The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-15

A Vigorous Kick Being Register
ed Against the Present
Time Card.

A4l4LCIc VI l2llc OllEIM1cE It6Ctc-
able community are up in arms and
rightly too. By the change in the
time card Of the Duluth & Iron Range
are placed in a position held by no
other city in the Union, unless it NAV
be Rainy Lake City or some out-of-
the-way place where mail is carried
by carrier and not by railroads. Ely
has always had the reputation Of be-
ing an all night town, but the present
system Of running the mail trains
makes it worse. 1t places Us where
even we cannot do business in the
night. The mail arrives at s:25. an
hour which all honest people should
be spending at home
Postmaster Van Blarcom has issued
an order TO the effect that the Office
VIII close promptly at nine O'Clock.
In this he is right. Hisduties compel
him TO be at his post from O'Clock in
the morning to II at night, while his
hours are only from S TO O'Clock.
During the day he is compelled TO
stay at the Office and wait on the
numerous patrons-an arduous duty
IN itself. as the money order business
in this city is OF no mean dimensions.
BIZ the arrival of the train at S::25. in
order to do the work, he would be
compelled to stay until II o'clock.
This cannot be expected. Therefore
Monday evening, the Office closed at
promptly O'Clock. The citizens of
Ely glory in the spunk Of the post
master and have prepared two
petitions which are being signed by
every thinking man in the commune
ity. One Of the petitions viii be for
warded to the Postmaster General
and the other to President Great
singer Of the Duluth s. Iron Range
railroad.
+ What effect the petitions viii have
is hard to determine. but one thing
! they VIII dc. ana that is. to let people
know We are alive. Every business
man in the city has signed the
| petitions and every laboring man
seen, adds his name TO thelist as soon
as approached The one to the POST
master General reads as follows:
To the Honorable Second Asst POST
master General, Dept Of Mails.
| Washington. d. c.
We. the undersigned citizens and
leading business men OF the City of
Ely. St. Louis Co.. Mimi. would re-
spectfully protest against the pro-
posed change of time Of the arrival
and departure Of mails to and from
this city. On the 18th inst. it is pro-
posed TO change the time of departure
from 7.30 to 7.o5 a. N. and the arrival
from 500 O'Clock D. NJ to SIS D. m.
Under this arrangement we will not
be able TO get our mail before $50 to
1000 p. m and in order TO reply to
anything received therein, we viii be
obliged to work long after business
hours as the next mail out leaves at
7:05 the next morning. This viii be
a great inconvenience and one that
seems to US unreasonable. The present
arrangement is bad enough.
Ely. April 10, 1896.
President Greafsinger viii be ap-
pealed to in the following language:
To- J. l. Greatsinger,
President ID. s /. +. r.
Dear Sir: re the undersigned
citizens and business men Of the City
of Ely. would represent to you that
the proposed change Of time which is
advertised TO go into effect On the
18th inst. as to the arrival and de-
parture OF passenger trains on your
road at this place will work a great
hardship to Us and would earnestly
request that some other and more
lconyenient time table be adopted.
! Under this arrangement We cannot
get our mail before $50 to 1000 p. m
and in order to answer by next mail
anything that may arrive by it, we
are obliged to work long after business
hours 1t is in effect putting the
whole city on the might shift to
use miners expression.
Respectfully submitted, April 10,
1896