New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-28
DELAY IN THE HAVANA NAILS

COMPLAINTS THAT DIR. vILAs's PRESENT SYSTEM
or DELIVERY is DEFECTIVE AND BURTFUL-
The Post Office Department has issued for
general distribution card schedule OF the times OF
departure aud arrival OF mails at Bangor, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia. Wilmington, Savannah. Jackson
vlc Tampa Key West and Havana the object being to
convince public that malls sent with greater
regularity and expedition under tho reform" system
than when they were carried by the regular bweeky
frst-class steamships Facts show that neither tho
statements Of tho Post Office Department nor the seheo
ues be proved and that the pet notion OF the Post
masterGenera Ia not only failure but Is proving IN
furious to private business well as detrimental 10
commerce, which it dvertng to other directions The
schedule that the mails leaving NewYork on Sun
days and Wednesdays arrive at Havana on Thursdays
and Sundays and the malls leaving Havana on Wednes,
Thursdays A merchant who has had large business
transactions between York and Havana, ana VINO
"0n August /, when the steamship lines to Havana
refused TO carry tho mails the stam tug j. Cosnrsne
brlco Department 20 convey the mails from Tampa
to Havana by way OF Key West Being small boat and
putting out TO- sea- SsG OF the cult There has
been certainty of either departure arrival nor has
making TIPS .Ss her
wise disabled Then another tug. the Kaiser, was used
In her stead. She also met with accident since en
the schooner Nonpareil, and finally the fishing smack
Alaska have been utilized az mail carriers rms man
ner OF mail transportation is in direct violation OF a
ance
The schedule also states that the mails from the
United States arrive at Havana at a. ID: NOW this
simply absurd and fuse for IL Il well known that no
vessel ever enters tho port Of Havana In the night or
prior to sunrise. Another proof Of the fasity OF the
schedules statement thai letters from Now YORK reach
Havana In four days can show TO you by these letters
with tho times Of mailing Them One mailed on August
"a and another tho follow ng morning reached liay-
the afternoon OF August 30; these mailed on A-
gust 49, "a and % reached there September this
sent August 81 arrived on September o. and these
half dozen others suffered similar delays ID no Instance
has there been delivery less than five days liz some
fho ms huN ed
or schooner at Tampa; honce week would pass With
out the forwarding Of mails to Havana. The Post once
Department s amply decelyng the public and destroy
Ing by It's penny wise and pound foolish sys
tom by employing unreliable and unseaworthy routes
aud conyeyanoes. Tho Spanish Government has been
requested In order to break up the system facilities
offered by the steamship lines in rarrying private mails
10 fine all letters received at Havana without the New
York Post OIics cancclng stamp upon them The
Government compels tho senders TO pay the regular
postage and orders tho officials at the other enc
to collect the regular postage and fine, which amounts
10 from cents to 81 So 10 is shameful for Govern
ment like msre present and deceive The people
should stop this Postmaster General In his foolish work
before We come TO complete stOppage Of communica-
ton with foreign cOuntries."