The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-26
MAIL FACILITIES.
a state OF Things the Post office
Department Should Correct.
To the Editor me Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
viii you let the voice Of the people be
heard through the columns Of your paper for
the public good in regard to mail matters In
Naples and other places connected there
with.
There is a strip OF territory lying between
the Grand Trunk Railroad and the Portland
and Ogdensburg Railroad, from Portland TO
BridgtOn, about 38 milas in length and from
30 to 40 miles In width, making it from
IS 10 20 miles from line In the centre Of
said territory to either Of said roads There
is a road from Portland to Bridgton through
the centre Of this territory over which mail
stage ran for more than sixty years and on
which are located seven post offices between
Portland and Bridgton TO wit: Westbr00k,
Duck Pond, Windham Centre, No. WIndham,
Raymond, South CaScO and Naples When
the stage carried the mail facilities satisfac-
tory 20 all were furnished, the mail leaving
Portland at O'Clock In the morning and
arriving at Brldgton at o'clock In the after
noon, giving the Naples post Office its mail
at about o'clock In the afternoon, and all
the other Offices on the route earlier In the
day. Then alfthe mail that came into the
Portland Office for Naples from o'clock In
the forenoon to 3 o'clock In the afternoon
went up TO BridgtOn ON the Ogdensburg road
on the afternoon train and came down TO
Naples next morning by said mail stage at
o'clock.
Now the mail route Is kept up from Port
land 10 South CascO, and that part OF the old
route from South CascO, through Naples, 10
Brdgton, a distance Of about IA miles, has
been discontinued, and the mail Is supplied
ut the Naples post office by stage from the
Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, a dis
tance of about IA miles. Under this new ar
rangement the mail arriyeslat the Naples Of
iice about o'clock in the evening andlleayes
at from to 8 o'clock in the morning so that
we do not get our daily papers In time 10
read them till the next day after .they are Is
sued. In fact we do not get any OF cur mall
| under the new arrangement so as 10 be OF
| any use 20 us, IL being so late In the evening
when II arrives, till one day later than under
inconvenlent for the people doing business
at the Naples post ONCE. a good many In
number, for there are five roads that radiate
from this office, Of from three 10 five miles In
length which are settled along their whole
extent and contain about 200 houses with a
population Of about 800. Now the old route
from South CascO TO Bridgton used to cost
about 500 per annum for the transportation
Of the mails,an IL costs about the same from
the Ogdensburg road 10 Naples, as from So.
CaseO 10 BridgtOn Why then cannot we
have the old arrangement re-established. as
1t costs government no more than the new
One does? Besides there can be no way
devised that will accommodate Naples with
mail facilities so we'll as the old arrange
ment, while there can be none that will
accommodate Naples worse than the present
arrangement.
1t has always been understood that mails
were 10 be carried and the post offices con-
Quoted so as to best accommodate the pub
lie, but there could not very easily be q "
arrangement devised that would accomm0-
date us less than the present one. We have
repeatedly demonstrated against the old
route being discontinued, and. since il has
neen done, have petitiOned TO have IL estaO-
llsned, Dut all 10 no purpose. Therefore we
feei that we are unIustly deprived Of rights
ana privileges that other places around US
are enjoying. NAPLES.