Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-09-15
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Our NEW YORK LETTER.
Railway Mail some
specially JOurnals-Notes.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER..
railway Mail Transportation-sOm
specially JOurnals-Notes.
correspondence OF the Free Press and II mes.l
New York, Sept. 6, 1882.
Having occasion the other day TO try and
hunt up missing letter | came ACROSS
tn, Superintendent OF the Railway Mail
service and was interested in learning some
thin; about the general subject and also
about tie vast number Of complaints which
reach the New York postofiice as TO letters
los, or gone asray. 1t is but few years
since the mails were carried on railroad
trains in sort of a haphazard way the
contracts for compensation being given out
to a corporation, and then having no super
vision except in very vague and unsatis-
factory way. Now the postal cars--ther
construction, running, general management,
ami the work done on every trip-are AS
closely looked after as If they were local
pn-toilces, and if a letter can he shown to
have been dropped into collection box
aud subsequently delayed, it can be traced
step ly step, until the cause, place and
time of detention are pointed out In a
very large majority of cases of letters going
HSrHy the fault is that OF the sender in not
properly addressing them. A day or two
aga | nitcd States Senator made vigorous
and highly indignant complaint because
u very important business letter had not
been received 10y the party to whom he had
addressed il. Search was begun for the
letter aud it was soon found at a town in
New York, having the same name as that
which It was designed TO reach. The Sen
ainr had put IN y" in place of IN t."
and 10 New York it had properly gone.
The Superintendent OF the railway service
has busy time of it in the Winter when
SHOWS and storms may delay trains and miss
connections for mails but it is equally trying
in summer when increased mail facilities
must he arranged for all prominent watering
places. All complaints have TO he sifted
down and Investigated, ami the Supeiintend-
cn is equally sure that whatever he may de-
eide he will he denounced by somebody as
totally unfit for his place.
especially JournaIs.,
II will hardly he credited, but there are
printed and published in New York alone
nearly three hundred periodicals devoted TO
apccia'tics. There are papers in the interest
OF the Grocer, of the jewcllcr, OF the chemist
There 4. "A carriAge.makCrs' Journal Il matters
journal and another, discussing everything
connected with the tanners trade Medical
aud law Journals there are two and several
religious newspapers. Then there are two
billiard papers, three or four tobacco jour
rals. several that are printed for the increase
Of trade in drugs and three thai set forth the
l,ciUlucsS, the virtue ard the general worth
of the stuliOnrr The clothicr has his organ
and has the hair-drcsscr ard the cooks
are represented by culinary r,A't'e and II
.ql.trlmioal weekly. Then there are plumb
cla papers and Il COniectioncrs paper and Il
apmnk,r's journal, and three hourshing
WccGlirs devoted to the iron and steel bust
ness Add to these m ndiu-iuhbcr journal,
aclrpenters Journal, a papcr-makers' jour
nal Il journal published in favor of the Five
Points mission, prison journal and II
Journal designed To foster Il kindly feeling
tor uur dumb animals, and you have an eX-
tended list. But thu ST. ARE not all. There
~, sporting papers, financial Iarers, real
estate papers, insurance paiers and several
that al on'y with books Dram attic papers
are as common here as art urnals. OF which
there arc three or four; nautical journal
keeps Us posted in regard to ships, yachts
canoes and row boats two expert papers
t'il rs hoa rich we are becoming by sending
our substance away, ami then imp IT papers
prove tu Us that We are growing richer 10y
nm o. ! - mr. "A lr,.y Al a.
,hr4c rrG,ns f1r the vim, md snirit trade
orI n,ih.', f,r ,h, Lo, p hr.,r,.rs nnJ ann,her
for thn olr brewers md sin nnoILer for the
l.r.La,i'r.s rh.n thrr, arr, ,Ir,. bntal
imrlr. inni teach ihr w,rlI wh,rr ia s,on
when away from home; aud it is queer that
every hotel mentuucd-p provided its
name be in the advertising c1lumns-is the
,non," Thr lro,hcyimen have thcir iournai
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