Arizona republican., 1899-03-31
FAST MAIL TRAINS.
Number Of New Ones Have
 Been Put On.
Time Of Service Between All inc PrinCipaI Cities Of the Country Has Been Shortened from One to Twelve Hours.

Washington, March 30.-The post office department has completed gen eral reorganization of the through mail facilities between the east and west, and faster service than ever before known has been inaugurated in va rious directions. The new schedules, showing the effect of the competition between various trunk lines for the through mails, expedite by many hours their transit between widely sep arated sections of the country, giving a corresponding advantage to those for intermediate cities and towns, in some cases making at least days difference in delivery. The improvements cover total of 16,S70 miles of railroads, and are the results of the efforts which MT. Shallenberger, the second assistant for a long period.
 The operation Of the new fast facil- ities has been expedited so as to be effective before the annual weighing of the mails, which opens in a few days.
 The fast mail leaving Chicago at 3:05 a. m., will arrive in New York at instead of 5:15 a. m. the next morning insuring delivery - by the first carriers there and in Brooklyn and vicinity, and, in addi ton, securing immediate connection over the New York, Providence x Boston route. At Albany it will make a flying connection with the midnight train out for Boston, cutting off half an hour between Albany and Boston, catching the early morning trains out of Boston for all New England points giving Boston the Chicago morning papers and Pacific coast mail several hours earlier.
 In connection with it, the Pennsyl- vania road has established a fast mail leaving Chicago at 2:45 a. m., arriving in Pittsburg in time to connect with the fast mail from St. Louis at S:15 D. m., then together reaching New York at 4:08 a. m., and Washington at 4. At Washington and Baltimore it will catch the early trains for eastern Maryland and as far south along the coast as Tampa It win expedite all northwestern mails for Florida and Cuba. This new schedule takes mails at the days close at St. Louis and points beyond as we'll as the afternoon mails from Chicago.
 Postal car service has been placed on the train leaving New York at in the afternoon and reaching St. Louis at 7:15 the following evening, of great benefit to the public dependent upon this route.
 The Pittsburg train heretofore arriy- ing at St. Louis at in the afternoon has had it's time shortened an hour and a quarter and connecting with it arrangements have been made for a train out on the St. Louis, Moberly 6 Kansas City route to leave St. Louis at 2:20 and reach Kansas City at 9:45 p. n., instead of , the next morning, as now. This will secure post office box delivery he1tofore not available till the next morning. This involves large amount of mail of an important nature from the east.
 Fast service, not heretofore an nounced, has just been inaug- urated on the Northern Pacific, where two fast trains have replaced one, shortening greatly the time between St. Paul and intermediate cities to the Pacific coast. This change affords double service between St. Paul, Seat tie and Portland and intermediate points, and gives by a new morning train out Of St. Paul and it's afternoon train into St. Paul the same facilities as were recently inaugurated by the through trains on the Great Northern.
 The new morning train leaves St. Paul at S:35, arriving at Portland at z a. m. the fourth day
 There are numerous other changes in for the expedition of mails arranged and inaugurated. the competition for the fast mail service, the Wabash last Sunday put into operation a new train leaving Buffalo at S:20 D. m. and reaching St. Louis at ? D. III. the second day out. connecting with the new train leaving St. Louis at 2:20 for Kansas City Little encouragement for the service on this road has been given, mainly owing to it's large mileage in Canadian territory, where intermediate mail cannot be benefited. This, how ever, has not prevented the road from running a competing train on close with the mail.
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