The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-06-16
BETTER MAIL SERVICE.
Suggestions for Superintendent Of
Mails to Consider.

Suggestions lot Sup9rlnJenu9nJ OF
Mails to Consider.
From Frackville Item"
From Frackville to Shenandoah as
flies the crow is about % miles. BY
the Pennsylvania railroad the distance
is about miles. Still it is impossi-
ble to send a letter to that town and
receive an answer ON the same day by
mail though q man may walk over in
less than an hour, drive thither in 81
minutes, ride by rail in 10 minutes,
and three passenger trains goOver and
four come from there through Track
vile every secular day. If the same
statement is not entirely true as COR
Germs our mail connections with Nah
anoy City, Girardville, Ashland, Mt
Carmel and Shainokin, it is almost a
fact. All of these towns but one me
within easy wGlking distance of our
borough, four of them not over l2
minutes distance by the Reading rail.
road from our nearest station, yet it is
almost if not wholly impossible to
send to and receive from those towns
mail message in the same day, IN
this day of rapid mail service such a
story ought not be told of towns loca-
ted in the heart of thickly.populated
Pennsylvania.
Let us look at the facts in the case,
especially as it concerns Shenandoah.
Our first mail out leaves this post Office
dOah, about miles distant by the
Pennsylvania route, is taken to Potts
vile by the Reading route, thence Utd
Hamaqua to Mahanoy Plane, Carried
43 miles to reach point less than a
quarter of a mile from this borough
and thence to its destination, having
travelled so miles, and reaches Shen-
andoah at 2:30 O'Clock in the afternoon
No reply to this can be had in Frack-
vile before the next morning at SID.
The next chance to reach Shenan-
doah is the mail which is carried by q
messenger to Mahanoy Plane at noon.
This reaches Shenandoah at the same
hour as the morning mail does, and
admits of no reply that day. The
mails leaving here at lao and 4:25 p
m. reach Shenandoah too late thai
night to be distributed before the next
day, and no reply to any letter sent al
either of those hours can be had at the
|, earliest before about 2 O'Clock the neXt
afternoon. Hence, a town within
sight of some points in Frackville, il
about as distant rs mail cOmmuniCa
ton goes as either Philadelphia 10:
miles away, or New York, 10 miles
distant. Since it is possible to com
municate with either of those great
cities inside of 24 hours.
Look at the other side of the picture
ShenandOah's first outgoing mai
leaves at 1920 a. m, and after its 81
mile trip reaches here at l:40 p. m
Another pouch is dispatched at noon
, and the Shenandoah man who send
a message to anybody in our town by
J that mail will reach his man late il
: the evening. Let him take a late
/ outgoing mail, and his letter will
j come here the next day. Yet all thes
mails are carried past our town, with
in mile of our post Office, en- route.
The Pennsylvania railroad, which i
" not mail route through Frackville
d is our natural avenue of communica
e ton with Shenandoah, and should b
g made the means of mail carriage be
u tween us. If even closed pouche
!, We're carried between Pottsville an,
/. Shenandoah over that line, our facil
y ities could be greatly enlarged; bu
e what a route that would make for
!, railway postoffice! But better still j
J would be to run such service between
J. Pottsviile and Shamokin and Ash
y land. Look at the people that are t
e be served by that means on a run nj
o Frackville, distance of 40 miles: