St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-17
A MEMORIAL MONUMENT TO BE
ERECTED IN ST. PAUL FOR
THE G. A. IL.
A COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
VISITING POSTS TO FURNISH IN
SCRIBED STONES TO SUP
PORT A STATUE.
BUILDING UP FOREIGN TRADE.
Chamber Sends u Letter to Col.
Kiefer, Protesting Against Re-
ductiOn in Mail Carriers.

The first step toward securing the
erection of a G. A. r. memorial mon
ument in this city was taken yester-
day morning at the session of the
st. Paul chamber of commerce, when
the special G. A. R. committee re-
ported favorably to the plan. The
committee, which was appointed at
a previous session, is composed Of
Maj. John Espy, chairman, and r.
c. Bishop, Henry A. Castle, c. c.
Andrews and John B. Sanborn.
The report which was yesterday
submitted and adopted was as fol-
lows: That the committee do hereby
recommend that the board of park
commissioners be requested to desig-
nate an appropriate site and fur
nish a suitable foundation and case
for said monument. That the sew
eral departments that will be repre-
sented in the thirtieth G. A. r. ma
tional encampment be invited to
contribute a stone, properly dressed,
and the name and date of their re-
spective departments carved thereon,
to be used in the erection of said
monument, and the city of st. Paul
be requested to furnish an appro-
pirate statue or emblem to be placed
thereon. The following letter to
be sent to Congressman Keifer was
read:
Yours of Dec. 4, referring to the pro-
force of this city was duly received.
After comforting with the postmaster,
and examining carefully into the pres
ent situation here. this chamber feelS
warranted in protesting emphat1cally
against the apparently arbitrary and
Unjust discrimination against st. Paul.
For several years our people nave at
frequent intervals loudly clamored for
an extension and Improvement or the
free delivery service in this city. Dur
ing those years, when little or no addi-
tional help has been granted US, the
revenues of the st. Paul postoffice have
vastly increased, and are now 1ncreaS-
ing, as we were recently told IN the
newspapers was stated by the hrst as
Sistant postmaster general, more rap
idly than those of any other city In the
country We are told at the postoffice
that the revenues for the two past cal
endar years of this office We're as fol-
lows: 1894, 1858, ,674.39; 1895 December
increase in revenues of $44096S2, or over
u per cent, while the carrier force has
been reduced one during 1895. A city
with a, revenue of $44 4094S2 would be en-
ought in justice to have this increase;
instead of that We have been reduced
one and are now threatened with more
reductions. Our entire business com
munity will justify you in vehemently
protesting against this injustice.
Four-fifths of the revenue comes
from the business district" of the
city, which is served by twenty car
riers making five trips each per day,
and small force of collectors. Our
seven deliveries a day. and more car
riers proportionately, but are told by
the pos stmaster that it would be useless
to apply to the face of the present re-
trenchments in other cities. And there
certainly ought to be more collectors.
Because of inadequate collecting force
late in the afternoon, and an made
quate force of clerks in the mailing
room at the postofice, our evening mail
has been very largely sent by business
houses direct to the transfer clerk at
the union depot. This seemed to be the
only way to be sure to get our mails
off on the trains leaving from to 8 p.
m. We are told that this transfer clerk
L
a day, far beyond his capacity to ham
die, and that we must stop sending
them there.
AS partial relief, the postmaster in
forms us that he has arranged a new
schedule, whereby the twenty-five trip
carriers will make a box and office col
lection on their last afternoon trip.
But this is not right. If these carriers
have time they should give us another
delivery, and enough new collectors
,n1,lI he n
as is done in other cities. Many letters
are carried over one day at the office
during busy seasons, because OF made
quate help in collecting and dispatch
ing them late in the afternoon.
Besides there is a large territory
within our city limits that gets only
one delivery day-a very unsatfsfac-
tory service, and another Well-settled
section within the limits, or immed1-
ately adjoining, and part Of st. Paul
for all business purposes, which get no
delivery at all.
Our committee is astonished at the
developments of their investigation,
and assure you that you can do no
stituents than to demand and secure
ten or twelve additional carriers. all of
whom we believe can be usefully en-
ploved in the service here.
The chamber also passed resolu-
ton favoring the recognition of Cuba
and their rights as belligerents. Copies
were ordered sent to Minnesota's rep
resentatives in congress. A letter
from e. A. Keeling, secretary of the
American Exposition Association of
New York, was read and referred to
the committee on newspapers and cor
respondence. T h communication
was in answer to a letter from the
chamber on the subject of foreign COM
merce and the need of a plan for en-
couraging a more social and intimate
relation with individual people of for
eign relat tions to the end that this
country may be better enabled to in
troduce it's products in a more extern
sive and profitable manner. The COM
munication stated that the expedition
association had made investigation in
reference to the subject and recon-
mended two plans. The first is that
commissions, composed of gentlemen
appointed by the president of the Uni
ted States, and governors, mayors, be
sent to the cities of foreign countries
and make personal acquaintances,
whom they shall interest in American
products and manufactures.
The second plan is to fit up a num-
Der of exposition ships" These are
to contain exhibits from different
states and sections, both of farm and
factory. These ships will visit for
eign ports and thus the people Of
these nations can see just what can be
done in America. These two plans,
it is thought, will have a tendency to
greatly stimulate foreign trade. They
will soon be put in practice and a num-
Der of the ships are now being pre-
pared. The cooperation Of the cham
Der was asked.
Paul H. Gotzian was appointed spe-
cial committee to attend the insurance
meeting at Minneapolis today.
The mercantile committee was not