Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-08
Extent of this Branch of Mail
Transportation in Vermont
is I, 553.54 Miles.
THE COST is $4t,7SS.50.
tors of Old Fashioned Stage Lines
Length of hallway Mail Routes,
s73.62 Miles-Coppensatio Re-
ceived BY the Railroads.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 1-Within the
past year the postofiicc department has
entirely revised the contracts for trans
portaton of mails in the State of Yer
mont. This applies particularly to rail-
roads. The new figures are particularly
interesting as they AFFORD some connec-
ton of the immense sums of money IT re-
quires to take letters from writer to re-
ceiver. Enormous distances must be
travelled, when one counts the aggregate
for the year. The custom of the postof-
flee department is to give annually the
entire distances covered, arriving at this
amount by multiplying the length OF
routes by the number of times these
routes have been traversed.
The star route service is n branch of
the transportation division of the postof-
flee department. These star routes in
little State like Vermont aggregate l553.-
81 miles in length and tho total distance
travelled over them last year was lOS3,-
GS2.0S miles, enough to take one around
the world many times. The annual rate
OF expenditure for this service in Vermont
is Sil $500 This money goes mostly to
the pruprietors of the old fashioned stage
coaches that drive from town to town
with the mails, climbing the great New
England hills and facing all sorts of Sc
we're New England weather.
1 Vermont has only 23.1h miles of special
office service. The total distance travel
led on these routes last year was 7liO
miles. There are no steamboat mail
routes in the State. The length OF rail-
way mail routes in the State is S73.j2
miles and the total distance covered ON
these routes last year was Eli SS5.Sl miles.
The railroads in Vermont received Tor
this mail service last year the sum OF
$li2. 33Gsl. with an additional compensa-
ton of Sl7.Gl7 for railway postofiice cars.
The mail passenger service has an aggrc-
gate route in Vermont of 1906 miles The
distance travelled over this route last
year amounted to 9,y9l.N miles and the
cost of the transportation to the govern
mont was s9lS9.72 There is a wagon route
in the State So of a mile long, presumably
in Burlington, where the distance cover
al last year was 4G2l.76. The cost OF
that service was Sl.04S. Electric and ca
bic cars in Vermont carry mails over
routes that aggregate 2D.W miles IN
length. In carrying the mails last year
these electric cars travelled total dis
lance of 4Sy99,S miles and the cost was
Sli7i3S.
Summing up the total length of trans
portation routes of all kinds in Vermont
where mail is carried, Is 2,520.91 miles. The
total distance travelled over all these mai
routes last year was 34U3, 59l. i3 miles anc
this service cost the government the large
sum of $2l3 i52.il. The corresponding sun
paid out for the State of New Hampshir,
was 500, 1914: in Maine, which is Il large
State territory the sum was almost twic,
as much $40, g74. 10.
Mail transportation on the Vernon
electric railways is confined entirely Il
what is kno yn as the closed pouch ser
vice The Brattleboro Street Railwa,
company carried mails over a route g.
miles long last year between Brattlebcr,
and West Brattlehoro, four trips eacl
way a day on week DAYS and one trip
day en- Sundays covering $50 car mile
for a compensation of $500 The Spring