La Junta tribune., 1899-05-03

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regibie address, and have to work
very rapidly in order to get through
in time to open the general deliv-
cry at 1880 o'clock.
At half past six the postal clerks
bound for albuquerque and Den
yer come in for their registered
mail. The Albuquerque man
takes his through registered
pouches for Albuquerque and
Trinidad, and some thirty odd To-
cal packages for points between
here and the former city. The
Denver man gets a through pouch
for Denver and registers for Pu-
eblo, Colorado Springs and inter-
mediate points. Next, the mail is
closed for the Bly, and train No.
~. Then all hands are worked at
distribution until No. RS mail is
brought in. One man goes to
breakfast, and the other, being
through with his two hour shift,
goes home.
The windows are open at 1880
a. m. and the days business is be-
gun, all the mail being in from the
east for the day. A line of anxious
faces stand in line and call for
their mail in turn. Some are sur
prised and some pleased, but a
large majority go away disappoint-
ed, as they are generally looking
for "the letter that never came. :"
The heads OF the family having
called. the children commence on
their way to school. Ii usually
makes no difference, even when
there are ten in the family, they
all stop and ask for mail and won
der why they don't get civil an
swer when the fifth or sixth repre-
sentative OF family comes to the
window. The morning rush being
over, then comes the Bly, with its
daily papers TO add to the work
which must be done as soon as
possible, for the lobby is filed
with anxious walters. Twenty
minutes are consumed and up goes
the window TO again greet many
! OF the faces that stood before 1t in
the morning The rush over, the
clerks settle down to routine work,
opening the through registered
pouches from Kansas City to Den
yer and entering them up in the
different books. Noon comes and
the mai, for the east has been
made up and gone and in comes
the California mail with its through
registered pouches from Aibu-
querque and Trinidad, to be worked
over. Some are for the Kansas
City pouches and others for Den
yer and local points.
While all this is on hand the
clerks still have to stand an inces-
SAINT fire from children going to and
returning from school. AT O'Clock
Nm the afternoon we found the EN-
ployes enjoying one hours re-
spite, but soou the ladies began
to call for stamps, money orders
and mail. AT 1870 o'clock the Hig-
bee mail comes in and after it is
back stamped and dispatched then
comes the closing of the registered
pouches, settling of the days busi-
ness in money orders, stamps, etc.
When we thought the boys must
be nearly through with their work,
in came two men bearing basket
full OF TRInuNEs-hvc hundred to
be put in the city delivery, and the
balance dispatched unto the ends
of the earth in all directions. In
the evening when the boys said,
well, let's quit for to-day" we
looked at our watch and it was s
o'clock.
Public Office. in the postofiice
line at least, is not SO much OF
private snap as some people would
would try to make out So when
you get letter or paper by mis-
take, don't kick, but remember
there are others-probably several
hundred-that landed in their