St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-27
UNCLE SANS STRONG ARM
Is Invoked Beforehand and Quick
Iy Extended to Aid Lowry.


Inquiry at the Office of Robert Bar
clay, superintendent of the railway mail
service for the Tenth division, devel-
oped the fact that the street car COM
pany has contract with the govern
ment to carry mail on its cars. The
frequency with which the mails should
be carried was left to the discretion of
the superintendent. The original serv-
ice was for carrying the. mails between
the cities every half hour, beginning at
9 a. m. and ending at 4:30 p. m. Some
time after the original contract the
service was increased to every fifteen
minutes, and later to every ten minutes.
Mr.. Barclay had gone out Of the city,
and no further information on the sub
ject could be given by his assistant, Mr..
Smith.
Capt. George W. Hardacre, superin-
tendent of the city free delivery service,
was next seen, and said:
81 received instructions Wednesday
from Supt. Barclay, of the railway mail
service, to permit boxes to remain on
all the interurban cars from early MORN
ing until late at night, and to be on the
cars in the barns all night. This in
struction was given before Mr.. Barclay
went to Chicago. A collector is direct.
ed to meet all the cars from early morn
ing until o'clock in the evening. Each
box up to that hour must be examined
for mail, and any letters to be sent to
Minneapolis are placed in the box Of the
car coming along after the letter is de-
nj mol
lections from the boxes are made in this
city after 5 O'Clock in the evening, and
no letters are put in the boxes after
that hour. After the collector is with
drawn from his post at the office here at
o'clock, collector is stationed at the
Midway barns with instructions to eX-
anime all the boxes on cars going into
the barn. In case he finds any mail he
is to take charge of 1t and deliver it at
the st. Paul pOstoffiee."
This course, Mr.. Hardacre said. was
pursued under the order of Wednesday
to preserve the mail route between st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
United States Marshal j. G. Dona-
hover Informed the reporter that ne had
received telegram from Attorney Gen
eral Olney at Washington stating that
he had been reliably informed that
strike is about to be preclpitated on the
street car lines in Minneapolis and st.
Paul, and that there was a probability
that sections 1895 and $40 of the United
States Revised Statutes would be vio-
lated. If the information was found on
Investigations to be correct the marshal
was instructed to secure a sufficient
force of deputy marshalS to prevent the
violation of the sections referred to.
The first of these sections imposes a
fine OF 500 for obstructing the course
of any carrier of mail on horseback, in
wagon or ON any other conveyance. The
other section Furnishes conspiracies
against any established mail route, and
imposes fine of not less than $1,000
nor more than $4,000, and not more
than two years. imprisonment.
Col. DonahOwer said he had been ap-
piled to by. Supt. Hoskins the night be-
fore at about 10 O'Clock for deputy mar
shals to protect the lines. After receiv-
ing instructions from Attorney General
Olney he had selected two deputy mar
shals and given them instructions to see
that the mails were not interfered with.
They were told to look after the cars
carrying mail boxes only and to treat
was no interference with mail cars.
They would have no authority to arrest
men for simply refusing to work. The
deputies were told to say to the street
car men that they were not armed; that
they must not take hold of a deputy nor
prevent his circulation. In case the
deputies be interfered with they would
report the matter to the authorities for
prosecution, and in case any of the mail
cars were moleSted the matter would
also be reDOrtod,