Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-05-20
FREE DELIVERY il !.
What the Inspector SPECIFICATION
OF BOxeS-A Special Town Meet

day and talked free delivery with Postmaster
Cannon. He looked the village and the
suburbs over very carefully and will make
his report to the postoffice department at
Washington at once. He was somewhat
hampered in his work because there is alb
solutely no map Of Bellows Falls; he went
over the ground patiently, however, and
it is thought will report that this place i,
ripe for free delivery. A few new street
signs will have to bs posted, and the num-
bering Of houses completed. There are 65
houses unnumbered in Bellows Falls and
10 in North Walpole. The 65 on this side
OF the river will be looked after as the bail
ifs have already been instructed to do the
numbering. Mr.. Cannon expects that the
department will act on the report Of the
inspector soon and hopes to have free de-
livery in operation by September, although
he does not feel entirely confident that it
can be brought about quite SO quickly The
delivery will cover Bellows Falls and North
Walpole. An effort will be made to SCI
cure mounted carrier for Gageville and
that section of Rockingham in the vicinity
of A. A. Halladay's, but the lack of street
lighting is an obstacle in the way Of bring
ing this about. There will be three car
riers. and tour if the system extends to
Gageville. Mr.. Cannon thinks it proba-
BILE that there will be two general collec-
tions and deliveries daily, one after the
morning mails and one after the noon
mails, with as many collections in the bust
ness section of the village as the business
Requirements demand.
The present plan is to locate IS boxes
in Bellows Falls and four in North Wal
pole. The exact location ha, not been de-
termined in every instance, but this is
about the way the program reads now. One
box at each of the following points corne'
Of Henry and Westminster streets, foot Of
Terrace Hill, between tie mills Of w. A.
Hall and the Westminster Paper Co., one
on Westminster Court not located, top o.
Terrace Hill, corner Hapgood and Atkin-
son streets, corner of Atkinson and School
corner Atkinson and Henry, corner Of
School and Cherry, Morgan's Park, Bridge
street at east end Of Canal bridge, by build
ing Of Vermont Farm Machine company
in front of Towns Hotel, front of Hotel
Rockingham, front of postoffice, under the
bill among the mills, aud two not yet To-
cated. In North Walpole there will be
one at Griffiu's corner, one at corner Of
East and Maine streets, one by drug store
Of H. II. Davis, one at the corner of River
and Vine street, just to the north Of the
Boston & Maine bridge.
But tefore free delivery comes there must
be few radical changes made in the post
Office itself. The postmaster now pays rent
to three different parties, and the govern.
ment desires to deal with only one. A,
present the postmaster pays the town o.
Rockingham $3.50 tor rent, syndicate O
some 20 citizens 5000 for the fixtures, and
about $50 for lights. The fixtures were
put in at cost of $4,000, when George o
Guild was postmaster, and were purchased
by syndicate of citizens who have since
rented the property to, the postofice, re-
ceiving 10 per cent on the cost for time
and now receiving 8per cent. The govern.
ment wants ten years. lease of the present
quarters and wants the town to furnish the
Office lighted, heated and fitted ready fol
free delivery. 1t is understood that the
selectmen will call a special town meeting
June 8 to see if the town will instruct the
selectmen to put the office into the condition
required. Of course the town will be a,
liberty to purchase the fixtures now in the
office or put In new.
Contractor A. NJ Buchanan has drawn q
plan of proposed changes which will be
forwarded to Washington to be filed with
the report of the inspector. The plan pro.
vides for the general delivery where it now
is. The stamp window will be moved to
the right of the general delivery as one now
enters from the street. The carriers de-
livery will be to the right and in the rear.
There will be lock boxes on the right be-
tween the stamp window and the carriers
delivery. The boxes to the left of the gen.
eral delivery will all be taken out, and a
partition run from the general delivery win
dow to the outside window at the south of
the front entrance. The money order de-
partment will be moved into this southeast
corner, thus making considerable additional
room on the interior. Two new windows
will have to be cut in the south wall of the
building. These changes the postoffice
department asks the town to make, and the
department will take lease for ten years.
II the rent offered is adequate there is no
reason why the town should not do as re-
quested.
A. H. Fisher returned from Florida
Thursday.