Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-07
POSTOFFICE GROWS.
Big Increase in the Receipts at
Rock Island During
Past Year.
FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS

What They Were In 1sss-Number of
People Employed, What They are Paid
and other Items of General Inter
| est.
The receipts of the Rock Island
postoffice for the year ending March
81 were nearly double what they were
the year 1898. showing a wonderful
growth of the office and an
increase in business that far
exceeds any of the surrounding cities
of proportionate size: The gross re-
ceipts for the year ending March 81,
1897, were $50, S13.S2; gross receipts
for the year ending March 81, 1898,
t35, S21. ga; an increase of IS, 007. ~.
Gross receipts for the year ending
March 81, 1898, $35, S21 81; gross re-
ceipts for the year ending March 81,
| 1899, $40, 1927. Sc; an increase of SILL
OO6.12. Gross receipts for the year
ending March 81. 1899, $46. S27. 6;
gross receipts for the year ending
March 81, 1900, Sol, 756. ID; an in
crease of $14, 92S.47.
The month showing the largest in
L
sales were Sc, ga So. The same month,
1899, 1922. sc, and January, 1898,
S3,741.S9. During the year ending
March 81, 1898, the office employed
seven clerks. whose compensation
amounted to $4,6S6 80, and 10 car
riers, whose compensation was
| So, 100.
During the year ending March 81,
1900, there were 10 clerks, whose
compensation was Sc, 790.22. and IL
carriers, whose compensation was
80, 236.14. This shows an increase of
| three clerks and one carrier. and an
increase of 81, 153. 40 for clerk hire.
and 81, 1864 for carriers. The total
expenditures of the Office for the year
ending March 81 were $21, SO3.1S; be-
sides this, the Office pays II railway
postal clerks, whose compensation
amounts to SIS, 400 annually.
| The increase in the volume of bust
ness results in a corresponding in
crease in Postmaster L. II. Thomas
salary amounting to 500 year more.
Daily Business.
| The number of letter packages tied
out daily was 493; number of mails
dispatched &c; number of mails re-
ceived 81; number of pouches dis
patched &c; number of pouches re-
ceived 81; number of street mail
boxes in use in 1898, 62; mum Der
of street mail boxes in use in 1900,
90; number of pounds of second-class
matter originating from the Office,
average per day except Sunday. $40
pounds; average number of pounds
third and fourth class matter origi-
mating from the office, daily except
Sunday. 257 pounds; average number
of letters originating from the office,
dispatched daily except Sunday, H.
956; daily average number of letters
for city distribution, 1925; daily av-
erage number of pieces of second,
third and fourth class mail matter
for city distribution, 5, 1921.
| There are three deliveries a day to
most all the residence portion of the
city. the carriers leaving the office
as follows: $50 a. M, 9:15 a. m,
and Ais p. M, and in the business
district there are four deliveries, the
carriers leaving at $50 a. M, 9:15 a.
M, 1915 p. M, and 4:15 p. m.
Money orders issued April 1, 1899,
to March 81, 1900, IS, S2s; amount
received for same, $71, $40. So; fees on
same, 81, 900. AZ: drafts on postmaster
of New York. So; amount of same
$40, 900; certificates of deposit issued,
AZ; amount of same, So. 49S; Money
orders paid, %, 655; amount of same,
1851, 52S.76.
April 1, 1898, RENTED to the as
sistant treasurer at Chicago, 81, 1924 05;
April 1, 1899, RENTED to the assist
ant treasurer at Chicago 81, S43 81, an
increase of $3,019.16 over the same
quarter of the previous year; April l,
1900, RENTED to the assistant treas
urer at Chicago IS, 561.77, an increase
of So, rs. Sc over the same quarter of
the previous year.
The office RENTS to the assistant
treasurer at Chicago the balance on
hand quarterly, viz: Jan. l, April,
July and Oct. 1.
Registry Division.
From April 1, 1899. to March 81,
1900, the mum Der of articles received
for registration was 200; number of
registers for city distribution, 567;
mum Der of registers handled in trans
it, IA, SOB.
In connection with this branch of
the service, this city will soon have
registration by carriers, which will
enable people in the resident districts
to register letters at their own homes,
and they will not be obliged to go to the
postoffice to have the same attended