New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-26
SUNDAY MAILS, TRAINS And PAPERS.
LErrER-cARRERs TOILING AND NEGLECTING THEIR
FAMIIIEs-TwO NEWSPAPERS.

LETrER-cARRERs TOUING AND NEGLECTING TREIe
FAMIIIEs-TwO NEWSPAPERS.
The Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts preached last
evening on 1.-THE Observance OF the Sabbath" In tho
First Union Presbyterian Church. in Eghtysxhst He
divided his discourse three heads Observations on
Sabbath Nails Sabbath Trains ana steamboats,, and Sab
bath Newspapers. In regard to the frat he gave facts
obtained Postmaster Pearson showing that the IA
ciltes of the mails being increased all the time
Sundays and at the expense Of the postal officials and
servants Onehaf Of the 1900 carriers OF the city hat
to tot that day the Post Office TO the neglect ofther
families and their degradation In Washington mat
tiers were worse than they were in NewYOrk, and tbs
Office there virtually open all day on Sunday
There was no valid excuse for this The plea put forward
of letter from dying parent 10 child would not bear
scrutiny in these days Of Geographic communication
In London, the Sabbath rigidly observed
in the Post Office. and yet English meg.
chants suffered pecuniary wrong On
the contrary their minds had the mental rest from bust
ness which iDhde acknowledged TO be necessary.
aud ttey bad besides the religious cam-brlnging iI
nuences which Christian men knew were so salutary.
The National Government with word could close every
post Office throughout the country. and therefore tns
blame Sunday mails at the doors of tue Pres
ident and the official head OF the Post Office Depar,-
ment.
Sunday trains were regarded with disiayor by the be.
railway employees and the most sagleiOuS railway mar
ayers. reIaOnsrance had been made by 4j0 locomo-
i've engineers 10 William IL N3nueiDht Nhicu MVAiA
remain for future days admirable exposition o. re
matter The president OF the Michigan Central Railroad
had placed himself record as opposed 10 Sundtv
traffic. president of the Delaware Iackawanna AMI
road had put himself the same side They
had summed the Situation by declaring such traffic -
be unnecessary and harmful. aud had boldly drcldred5
to be for gain and not for public convenience.
SUNDAY newspapers took advantage of the EXTENDED
mail facilities and helped develop Sunday RAILWAY
traffic. 1t might be said OF them tniy
they made Saturday. and Una
the real offender the Monday paper which people
insisted having. This was partly true and partly q
misstaement according TO the letters OF Mr. Perry IN
The Cincinnati Commercial Gdrcte But the EVIL was to-
the OF the paper whose minds were distracted
by the stock reports and records OF crimes and sins
that they missed the mental rest and moral Iu
prOyement which Sunday should provide and came -
their churches with preoccuped minds. The preachc'
then said that he would make analysis OF the contents
Of Sunday papers, The World neither tue best nor
its class, and THE TRIBUNE, which was CON
sidcre by many good that Evangelical clergynen 81
not hesitatcd to take it home 10 their families IDa
OF the contents OF The World furnished by is
vivid headlines provoked much merriment The hea'-
lines Of Tue TRIBUNE we're heard WITHOUT ANY aehoNS'"