Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-05-07
All Postal Competition to be
Crushed by the Strong
Hand Of Federal Law.
Discovery Of a New Metal Su-
perior to All Others for
Electric Purposes.
An English Newspaper Reviews
the Management Of tho
Pacific Roads
CAPITAL NOTES.
Special Dispatches to Tus Bxs.
PRIVATE PosToFFICEs.

PRIVATE PosToFFICEs.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The otficsrs
In the postotiice department, In reply
to inquiries with regard to the pro-
ceedings recently taken to close pri-
vate postal companies Ia New York
city, say that so far as the invest'ga-
tion has gone it seems to show that
the most fagrant vlojators of the law
are the companies known as "Hussey's 8
Express" "Bcyd's Despatch. Poss, "
"Msnhsttan District Telegraph Com
pany" and "United States Circular
Delivery Company" The prosecu-
tiou Of this unlawful business by such
companies, the posteffice officers say,
not only result In the lois of large
revenues to the department., but
materially and In many ways tnter.
feres with the proper conduct OF Unit
ed States postal business and brings
undese-ved dlsoredit upon the postal
administration. The Boyd and Hus-
ney companies make collections and
deliveries only twice day, while the
regular government carriers deliver
and collect from eight to twenty times
daily. It ID not true, therefor, that
the private postal companies are pat.
ronized because their service 10 better
than that Of the government.
The only advantage which
these private postal oompan-
les have over the govern
ment ID that Of lower rates. The pri-
vate organizations doing business un-
der the names Of ''Manhatten Dis.
trict telegraph company" and "Cir.
cular Delivery company" have
recently begun to carry mall matter In
bulk to other cities than New York,
where they have agencies, to dis
tribute 1t there, thus beginning the
formation of network of mall routes
In clearly Illegal competition with the
postoffice department.
NEW METAL.
j. Edwin Sherman, metallurgist, oi
Boston, has just concluded here q
series of experiments upon new
metal recently discovered by him, with
view of ascertaining Its fitness com
pared with other metals for telegraph
wire. The experiments, It is said
show that wire made Of this metal has
great tenacity, does not rust and Ii
superior In point of conduotivity to
any w.re nov used for electric par-
pose The metal which has nearly
specific gravity and somewhat the ap
pearance OF silver, can be produced
It Ii said, at q cost of 5 cents pound
A TRIFLE FRESH.
The Railway News and Joint Stool
Journal, of London, the leading En
glish journal on railroads and finsncia
subjects, contains In the number TO
April 14sh an interesting review o
the operations of the Pacific railroad
for the past year, and comments yer.
favorably upon the intelligent ant
successful supervision of those road
by the government of the Unite'
States as showing In the las
snnnsl report OF w. ii
Armstrong, railroad commissioner
After quo.ing at length from the re
port to show the workings of the Psci
&c railroad system and methods AM
results of government supervision
The Railway News says: "As afford
Ing reliable information as to the pres
ent position of those undertaking.
In which 90 much English capital ha
been invested, the report of Mr. Arm
strong is one of the most vsluabl
documents received from the Unite
States for some time past, and shoul
be In the hands of all interested 1
the development of the Pacific terri
tories and trans-continentsl commun
cation"