The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-12-06
r,ILwAy rosrAh SERVICE.
,,,,.,. From General Order No. lis

.-n,nys From General Order No. lis.
me following extracts from general or
M llS, issued from the office of Su.
.s,,,Dlent Wayiield, Of the railway man
r.riee are Of interest:
Ss,'non gives dice otnew railway post
8. ssr,ice having Deen established upon
~, hetwecn Cliru. Illinois Aui jones.
,.,aph. ArklIse,, upon trains Nos. | and
S,vos & ST. !4nu's railway, in ArSaasaS
ii Missouri, aud tht; tas same wa be
I'm AZ The Cairo aud JOueSbOTough rail.
~ pOsI-oil2c service, running daily eX-
~ SNiay, upou schedule a stated.
"f1s e'os.lg section likewise gives inlOr.
.','on OF new service, stating that, CON-
.-5liag Friday, December l, lSS2, postal
lps.,iee Will be placed on New Orleans divi.
IN Texas II Pacific railway, from New
S,esrs, Louisiana, by DonaldsOnvnle,
Tsonemi0e, Cheneyvllle and Alexandria
a Shreveport covering the present New
5,I,,ns aud Port Allen and Shreveport
.r,les, and that this line vii, be known as
,Ss New Orleans and Shreveport railway
PC'bief Clerk Lindsay, at Dallas, Texas, in
s,rtion 5, in an order directed to all EN-.
rloyes on Texas lines, says: They will make
inecal reyorts to their chief clerk of all
initiated wooden or card labels received
IA be careful to state where and
nom what connecting office received;
ibat such lgbel., accompanied by slip
G the clerk who dispatched the same,
should be forwarded with the report. And
IN section S: Several reports have been
made of mail having been found in empty
canvas bags forwarded to st. Louis by Texas
lines, exercise care in forwarding empty
bacS and do not permit canvas bags to be
sacked until it is absolutely certain that
they are empty.
Section 10, also from the same chief clerk,
/ addressed to employees on Texas lines,
and states
In order to be invariably accurate in de-
lyering registered mails, where the same are
pOuched and descriptive receipt put Ia the
same pouch, to be signed by the receiving
postmaster, you will please establish the
inyariable rule Of always examining and
carefully comparing dates, postmarlls and
destinations when pouching the svme.
Frequent complaints have been made OF
number Of packages entered on receipts
and number of packages pOuched not cor.
responding, and in most cases some of the
packages that should have been in the
pouch were inadvertently carried by, par.
icuarlyat Fort Worth.
strict compliance with this order is de.
sired in order to prevent further recur'
rences,
In Sec 10, Chief Clerk Camp, located al
Kansas City, addresses himself to Kansas
City end Deming railway post.ollice, Kan
as CITY and Pueblo railway post. Office and
tOpOstmaster at Bellefont, Kansas, as fol.
lows;
The postmaster at Bellefont, K1nsas, will
hereafter exchange mails with the clerks
only on trains Nos. and of the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railway. And in sec
ton II he says to Kansas City and Denver
railway post, office that, whenever their of
fee gets out of order ON the run, to the eX-
tent of interfering with the proper distri
button of the mails or exchange of the
same at stations, they will Immediately
telegraph the facts in such cases to the di
vision superintendent OF the railroad, il
order to enable him to properly provide fol
such emergencies.