Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-05-16

rs the one pending before Judge Payne,
which was argued Thursday. TIL"
cOmplainants are John McMa.
hon. Martin dc Tamble. II.
1Oewenthnl. John =. Long. Spencer !
G. Long and W. G. Hall. executors Of
the estate Of NlmrOd Long: ]. Il. Briggs,
Martha n. Horton. George N. Horton,
representing the estate of q. w. HOr.
ton. The property of the cOmpla innnt
fronts on Van Buren, street between
Frnntlin street on the east side and
Clinton street west of the river. The
bill charges that the company has
bought the consent of property owners
In violation of law.
Letters Of administration. with the
will annexed. were granted by Judge
KOhlsant upon the estate of Louis II.
BOldenweck. the North Side mnnufnc-
turer who died Maya. william Bol,len.
week was appointed administrator. as
the widow, Louise II. BOllcnweck. re-
signed rs executrix. The estate II val.
ucl ut S:,:,:5.OlO. of which $685. is In
personal property. The will leaves all
the property to the widow absolutely
and without reservation.
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Mayor Swift refused to grant to John
y. Richak, II Fast Twenty.nintlI street.
license for saloon at that place he.
cause It Is In the midst Of a residence
district.
Postmaster Hcslng has published tho
results of the annual count of the mail.
In the first week of March of cacl, year
every piece Of mall matter IL counted
and the figures Of the years business
are estimated from that count. Tie
| appropriation of each office IL la srd on
It's report and the amount Of help given
to the office II due to the showing Of the
official count. Incidental to the official
count Postmaster Ilesing has secured
facts ana figures on every brnncn of the
service. The showing II u remarkably
good one. During the six days count
of mail made from March = to March Z
| inclusive) throughout the Chicago
postal district 19.Sll.O20 pieces Of mail
were handled. In the same period Of
1905 the pieces handled were 14.5?7..
..i5. The Increase amounts to 5.2Sti..
7!4 pieces. or 3i:IS per cent. In 1905
the estimate was Gni. 1921 .32S pieces.
based on the six days count. TO this
were added ?G.OOO.OOO pieces for sun
days and 31.11S.672 for holiday mail.
.,,,.t... , .,.u1 80 cnn nnn NM ,,l..,.,.. ~
actual mail. With duplicates the fig.
nrps went up to SOO.OOO 600 pieces. The
ak days count. inclusive Of duplicates.
would make the estimate for the past
year 1000. 32D. :OS pieces. or consider.
ably over the billion mark. Estimat ting
2tG. IOi.0?O duplicates the number Of
pieces would be Sl3,02l.5SS. The est.
mate for Sundays would increase the
total by :ll,G2l. $40 pieces. Holiday
trade would add another 40,EIO. tssl
pieces. making a grand total Of SO4..
S77.O 1854 pieces actually handled In the
year.
The receipts Of the pOstOflice for the
postal year ending March II. 1S'ki.
were $5.O6O. :Il?S4. or an increase Of
1865 per cent. The increase In March.
1S.Ni was StnD.273.76. or 15.43 per cent.
These figures are striking examples Of
the growth Of the Chicago office. The
greatest number Of pieces Of mail han.
died In the ak days II found In the
mailing division Of the main pOstOttice.
the figures here reaching IO.7tI'.OjO.
The sMlstutiOn work shows that sta
tiOn & handled the most business. with
4Il.l7O pieces. while Forest liill takes
position ut the other end of the list,
with tho mod, 1t total of l4S pieces. Tile
letter carriers of Chicago In 1905 hNn-
died 2I.13 per cent. Of the entire mnlI,
or 1SD.0lO,OtO pieces annually. In ism
they will handle 81. 43 per cent. or 2iD.,
100000 pieces. The average handled
by each carrier In 1915 was 1854.
pieces. In 1S.6 1t will he about 27S.O7O
The population of Chicago IL estimated
at 1.1GO.OOO exclusive of the branch
postal districts. The mail collected III
Chicago amounts to SO.15 per cent. Of
the whole. or this about 20 per cent.
or ilO.OGOO0 pieces, II brought In 10y
the collectors. being an average OF
3.4:.5.5S2 pieces annually for each col
lectOr. The total Of mail delivered
gives an average Of LAT letters, etc.. fOl
every Individual In Chicago. The tOtal
OF mail collected gives nm average OF
3ti7 pieces per head Of the population.
The opening of the national expOsi
ton Of electrical appliances In Now
York marks the beginning OF another
chapter In the nineteenth-century story
OF the Arabian. Nights. The reveal
lions In the study of electricity and II
the application Of its forces have beer
more numerous and more profoundly
interesting In recent years than ever
before. In the hands OF such men al
Tesla and Edison the mysterious ener
~ has been made to do new things ant
perform feats not hitherto conceived
At the New York exposition the PEG
pie witness the movement Of machln
cry operated by the power of Niagara
Falls. conveyed over an ordinary telc
graph wire 452 miles long. Thanks Il
Tesla's recent inventions, the feat OF
carrying electrical power ut long dis
tances ana for commercial purposes
seems now to be feasible. The time
may come when a factory In st. Louis
say, mGy be operated by electricity gen
Grated in Chicago ana transmitted over