Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-07-29
SHAM MAIL SERVICE
CONTEMPLATED
Two Mails on Three Days Of the
Week Within Five Hours.
And Three Days Of the Week with Nc
Mail at ALI.

The SENTINEL learned on Thursday that
Postmaster Broy had sent on 9 recommen-
dation TO the Postofioe Department ct
Washington that the present schedule on
the blackboard route between Pslisade and
Eureka be changed 70 what 10 known as .
sliding schedule. which would allow the
blackboard TO remain ct Pslisade until $3.50
A. NJ, so as TO connect with the Central
Pacific East.bound train, due to arrive At
Palisade at 6 A. M, but which IL 10 sc-
mitted, Is frequently late at this season,
due. we are informed, 70 the unusually
heavy fruit shipments by express.
The time allowed on this route is four
teen hours, which would bring the mails
from Pslisade into Eureka under the new
schedule 81 1890 P. M, TOO late for dis
tribution that night. thus depriving our
people Of the present six-dsy service they
are now receiving, and giving them two
mails on three days In each week-ths
first delivery at s A. NJ, and the other as
soon as the mail arriving here on the E..
& P. train at12:15 p. M. can be distributed.
The blackboard leaves Eureka for Pals
ade at z A. M, one hour before the delivery
10 Eurekans OF the mail brought in by IL
the previous night. thus. under the pro-
posed new schedule, delaying the an
swering Of letters until the departure Of
the E. d P. train next day. or, to be
exact, TwESTY-THREE HOURS LATER.
This Is 9 privilege we do not believe the
people Of Eureka will feel like surrender
ing, especially when the contemplated
change has been manuevered by and Is for
the benefit Of the mail contractor who made
a too low bid for the route.
The Postofice Department asks for no
cheap service for carrying the mails, but
is willing 70 pay fair compensation, and as
Mr.. Flynn, the present contractor, had
charge OF this same route under existing
conditions for several months before bid
ding on his present contract, he surely
cannot plead ignorance OF the cost and
manner OF conducting the route.
Under present conditions we are now re-
ceiving q daily mail from both the East
and the West. and, during the months OF
May and June. with but three omissions.
two daily mails from the West. bringing
the San Francisco morning papers.
As the SENTINEL understands this new
SLIDING schedule. II gives Mr.. Flynn six
teen instead Of fourteen hours 10 make the
trip, md as much more as he cares to
take; for Postmaster Broy informed a
SENTINEL representative on Thursday
that the office would not be kept open
after the regular closing hour, and who is
to report the time Of the ~buckboard's
arrival2 This 10 9 nice arrangement for
Mr.. Flynn. and also permits Of . saving OF
two hours duty for the force that Is now
necessarily employed in the Office on
blackboard nights.
We think the present schedule lie the
best possible for all concerned. and we do
mo-, think IL should be altered. On three
days Of The week TWO mails delivered with.
in q few hours Of each other would be OF
little more benefit than one mail; and three
days In the week without o mail what
ever would be simply intolerable.
BY all means let the present schedule
remain.