Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-31
MAILBAG ousloslrlss


hero arc many englnfltiea o. the
mailbafs Not long ago 10 received 4
doscn horned iosds fron Arisona ad,
drcs,od 10 eonnt In Germany. Thev
wefN immediately sent to the dead io.ses
onlc@ being unavailable Small alllgatois
are very common, and we have had d hi.
man skNn and an Raster honne, fr,m
Paris without any Wrapper We forward
no 1.-Two anfnola OF Insects through tho
mali except bes In wire screen boxes
Even tho hees arc not doslrahio mall mat.
ter We have had the hoxes come In
nroken, grcntiy to the discomfort Of the
clerks who oncncd tho haks.
About $50 day u ouf avetsse 81 le,.
tew mailed withoa, stamps. Thes nrc
hold s,,r two weeks. and the addn.,,ee &
notified 20 send STAMPS Thla cais tho
government MON, Vt cpursc. than n the
letters wcrc forwarded ut once, but such i
tho law. We rerc,No large nunibefs Of
photographs without wnprers. neilcAto
artlclca reach their dcsiiuAtion safely.
while apparently unhreakahls Articles an,
hrokcn 70 picceS That Is our experience
For Instance lamp chimney arrived
from She west not long ago without a
wtoprcN but with tho adtir'ss PASTED on,
" rgAchcd here unbroken, though almost
In the Same mail some articles Tint wonld
stand running over by cable uhr were
broken to pieces
A fow weeks ago Ne received a pack
agc Of Inch knite blades from Paris with
no wrapper hpt on address tied 10 tho
hRudlcs, Yen ran SEQ how dangerous
such parcel muss DO 90 tho clere who
thrists his hand Into the bag to empty 10.
Explosives comn M occasionally, and as
they arc conirahand they are taken cut
cnrvfnlly WHOM Discovered and dronne,l
gently Into tho North river.
torelgn publications give ua large
eharo q our work IN this Department.
The newspapers and hooks We tcccivn frO,a
France and Germany aro almost invaria.
bly, inclugcd In Wrappers that arr hardly
stronger then r;isNin paper aud tho mo.
uun Of The vessel tears inany oi thoin loose.
In every ioviRn mall We ind At least a
bushcl Of loose hooks and newspapers,
Thoy ar, held as long az Wa can flnd room
for them and then they are sent ~ tho
dead letter oiilcN u the acndor would
write tho nddnies on tho margin u nnws,
papars or the Ny Leaf u books, tho loss II
tho wtappNrs would make nttlu Difference
some Of these articles arc o. conaidorahle
value in this country On account Of thu
tfnnslations that ao lnair from thom,
Many articles reach rs that aru utterly
unmailablc We Uculyo umbrellas and
long maps that wuuld not 20 into any
mailbag \ fOw days Hgo q lung fishing
rod came in. Tho amount Of mail We ~
cciyo and ccnd out dally Is TN old story
hut | think ! can put " boiuN you ia
new light Mail mnttcris comparatively
light, and u ton OK it would easily Oh q
cual ear As we rcoei,u ever ee0 tons .
day, train Of ESQ coal caN would not
quito brlhB In All tho letters and nawepn.
pers we mcalyn every day. Tho mas
handling of tho money thlon In IA an IN
rotinnt mattcr--aboht s., 600 900 year,
sumo government officers handle nnoh
mufe, bot iholrH como Ia large sums Iha
hulk VI ours comes In / aud cents at q
time
IN inquiries for lost articles We nv0r
ago between 100 and 200 DAY. On Tho
1888 impurities nNule last Year TO-. los
were successful, aud tho lost ietttrs ot
parcels were dcllyufud. Nine hunafyd and
thltty OnV packages wprp Withdrawn frols
the MALE last yrar ON account og th0ir de
attuctihlo or dangerous character We
sont 10 tho dead lvtlu onlec ys2p, 6s Ia
loose money fuund in inallhags Or lottoF
bosra, anu SiJl,Gu worth VI lDlsir postage
stamps Thirteen thousand iiya hundred
AND tHrty.iwo packages posted for inulen
countries We're unmuiiahle mud wrru with
drwn, some OF thcm containing lcwolty
OF coin
'rornwrappoui rhls will give yaa M
idea haw many nuwspalufa are logt ia nc
malls through using nor paper Tor wrap
piad Lat year w sont 90 the d0ad ltt
ter Office Oh 8ai wrappers without any M
nosun,s ami oa 0oO newspapers without
Wrappers ut addw,sVsi l,7ls books with
out Wrappers also wont % che dead lciiei
unlco Tho floating population u NV
York kcepa ns constantly supplied with
letters Last year wo scnt
10 tho dead lst,er uiiioo go,iss letters
which had beril uddnsscd 10 yirisofa IN
isltors who Ind ieft tho city or
changed tholr addresses before tbs iottors
arrived. ''--Now York 1imea.