Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-08
RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE.
Hon. ". H. BiselOH Talks With
a Journal Reporter Con-
earning it.
The Service 10 be Run on a Strictly
Business Basis.
The Best Of the Present Clerks to be
Retaioed ard the Mos. Efficient OF
the Old to be Re-icstated

bee n re-appointed Superintendent of the New
England division of railway mail service.
arrived in the city las; Saturday evening
and spent the Sabbath with his family Nj
Bigelow vas locking hale aui hearty, when
Journal reporter dropped in upon him last
evening, and seemed glad to be able to make
even brief visit 10 his home In answer TO
question as to the present state of the pos
tai service he said
Il took possession of the office last Mon
day and have been busily engaged
for the week in looking over the
different routes and ascertaining the
condition of the service. To speak briefly.
the service is very badly dtmJrslized, large
ly resulting from the. too rapid change Of
the Cd clerks and the TOO sud len promo tion
of the new. Clerk. that had been il,
the service from five 10 twenty wears, thor
, oughy competent AID equipped by long cx-
perenee 10 meet every emergency. have
besn displaced 10 make room for Democrats
with-u experience, and n many instance.
men VII, cannot, for long time, grasp the
service"
what has been the effect of the wholesale
changer"
The result has been to turn in from,
nearly all the great branch lines hundreds OF
sacks of unworked mail matter IA. the Boston
aud New York Offices anl Frequently mar,
hundred packages of letters which must oi
necessity DELAY their delivery all over New
England from - to 3G hours This immens,
amount of mail matter suddenly dumped
in upon the Boston and New York Offices has
in turn demoralized both of these offices.
Thus You see that one thing so depends upon
another that, like the Limbs of the BODY. if
one suffers all suffer together"
What route appears TO be in the wofs,
condition."
Perhaps no line is SO badly off as the
Boston, Springfield and New York, which i.
the great artery through which two third. of
all the mail matter coming and going from
New England flows. On this line nearly all
the night crews of seven or eight men each
have been changed and their places file
with green men who. however hard they may
try, are Incapable of doing more than a
third as much rs old and experienced hands.
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that i, has gone from bad to worse until
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business interest. of Nov E,,,and rh;s
liae i, have nv first a,to,,io,
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