The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-21

Ono Way In Which n Country Postmaster
May Make Himsr Rich.

SYRACUSE. Feb. 20.-How by q clever use OF
his advantages n country postmaster may be-
come rich Frank b. Mills OF Rose Hill has
shown. Rose Hin lies twelve miles south from
SkAueatelos. 1t consists OF a $50, 900 granite
house. a shed and n warehouse. The house 10
the residence OF Frank Il. Mills. The ware
house is his business place. The shed Is his
Post ONCE. The population Of Rose Hill Is SIX:
Mr.. Mills. his wife. his two children, his father.
and his brother. But Mr.. Miis's Post ONCE did a
$1,000 business last year. which is u great deal
moro than any other Post Ofiice in Onondaga
county did. excepting. OF course. Syracuse.
Every letter that came out OF that Post Once
came from Mr.. Mills. Every letter that went
Into the Post once was addressed to Mr.. Mills.
He 10 literally the whole thing.
just at present the volume OF mail out OF this
Pos Once 10 about five tons dav. As there 10
no railroad within q dosen miles OF Rose Hill
all this mail has to DO drawn over the hills to
SIX aneateles, where It IL taken by tho Skane-
atoles Railroad to Skaneateles Junction, and
thence by the Auburn branch OF the New York
Central to Syracuse. Tho Skanesteles Rail-
road took the contract for carrying Skaneateles
mails when there Was no Rose Iiill mail worth
mentioning: and now during the spring season
the Rose Hill mail Ia about equal In weight to
all the rest OF the mail, baggage, and passengers
carried over tho road. Charles Ketchings, the
Missouri mail contractor who secured a Ave
year contract for carrying tho Borodino mail in
1892 for 1854 year did not bid again this year
ar. a farmer to carry il all And now one sl !. t.
Pig. OF Windsor. Mo-, has taken the contract
for Se27 year. He viii heartily wish he had
not before his contract expires.
Ten years ago Mills WAS a boy driving into
SSH . 10 to sch99i every morning from his
year or two and then went hack to the farm
4 mile from his farm Charles NJ, Goodspeed. a
magazines at cut rates. A mile from Good Good
Mills's house At the third apex OF the triangle
Of Post Once at Goodspeeh's, but MIR Good.
speed got Congressman lielden TO establish n
and had himself appointed Postmaster. For
Pay ne got u under ths rules Of the department,
business of taking subscriptions for magazines
"A mail business exclusively he could write as
pleased ana his postage cost him nothing at all
He got for his pay as Postmaster the fun value
fsii stamps that wen. out q his ONCE.
more he Thought OF It, the more no thought
t thsre Geed mf.ey IN i Gr ether people
asked Tor a Post ufiice on his farm. n arn
AWAY: lad sost aSzsn house. Which MAD
speeds once. only a mile away served '1 Ssy
people except Goodspeed, but still 1t did more
no claim that the Mills ONCE would serve any
one but Mills. but the Rose Hill Post Office was
ESTABLISHED aud started In doing business
Mr.. Mills made his business seeds. He knew
something about agrlcul ture and turned part Of
hls farm into an experiment station for seeds
OF choice new varieties he would give for a
quarter. or halt dollar, sent by mall He did
not need much capital for this; his postage on
catalogues was nothing and his postage on
PeekaKes OF seeds was nothing. Postmaster
Miiis AFTER while began sending u mail bag
iull OF seeds aday out OF the Post Office In Ms
front room. he did business on q commission OF
a aoo peF cent, from Gncle sam until three years
ago. when tho business Of tho ONCE became 40
large that the ofioe was made a saiarled ons
Inc pressnt Postmaster gets . salary OF S2, 500
ysAr. The Post once. according to the isSt