The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-23
SECOND DAY
THEY TAKE OUT MAUNA LOAS
MAIL.
Post Office officials Talk Of Possibilities
and Dihiculties-The Nine Routes
and the Forty-fve Boxes.

The first mail other than Oahu mail
to be delivered by the letter carriers
came by the Mauna Loa this morning
and was sent out about 8 o'clock.
The Mauna Loa arrived this morning
bringing a mail of, roughly speaking
1000 letters from Hawaii and Maui
This mail was received at the post
office before o'clock and the force i'm
mediately began working" it. This
was the first distribution of mail
other than Oahu mail. for delivery to
offices and houses. Naturally it was
not as expeditiously done as it is ex-
pected to do it very soon.
Captain Kenake says that of course
the major part of the Mauna Loa' S
mail was distributed through the boxes.
But the carriers started out at $40
o clock with a rather larger number of
letters than they had yesterday.
This is the second actual day of free
delivery and the system. it's possibili-
ties and it's difficulties, are being made
very clear. Both Assistant General
Superintendent Erwin and the local
post Office officials say that it is being
made clearer and clearer that the
greatest difficulty in the way not only
of free delivery but of good service is
the lack of street or post office box
number on letters This is a difficulty
that the public will have to overcome
itself by advising and insisting that
correspondents use box or street num-
Der in addressing mail
"Only about 20 per cent of the houses
are numbered" said Mr. Erwin, land
yet the carriers were able to deliver all
but a few pieces of the mail they took
out. If correspondents will address
their mail to street and number or to
box number or to general delivery, the
malls can be distributed quicker and
better, fewer mistakes will be made,
and the public will get it's mail quick
err
Owing to the irregularity in the ar
rival of mails, no fixed schedule of
hours for the delivery of mail will be
made, but the carriers will be held sub
ject to call, swung" as the expression
in the service is, so that the eight hours
work of each day can be utilized to tn
greatest advantage to the public. II
other words their eight hours will not
be used up in delivering the trifling To-
cal mail on days when a FOREIGN mail
is expected; but the eight hours will be
reserved to be utilized in getting the
foreign mail distributed and delivered
with the great possible expedition.
In the matter of collections from the
boxes, it is proposed to have regular
collections and at the same time to
make a collection from every box as
late as possible before closing the mail
for a foreign steamer. For example if
a steamer is to sail at II o'clock in the
morning for the coast, the mail will
close at the post Office at 10 o'clock. A
collection will be made just as late as
will admit of the letters being gotten
to the post office at 10 o'clock. In this
way people will not have to bring their
letters down town to mail, but can mail
them in the letter box nearest their res
idenCe.
The following is the division of the
city into delivery districts with the car
rier serving each district:
District L: Edmund w. Cyrus. Com
mencing at corner of Nuuanu and Bere-
tania streets, down both sides of Nuu-
anu to Queen street, along Queen to
Fort, down Fort to Waterfront, along
Waterfront as far as Alakea, taking in
all cross streets up Fort street to Bere-
tania along Beretania (both sides) to
Nuuanu.
District 2: Walter r. Combs. Com
mencing at Pacific Mail Wharf foot
of Alakea street, up both sides of Ala
kea street to Emma street, down Emmf
street to Vineyard street to Miller
street. down Miller street to Beretania
street, as far as Punchbowl, back along
Beretania street to Likelike street to
King street. Taking in all cross streets
between Alakea and Punchbowl streets
as far south as waterfront
District 8: Robert S. Pierson. (Mount-
ed) Commencing at corner of Kinau
and Emma streets, along Kinau to
Lunalilo street to Hackfeld, up Hack
field to Green, along Green to Victoria.
down Victoria to King, along both
sides of King to Punchbowl down
Punchbowl to waterfront, along Ka-
kaako to Ward street. Up Ward street
to Clayton, along Clayton to Hustace
street, thence to King.
District 4: George 7. bennett.
(Contipued IN DaPe seVen1