Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-10-21
THE POSTAL SERVICE.

THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Some Interestins Extracts from :
Couple Of Reports. @
Washington. Oct. Is. slowing are
some extracts from the annual report
OF Second Assistant Postmaster shailen-
berger:
The report gives an interesting review OF
the principal developments In the entire
postal service Of the United States. and
connecting foreign mails. It shows an aE-
gregate of appropriations for this part Of
the postal service for the current year of
81. OF. 2sS; the probable deficiency is $780,
GOO, making the estimated expenditures
this year Isl, 81. 23s. This win be 81 ,62a. 045
or 81 per cent more than for the fiscal
year just closed. The estimate for the
fiscal year 1899 Is $53, 337. 26O. which is ST.
7e6.0a more than the estimated expendi-
ture for the current year.
The summary of all classes of service In
operation June 80 last, follows: Number of
routes, %, 491: length of routes, 40 0s2 miles:
annual rate of expenditures, $40 S62 O74:
number of miles travelled per annum. 49,
$50, 479: rate Of cost per mile Travelled. II 81
cents: rate of cost per mile Of length, $106 OY:
average number Of trips per week. $50.
Last year there was an increase Of $780,
749 miles of travel in Star service. so es-
sential to rural districts. a.
Last year there was only one pneumatic
postal tube in operation In the country
that in Philadelphia. Since then four more
contracts. have been executed, in Philadel-
phta, New York, Boston and between New
York and Brooklyn. Concerning this new
postal feature, Gen. Shallenberger reports:
1T is quite possible to carry second, third
and fourth-class matter as well as first.
when it can be made profitable Extension
voi1o 1Sc&a
main office, eventually, will save clerical
force as well as expedite delivery In dis
tant cities from II to "a hours. The most
important source of revenue to the de-
partment will be the large Increase of local
correspondents and special delivery letters.
The extension of the tubular system will
be necessarily slow, and probably confined
to populous centers.'' e $500
No estimate for special fast mail service
Is submitted, as it is stated the service in
general will be better If the special facility
appropriation is discontinued. The esti-
mate for electric and cable car service Is
900, and 1s9 applications for es-
Enlistment Of new service OF this charac-
ter are on file. AS to foreign mails, the re-
port makes an estimate Of s., 9O1 $50 for
transportation, and $142, 600 for balances due
foreign countries. The aggregate cost of
this service was s2,049. 1879.
An abstract of the annual report of
the general superintendent of the rail-
way mail service follows - a.,-
The number of pieces of ALI classes If
mail matter distributed on.fhe cars during
the year was u. 81 $40. GO afclnsiva ~ zoe
istered matter and city mail or registered
matter there were 16,256.663 pieces in all.
The amount Of city mail distributed for
stations and carriers during the year ag-
gregated 49,, 469, $40 pieces. G,he increase OF
ordinary mail handled over the previous
year was 81 per cent. A comparative ia BILE
covering a period Of ten Fears shows thai
there has been an increase III the amount Of
mail handled of 772 per cent, an increase
in the working force OF 4S!6 per cent. The
number of pieces Of matterl illeeihiv ade
dressed. handled during It's year was H.
072.764
There were $50 casualties Turing the wear
in which IA clerks lost their lives. q were
seriously and Is slightly injured. This is .