The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28

Special Correspondence of the GIooe.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The great
est saving in time in the transporta-
ton Of mails from abroad to the Unit
ed States that has been achieved since
fast steamships began to traverse the
Atlantic is to become an established
fact July l. On and after that date
the mails brought into New York by
the ocean liners will be transferred to
swift steamers at quarantine, and
without the delay Of a second sorted
and placed in the hands Of those ready
10 hurry the mail matter to its desti-
nation.
For the benefit Of those who do not
understand why it is necessary to take
the mail at the quarantine station in
New York. it is explained that every
vessel which enters New York harbor
from a foreign port must submit to ex-
animation by the representatives of
Health Officer Doty, Of the port. The
place al which the steamers are met
by representatives Of the health officer
IS known at quarantine, and no ship
may go far past it whose papers do
not give evidence of the ship having
been given the necessary examination.
Quarantine is located at the western
shore Of the Narrows, just north of the
town of Fort Wadsworth, Staten ISL
and.
The vessels lie at quarantine an hour
generally for the examination made bv
the health officials must be Of the
most painstaking and careful nature
Even though the officials NAV be con-
Vlnced that there is no illness aboard.
thew find If OpoaccoT1y ,o,o1ro
pIete examination, and therefore it all
taxes time. Now these steamers pro-
pose to take the mali from the liners
DIS soon as the big craft have slowed
up at quarantine. By an arrange.
Nheht With the steamship lines, the mail
Will be all ready on the deck of every
boat that carries it by the time quar-
antine is reached. Very little time will
De lost by making the transfer from
the big steamship to the little steam
poat and then the smaller craft will
start on her return voyage with her
precious freight.
the first stop of the mail steamer
VIII be at the Battery, where all mail
for New York city proper would be
delivered. Mail wagons would be wait
ing at this point, and the transfer
would be accomplished in not over five
minutes. AS 1t is expected to make
the distance from quarantine to the
Battery, five miles, In eighteen minutes.
The total time between the departure
Of the mails from the deck Of the
steamship and their arrival at the New
York postoffice, Broadway and Ann
street, would be exactly thirty min
utes. This is a saving Of at least four
hours for New York city. From the
Battery the mail steamer will proceed
to the Pennsylvania railroad pier in
Jersey City. Here all mail intended
FOR the West and South will be I'M
loaded. The transfer to the mail cars
will be accomplished very expeditions
~, and it is not believed that more
than five minutes will elapse from
the time the steamer leaves the Battery,
until 1t reaches the Pennsylvania pier
From this point the steamer will pro-
coed up the Hudson to the Thirty
sixth street pier Oft New York Cen
trail & Hudson River raf!rod, where
mail will be left for trains going East
and North from the central station Of
the railroad at Forty-second street.