The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-30
Tho Little Post oflces of tho Great
ep New York.

err New YORK.
The proposed consolidation of the New
York and Brooklyn Post Offices, under a
plan to be submitted to Congress with the
approval Of Postmaster.G General GARY, has
many obvious advantages on the grounds Of
public EFFICIENCY and utility. The proposed
placement, however, Of the Long Island
City Post Office, it appears, Ii not univer-
sally approved.
II the Long Island City Post Office. an
office of which the receipts in a year are
nearly as largo as tho receipts Of the New
York Post Office in a day, is to be wiped Off
the map, what security Of postal autonomy,
30 to speak, will there be for the other
offices within the territory Of the Greater
New York. equipped each with q letter
box, q stamp package, and a stovef
The Willets Point Post Office, for In
stance, the average receipts of which are
nearly So a day, costs the Federal Govern
ment In outlays and disbursements less
than $500 a year, the salary Of the Post
master included. Upon the transactions
of this Post Office there is an annual profit
Of $3.50, a balance small but sure. and a
balance on the right side of the account.
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obliterated, how long can the Willets Point
Post Office Withstand the Federal pressure
for consolidation
Again, there Is the Linoleumville Post
Office, included within the corporate
boundaries of the enlarged New York.
The running expenses of this Office, Post
master included, are 80 cents a day. What
is to become of it3 What is to become of
the Rosebank Post Office, also In the
Greater New York; Is that lively centre of
enlightenment, the Castleton Corners Post
Office, with total receipts last year, by
sworn official record, of $333.73, to be
maintained or abolished2
Who is there that proposes seriously and
sedately the hauling down of the flag, the
taking in of the advertised letter signs, the
surrender of the stamps and postal cards,
and the withdrawal from active public life
Of the Postmaster Of Fosters Meadow 2
Here is a Greater New York Post Office
managed with such dexterity, frugality,
vigor and sagacity that upon total receipts
of $341 last year the Government made a
profit of $1,000. How many Post Offices in
the far West or in the sunny Southwest can
duplicate such a showing9
If the Fosters Meadow Post Office Is to
be abolished or its operations consolidated
with those of another office, what Is to be-
come Of the Post Office of Clarenceville, or
that of Oceanus, or Maspeth, or CreedmoorG
The last mentioned office took In $73. O3 last
year, the three odd cents being for postage
on n package. All of these offices are In
cluded within the territory of the enlarged
New York on and after Jan. 1, 1898.
What is to become of the Post Office of
Great Kills OIL hat Of K~reischerville, or
that of Rossville, or that Of Princes Bay,
or that Of Dongan Hills3 These are seri.
GUS and weighty questions which, If Post
master-General GARY is to establish an en-
during fame among the inhabitants of
these towns, he had better ponder.
There are probably few citizens outside
of its immediate neighborhood who view
with any great trepidation or anguish the
proposed obliteration, by consolidation, OF
the Long Island City Post Office but when
the residents Of other towns which are
about to honor the Greater New York by
becoming part of 1t, realize, as they must,
that the assault upon Long Island City's
rights to independent postal facilities by
Federal authority is only the entering
wedge to u wholesale scheme of consolida,
tion, it is clear that it will be s~toutly, II
unsuccessfully, resisted.