Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-11-03
OUR MAIL SERVICE
ANDITS ANNUAL COST
Report of the Second Assist
ant Postmaster General.
TOTAL OF EXPENDITURES

Cost For the Past Fiscal Year shows
an increase - Many improvements
Made In the Service-Southern Mails
Show Enormous Gain In Volume.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The annual
report W. s. Shallenberger. second as
sistant postmaster general, was mazda
public today. 1t shows that on June 80
last the annual rate of expenditure for
inland mail service was sos, lac, 060 for
foreign service. SO, ola. 53S; total expendi-
lures, S57, 100, sos. There were 22,684
star routes, with total mileage Of $685.
658. involving an annual rate of eX-
penditure Of $5.133,878, 1,o48 special
Office outer, 1879 steamboat routes, 2,668
railroad routes annual expense $33, 427,-
1885, 229 railway postoffice car routes,
annual expense $4, 800, 000); 0,695 rail-
way postoffice clerks, annual expense
IS, 045, 624); 1890 mail messenger routes,
220 wagon routes lin cities). 1877 electric
and cable car routes; five pneumatic
tube routes annual expenditure $780,
266 Necessary and special facilities on
trunk lines Of railroads involved an an
nual rate of expenditure Of S105, 723 and
mail equipments cost $321, 744
The routes of all kinds In the domes-
tic mail service cover over 500, 900 lines
In length and the miles travelled over
them per annum was 400, 205, 773. An
average of almost nine trips week on
each route was maintained throughout
the country. Mr.. Shallenberger refers
to the steps taken looking to stopping
speculative bidding for mail contracts
and announces that the new policy of
awarding all new contracts only to per-
sons living on or contiguous to the route
involved has worked satisfactorily.
Increase In the South.
The experiment of box delivery on
star routes, whereby persons along the
line could have the mail brought from
the next office by the star route carrier
and left in box erected by such person,
has worked satisfactorily in South Caro-
lima, and the extra star route contracts
will provide for such deliveries, increas-
ing the mail deliveries in rural districts
at nominal cost
The result of the regular quadrennial
adjustment of the pay for railroad trans
portation in the second contract section,
comprising North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Tennessee and Kentucky, based on a re-
weighing under orders issued to Sept.
30 last. was an increase of over 10 per
cent.
The total estimate for all mail trans
portation for the fiscal year ending June
30, is SCI. 430, 1914, being 50, 1855 or
5. "a per cent more than the current APP
preparation.
The estimates submitted in detail are
as follows:
Star service, including special officers,
So, $50, 900; steamboat service, $5S6,000,
railroad transportation, $34, 700, 900; rail
way postoff1ce cars, 81, S61 900; railway
postoff1ce clerks, SO, 1878, 749; mail mes
senger sesvice, S1.038,000 electric and
cable car service, 5000, 900; wagon SER
vice in all cities, $8OO,000; mail equip
ment, $780, 800; miscellaneous items,
81, 900.
Total inland service, $58, 726, 219. For
eign mail transportation, 2,549, 900.
Balance due foreign countries, $l95, 900.