or gone astray. II
is but few years since the mails were
clrried on railroad trains, ia sort of
hap. hazard way, the contracts for COM
pensation being given out to a corpora
ticn and then having no supervision ex-
cept in vague and unsatisfactory way.
Now the postal cars-their construction,
running, general management and the
work done on every trip-are ss closely
looked after ns if they were local post
Offices, and if letter can be shown to
have been d-opped into collection box,
and subsequently delayed, it can be
traced, step by step, until the cause,
place and time of detention are pointed
ont. In very large majority of cases of
sender in not properly addressing them.
A day or two ago United States Senator
made vigorous and highly indignant COM
plant because very important business
letter had not been received by the party
to whom he had addressed it. Search
was begun for the letter and it was soon
found at town in New York having the
same name as that which it was designed
to reach. The Senator had put IN. Y"
in place of IN. j." and to New York it
had properly gone. Tie Superintendent
of the Railway Service has busy time of
it in the winter when SHOWS and storms
may delay trains and miss connections
Cor mails, but it is equally trying in sum-
mer when increased mail facilities must
be arranged for oil prominent watering.
places. All complaints have to be siited
down and investigated, and the Superin-
tendent is qually sure that whatever he
may decide, he will be denounced By
somebody as totally unit for his place.
SPECIALITY JOURNALS
1t will hardly he credited but there are
printed and pGblished, in New York
alone, nearly 300 periodicals devoted to
speoialties. There are papers in the in.
terest of the grocer, of the jeweller, of the
chemist. There is a carriage makers
Journal, hetters' juurnal and another
discussing everything connected with tn,
tanners trade. Medical and law journ
ais there are too, aud several religion,
newspapers. Then there are two billiard
} papers, three or four tobacco journals
several that are printed for the increas
of trade in drugs, and three that set fortl
the usefulness, the virtue and the genera
worth of the stationer. The clothier ha
his organ aud SO has the hair DIRE sser. an,
the cooks are represented by culinar
! gazette and astronomical weekly
: Then there are plumbers papers and
/ confectioners' paper and soap makers
: Journal, and three furnishing weeklie
I devoted to thu iron aud steel business
5 Add to these an india rubber journal,
= carpentar's journal, paper-makel
u journal, Journal published in favor {
g the Five.POints mission, prison jour-
; al and a journal designed to foster
II kindly feeling for our dumb animals an
e you have an extended list. But thsi
!, are not all. There are sporting paper
e financial papers, real estate papers, il
II surance papers and several that deal on
lie with books. Dramatic papers are as cor
re- mon here as art journals of which the
b ire three or four; nautical j1urn
n keeps Us posted in regards to ship
er canoes and ruw-boats, two export pape
Q, tell us how sick we are becoming
or ,ending our substauc away, and thr
at import papers proves to us that We q
H. growing richer by purchasing goods fro
n abroad. There are three organs for {
wine and spirit trade and another for t
e. beer brewers, and another for the 9
Ell brewers and still another for the b
ce keepers. Then there are three hol
n papers that teach the world where to ST
" when it is away from home; and it
Of queer that every hotel mentioned-provi
eA g its name be in the advertising colum
m is the best hotel in the city or to-
nd which it ornaments, The lesther-m
lat nave their journals and SO have DENTS
IL the photographers, the photographers, a
his the telegraphers. The elevated railwt
lie are represented by weekly paper, C,
or ducted on very high principles, a
fashion magazines, cutters journf
and tsilors' monthly supply the sart
- ial element with plenty of food
ma thought. Then there are two COZ
ver journals whose speciality is to make
,an weep at the hopeless stupidity of th
ca jokes, while We laugh at the real fun
it their Gust toms. and host of agricultul
ex- horticultural and arboricultural journt
his and two that advise us as to the b
ear methods of raising bees, two that 6
no. all needful instruction In the art of bre
ali ing chickens and one exclusively devo
mi. to pigeons. There are three jour-
uto that look after the interests of inVentc
IN and one OF two that teach phonograp
400 l should not neglsc; to mention that
led free traders publish paper, the
itb thinkers another and the free Inasous
TO- more. Several of the specially jour-
are extremely lucrative "The Toba
. Leaf" and the "Lron Age" are among
-, m ost valuable advertising sheets in
world. The first named was establiS
on a capital of 500. It could not
.a ,"s bought to-day for $500, coo. The OF
is fully as valuable.
TRY 'orIINGs'
be The peach season is at its height. @
/ in l25 car loads come ip every day, or
dy, 100, 600 baskets. This statement is
lint to be imDeached. Two Italians a