Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-09-20
THE POSTAL BUSINESS.

A dispatch from Washington States
that the total receipts Of the SO largest
postoffices Ii the United States for the
month of August 1900, were S3, o22,
2sa, an increase over these for August,
1899. Of $2l9, 939, or G5 per cent. New
York, as usual, leads with S712, ITO, an
increase Of s47, 1894, Or 7 per cent. The
receipts for ,theS niue leading offices
were as follows.
Chicago, 1868, LAG, increase s5S, 062,
or 1T per cent; Philadelphia, sal,
925, increase q, 505, or ~ per cent;
Boston, 1924, 5O5, decrease 6.O33, or
2.6 per cent; brooklyn, s10S, 49S. in.
crease 81, 456, cr SO per cent; st.
Louis, sl6e,47 inerenss 81, 587, or 7. 8
per cent; San Frannisco,. s95, GA, in
crease 81, 504. or ID Fer cent; Cincin-
natl, S94, 6S3, increase SO, T12, or per
cent; Baltimore, 1856, 969, increase
ga, 456, or 8, 2 per cent. 1t will be seen
from this that iBcston IL the only one
of the largest. cities mentioned in
which there is "a falling off Of receipts.
Buffalo. N. VI, leads in percentage OF
| increase Of receipts, its receipts being
1854, 6S7, an increase Of S1l,062, or
90 per cent. Albany and Troy show
| decreases
1t might be presumed that the total
receipts would be a fair indication of
| the population Of various cities. says
the Baltimore Sun. That this is not
the case is shown Ey q comparison of
the position occupied by the 80 lead
ing cities In population with their
positions regarding their total re-
ceipts, counting Nav York and Brook
Ign as one city. In point Of popula-
tion the list vi cities is as follows
Greater New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, 81. Louis, Boston, Baltimore,
Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco,
Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Orleans,
Detroit, Milwaukee, Washington, New
ark, Jersey City, louisville, Mime
apolis, Proudeue, indianapolis, Kansas
City, st. Paul. Rochester, Denver,
Toledo, Allegheny, Columbus anc
Omaha. ~.
Ia their total receipts they stand al
| follows: Greater New York, Chicago
philadelphia, Boston, st. Louis, Sar
Francisco, Cincinnati Baltimore
Pittaburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Kansa.
City, Detroit, Minneapolis, Milwaukee
Wash ngton, Louisville, New Orleans
ST. Paul, Indianapolis, Denver, New
!, ark, Omaha, Rochester, Providence
Toledo, A tlanta, Columbus, Des Moines
From these two lists 1t will be see
} that Jersey CRY and Allegheny, th
one standing Seventeenth and the othe
twenty -ssventh in the population list
: do not appear at all in the lists G
! postoflice receipts, Allegheny, in fact
does not appear among the SO post
offices having the largest receipts
! Their places are taken by Atlanta an
s Des Moines, neither of which is ir
cluded in the 30 most populous cities
Z Only six Of the cities maintain th
9 same position in the two lists--Ne
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit
Toledo ard Rochester. Some cite
p stand far down the lisg in population
+ but we'll up in their total receipts. FL
instance, Kansas City is twenty -secon
i on the population list and twelfth
I, point Of postal receipts, while Ne
q Orleans is twelfth in population an
), eighteenth In receipts. Those citi,
y which stand higher 10 the amount I
u receipts than they do 10 the populatic
n list are: Boston, Cincinnati, San Fra
!. cisco, Pittaburg, Kansas City, MINI
d apois, Louisville, st. Paul, Indial
q apolIs, Denver and Omaha.
'r Those cities whose population is pr
portionately greater than their post
70 receipts are ST. Louis, Baltimor
IS Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Was
Is ington, New Orleans, Providence, Me-
!. ark and Columbus. IL will be MOTTO
% that Newark, Jersey City and Alleghe
~ do very little postal business in col
* parison with the population. This
I'd easily explained by the fact that Ne
ark and Jersey City are properly gu
urbs Of New York and their small tot
receipts prove that most of their blu
ness is conducted through New Yo
i's City. Allegheny stands in the sa
relation to Pittsburg.