The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-27

is as familiafwith the pigeon holes as with
his alpha ed The examiner of this divis-
ion, Geo: q w. Carr, told a Star re
porter that lot long ago he sat with man
| from O'clbk in the afternoon until 4
| o'clock nextmorning, and then the candi-
date did MIDGET mole than 80 per cent. on
his eXamInfion.
A STATE SCHEME.
The aspiant for the honor of being a
member Ola postal car crew having sue
&c sfuly ekded the various pitfalls which
have been liaced in his mental pathway is
fairly on tie road to success He next I'M
de- takes s ST tie scheme This new in
strUment Il torture, when shown up in
print, coves a sheet about ) or 4 feet
square, and in the case of q state like Ohio
the sheet S>umes larger proportions. 1t
contains a list of the counties, with the
name of theru;lroad by which mail is to be
sent to the different towns within that
county. Al interesting feature If this
scheme, at hast to those who don't have
to learn it, IS tho noting of the excep-
tions in the list OF towns to which mail
is TO be sent by some other railroad. For
| instance, III the county Of Pittsylvania,
Va, all the mail is t6be sent to Danville
with the exception of certain towns along
the line between Washington and Char
Iotts, some twenty four i'll number. There
are also five such towns between Elha and
r ckv Mount, eight etween Keysville and
Dnville, seven between Danville and
Stuart, and seven IN other locations So
that in out of q total of seventy-one post
Offices the county the postal clerk is
obliged to remember tifty-one exceptions.
OthoH counties present still greater per-
pleXl,ieS, because of the number of the pos
slble railroad connections
WHAT SOME CLERKS HAVE TO KNOW.
When q postal clerk finishes with Vir-
GINA, he X ows the names of 2,i1S post
offices, besides the railroad lines and star
routes, and just how and where they cut
in o each other. All clerks do not reach a
high proficiency. In cases where they are
employed in short branch lines their knowl-
edge of the Offices i'll the state may not i've
very thorough. This stands in the way OF
Their promotion. and when the examiner
comes around, as he is apt to do pretty
often, they are expected to stand an exam
nation on the entire state, ald the result is
set down in his official report to tho divis-
ion superintendent But for the men on the
main lines there is hardly a limit. As fast
As they learn the scheme of one state they
begin on another. Take, for instance. the
clerks running on the line between Wash
ington and Charlotte. n c. They are
obliged to know the schemes the follow
Ing states, the number of postOflices in each
being given: New York $,273, New Jersey
794, Pennsylvania APIS, Maryland 9S5, Viz
ginia 2,47S, West Virginia HOP, North
Carolina :, 25S South Carolina 9S3, Georgia
1868. This makes Il total of lS,O56 names
OF po>tofIices which a postal clerk must
pack away IN his head, all neatly and Sc
curely labeled with the names of the
counties aud the railroads by which they
a'e reached. But this is not al.
There ars constant changes being made in
the names of postotlices. Old ones are
abolished, new oues established, and the
sites changed. IN the state OF Virginia
alone, since Jan. last, there were between
seventy and eighty new postotiices cstab-
lished and thilty-seven changes, either in
name or in site. Clerks travelling on the
great trunk lines, as between this city and
the south aud the north, or between New
York and Chicago, have an immense labor
to &C 1uire the needed information in the
first pl &C, and then a constant round of
study to keep themselves up with the
changes