The record-union., 1891-09-07
Those Mail Routes.

EDS. RECORD-UNIoN The San Fran
cisco ErdD,iaeT of August s, 1891, has
nearly a three-column article of strange
news, which it is reported that one Mrs.
Langdon of Oroville gave birth to while
being interviewed at the Grand Hotel in
San Francisco. Please allow me space in
| the good old reliable RECORD UNION to
set her right in that particular part where
she handles Mr.. WanamalIer's name in
connection with mine in a very untruth-
full manner, to say the least Of it. After
q long string of bOsh about those Oroville
and Quincy routes, diagrams, ETC., she
came to my case, where she says: SIN
Colusa and Lake County there is another
illustration of the Improvement Wana-
maker has made in the postal service
The railroad from Colusa ends at Sites
In summer Bartlett Springs, in Lake
County, is a POstoflice of no mean i'm
portance, for many hundreds of people
get their mail there. In the old days the
Sites to Leesville, to Hough Springs, and
on TO Bartlett Springs. Now, the mail
from the world to Bartlett Springs is de-
! layed for three hours, because the Post
| master-Gencral cOmpelS the stage to run
eight miles off the road over the mount
aims to Epperson's ranch TO get one
mans mail. How much of a pull Epper-
son has on Mr.. Wanamaker is one Of the
things the Congressman desire to bring
out at the investigations
Now, Mrs. LangdOn, allow me to
kindly inform you and those who got
you to utter the above that it is false, and
would, perhaps, injure people who are
! as honest and of as much importance to
the world as you are, or those who mis-
informed you if not refuted). With
due respect to your sex, L would advise
! you not to be SO prominent in abusing
| people that you know nothing about,
who have built up what we enjoy to-day
without the aid OF yourself and that great
batch OF star route contractors which the
Erdnt3HcT says you figure as brains when
you go to Washington.
Allow me to tell you, Madam, that my
SELF and others came to this valley near a
quarter of a century ago. We had no
postotfice nearer than Colusa, thirty
three miles away. 1t took some years to
get good roads to Colusa, after which
myself and few associates built another
road on to Bartlett Springs, there con-
Meeting with the one that led to Upper
| Lake. We petitioned the authorities at
! Washington who granted us mail
route, and from that day until the present
| time the mail has been carried right by
( the door Of Epperson pOstoffice. There
! is no straight road from Leesville to
| Hough Springs, as represented in your
]
! Sth. If there is any such map filed with
! the department at Washington it is not
! correct, and has been put there to deceive
the officials by some person devoid of
| truth or principle in order to injure Mr.
| Nanam&ker or perhaps the people who
| get their mail at Epperson postot1ice.
! 1t would cost over 81 900 per mile to
make a wagon road over those mount
aims, as shown by your false diagram. If
| all of your charges against Mr.. Wana-
! maker are as false as the one in regard to
| our case, you and your sockless Jerry
! Simpson Will not down him very hard.
/ What hash it is for you TO even intimate
! that Congress is waiting for you TO give
! the word for them to investigate Mr..
! Wanamaker. Oh, dear! it makes me
/ tired TO read such stuff.
You say that you went in a friendly
way TO warn Mr.. Wanamaker and give
! him advice. That you found him to be q
! boor, and was insulted in most shame
/ full manner, such as you never was be-
| fore in all your life. Did he not meet
| you at the outer door Of his private office
and tell you to go to the proper place to
| transact your business? Then did YOU
not say to him that General Villas and
! Mr.. James and others had been very
willing to listen to you? (The Examiner
! of August Sth says sO.) Mr.. Wanamaker
] then told you that he was not. That
! broke you all up, didn't it? That was
one of the best acts of Hon. John Wana-
makers life. 1t showed his honesty and
virtue in thunder tones, when he told
| you TO go to the proper place to transact
| your businessmen in his private office
Don't for one moment think but what
| the department at Washington can run
| the postal affairs without your advice in
| any of the officials private offices. Do
you pretend to think that You know how
| to run the business better than Mr..
Wanamaker and all his assistants? If
| you do, perhaps President Harrison had
better turn them all out and give you the
Postmaster -Generalship. Then that
| batch of Star route contractors whose
| interest you was looking after when Mr..
Wanamaker denied your admitance to
his private Office would have good fat
time. We are satisfied that those re-
porterS got you to say things that you, as
| lady, ought to be sorry for. Don't let
them do SO again. 1t causes people to say
| things about you they otherwise would