Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-01
FALL POSTAL STYLES.
SOME GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
LOCAL SERVICE.

| Twenty-F Four New Carriers Start I'm With
the Opening of Autumn-CarIs for Col
lections-Slx Deliveries a Day Hereafter
for the Business Districts.
There will be placed on duty at the Pitts
burg Postoffice this morning "a additional
| letter carriers and collectors. Heretofore
there have been five deliveries of regular
carriers in the lower part of the city. out
Penn avenue to Thirteenth street and In
cluding Grant street to Water and all below
these points Hereafter the business de-
liveries will be increased to six, and the
territory extended to Fourteenth street and
up the hill to Chatham street. The three
delivery districts will be extended to Gist
street out Fifth avenue. and to Crawford
street out Wylie avenue. The six-trip car
riers will leave the postoffice at z, 9, and
1880 A. NJ, and 1890, 2:3O, and 4:3O P. M.
Special features which will be inaugu-
rated will be an early morning delivery at
o'clock to the commission, meat and mar
ket men, and special delivery of registered
mail at 9 A. M. and 2 p M, covering the
territory embraced in the six-trip routes.
Parts of the Twenty-second and Twenty
seventh wards, now receiving but one deliv-
cry, will receive two.
CARTS FOR COLLECTIONS.
The collection service will be greatly i'm
proved. A number of handsome new carts
specially adapted for this work are now be-
ing built by j. G. Wier, and mounted COL
lectors will be placed on duty out Second
avenue to Glenwood, Fifth avenue to
Neville street, and out Wylie, Webster and
Center avenues to Thirty-third and Soho
streets.
There will also be additional, collections
made on West Carson street, and in the
East End, between z and s P. M. The en-
tire collection in the business district and
main thoroughfares will be cleared up at
1880 P. M. This will make, in the business
district, 16 collections daily.
Receiving stations for the sale of money
ORDERS registration of letters and packages
and sale of stamps etc., and the deposit of
mali matter, will be established at Oakland
at Ihrig's drug store, at Soisson's in Hazel
wood, and at Evan Jones' in the West End.
These will be known as Hazelwood Station,
Oakland Station, and West End Station
The district on Penn avenue, between
Thirty-third street and Pearl, which has
never been reached by the collectors, will
now be regularly covered.
This relief 10 the service will bring all
routes within the eight-hour law. One ad-
ditional carrier will be assigned to Station B
at Lawrenceville, two to East Liberty, and
two to the Southside.
INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS.
In an interview last evening POST
master Mexican said: "To Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker and Colonel Bates, the
Superintendent of the free delivery service,
must be awarded great credit for promptly
appreciating the needs of this rapidly grow
ing city, and with probably few additions,
which will be made as they are needed, Pitts
burg can now claim as efficient postal serv-
ice as any city in the country. 1t will, of
course, require short time to get ali these
features working smoothly, but our people
can rest assured that their needs will be
closely watched and attended to by the local
officials. Every want, so far, has been au-
ticipated, and increased facilities have been
constantly added. The newspapers deserve
great credit for their assistance in the work
OF securing for Pittsburg what she now has
as good a mail service as there is in any
city west of the Alleghenies, not excepting
Chicago"