New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09
orrER LETTERS TO THE POSTM ASTER.
COME UNREASONABLE CoMPLAINTs-oNE COR
RESPONDENT WANTS SOME KITTENS
ANOTHER WIFE.

nh. habit NJ many people going on at nair-cocN
,,.hs IN the sending Of many ietn1 10 Fos'"''s' >.
Won Cott which would cause ,m much am"sc"o''' "
they were not so numerous that they nave oo"'' ~
hore An idea OF the unrc'sonaDiehess VI eo"' -
n,s correepondents will be DRAINED from the seoo"
,' ,o,,er which reached him not long ago. IL came
u ,,. vav from india and was written by anAmeri-
a ,ow resident there. who complained Of the oeiay
in sending a letter TO him. The letter. ne sau, "u
hoo, mailed in san Francisco on April o. pu' Ia" Nv"
.oachcd New York until August 10. After tlat IL
travelled at a reasonable speed. why shoui" !" '""'
the letter so long to cross the cohuheh''
Tho mart Of the letter containing the date ana inc
o,o,o uere IncIosed with the complaint so that
A.. Va, cott might have documentary proof OF INC
osecrtions II happened that the protest came Il''
tho hands Of Assistant Postmaster Gayler nrs' anu '
trained eve saw at q glance the r,nlculo"snosS Va ~"
thing The date Of the original letter was W nsuo'
seraratcd bv perpendicular lines, that Is
90 The person who felt himself aggrleved hao Trans
,o,sd the characters a. nearing the eighth oaS Vi
,o ,urh month Of 1880 OF course they really stood
%, the fonrth day of the eighth month. or August H.
en- that the tourney from san Francisco 10 'orN
had really been made in little more than hVe daS
What placed the mans position In even a "'or'
,udcrous light was that the San Francisco Pos'"'' "
ON tbe cpvc,opo said plainly August a, looo' ou'
II had never occurred to the man 10 looh a' '"'''
although he had examined the Ncw-Yorh one.
A CORES pondent who was perhaps equaiis "'''e"
sopable lives not far from this CITY, MS oo'p'a'"'
vas fiat II had taken the Postofce people SIX daN
IN send a letter FROM this city TO his nome When "
shoud have been delivered In as many hours' lle'
too enclosed the envelope which should prove 'ic
cuIpabIe negligence and the nefhclency OF the f"st-
onioe employes Mr. Gayler with nall giahce
tho mistahe the man had made. The letter was III
oubt date six DAYS before It's receipt but the MARKS
nm the envelope showed that it was delivered OH uie
day it was mailed.
The sender had evidently intrusted tho Pos"s VI .''
letter TO some one who had forgotten ALL ABOUT " io
nearly a week. and had then quietly dropped I" in'o
latter box without telling the writer OF u OF HIS
negligence The cares OF the PostofHce Department
uou,d he VASTLY increased II 1t had TO bear the 10
snonsibilty OF every delay in mailing letter.
Postmaster Van Colt. however, receives curious
,.tter that are not sent by who have grievances
Ors such came from a woman In Massachusetts, pre-
sumahlv an old maid who had favor b ask ehc
had been IN lately size wrote, and In store
IN vesey not far from the POstOce. had seen nine
lovely black cats Wouldn't the postmaster have
the iettercarrier the route ask IN tiie narV V
stores until he found the cats, ana theh suiu VIC
address Of the place to the writer s"e ""S y
tremeiy anxious to get some h'tchs' . uov,o,,
TO himself to make. lie was iariner III Mon'a s
and wanted wife. His helpmeet had died Few
weeks before, and he wanted another ~ u nairy
He needed one in his business. she shouiun ".
especially Young nor yet remarkably handsome, put
indispensable requisites we're health strength anu
knowledge OF the duties OF O farmers VIE. H.. A.,
Mr. Van Colt read between the hnss u',' .nt .
man had worked his first wife to death, and that
he second would be likely TO meet similar fate,
80 he did not bestir himself much to ma woman
who would fill the bill