Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-12-21
Government Paid $214, 1913, 43
For Transportation on
Vermont Routes.
3 441,7S757 MILES TRAVEL
lila, 3S2.sS Miles Travelled by
Horses over star Routes Pay of
Vermont Railroads Amounted
to S142.330.SI.

IodIS ana transportation companies Oh
the Green Mountain state received "A very
comfortable sum from the Cove rument
last year for carrying United states mails.
This sum amounted to S2l4, 1878. 1t was
expended in various kinds of transporta-
ton service on routes that aggregate
distance of 2,52S 4S-lOOths miles. over
these routes there were 344l,7S7 51-100ths
miles of travel.
The star route service is tho FIRST of the
items that enter into this enormous total.
In Vermont there are 1876 9-l0J miles
OF star routes, over which the mail is car
RED in stage coaches and other vehicles
drawn by hoCses. The distance travelled
on these star routes last year was i,11i.3S2
S-l00 miles a distance that would carry
ono around the world hundreds of times
and which would almost enable one TO take
a trip to the Planets. The government
paid for this star route service in vermont
last year $3.50 80.
The other large item in expenditure Cor
mail transportation in Vermont was for
railroad service, There are S13 62-1C0 miles
Of railroad in Vermont over which the
mail cars are run. The distance travelled
last year by trains carrying mails was o.
Hiss 5000 miles. Tho government paid
the Vermont railroad Sl42, 339S1 for this
service. In addition there was paid to the
railroad companies in Vermont S17Gl7 for
railway postal cars. This makes the to-
tai paid tc the railways $3.50 956.S1.
There were also expended in Vermont
last year 80, 263 70 for mail messenger s,s'-
vice over routes ~ 44-lC0 miles long and on
which the travel aggregated 1851 l2-i0l
There are two regulation wagon services
for the transportation of mail in Vermont
cities the length Of route for each is Sc
100 miles. The total distance travelled
last year was 1921 6-1O0 miles, which shows
the frequency with which the routes were
travelled. The service cost the govern
ment Sl,0iS. 90. One of these routes is at
Burlington, 1910 Of miles long. The
contractor is A. r. Whiting, who was pa 4
$5H.OO for travelling 9344 1000 miles over
these routes. There is route in Rutland
37-10) of a miles long. The contractor
there was J. A. Craft, who was paid sJ0i 20
for a service that covered the distance Of
OFT G0-1O0 miles.
The electric routes that carry mails in
Vermont are 20 800 miles in length. The
distance travelled by cars carrying mails
in the Green Mountain State was 1893
$500 miles. The service cost the Cover n
ment $li7t3s These electric routes are
the Brattleboro Street Railway company,
which received 500 last year for its SER
vices n carrying the mails to various
points about Brattleboro; the Springfield
electric railway, which received N53.S5 for
carrying mail between the Boston and
Maine railway station at Sprng feld and
Charlestown. n. H; and the Mount Mans
field Electric Railway company, which re-
ceived s520.53 for carrying the mail be-
tween Stowe and Waterbury and adjoin-
ing points la Vermont.
Fellow is given a table of the steam
railroads in Vermont carrying govern
, ment mails and the compensation paid to
each. There are several items regarding
postal cars which are not shown in the
table. The Central Vermont Railway CO.,
received Sc, 725 for the service of postal
cars between Windsor, VT. and Rouse'
Point, n. Y. distance of l34 j0-10o miles.
The compensation was so per mile per
, annum. The Boston & Maine Railway fol
, the service of postal cars between Brat
tleboro and Windsor distance of As Si-lW
miles received 81 A2. the compensation
, there being $50 per mile per annum. The
same compensation was paid to the Bos'
ton & Maine Railway between White
, River junction and Derby Line l0j LILO,
miles which at $50 per mile per annun
a amounted TO 81 $3.50. The Central Rail
5 way of Vermont received So per mile pee
| annum for the use of postal cars between
, Burlington and Essex Junction,
r distance of eight miles, which made
5 total of s9O The Rutland Railroad Co.
received s25 per mile per annum for the
? use of postal cars between Bellows Fail,
5 and burlington distance of 119 70-lc
e miles. This made the total compensation
|. sc,992 80. Tho total amount paid in Ner
+ mont for the use Of postal cars last veal
was SIT 6l7. The other items of railway
. mail transportation in the State follows:
p Annual
I Length rate of pa,
Il Title of Company. of for trans
route. portation