Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-02
UNCLE SANS MAILS.
Postal Affairs Reviewed by Four De-
partmental Chiefs.
GREAT GROWTH OF MONEY ORDERS.
Legislation for the Protection Of the Public
Asked For.
NEW POsToFFICEs INCREASING FAST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The annual re-
port of E c. Fowler, Acting First Assist
ant Postmaster General, estimates the
amount needed for the next fiscal year at
S26, 265, 900, an increase of 81, 10000 The
report shows that at the end of the fiscal
wear 1892 there were 56s free delivery Offices
with a carrier force of TO- 7S7 men, an increase
of 6O7
The total number of money order omces
in operation June 30 1891, is shown to have
been 1000. Two thousand and twenty-three
additional offices OF this kind were estab-
lished during the year following, while at "A
places the money order business was dfscon.
timed. On June 80 there were, therefore IN
opeution l2 O69 money order offices. Since
the latter date $50 names have been adoeo
to the list of offices transacttng domestic
money order business, while at ten post
offices that business has been discontin ued,
leaving ut the present time looSS autnorlze9
TO issue and pay domestic money orders ana
postal notes. The increase OF 1889, made
during the last.fiscal year, in the number OF
money order Offices, WAS by far the largest
effected in any one year in the history OF
postal money order system. AT the close OF
the year ended juno 80. 1892, there we're IN
operation Ill small offices authorized under
the act OF 1887 to issue postal notes but not
TO pay then.
the year was 1000 040 of the total value of f$l1,-
SOS, ,765; the number of notes paid and repaid
amounted to Sll 81, 1885, the gross amount OF
fees received from the public, includtng ices
received for duplicates of invalid notes, was
Sal, $50. comparison of the above with
the postal note transactions OF the previous
wear shows an increase of S7,472 or $50 per
cent in the gross amount OF fees received.
The annual report OF Fourth Assistant
Pos tmaster General Rathbone shows that
the number of establishments OF new post
Offices during the past year was 4,lo5,
greater number than during any previous
year except 1890, when it was 442i. The net
increase o. postoffices over the year ended
June so, 1891, was .. 100, and the year closed
with 81, ll9 as the whole number of postofhccs
in the United States. The greatest increase
in any Stale was in Georgia-29O. Texas was
with 20l. The greatest number OF postomces
in any one State is 4,4S9 in Pennsylvania:
Major Rathhone suggests that the Revised
Statutes be SO amended as to mako the
mailing of " reen goods circulars and lit
erature a continuous utfense from the point
ofmailing TO the place of destination, SO that
a prosecu ion will lie at either point, the
same in effect as is embodied in the Torrent
lottery act.
The annual report of D. P. Leibhardt, su-
permit OF the Dead Letter Bureau,
shows that there were 5,520,7S domestic
mailable letters received, decrease of u, Us
as compared with the previous year. There
were 557.64S domestic unavailable letters re-
ceived of which 994 contained unavailable
articles, 95 449 were held for postage, 449, 94
were misdirected, 326l2 were wholly with
out address, and g ,667 were OF q miscellane-
ous character
The annual report of Chief Postoffice In
spector Wheeler shows that the total num-
her of arrests for all kinds of offenses DUR
Ing the year as ], ,3S4 OF this number only
23l were postal employees. Or the cases
1ried 373 resulted In conviction, while only
81 resulted in acquittaI. The number of
burglars of postoffices arrested was COS,
against us last year.
The annual report OF j. Lowrie Bell, Sec
pnd Assistant Postmaster General, renews
his past recommendation regarding those
dependent on clerks who meet death at
their post of duty.