St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-17
MIR. SALA'S LETTER.
Why 1t Was Not Delivered in St.
Paul Friday, Dec. IL,

". o. Sala is bookkeeper and acting
manager of the Excelsior oil tank line.
concern doing business in this city.
Mr.. Sala, DESTROYS of paying off an in
debtedness of $500 due the Home and
Dairy company. of st. Paul, wrote them
a letter to that effect Thursday, Dec. II,
in which he prudentially and with pur-
pose aforethought enclosed check for
the amount owed. The following Fri
day morning Mr.. Sala, again pruden-
TALLY, telephoned the officers of the
Home and Dairy company, of st. Paul,
that he had written the letter, before
mentioned, but imprudently refrained
from adding that he had not mailed it.
The letter with the check was delivered
to the parties to whom it was addressed
by the st. Paul carrier on his second de-
livery Saturday morning. The Pioneer
Press made these circumstances the
groundwork for an editorial, published
in the issue of last Sunday, rejecting
upon the management of the mails be-
tween the Twin Cities, and especially
upon the Minneapolis postoffice.
Fortunately for the pOStoffice officials
Inspector Gould, of the pOstoffice de-
partment. was in Minneapolis. At the
special request of the postmasters of
both cities and Supt. Perkins, of the
mail service, Inspector Gould deter
mined to get at the facts in the case.
Yesterday he quietly went to work, and
before the close of the day had placed
in the hands of Deputy Postmaster
Hughes, of this city, an affidavit,
which, so to speak, knocks the pins
from under the Pioneer Press editorial
and reflects light upon what might have
proven a tangled and misunderstood
postal idcident.
On visiting Mr.. Sala's office Inspector
:. Gould discovered that the letter form
ing the subject of this story had not
been written until Friday. Dec. IL. Mr..
Sala was possibly laboring under an
Authorization or in trance when he
telephoned the st. Paul concern he had
written the letter on Thursday. The
inspector, upon inquiry, learned that
Mr.. Sala mailed the communication con-
tanning the check Oh Friday evening
after 6 o'clock by dropping it in mail
box some distance from the postoffice.
Inspector Gould asked Mr.. Sala if he
would not make an affidavit to that
effect, and Mr.. Sala very cour-
teously and prudently said that he
would do so and with alacrity. The fol-
lowing is copy of the affidavit:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN.
W. o. Sala, being first duly sworn, says
/ am bookkeper and actuary for Excelsior
Oil Tank Line doing business at Twenty
first street and Marshall avenue southeast,
Minneap polls. Mimi, and wrote letter to the
Home and Dairy CO.., St. Paul, Mimi,
which letter is dated Dec. II, 1890, and in
which letter was enclosed check for $500.
l md by reference to the copybook that this
letter was not mailed until the evening of
FRIDAY, Dec. II, 1890 after O'Clock, when
it was deposited in a letter box corner of
Fourth street and Fourteenth avenue south
east, Minneapolis, Mimi. by my hand,
w. D. SALA
Sworn and subscribed before me this 10th
day of Dec, 1890. GUY +. GOULD,
Postoffice Inspector and Notary Public.
1t will be observed that Inspector
Gould and Mr.. Sala have between them
justified the management of the post
uffices of the Twin Cities, in so. far as
the delivery of Mr.. Sala's letter was
concerned. 1t is but right to add that
complaints to the Minneapolis postal
authorities when properly made re-
ceive investigation, and that the time
of the transfer of mail between the
Twin Cities is not as long as the time
necessary 10 send letter from Mime
apolis to Chicago, Notwithstanding the
statement Of the Pioneer Press.