New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-28
STREETCAR POSTAL SERVICE.
rrlNs PERFECTED FOR PUTTING 1T UNDER THE
CONTROL. or THE PosTMAsTERs.

riANs PERFECTED FOR PUTTING 1T UNDER THE
CONTROL or THE PosTMAsTERs.
Plans have been made by the Postoffice Depart
mon, for turning over on December TO the post
masters I'm the cities where 4; exists the control
o, the streetcar postal business In this division
OF the Railway Mail Service. This division en-
braces what used TO be called the Middle states
and the peninsula Of Maryland and Virginia. Reg
ul,r mail car. are operated by cable or electricity
I'm four cities -Ncw-York Brooklyn, Philadelphia
and Rochester In this city there is one route.
nos,nl cars being run as "traers" over the cable
tracks In Third.ave. One-hundred -nnd-twenty-
nfth-st and Amstcrdam-aye. as far north as
Onc-hundrcd- a nd ninety j. fourth-st In brooklyn
there are two routes over which electric postal
cara ara run: one ~ known az the Brooklyn Cr-
cult r. + o." the cars running in opposite d.
rections through Fulton-st.. Broadway, kent-aNe'
and Myr,le-ave. and the other reaches Newtown
creek and the edge OF Long Island city on the
Crosstown Line In Philadelphia there are 1--WE
routes and in Rochester two.
Many people suppose that these routes are under
the control OF the local postmasers. and II was u
great surprise TO Postmaster Van Cott Wheh ne
came into Office under his present appointment
70 learn that he had nothing 10 do with the mails
while IN transit on the cabe-cars Electric mail
oars vcro nrst opcrated I'm ST. Louis long ago
"a 1Sa2 and two years later the matter was taken
I'D by Postmaster Sullivan In Brooklyn ana ser
vice established TO Coney Island. In those cities
at the beginning the postmasters had rull ch''k'
Of f. Under tho last Administration however
Second Assistant Postmaster General Nelson mace
specal efforts to extend this service In different
rar,s OF the country and II became part OF the
railway Mail Service. The postmasters nave gen
orally FOL, TINT II would be better II II were placed
under their supervision and conferences with the
hoads OF tho poptoccs In the four cities mentioned
were recently held by Victor j. bradley. superlm-
,crdsnt 81 tho Railway Mall Service for TINS di-
,lsion So far as Mr. bradley Is cohceincu He
has all along been perfectly Wiling 10 SulIcnus g.,
this part OF Ms ms S Sa a Ire clerks
employed on the postal cars Will ater ,"e thans
ia Erected be subject TO the postmasters athongh
- tbe ramander OF this fiscal year their salaries
viii be taken from the appr9pra ~ ,p srrscted
way Mall Service While no changes in the service
arc lookei Tor Immediately Il IS believed mar me
tendency will be to improve n IN 'ep' 10
Pracuca .9un n OF the Impending transfer. but
Slce 81 IL the pOstmasers Will act as paymasters
hereaIser ,srts employed the cable and electric
WI ,bough my certihcaton VIII be necessary Al
Ter nsca yenr sne fof their salaries provided
in the appropriation for postoincer ~ mas a,"J Ii;
seemed 10 be somewhat ON onro oS Of III. post
n maat"r when In the postofce Itself and IN tne
nations NATION and yet be outside OF while being
ce since IL does not extend beyond the city me
in any case and therefore properly comes rt
the Inc OF c s9s on the postal
At Presef to such inspection as they will receive
hereafter for at all the stations nart at least
onns,be FOR the clerks Really. this part OF he
osto business is moro directly under the PUBIC
than b s9y s Shsr Of ar e"lency main
,atned The negotiations in the mater nave 9et =,
entirely friendly nTd work dGl over y to the
Of the cities affected