Evening star., 1899-03-25
FASTER MAIL TRAINS
Reorganization and Improvement Of
Facilities.
GENERAL QUICKENING OF SERVICE
Commercial Centers in Closer
Communication.
MANY HOURS CUT OFF

The Post Office Department has completed
a general reorganization OF the through
mail facilities between the east and west
and faster service than ever before known
has been inaugurated in various 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
separated sections Of the country, giving a
corresponding advantage to those for inter
mediate cities and towns, in some cases
making at least a days difference In deliV-
cry. The improvements cover total OF
1850 miles OF railroads, and are the re-
suits of the efforts which Mr.. Shallenber-
ser. the second assistant postmaster gem
eial, has been making for long period.
Th9 operation of the new fast facilities
has been expedited so as to be effective be-
fore the annual weighing of the mails,
which opens in few days.
Mails From Chicago.
The fast mail leaving Chicago at 800
a m, beginning tomorrow. Will arrive in
NV York at instead If .:15 am. Monday,
insuring delivery by the first carriers there
and in Brooklyn and vicinity, and, in addi-
ton, securing immediate connection over
the New York Providence and Boston
route. At Albany it will make a flying
connection with the midnight train out
for Boston, cutting on half an hour be-
tween Albany and Boston, catching the
early morning trains out OF Boston for
all New England points and giving Boston
the Chicago morning papers and Pacific
coast mail several hours earlier.
Fast Mail To Washington.
In connection with 1t. the Pennsylvania
road has established fast mail leaving
Chicago at 2:45 am, arriving in Pittsburg
in time to connect with the fast mail from
St Louis at S:13 pm, then together reach
ing New York at 4:ts am. and Washington
az ]. At Washington and Baltimore il will
catch the carly trains for eastern Mary
land and as far south along the coast as
Tampa. 1t will expedite all northwestern
mails for Florida and Cuba This new
schedule takes mails at the days c-ose at
St. Louis and points beyond well the
afternoon mails from Chicago.
Postal car service has been placed on
the train leaving New York at in the af-
ternoon and reaching St Louis at 7:15 the
following evening, OF great benefit to the
public dependent upon This route.
The Pittsburg train heretofore arriving at
St Louis at in the afternoon has had its
time shortened an hour and quarter, and
connecting with it arrangements have been
made for a train out on the st. Louis, Mo-
berly and Kansas City route to leave St.
Louis at 2:2o and reach Kansas City at
9:4o I. m, instead of . the next morning,
now. This Will secure post office box
next morning. THIS involves large amount
of mail of an important nature from the
east.
Over the Northern Pacific.
Fast service, not heretofore announced,
already has just been inaugurated on lne
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 az
fords double service between St. Paul, Seat
tie and Portland and intermediate points
and gives by a new morning train out OF St
Paul and its afternoon train into ST. Paul
the same facilities were recently inau-
gurated by the through trains on the Great
Northern.
This new morning train leaves st. Paul at
S:3l, arriving at Portland at Z am. the
fourth day.
There are numerous other changes in
schedules for the expedition of mails SIM
ilarly arranged ard inaugurated. Illustrat-
ing the competition for the fast mail serv-
ice the Wabash last Sunday put into opera
ton new train leaving Buffalo at $50
pm. and reaching st Louis at . pm. 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 its large mileage in Canadian territory,
where intermediate mail cannot be bene-
fitted. This, however. has not prevented the
close fast schedule with the mail.