Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-02
POSTAL STATISTICS.

Number and Increase OF New POST
Offices Suggestions and Recon-
mendatIons - Effectiveness of the
Anti-Lottery Act-Man Routes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The annual re-
port OF Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Rathbone shows that the number of
establishments of new postofices during
the past year was 4, 105, greater number
than any previous year with the exception
of 1890, when it was 4, 427. The net in
crease of postoffices over the year ended
June 80, 1891, was 2,7O0, and the year
closed with 81, 119 as the whole number of
postofices in the United States.
At the close of the fiscal year there were
thirteen states in each of which there were
more than 1000 postofices in operation.
OF these five are northern and eight are
southern states. The northern states are
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, with an aggregate of 1925
offices. The eight southern states are Ala
bama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia,
with an aggregate of Is, 905.
Major Rsthbone suggests that the re-
vised statutes be 30 amended as to make
the mailing of green goods" circulars
and literature continuous offeuse from
the point of mailing to the place of desti-
nation, 80 that a prosecution will lie at
either point, the same in effectss embodied
in the recent anti-lettery act, and he
recommends that the matter be referred to
the assistant attorney general for the post
Office department, with the request that
he draft law embodying the points out
lined above, and such other remedies as
are deemed expedient.
The anti-lottery act went into effect
September 10, 1890. In the two years
which have elapsed since that date the
lottery companies have been practically
swept from the country. With similar
enactment in our hands against the 'tgreen
goods" swindlers, it is to be hoped that
the war which will be wsged against them
will be equally effective.
The annual report of ]. Lowrie Bell, the
second assistant postmaster general, shows
that the annual rate of expenditure for
mail transportation on June 80, 1892, was
as follows: For 1885 star roures, sggre-
eating 243. 722 6s miles in length, S., $780,
1923. For Is steamboat routes, sggregsting
10, 711.26 in length, $473, 039. For 2. 415
railroad routes, sQgregsting 162, $40. o. miles
in length, $24, 1856, 1929. For 200 railway
postofice car routes, sggregsting 80, 500 90
miles in length, $3.50, 1919. For 6, AIT
railway postoffice clerks S6.4S0,6S4. For
z, 122 mail messenger routes, sggregsting
5.6l1 SO miles in length, 81, 152, go. For
$40 special Office routes, sggregating a.
96906 miles, $44,69S. For mail
equipments $311, POS For necessary and
special facilities S196,614. Total inland
mail service s41, 1885, 372. Foreign mail
service $500, las. Total, $40, 141, 51S.
As compared with last year increases are
shown as follows: Star service 1915
routes, 5.S87 miles in length of routes and
of $196, 061 in the annual expenditure.
Mail messenger service, an increase of 204
in the number of routes, and SOS, AT In
the annual rate of expenditure; railroad
service, an increase of 154 routes, so, sos
miles in length of routes and of 81, 797, 671
in the rate of expenditure; railway post
Office clerks, an increase of 1856 and of
SAIL ,6l0 In the annual rate of expenditure.