Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

statissNes OF Maths. Telegraph. saving
Nnr<ks. Etc4 for ihe Current Yf1r.

ststissNes OF MATHS. Telegraph. Savings
barSks. Etc FOR the Current Ycsr.
Wasfsh. xton, ID, G., September b.
The pos,etlice department has Just re-
ceived tire 10Th annual report Of the
postmaster general of Great Britain
aud Irelausii for the fiscal Year ending
March 81. lSs8. Prom that report
have been Obtained abe following In
asrcsiing facts aud stat istics with re-
gard To the present working OF the
British postal system: The number OF
letters delivered In the Uaited King
dom during the year wss $50 8Ss, 200,
inclpase i-28 per cent nwmher Of pos
tai csrds, IA, DIG, 200, increase Ga per
cent. book packets and cir
culare, 2ss, aO8, 400 increase 6-3
per cent, and newspapers
l4o6Ss, 500, aslight decrease attributed
to increased facilities for sending news
papers on railways, Us parrots. one
London firm posted iS2 900 ktiers for
sinale mail, aud another ftrut ltjs, 900
postal cards. while the uumher Of cir
culars posted az on time by single
firms ranged from il0o0to 5e,0oD. IL
is estimated the average number of let
tiers carried per capita 0f population
was forty in England and Wales;
Thirty In Scotland; sixteen in Ireland,
aud thirty-six IN the United Kingdom.
Taking the reports of otheg countries
for the Year 1881 as a basis,
Fawcettc estimated that the average
number Of letters per capita In the
United States was 2i; France ~, Ger
rany ID; Italy o, and Spain .. The
number OF Clustered letters sent was
Sll ,5Ui 928, an increase OF three per
cent. over the preceding year. There
were Isis postofliees IN the United
Kingdom, which employed i3 600 per-
mar ent officers, who might become
entitled 10 pensions, THIS number
included 56l women of whom 455
were clerks and 206 telerraphi-ts or
counter women. The retired officers
numbered three hundred and thirty
| five, with pensions aggrtgating
eiT8 S23 per anDum. The system OF
! the good conduct stripe for letter car
riers, which was formerly confined Ia
| London has been extended at AN In
creased cost of R630o0 To the entire
! country with gool results. Each
! stripe entities the wearess to cspecial
/ allowance of one shilling a week In ad-
dition to his wages, and by continued
| good conduct n carrier can earn three
stripes. Reply postal cards have been
introduced into the British service,
but with limited success.
During the Egyptian war an army
| postofilce corps was organized and
] gave complete satisfaction.
The number of telegraph messages
sent in the United Kingdom daring
! the year was 32,094 02B, an increase oi
7i6, l62 compared with the previous
year. The number of messages sent in
London was 1874, 70T, against l2,00l,-
034 in 1881 and 1882 During the past
year lO2 postollices aud 45 railway sta
ton offices were opened for telegraphic
work, making the total number oi
telegraph offices 5T,7i2. Fawcett says
although IL has not yet been
determined what form it is
contemplated the reduction of the
tariff shall take, IL has beef
decided that as soon ~ the necessar,
increase Of plant can be made, tn
. minimum charge for inland telegrae,
shall be reduced from one shilling i
, , six pence.
Nine companies to whom license
have been granted for the establish,
ment of telephone exchanges, hav,
forty-fve exchanges In operation.
The business OF the postal savings
bank is reported TO show satisfactory
progress The total amount due to de
positors, including interest, was eiO,-
001, 900, an increase OF $4,000 900 over
the previous year, This is the largest
annual increase since the establish
ment OF the system. Deposits
during The year were c8,00D0 900 IN
number, and ei2,00),O 900 in amount, land
the Withdrawals . 0o0,0 in number
ard Gl0,009, 010 in amount. lnteres
credited to depositors, fS0l 029 o.
March 3lst there were 5I,0Sl Iost-of
flee savings banks and money ordel
offices. There was 7SS S5S accounts
opened during the Year, aud 537 Az
closed, leaving 2 SIS, ST6 accounts open
ed at the emf Of the year, as against
1907 6l2 the previous year. The nc
counts are apportioned as follows: En-
gland and Wales, number 2,6i3 $40,
proportion 10 population, enc to ten;
average balance due 10 each deposition,
el3; scattered, l0S,7jl, one 10 three
and five sevenths.
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