The rustler., 1891-09-11

Instances in support Of this statement
are too numerous to mention, for they
would Gil whole columns
Under law which will enable every
employe To feel that his services are APP
prcciated, at least to the exent of con.
tinuance In position while worthy, each
individual will strive TO excel In greater
or less degree, according ms their talents
are one or ten. One of the best prac-
tical examples of the truth of this
statement is in tangible form before me
as ] write. For about fifteen years pre-
vious TO his departure from the public
service Everett j. Dallas had been an
employe of the post Office department.
during the latter para of his term being
chief Of the dead letter office. lie was
removed for political reasons In 1855.
and is now practicing law somewhere in
Kansas, lie had been so long In the
public service that he seemed to be n
part OF IL. and IL OF MIN. All of his
splendid abilities were directed To the
improvement of the work Of which he
had charge and for which he was re-
sponsible. As chief of the dead letter
office he was daily absorbed in the solu-
ton of the problem of how to devise ad-
equate means TO aid those tens Of thou
sands OF careless people in the country
who are trying and failing to reach
their friends through the mail; and that
they need assistance is manifest from
the fact that hundreds of thousands of
letters, postal cards, packages, ncwspa-
pcrs and merchandise annually go TO
the dead letter Office by reason OF their
misdirection or partial and imperfect
direction. Some time last year told
you something about the work of the
expert ladies who dccipher peculiar chi.
Biography. but there are people all
around you. your intelligent ncighbors,
who write well and understand things
generally, yet who constantly direct let
ters in such manner as to defy the rail-
way mail service, the star route carriers
and the post Office officials.
In large cities, where tons of mail
matter are handled day after day, IL is
not an easy task to deliver partially di.
rected letters. Still more difficult is IL
when letters merely bear the name OF
the individual addressed, with his street
number, without giving the name OF
city or state to which the letter should
20. Sometimes nothing is written on
the envelope but the name of the person
addressed. without adding the city or
state in which the individual resides.
Three years ago letter was addressed
10 "Ilon. p. II. Mcclure" and dropped
into the post Office here. Four days
later II was delivered TO Mayor Mcclure.
of Pierre. Dakota. An intelligent let
ter carrier, who had been delivering
mail TO MIR. Mcclure at the Ma
tional hotel, knew that he had recently
returned to his Dakota home, and the
letter was accordingly forwarded. Very
frequently letters are addressed some
thing like the following: Miss Gladys
Martyr, Cleveland avenue" Now, how
san such letter be delivered? Could
the sender expect such letter 10 go
anywhere but into the dead letter Office
and ultimately into the fire?
For this clsss of careless people
Chief Clerk Dallas. who was devoted to
his work, compiled volume which is
Of incnlculable valne to the govern
ment and to tons of thousands of care
less people all over the country. lie
conceived the idea of compiling, in
alphabetical form, list Of all the
streets, courts, avenues, places, lanes