The evening times., 1900-09-12
AUGUST POSTAL RECEIPTS.
Excess ofS2I9,39a Compared With
the Same Month last Year.

The total receipts of the fifty largest
postoffices in the United States for the
month of August, 1906 were SO, ,522, ,2S4. an
increase ever those for August 1899, OF
$21S,999, or 6.6 per cent New York, as
usual, leads with s712.77G, an increase of
S47, Ca. or per cent. The receipts for
the nine leadings Offices we're as follows:
Chicago, $553,146, increase $08,-
C62, or III per cent; Philadelphia,
$241,925, increase $4,505, or p per cent;
Boston. 1921, sos, decrease Sc, ,033, or 20 per
cent; Brooklyn, s10S, 1873, Increase $4,456,
| or 81 per cent; st. Louis. $165, ,47S increase
1857, or IS per cent: San Francisco, $685.
| GA. increase $11. .504, or II per cent; Gin
cinnati, $94,6S3, increase S3.712, or 4 per
cent; Baltimore, SS9, ,969 increase 81, 400, OF
90 per cent. II viii be seen from this
that Boston is the only one of the largest
cities mentioned in which there is falling
off of receipts. Buffalo, y. Y, leads in
percentage OF increase OF receipts, its re-
celptS being S64, ,687, an increase OF Sll ,052,
or POS per cent Albany and Troy show
decreases.
1t might be presumed that the total re-
ceipts would be a fair indication OF the
population OF various cities That this is
not the case is shown by a comparison OF
the position occupied by the thirty leading
cities in population with their positions re-
gdrding their total receipts, counting New
York and Brooklyn as one city. In point
| of population the list of cities is as fol-
| lows:
| Greater New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, ST. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleyo>
| land, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati.
/ Pittsburg, New Orleans. Detroit, Milwau-
I kee, Washington, Newark. Jersey City.
Louisville, Minneapolis, Providence, Indl-
j annapolis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Rochester.
. Denver. Toledo, Allegheny, Columbus, ana
! Omaha.
In their total receipts they stand as fol
| los:
Greater New York, Chicago, Philadel-
! phia Boston. St Louis, San Francisco,
! Cincinnati Baltimore, Pittsburg. Cleye-
/ land Buffalo Kansas City, Detroit, Min
neapolfs. Milwaukee, Washington, Louis
| Vile. New Orleans, ST. Paul. Indianapolis,
! Denver, Newark, Omaha, Rochester. Prov
| idence, Toledo Atlanta Columbus, and
| Des Moines.
FEsm these two lists it will be seen that
Jersey City and Allegheny, the one stand
| ing seventeenth and the other twenty-seY-
enth in the population list, do not appear
| at ali in the lists of postotfice receipts
! Allegheny. III fact. does not appear among
the fifty Yostoffiees having the largest re-
! StlpI5- / HGtt plates al ( itNti os -AtitlA4' q
| and Des Moines, neither of which Is in
! cluded in the thirty most populOus cities
! Only six OF the cities maintain the same
| position in the two lists-New York. Chi
cago, Philadelphia. Detroit, To.edo, ane
| Rochester. Some cities stand far dow
t the list in popula alton, but well up in theil
| total receipts For instance. Kansas City
is tweuty-second on the population list
and twelfth in point of postal receipts
| while New Orleans is twelfth in popula-
! tion ard eighteenth In receipts. Those
| cities which stand higher in the amount
of receipts than they do in the population
list are Boston, Cincinnati, San Fran
cisco, Pittsburg, Kansas City, Minneapolis
| Louisville St. Paul, indianapolis, Denver
| and Omaha.
Those cities whose population is proper
! tionajeIy greater than their postal re-
ceipts are ST. Louis. Baltimore, Cleveland
| Buffalo, Milwaukee Washington. New Or
| leans. Providence Newark, and Columbus
| 1t will be noticed that Newark, JERSEY
City. and Allegheny do very little posta
| business in comParis on with the popuIa
ton This is easily explained by the fac
that Newark ana Jersey City are properly
suburbs Of New York, and their small
total receipts prove that most OF theil
business is conducted through New Yorl
city. Allegheny stands in the same reIa
tion to Piusburg.
The receipts for Richmond, Va fol
August 1900. were 81 666 an increase 0
| g. eco or in2 per cent