Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-14
MAIL FOR LOWER STATE STREET.
4 Petition from That Section Receives Immedi
ate Attention.

Many readers of the Journal have no
| ticed different articles in that paper rel
alive to the restrictions of the eight hour
| law which governs letter carriers. a let
| ter carrier is allowed but IS hours in a
week, practically eight hours day, and
when his time is up he is subject to re e
moval IL he overstcps the allotted time
which is recorded on a mechanical clock
recorder and reported TO the department !:
| so that many patrons nave been inconven-
| fenced and delayed in the delivery Of
| mail which could no; be delivered that
day for want of time.
The lower end of State street, close to
the Hallowell line. has caused very much
| trouble owing to the extended distance
and comparatively small amount of mail
delivered there. Ii was found last year
| that in numerous cases the attempt 10
make daily delivery there of possibly
| two or three pieces of mail caused the de
tention of as high as 80 or 90 letters go
| ing to other addresses in the same dis
trict. After a most careful consideration
and many postponements. the hard travel
of the winter compelled the abolition of
| the service at this extreme point.
This, however. has been very unsatis-
| IdCtOTN 10 tnc people llNUiE DeiOW tHe
GlenwoOd Springs, where the route termi-
mates. and yesterday the following petit
ton was presented to the postmaster,
signed by all the Augusta residents be-
low the point named:
| We. the undersigned. residents of that
portion of Augusta known as South State
street. do most respectfully petition that
the mail delivery taken from US during
the past winter may be renewed 1t is
| a serious inconvenience to many of us
| who have no business on Water street. to
! go to the postoffice for our mail and hav-
ing for the past four years had the same
privilege accorded residents of other parts
| of the city. certainly as remote. we see
no reason why We, living but about a
quarter Of a mile below the State House.
part of that distance being already COW
| cred by carrier. and on the line OF the
| electric road. where the travelling is near
| ~ always good. should be cut off when
delivery is made through Sidney and Riv
| erside in a country district, where the
| roads are sometimes almost impossible
| 1t is only matter of a ten minutes walk
for the carrier to make this delivery. and
we urge that it be renewed at the earliest
possible moment
In answer to this, Mr.. Stinson desires
the following letter to be printed for dis
| tribution TO the signers of the petition:
| Augusta. Maine. Postoffice.
June Il. 1901.
To the Editors of the Kennebec Journal :
| Allow me the use of your columns to
| make a general answer to the petition
from the residents Of what they ca IN
their petition South State Street, COM
' monty known as the Halowell road.
sl- f,@t Nhnt fhn
a very small daily mail to this locality
took three and more hours of the weekly
| IS hours allowed the carrier for the 1ull
performance of his duty, was compelIcu
to recommend the adjustment of that
portion of the carriers route.
| The conditions have not SufllclcntiN
changed to allow me. in justice to other
, people on the same route, 10 Recommend
its re-establishment ,
1t is with pleasure, however. that
am able to keep my promise to do the
hest | could for them. and. l Will STATE
that on and after July 1st they can nave
one DAILY ueiivtry by the MAI. -cairtr on
the Augusta and litchheld star route.
THE only requirement will be that eacl
family places IA suitable ana sa1c oox
| properly supported. on a proper post al
The edge of the road in front of its house;
land give me an order TO deliver It's man
lto the carrier for deposit therein.
| You will -oe by this that after July ~.
bv following these simple requirements;
thcy will have one sure daily denNerH ol
mail marked copy OF TINS paper -
sent to each family signing the petitioii,
as an answer to the same: ana 70 gulhe
re action Very respectfully yours.
10 WALTER d. STINSON.
POstma Ster.