Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07

Arrangements Made to Garry It Out with
Germany-Ths Clerks Selected,

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Germany-Ths Clerks Selected.
A new feature Of the postal service will be
| inaugurated April 1, when sea post offices will
| be established in the German steamers plying
between New. York, Bremen and Hamburg.
These Offices comprise clerk representing
| this government and q clerk representing the
| German government. Their duties will be
to distribute during the voyage the mail
matter, for example, that is sent from Germany
to this country. In other words, these en-
ployes will perform the duties that are assigned
to postal clerks on trains. After the
system has been established all mail
matter from this country to Germany
and from Germany to this country
| sent on German steamers will be handled dur
ing the voyage, SO that upon the arrival Of the
steamers the letters for delivery in New York
city, for instance, will be ready to be given to
letter carriers for immediate delivery to the par
| ties addressed. Mail matter for points beyond
New York will be placed in separate pouches
and can be taken at once to the cars and started
| steamer arrives in New York city early in the
day it il expected that under this new system
letters will be delivered, SO that if necessary
| response can be prepared and mailed In the next
outgoing steamer, which perhaps sails on the
same day. Heretofore all mail matter reaching
this country on steamers was taken in bulk to
the New York post office, where the distribu-
ton occupied several hours, and it sometimes
happened that the letters were not delivered
until the next day. II is expected tina. this
change will cause a saving in many instances of
an entire business day in the delivery of
letters.
PRINTED NATTER WILL NOT BE HANDLED.
Only letters and postals will be handled on
the steamer, as the customs laws require an in
spection Of packages and printed matter before
they can be delivered in this country. So far
the Postmaster General has been able to make
this arrangement with the German govern
ment only. The English government and the
French government, which were invited to
| enter into similar arrangement. have 90 far
not decided to do 80.
As there are twelve steamers plying between
the United States and Bremen and Hamburg
the Post Office Department will have a
postal clerk on each steamer and the Ger
man government will be similarly represented
This will make total force of TWENTY
four clerks employed in the sea post
offices. The United States clerks who viii be
appointed for this duty have all been selected.
The list contains the names of the men who
have made fine records in the postal service,
both in the railway mail service and in post
for their efficiency. The appointments are as
follows:
W. II. Hall, ]. J. Valentine. p j. Holtzman,
j. T. Collins, I. T. Burke and John A. Draw OF
the New York post Office; C. H. Oler, E. A.
Rouk. W. SpOnable, II. H. Mondon, r. G. Aver
i'll and J. v. Henry of the railway mail service.
The clerks will each receive IL 200 per year
and their subsistence on the steamer. The
first mail under this system will leave Germany
on the LIST Of April, and the first mail from this
country will leave New York on the 18th Of
April.