New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-02
RECEIPTS.
POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT WORK.
ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND
ASSISTANT PosTMAsTERsGENERAI.


Washington. Dec. 1.-The annual report OF f g.
Fowler The Acting First Assistant Po-tmaserGen
eral shows that the aggregate salaries Of the post
masters at the 3.177 Presidential pOstonces on July
l. 1892, eI.396,000 an increase during the year
q $4,000 The gross receipts at these offices were
SD 973 being increase for the wear OF cJo4o'-
90 or 60 per cent The amount allowed rs salaries
10 folrth-cass pOstmasters during the year wa'
SIO1O5 23s or an average OF S16l 23 TO each post
master. The total revenue OF the Department was
$40, $50 416 being m Increase for the year OK
81 800, 600 or rs per cent There are at present
1G $50 oflces authorized TO issue and pay domestic
money orders and postalnofes. The Increase Vi
800 made during the last fiscal year, in the number
Of money order Offices nv far the largest effected
In any one year In the history Of the postal money
order system. The number OF domestic money orders
issued during the year 12oG34i2, aggregatlng in
amount S12O .O66 sol. The number Of such orders
paid during the period was 1876 OF the
value OF $l10,3l 800. and the number repaid s56lc
amounting to 2s03.G53. making the total amount Of
payments and Iepayments $50, 121,753 and the ex-
cess OF payments and repay mens issue fJ4 ,JJ2
Compared with the transactions for the preceding
year. there an Increase OF 61s,l6o. or 5.Jo per
cent in the number Of orders Issued aud Of GI-G19
or $50 per cent, In the number OF orders paid ana
repaid an Increase OF S944 .jG4 10 per cent, In
the amount Of orders issued, ana Of ~ or
1O7 per cent I'm the amount Of orders paid and re-
paid The number OF postal notes ISSUED during the
wear was 7O5OOfO Of the total vaue Of 81, s85,763
being an increase Of 217.462 or 1868 per cent The
total number Of international money orders Issued
during the year was 9e3476, aggregatng In amount
SI5l2O2 7I. The number paid during the same time
WAS 2s7 AZ amounting TO S5170,J75 In value.
The annual report OF j. Lowrie Bell, the >"ond
Assistant INsmasteT General shows that 'hc annual
rate Of expenditure for mall transportation on June
70 1892 was rs follows: For inland mall service,
Sal 335.372 foreign mall service, $eO6l1j; total,
s42141,5ls. Mr.. Bell says:
1t IS not improper for me. AT this point. TO give
renewed expression TO the hearty manner In which
the railway mall carriers Of the country nav" co
operated with the department In its efforts TO promote
the mail service Without. ] believe. singi" rNcrp-
ton the great trunk lines Of the country have cX-
messed thci. readiness to establish schedules that
shall primarily have In view the rendering Of the
mail service more and complete. Repeatedly.
AS can be instanced In the gold movement In August
occasion TO put 10 the test the kindly expressions
that have come to Us from the railway managers,
and there has been hesitation In promptly comply
inc with orr requests, and not In single instance
has there been question raised regarding special or
extra compensation. II Is my judgment that the
nrinc,paI railway mail carriers now recognize Tn.
IN er,Ity of the existing basis Of compensation ami
tbey unbcsitailngy say that long rs the Govern
mcnt CONTINUES the existing basis they VIII expect
a. con rilnfn more and TO the necessities OF the
mai, service I'm The way Of train service sped fire.
quency, space ctc.
Mr. Bell rcncws his past recommendations regard
ing provision for those dependent on clerks who meet
death at their Posts OF duty.