The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
MAILS BY TROLLEY
SPECIAL POSTAL CAR SERVICE
ON ELECTRIC STREET RAIL
URGED BY P. M. CASTLE.
INTERCRBAN AND SEVENTH STREET
LINES SHOULD BE SUP
.r.e.4 Piled.
SUCCESSFUL I'm OTHER CITIES.
OF Great Benefit to the People and
Adds to Uncle SANS
Revenues.
SUCCESSFUL IN OTHER CITIES.

Postmaster Castle rounds out his lone
and efficient term Of office in an effort
to secure for st. Paul added postal ia
%cfities. which will. If adopted, be Of
req benefit to the city and a source
OF added revenue to the
In a letter to the first assistant post
master general Postmaster Castle rec
ommends the establishment Of a special
a mail service on the interurban and
Seventh street electric lines. Such
postal cars are in .useFin other cities.
and have added wonderfully to the
postal facilities. Particularly would the
posal service between the Twin Cities
be enlarged and the transmission of the
mails expedited. The Benefits to the
extreme points of the city reached bv
the Seventh street line, both in the col
lection and delivery of mail. can be
readily seen. Capt. Castles letter.
with it's recommendations, is as fol-
lows:
United States Postoflce, St. Paul, Mimi,
yet; 70, 1896.-Hon. Frank A. Jones, First
assistant General-Sir: Before
retiring from the service, l wish to present
to the department for consideration in the ap-
propriate bureaus, an urgent recommendation
Tor the establishment in this city at the
oJt ~ " 0POO1d Aldl1 d
service on the Interurban and the Seventh
street electric lines. My observation of and
information concerning the advantages of this
service In other cities conYinces me that the
ume is now ripe for its Inauguration here.
It's use on the interurban line would perfect
the present useful but incomplete service
between st. Paul and Minneapolis. and i'm
mensely increase the facilities for inter-com-
munlcatlon, besides even greater benefits TO
the midway district now supplied nv car
riers from this office through an IMPERFECT
sub-station arrangement.
Ihe Seventh street line runs diagonally
through the heart Of st. Paul, having ter.
minals at Fort Smelling on the west and
Hazel Park woods Harvester Works. on the
east, over eight miles apart,
carrier routes could be so re-adjusted that
1our-nrths OF them would touch. or nearly
approach, one or the other of these mail
routes. Stations, sub-stations and s'raIlying
polnts Tor carriers and collectors could be
locateo on them, as is done in other cities.
and the free delivery service so expedited as
70 enormously increase the accommodation
OF the people and the revenues of the Office
90 long as this mail car service in CITY
streets could be considered as an experiment.
did not feel warranted in asking for 1t here,
but ls success In other cities is fully demon
system IN vogue here is as antiquated as was
the general mail service before the introduce
ton Of railway postal cars.
81. Paul is on the threshold of a business
development that will eclipse even her mar
veious past, and Is entitled to "the best there
Is to all modern improvements. Her pro-
gressive citizens will be satisfied with notb
ship | shall always take great pleasure in
cooperating with the postof1ce department to
meet their just demands.
Henry A. Castle, P. NJ.