The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-30
TO co IN TOMORROW
Final Instructions Received
, About Rural Mail Delivery.
ROUTES FIFTY-NINE MILES
Long and Over Thirteen Hun
dred People are Served.

vice who have never had 1t BEFORE
The two new rural routes are together
ifty-nine miles long and accommodate TO-
gether 1325 people.
Yesterday the postmaster at Wlchita re-
ceiyed from the office of the first asss-
4 tant postmaster general the following in
! teresting instructions, which contain
much information for the public, upon
which it is in the dark:
Postof1ce Department,
Washington, Sept. 26, 1870.
The Postmaster, Wichita, Sedgwick Coun-
ty, Kansas:
Sir: You are hereby authorized to es-
tablish rural free delivery from your
office, to commence on Monday, October
l, 1860, with two carriers at salary Of
$500 per annum, each, including horse
hire
John R. Moore and WINFIELD L. APP
ping have been appointed carriers and
Jessie W. Appling, substitute carrier.
Their bonds have been received and
placed on file.
The routes to be followed, as laid down
by Special Agent L. A Thompson, Will
I be as follows:
ROUTE NO. l.
Beginning at the postoffice at Wichita;
thence ? IL miles due north; thence IL
mile west; thence 4 miles north; thence
IL mile east; thence IA mile north to
Wichita Heights postof1ce; thence Ii
mile south; thence l mile west; thence l
mile north; thence 2 miles east; thence
mile north; thence miles west; thence 1
I mile south; thence l mile west; thence l
Il mile south; thence l mile east thence
miles south to northwest corner section
e, township q, range l west; THENCE 1-2
mile east; thence / mile south; thence IA
y mile east; thence IA mile south; thence
IA mile east; thence Is mile south;
| thence mile east through center of sec
ton S, township q, range l east; thence
| miles to place Of beginning.
Length of route, % miles, area covered,
30 square miles; number of houses on
route, rs; population served, 625.
Carrier, John R. Moore
ROUTE NO q
4 Beginning at the postofice at Wichita;
thence IL mile north: thence miles
east TO the southwest corner of section
Is township p, range 2 east; thence
miles south; thence miles east; thence
miles north; thence | mile east: thence
miles north to northeast corner section
4 Y, township q, range ? east; thence due
vest ten miles; thence 1-2 miles south
to place of beginning
Length Of route. 80 miles; area covered
43 square miles; number of houses on
route. 40; population served 700.
Carried. WINFIELD L. Appling.
In connection with this service requisi-
ton has been made for eight United
States iron collection boxes, which you
will please have your carriers place at
the following points:
ROUTE NO. /
One box at crossroads center of north
line section %. township 36. range I east
One box at Wichita postoffice.
One box at extreme northeast corner of
route
One box at crossroads southeast corner
section %, township 26, range l west
ROUTE NO. .
One box at southwest corner section 16.
township o. range east.
One box at southeast corner Of route.
One box at northeast corner of route
One box at crossroads northeast Man
chester postofice.
The attention Of the representative In
congress has been directed to the desira-
bility of requesting the honorable fourth
assistant postmaster general an order dis
continuing the fourth-class postoffices at
Wichita Heights and Manchester, Sedg-
wick county. Kansas.
Please advise this department Of the es-
tablishment Of the service. and report
upon its progress from time to time
You are directed to see that your rural
carriers leave the postoffice for the de-
livery OF their mail Immediately after
the arrival of the principal morning mail.
and that they return with their collec-
items at as early an hour as is prac-
ticable
The rural carriers, by a recent order
OF the postmaster general are authorized
TO cancel all mail matter collected by
them, whether delivered on route. or to
be mailed from distributing office. If
their service originated in a fcurth-class
postofce. the postmaster is entitled 10
credit for the cancellations the carriers
make.
BY order of the postmaster general the
rate Of postage on drop letters in the
rural free delivery service is fixed at ,
cents
Necessary blanks and supplies will be
forwarded in due course.
Additional supplies viii be sent as the
reeds Of the service may seem 10 require |
Your attention is especially invited to
the general regulations which follow:
You will understand that rural carriers |
are under your general control, and that
il is your duty 20 see that they leave
promptly with their mails and return |
their collections with equal prompt;tude |
Any derelictions Of duty on their part 1
should be reported 10 she free delivery /
division Of the Office Of the first assistant /
postmaster general.
The carriers will be paid directly by /
warrant on the United States treasury,
on vouchers submitted monthly, approved /
By you. and forwarded to this depart !
ment- You are especially directed to /
transmit these vouchers promptly al the I
end OF each month. in order TO avoid de- /
LAYS in payment.
When a substitute performs service, i
during the absence or disability Of reg
ular carrier. the account must be rem
dered in the name or the regular carrier.
and he must arrange u pay his substi-
entrusted TO anyone other than a bonded /
carrier G. bonded substitute.
II is particularly desired by the depart I
ment that the boxes put UP By the pat
roas Of rural free delivery shall he OF /
such a character as 10 be secure. not
only from the weather. but from mis-
chieyous OF malicious depre5ations. TIE
United States mail should not be de-
posted in any but an appropriate recep-
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