St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-22
FAST MAIL HUMBUG
Sensible Comments on the Great Hat
tOnian Splurge in the North
West.
Washington Cor. Chicago journal.
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE "FAsT'' MAI

DISSATISFACTION WITH THE 'FAsT'' MAIL
TRAINS.
The so called ''fast'' mail trains which the
Post office department began to run last
week between New York and Chicago over
the New York Central and Lake Shore
roads, and between Chicago and Council
Bluffs, over the Burlington road and be-
tween Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis
over the Milwaukee and st. Paul road, have
created widespread dissatisfaction. Com
plants come from New York because the
mails remain in that city until $3.50 p. m,
almost four hours after the close of bust
ness, and after all important business let
tiers are mailed. New York merchants can
not understand why the trains cannot leave
there earlier, so that their letters for places
west or Chicago may be delivered during
the forenoon of the second day after they
are written and mailed.
So far as Chicago letters are concerned,
they say it does not make any difference
| whether the train conveying them reaches
| there at s, 9. or 10 p. m, or 1925 a. H.
| which is the time at which they now arrive
| or at any hour between 1925 a.. III. and s a.
| m, because in any case their letters would
not be delivered until the morning of the
second day. But it is different with their
| letters for places in Iowa, Wisconsin and
| Minnesota. They claim that their letters
| should reach points in Central Iowa and st.
| Paul and Minneapolis the second morning
| after they are mailed While the New
| Workers cannot understand why the train
| does not start earlier from New York, they
are also growing about the unnecessary de-
| lay in Chicago from 1925 a. m, when the
| Eastern train arrives in that city, until 3
/ O'Clock in the morning, wheE the trains
| leave for the West and Northwest.
| They believe the mails could be transferred
| from the Eastern to the Western trains in
| half an hour, or, at the outside, in an hour,
and that their letters, instead of lying in
| Chicago until 3 in the morning, should be
| started on their westward journey at l a. m,
| or, at the very latest, at 130 a. m. 1t is
| stated that when the Postmaster General
went to Chicago he intended to start the
Western trarns from there not later than
1 80 a. m, but that he was prevailed upon
to Tango the hour until 8 a. IN. to accom-
mOdate the Chicago morning papers. New
Workers say they don't care a straw for the
| Chicago papers, and that it is an imposition
and an outrage on the country to run trains
practically useless for the purposes of the
| business community.
St. Pau d Minneapolis II chants are also
complaining. They want to know why let
tiers from New York cannot reach them the
second morning after they are mailed, and
say that, so far as the present arrangement
| goes, it is equivalent to their delivery the
third morning after
1t is evident that, as they are now run, the
s'fast'' mails are considered failure by
everyone, except a few interested parties in
| Chicago, and that, if they arc to be paid for
out of the public pocket, they must be run
for the public benefit
THE Centralia Daily Sentinel, 18th.
| The blanket sheets in the large cities are
| industriously putting postmaster General
| Gresham for introducing fast mail trains.
The only benefits which the Centralia Senti-
mel can discover in this owl service are now
monopolized by the Metropolitan newspapers
| for the business men of the country declare
that their facilities are in no way increased
! by this expensive, expedited star route sys-
| TEN. Why should the treasury of the United
| States be depleted to increase the circulation
of few newspapers
| Judge Dunno, of Tallahassee, recently