St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-04-07
LETTER FROM HALLOO.
MAIL MATTERS-THE RAIL
ROAD, ETC.
HALLoo, La, March 80, 1883

vancement of the whole community,
encourages me to contribute q
"mite" towards it cause. but with a
view that you, Mr. Editor. will as
sign everything to its proper place.
You have said many things that
were, perhaps, approved by nearly
or quite all'of your readers and the
public generally; but next to
schools. or rather with them, the
great need of the country is ac-
commodating mail facilities, and
you are certainly right in saying
that we need the facilities here. in
preference to cheaper rates of post
age, for what is it to a man if post
age is two cents CIR two dollars, if
he cannot send a letter in time to
answer his purpose or necessities?
You gave representation which
was apparently bad enough, for
the eastern part of the parish, but
you did not reckon the condition
between Halloo and Violin. / am
informed that mail matter for Vio-
In sometimes reaches Halloo, and
the disposition is to stamp it 'mis-
sent" and return it to the Pearl
River office, and as such mail gen.
orally reaches Halloo on the same
day that the mail departs from
Pearl River for Vaudeville, it will
be Just a week before it can be sent
by that route. And we may calcu-
late that the time of its arrival at
its destination will be about equal
to twenty-four hours for each mile
of the actual distance from Halloo
to Violin. This estimate is on the
superstition that it is regularly for
warded by the first mails on the
most direct routes; but where there
are SO many changes, and gc:rg
through those small offices, mail
matter is sometimes neglected, if
the arrival Of two weeks issues OF
the FARMER on the same day is any
evidence, which has occurred more
than once in quarter.
You have very properly advised
the people to petition for Il change.
Well, the petitions for the various
necessary regulations for Halloo
have been about as numerous as its
quarterly reports; and owing to the
situation, and the indifference of
large portion of the population,
who have never learned tie uses
and necessities of good mail facili-
ties, it falls heavy on the few who
take it in charge.
Your suggestion, that the mails
are intended for the benefit of the
public, and not especially for con-
tractors, is as true as any of the
truths you have told. But men
who are making fortunes at the ex-
pense of those who have not proper
advantages of enlightenment. and
are not conceiving of secret de-
signs, may give to the Lord
to help build churches and pay
preachers-but they do not like
to relinquish their grip on the
source of their income. Contrac-
tors, or would-be contractors, as
such, consider that they sct in their
private capacity; but rostmasters,
as neighboring or otherwise, should
be subject to criticism, the same as
any other public officer, if they
wantouly neglect to give assistance
20 equity and the best interests Of
the greatest number of people.
But ''for a that. and a. that" we
should try again to have link put
in between here and Covington-I
send one more petition, and, like
the boy that knows Of apples in the
house, try just one mole-and with |
the help of the FARMER, we may |
succeed.
HaliOo is now on the railroad,