New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-11
T9PROVTyG POSTAL DELIVERY.
From The Washington star.

From The washington ctai'
The directory Of Washington has IN II only aDou'
s0OO0 names. while the population OF tle cry -
nearly talce time, that number. l.''. are ~ arl,,
~. ulcy 10 receive directed letters a. are Their
elder Thu, il that the city directory Is only OF
Here is the point where the po,tofiee in this ely
"a, mle 'po" Eol and the personal super
vision Of James T.. Bell superintendent "i '.o ,,
delivery system. supplementary Iie,'oan , aS
compiled which i remarkably 'ompv,c az" ~, q. ",cr,
II has taken force oi clerks ever since lisi yNc'
Ter to accomplish THU woTA but now tnst ,sd ~.
completed it, value Is already appre,1at'u, ",n -
result i, seen In the dminuion 81 me nun,u1l -, VI
letter, which are sent from mere t. ,ne Ter ', nr
Office. The work of mahin~ On, directory va in'
complicated. hut it took tine and deal "i pauen'',
poI l,t, , o,na,mcnt bearing the following head
To the occupant of NJ. -- street. --- section.
Ilc,-. iii out on blank AT bottom Of pa;e the names
y, a prefix 10 case Of females. who receive or are
likely to receive. mai at this number The lnior.
II mail with would otherwise q T. the dead letter
oilicc Notf; oace Of ali changes Of acdre,s Hand
TO Garner VI '''p D" 'JoliN Y Ross, Postmaster.
Every lettercarrer WI. furnished WIN q supply
Of these slips and WAS expected To see tnSt enssE
house along his route rcesyei copy ihen n sSI9
filled ont ana returned. In case no at"h'"I i,V w~}
paid t. the notice another VS. sent ana II hls el'',i
house, and if necessary MI ont the lip himself IN
other words each carrier va, eNpected 10 see IN"
returns - the Once. some 81 iH'N 'o"A " r., , ,ne
interest ana pride IN their work. and a. a result me
feet. Other, did not do quite 50 we'll PIT the WorN
whole was very thorough ard satisfactory NJ,
time enough had been allowed iJr all report, 10 ne
turned IN. The work # sorting ana arranging lne
names began. y f).cr Of half dozen clerks "eie
detailed II this work. and they have been busy eye
s.ncc Within the next ten days 1t Is thought mo
whole task will De completed 49,. lin. ..
The work wa, begun hy cutting up these slips -
Then tiie,e had al be arranged alphnbeti'allN.
IL will be readily understood that this VS. no slight
task when il il stated that there were 1000 more
names I'm this pu~tolicc book than n The city direc
tory. After they had al been arranged in perfect
order hrr, .inA boots were CHAINED ana the name,
entered In these On IN" right hand pages were Pastel
slip, from the regular city directory Tie slips With
the names written upon them were compared VIA
these and wherever the TWO corrc>pOndcd the written
sin wa, thrown aside - avoid entering the same
name more than once. Wherever the SANG namc
occurred in both but with different addreS>e~ ths
and likely To bee correct. Then an the 5000
hand the LETT hand pages NJ the looks directly
slips. Plenty of room ha, been left for future add
tons. and corlr tion> 'ai. be made without any
trouble.
The directory completed I'll, Twelve large volumes
some volumes having several letters in them. wNih
others can only accommodate one. Thus has
volume II lis oWn while \ and & are m 'he ssme
one. and large sized book needed 20 accom-
moiatc all the N>. IT, The leitci NJ for instance
the -urnl' mcnlary directory has added 673O names
and -l3O have been added Ia Il.