The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-20
BETTER NAIL SERVICE.
That is What Business Men Want
Badly.

That is What Business Men Wan t
Badly.
The interview in yesterdays MORNING
NEWS with Supt. Terrell OF the southern
division Of the railway mail service was
generally discussed by business men, aud
the probability is that a speedy reconstruc-
ton Of the mail service will follow. Many
business men were ignorant of the manner
IN which Savannah is being treatei by the
government. They were not aware that
only one local IL al Is received q day from
along the line OF the Celtral railroad.
Many business men who SEMI out price
! currents at night 10 their patrons on the
line OF tue road between here and Macon
did not know before yesterday, when they
saw it in the MORNING NEWS, that none Of
these price currents 60 out OF the Savannah
| Office until the next morning, except, per-
haps, to Millen aad Wayne b)-o. To all
! otner points the mail which is delivered TO
the Savannah office during the day is not
taken out until the next morning
which is intended to reach the
| merchants between here and Macon the
| sane day that it is mailed, or early the
/ next morning, does not reach than before
/ midday and tue afternoon OF tie following
| day.
A good many business men were under
| the impression that the $40 o'clock night
/ fast mail to Atlanta carried a local mail,
and they thought that by mailing letters
here before the train went Gus that the let
ters would go out that night. The train
carries through mail, THAI is, mail for
Macon, Columbus, Augusta aud Atlanta
and points beyond, but it has no clerk
to handle the local pouches for the stations
which would take night mails.
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service.a q ne said tlatlt is asmatter which
he has been endeavoring to get change for
a considerable time He has been unable,
50 taT, however, t. accomplish az thing
One local mail day from the line OF the
Central railroad toward Macon, he said is
not by any means adequate. TIE local
mail, he said, is greater than the through
way to the through mail. The idea OF put
ting a night clerk on the
CentraA he said, is good one.
1t would necessitate the additiol of three
extra mon. but it would largely increase
the mail facilities which Savannah cannot
AFFORD longer to have hampered. TIE IN
nuK OF mail, coming in as it does on only
one train day, taxes the postofIice force
70 dispatch 1t, while during the rest of the
day the employees work is light. If the
mail was divided it would divide the labor
OF the postotfice employees and would give
more constant employment and conse-
quently better service. Besides, letters
would not be received a day aud a half and
two days late.
~. W ltn reference to a pouch on the
'ShooHy" train, Postmaster Lamar said
that ne does not favor it since the s. 10 train,
winch leaves only couple Of hours later.
can carry tne pouch aid deliver it with the
same service. Besides great many
letters received at the Savannah Office for |
stations along the line of the road are re- !
celyed after the hour for the "Shooa ~ to |
80 out aud II not carried out on the regular |
o:lO Uraln they would not bs delivered that |
nlehE. Ii night clerk is put on
the Iast mail, the postmaster said that |
doubtless majority Of the stations along
the Lac Will take the night mail, aud eveI |
II Uney do not take it as the night train !
passes up the mail may be transferred to |
the train coming down early in the morn |
ing, SO that it will be delivered at breakfast |
time all along the line.
Inc train which will bring the mail |
o PECK, Is also a night train, leaving |
savannah at 6:1O o'clock the next |
norning: The outgoing train leaves |
savannah at $40 at mig d and arrives in |
Atlanta the next morning early. Both |
trains are without a mail clerk and no mails |
are carried except through mails. After |
Vhe might train leaving here at $40 o'clock |
gets 10 Macon, it runs to Atlanta as day |
!, an, Dus no mail IS put oil or taken on |
between Macon and Atlanta While a |
letter mailed in Savannah at night for
UflIiln, Tor instance, might go out or the |
hi8hU Tram and reach Griffin the next |
mo hlng, under the present arrangement |
II Goes net go out of the Savannah Office |
uatll the next morning after being mailed. |
a.lu IS hot put OF at Griffin untilate in the
postmaster Lamar said that when the |
nignO clerk was put upon the run last year
lhoIe satisfactory mail service was obtained. /
ana better arrangements existed in every /
way lie said that he is satisfied that with |
tae large experience that Supt Terrell has |
IN railway mail matters, he will secure the
night clerk service, il possible.
Annmber OF business men on the Bavand |
IN other parts Of the city were approached |
aoouI Tue matter yesterday, and they are
very anxious that something shall be |
done. When the matter is explained |
70 then they hardly realize |
that Savannah's interests have been !
neglected in this manner One pron- |
lnent cotton merchant on the Bay |
sad That Savannah should have tne NIGHT |
clerks put on if it is possible 10 get them |
: ne business interests OF the city demand |
better mail facilities. AS it now is if a let- |
ter is delivered to the Ssyan-
nah office for sGuyton after
D O'Clock in the morning it will lie in Sa- |
vannah all day and until 6lO the next |
morning, Notwithstanding Gayton is only |
thirty miles distant, with four trains a dav |
from Savannah. The cotton merchants
aAd business men on the Bay and elsewhere
look upon the matter in the same light.
Before the Mayor
Five cases were docl-etad for. tba ,,,o.>,,.