The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-20

sum of $7,047.97 only was expended.
The free delivery of mail matter by
barriers took effect July /, 1853, and
was put in operation at forty-nine
offices with about four hundred and
Fifty carriers at an aggregate annual
compensation of about 3300,OO0.
In the city of New York for the first
uuarter there were delivered by car
riers 2 1859, 415 letters and I,SlO,7l7 col
lected, or an increase of about % per-
pent over the preceding quarter. But
khe growth of the service was slow
nutll 1887 and 1883. when the number
BIZ offices was nearly doubled. Previous
10 Jan. 3. 1887, the requirement for the
bervice was that city should have .
bopulation,of 10000 within the deliv-
6rv Of its postoffice. The law of Jan.
1887, made any place eligible that
rad population of lO,OOO.or revenue
rom its po,totfice for the preceding
seal year of $4,000.
There are over 900 free delivery offices
the country. and the letter carriers
ttached to this service deliver and col
bet mail from 20. 900, 900 people. The
pnual expense is between $4,000, 900.
nd St1 ,OOO,O 900. A law has been re-
eatedly proposed to Congress to ex-
bnd the service to towns of 5000 pop
lation or of 81, 900 postal receipts for
be last fiscal year. This would add
Is places or more to the number
rived with the free delivery, and
800, 900 people would be accommo-
0Ated. The annual cost would be per-
h6ps $500, 900.
Mhen a town becomes entitled to the
frGe delivery service, either by reason
~ Inn Int nn iS
demed advisable favora bly, to consider
~ claims, the postmaster is informed
1T before the service can be estab-
Ned the sidewalks must be paved,
reefs lighted, houses numbered and
lines of streets placed at intersections.
hen this is done an inspector Is sent
look over the field. lay OFF the car
er's districts, locate the street letter
Dxes and instruct the postmaster
to details. Letter carriers are APP
pinted by the department on the rec
nmcndation of the postmaster, ex-
pt at civil service offices, of which
Iere are forty-five. At these Offices
lev have To pass competitive ex-
nination and are selected from the
1t of eligibleS in their order. At
&kese Offices they are appointed as sub
Ititutes first and promoted when their
<arn is reached
At cities of -, 900 or more carriers
be paid $500. $500 and 81 200. In free
elivery cities having populations
haller than that, carriers are paid
90 and $3.50 per year.
The Dead Letter, Office is the bust
h bureau of the entire department.
more earnest and faithful body of
bployes can be found in the public
rvice than the 1O1 clerks of this
ice. Three have been connected
It'll it more than thirty years-Mrs
X. Evans, the first woman APP
United lin this bureau: Mr.. A. +.
oulden; for many years in charge of
e inquiry branch, and brother" ).
Christie, u ver;table father in
rael.
The total number of errors in the
ansmission of mail matters in the
hited States is very small compared
it'll the correct deliveries for letters
one in the ratio of about | to 325);
i so long as the laundering public
axe voluntary contributions daily to
bis office of over 10000 letters and
lckages. just so long will it be neces-
Try for the government to exercise
thermal functions" in the correction
those plumbers. nine-tenths of which
e made by the people themselves.
those who use the mails would
ply be careful to observe few
mple requirements, trities in them
Ives. but in the aggregate
vast Importance. the work
the Dead Letter Office |
puld soon be greatly reduced. If all
tier writer's would take the simple
inns to place their names and adj
fesses upon the envelopes, there