The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-08
MAIL DELAYED.
Poorer Letter Mail Service For
Kansas on Account Expense
sEFast" Morning News
paper Train.

The latest iniquity in the Kansas
mail service is the taking off OF the
postal service on Santa Fe trains No.
113 and ia and the removal of the
postal clerks therefrom.
The former train arrives from KAN
sas CITY at Topeka at 1915 a m. and
the latter arrives from the west at 1.oV
p.
This Improvement in the Kansas
mail service delays all outgoing ma1l
from Topeka for Burlingame, Usage
City, Emporia and Florence and IN
tervening towns two hours. II delays
for two hours the receipt of mail from
all points on the Santa Fe between
Kansas City and Topeka two hours
and delays two hours the east-boupa
mail for Topeka and towns on the san
ia Fe between Florence and Kansas
City This mail, previous to September
1st, reached Topeka from the west at
.1:5O p. m. it now arrives at p m
Important mail which until Septen-
her 1st reached the State Journal from
Kansas City at 10:47 a. m was delayed
until after noon. This particular in
justice has now been remedied by dis
patching the Kansas City letters Tor
the State Journal and other Topeka
concerns from Kansas City by eX-
press.
given an object lesson that the mails
in this state are arranged for the bene-
fit of the Kansas City morning news
papers and the facilities for getting
these papers into Kansas are given
paramount Importance This IS proven
by the excuse offered that expenses IN
the postofTice department must be cur
tailed. - In other words, that the cost
of the west bound Kansas City morn
ing newspaper mail train is 50 great
that the letter service must be crippled
otherwise to reduce expenses Ihe
Lawrence Journal in commenting on
this latest postal Inconsistency says:
1.-The government has taken the mail
service off the early morning train on
~ mt a "a
train returning These trains are known
as No. 113 and No. ia, the morning
train from Kansas city arriving at
Lawrence about As and the train from
the west coming in at 2.52- There does
not appear to be any reason or sense
in this movement. 1t deprives all the
towns out of Kansas City of early
morning mail and viii be a serious in
convenience to all the towns along the
line between Kansas City and rlor-
ence. as well as to towns on connecting
lines. The excuse offered is that ex-
penSeS in the postal department must
be curtailed. The movement is really
one more in aid Of the alleged Fast
Mali out of Kansas City, train tnaC
is run exclusively in the interests OF
the Kansas City Journal and Times
If the postal authorities can not afford
to keep service on the morning train.
how can it afford TO run the Fast Mail
that accommodates nobody The train
from which the service has been re-
moved carried an average of 10.0 600 let
ters out of Kansas City every morning
and from forty to sixty sacks of papers
In addition to this it made close con
nections with twenty-three trains into
Kansas City, while the Fast Mail CON
meets with Just three. and offers no
conveniences whatever to the business
men, The morning business mali out
of Kansas City 10 the west was almost
all carried by the train on which the
service has been discontinued. It is
hard to7s see how the service can be ben
Gifted by taking off a train that car
ries ten thousand letters a day. and
leaving one that frequently does not
carry a hundred. The postal authori-
ties have some very queer IDEAS this
is one of them