Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16

| Postal revenue of the United
States for fiscal year ending =
| June 80. $50, ,SS2, ,097 g.
Postal revenue per capita ninety
seven cents and four mills
(.97 4.10)
census. ..............'...'.. - ,47s
fiscal year ending June 50, 1905 524,047 81
Postal revenue of Pittsburg per
capita, two dollars nineteen
cents &C 1ds ~ and seven mills
Population of Allegheny, same
Postal rcvenue of Allegheny year Vf''0'
ending June 30, 1890 O.S 6S467 sc
Or a per capita revenue of sixty
five cents and three mills
(.65 30. 100)
s'This statement-and it is taken abso-
lutely from the report of the Hon. Post
master General-shows that every Pitts
burger contributes to the postal fund of the
county, per annum, 50 1871 The average
American puts into the same fund in the
course of the year, 97.4 cents, while the
favored Alleghenian escapes with per
capita of 65.3 cents per annum. In other
words the citizen of Pittsburg not only pays
his own portion, but contributes as much to
the postal fund of the county as three and
one-thlrd persons do in Allegheny.
There must be something wrong on that
side of the river. 1t will never do to say
that the cultured people over there do not
write, and yet the dry statistics dug out of
official reports leave only one other con-
clusion, and that is that a large number of
those who do write, do not use the Ale
gheny postoffice as a medium of communica-
tlon. As an agency for the exchange of
mail matter, it has the dry rot, and the
added thought of a century must have spent
its force in other directions.
Some Startling Postal Facts.
''Here," said the official, In dismissing
the subject, 'is one comparison that makes
the strongest presentation of Allegheny's
claim to public building decidedly weak
and shows conclusively that Allegheny is a
sort of resting place for the bustling, brain
racked Pittsburger, who thinks, acts and
circulates in Pittsburg and sleeps in Ale
gheny. For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1890, the second-class matter, consisting
largely of daily and weekly newspapers,
weighed and prepaid at Pittsburg Postofice
amounted in pounds to ,7sO, ,624, and the
postage to S17, ,S06 "a, while that of Allie
gheny amounted in pounds to Sc, 7S1 and in
postage to S567 81-so that for every dollar
collected by Allegheny, Pittsburg collected
$31 4O5
"Now, no one who knows anything about
the people in Allegheny would be mean
enough to say they did not read the current
news of the day or week, but it is very evil
dent that the art preservative, so far as it
relates to Allegheny, might as well be
called lost art either that or the tariff
on second-class matter, having its origin in
Allegheny, is low enough to be called free
trade"
1t is said that the figures given in this
article furnish the chief and only obstacle
to the long talked of public building, and
that there is much more prospect now
of the abolition Of the Office and the estab-
ishment of live, progressive station than
there is of q granite building. The mere
thought Of spending half million of dollars
to provide for the convenience of a business
amounting in its entirity to Sos, 900 per
annum, has chilled the ardor of great
many people and left sort of general i'm
preston that business of that size might
be squeezed into an ordinary storeroom at
rental of 81 900 year