The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-27

from A. Oakley Hall, we'll known as Tor
mer mayor Of New York CITY, addressed
TO the first assistant postmaster general.
Mr.. Hail, among other things, wfots
Permit me TO intrude upor you TO say
mot only in my own behalf. but In that OF
many business men aud lawyoFsl that uh
dor The recent alipshod managencnt OF the
department. now happily undet new con
troll the object OF stamping mailing date 10
8, cure legal evidence of The time and place
Of mailing letter was vastly NEGLECTED. ]
had many Instances OF the trolblous neg
lect."
MIR. Hall also wrote; when residing
for seven years In London as cable CORE
spondont Of tho Now York Herald ! was
iinpr.esed with the uniform intcllsihijity
of British postnarks. sJ'he fault of our
own posimaslers is haste aud neglect TO
notice that the stamp carefully WoH's'
MIR Hall invoices attention to repfencnAl-
hle practice in city postoffices OF allowing
nostmastcrs to engage In speed contests
while postnnriting letters
Among The patrons OF the mails VINO are
greatly annoyed by tho defective poatinhrK-
ing ara mombers Of congress who frequent
ly receive from their constituents letters
asking for documents and garden sren
the letters being 80 badly postmarRod'
ooupled with illegibie writing or 'hsut-
ficient Identification OF place ana "a'" vi
tho inside, that tho communications nave
To be consigned to tho waste basket
IL has not been long since Il murder case
| In a Southern state hinged upon evidence
as 10 postInurk. a postmaster com
pounded a bottle oil posoned WHISKY "hieh
| he took TO another town he Ehe" had u Nv
| feotiye postmarling outtit IN its poster
| flee and there mailed his Implement Oh "e-
| struetion TO his enemy.
That posmastcrs have undoubtedly heen
walked IN 10 "A realization of their new du-
| ties vs. oyinccd by the character OF inc re-
| sponses To the departments Instructions
| which have been daily coming 20 hahu
| Some of the postmasters are not rs htera''
| as patrons Of the service would nave aht
the discovery of thia fact itselt snou'e
| contribute 10 the Improvement Oh pus'hs"
| through tho mails,
| The following lis q sample OF the letter.
received by MIR. Heath. having been w,,..ei
from a small postoffice In an interior s.htc
pear Sir: | see YOU have put on you
war paint against careless postinasters ~
to careless stamping letters
"Now as I am one OF them nhVins na'
In my use n dater that was IN 'h,s oi''s
| since when II was established there
about one third the type gone and II yo'
want me not to make mistakes you mus
send no new set OF typo and can OF 'hi
and padd at once Please.
when I moved office also from N'
sight TO the new one my letterscaies com
up missing. ,,,,
1T IL only Accommodation to the puoii
that I keep It there is not enough none.
in II 10 buy feed 10 feed an old ssttins hei'
I'VE have carry our own mail anu PUT
unto the catchcrs free and II We are 10
lacked up by them pos'otfice Inspector
there will be one office less In cass county
Yours truly, =. NJ" uhio'n nosV'
; .The opposition TO Tammany Han ma
got big contract on its hands II II nope
TO down that great Organization said ~
, James Mcknight. the well known raiiroa
lawyer. who used to be general counsel
the Northern Pacific railroad. to a Pos
, man at the Shoreham.
Il do not mean TO assert that Taminah
is inyincible. ON the contrary with sue
a candidate as Andrew II. Green belle,
that the opposition can beat Tammany
Mr. Green would be An ideal candidate; "