The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-31
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
TEN NEW ROUTES TO BE EsTAB-
LIsHED IN GEORGIA AT ONCE.

The state Has Scventy-One Free
Country Delivery Routes, Afford
ing Conveniences to a Large Num-
her of Farmers-How the System
Was Begun, Under Adverse Con-
dittons-Carriers Appointed for the
New Routes.
Washington. May 2e-Durdng the months
o June and July ten rural free delivery
,o,+es win be established in Georgia. The
r,,r7I free delivery has had a phenomenal
,,r,v-th in all sections of the country
north East West and South. The South
no kept up with this spirit of progress,
AND Georgia leads all the Southern States
IN the matter of free rural delivery routes
as if does in almost every other line of
progress.
The new routes to be established on
lime | are as follows: Route from Gaines
vile in Hall county, with one carrier.
The length of this route is twenty-four
miles and the total area covered is TWEEN
/ tv-tbree square miles, serving population
| If 800 people, living in 100, houses. John
NJ Rice has been appointed carrier. When
This new service is established the post
| offices at Wolleys Ford and Absalom in
Han county, and Storesville. in Forsyth
county. VIII be discontinued. Mail will be
/ sent to Gainesville This is the first route
TO he established at Gainesville, and was
/ commended by Congressman F. c. Tate.
4 Two more routes will be established at
C,onvers. in Rockdale county, there being
| already one at that point. The length of
tho combined routes is fifty-three miles,
covering an area of sixty square miles.
The population served Is IT'S and the num-
j her of houses on the route 1856. j. E. AL
4 mand and Joe S. Christian have been APP
4 noUted as carriers. When these routes
ar established the poStoffice at Salem
4 and the special Star route service between
Conyers and Salem will be discontinued,
all mail being sent to Conyers. Congress
man J.. F. Livingston recommended the
establishment of these routes.
i A route will be established at Summer
Vile in Chatooga county, this being the
i first one established there. One carrier is
i provided and the length of the route is
2Sl5 miles, covering an area of twenty-five
\ square miles The population served is
90. and the number of houses on the
route 100. D. M. White has been appoint
ed as the carrier. When this route goes
into effect the postoffice at Silverhill and
Star route, No. q 955 will be discontinued
u Mail to Summerville. This route was re-
commended by Congress j. w. Maddox.
on the recommendation of Congressman
F. c. Tate a route will be established at
Hoschton in jackson county with one car
rier. The length of the route is twenty
II five miles covering an area of twenty-five
square miles. The population served is 500
n and the number of houses on the route
L Boil
carrier.
III On July five new routes will be es-
tablished at Rome, in Floyd county. at
the instance of Congressman Maddox.
There are already three routes in opera
ton there, and when these new ones are
N established it will make a total of eight.
N The length of these routes is 1851 miles
covering an area of 10 square miles The
population served is $500, and the number
OF houses on the route 500 The follow
ing carriers have been appointed: NJ. G.
Seiman, S R. Smyley, R. F. Ware, c. H
CoDyers and B. B. Hardin. When these
routes go into operation the postoffioes
at Flo, Livingston, Anniedelle New Bone,
Vans Valley, Chilo, Wax, O'Brien and
Fouchee, and Star routes Nos q 2e7. b.
2S9 and 2,S00 and the special Star route
from Rome to O'Brien will all be discon-
unued. The postoffices at Foster Mills,
rural carrier. Mail to Rome
The establishment of these rural free
delivery routes is not only an excellent
thhg for the rural population of the
STATE out IS also an actual saving to the
Postofice Department. In many cases the
rural free delivery, after it is once put
INTO operation, become almost if not
wholly, self-supporting. Besides this, a
large saving of expense is caused by the
b. n 90 linn
and star Route service lines in the neigh
borhood of the rural free delivery route.
Inc rural free delivery service of the
country is for convenience divided into
four separate divisions, the Southern di-
VISION OF which consists of the states of
Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Vir-
elnla, Tennessee, North Carolina. South
Cafollna Georgia, Florida, Alabama and
Mssssippi
Georgia leads all the states i'm the
oouthern division in the number OF rural
free delivery routes established and the
number of applications for new routes,
WIN total of seventy-two applications
,or routes out of which seventy-one have
Ueeh established and are now in active
Upe.auon. Tennessee comes next in the
nsl with total of forty applications,
ustHcts about the rural delivery,
ana the other states in the order of appli-
iSi AOuttS are NOrCn carolina, %,
A.aoama, Is; South Carolina, Is; West
iglnia' y; Maryland, 10; Virginia, 6;
delaware ); Mississippi, 2, and Florida l.
Al some OF these Southern states, there
uppsdis to be a great deal of indiffer-
cue IN the part of residents in the rural
oa' IN every case where the inhabitants
section have had the benefits of the
ldl service, they appreciate it very
Iluch and the result is new demands for
"s extension of the service.
i"e rural population of Georgia had a
SNaHee to taste the benefits of the rural
Ne'y route early, as one of the first
1FS established in the whole country
as at Quitman. This route with forty
DINERS in twenty-nine different
'a'7s was established In 1896 by Post
Ter General Wilson as an experiment.
was a good deal of opposition to
new system in those days and the ru-
ueuVery service of the country labor
oHoer immense difficulties.
"s committee on Post once and Post
ot the Fifty-thrd Congress. of
49, non. John S. Henderson of North
9'Nl was chairman, condemned the
system as a scheme impossible of
n.Iuon' Which would require an APP
g,.p. 'auon of at least 5000 600 to inau-
s9s postmaster General Bissell IN
oongurred in this opinion and de-
49,. ,p mat he did not feel that the de-
'sNI Would be justified in burdening
- fl9Nle with this enormous outlay of