Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-30
The Splendid Postal Facilities
of Sd Maine District.
Augusta Gains on Portland Prepare
for Civil Service Examinations.
0earth Of Visitors. Washington Anxiously
Awaiting Ice from kennebec.

al district continues it will soon be the
| banner congressional district Of the
State for such modern mail facilities.
| For some years the LIST Congressional
district bore away the palm in that re-
gard, having in fact the only rural free
delivery routes in all Maine. In the
| last two months almost 100, miles in
! the aggregate of such routes have been
established in the Cd district. and on
| top Of that comes the announcement
from the post office department that
on Aug. l IA route will be established
at Searsport. This new route, F. A.
Nichols carrier. will be 23A miles long
ana will give prompt mail service TO
i5S people. on the same date route
almost % miles long will be put in OPP
Grafton at West Paris. oxford county.
/ Aside from the numerous routes in
the 81 district which have been in OPP
Grafton several months. it Is interest
| ing to remember that. July !. a route
q miles long. accommodating people to
| the number Of 4S7. was established out
Of Oakland. and on the same day
route 22Fs miles long, serving iS3 peo
pla. was put in operation out of Water
| vile, accommodating persons at North
Sidney and Eureka. About the same
time Belfast was given rural free de
| livery route "a miles long, running
| through y square miles Of territory
and serving G30 people. Stockton
| SpI ings. like Belfast in Waldo county,
| was also given free delivery service
along a route a52s miles in extent. serv
ing AIS people.
| Even before that. Somerset county
| had been given rural free delivery in
the moIe populous sections. Other ia
| rors Of a like character to the Sd dis
| trict might be mentioned but enough
| has been said to demonstrate how the
district is being gridironed with the
| best mail transportation facilities the
| government has. In the list of routes
larnounced at the department in the last
two or three months hardly any other
district in the country has figured more
prominently.
| But all Maine is likewise receiving
attention from the postal officials.
| Woodford's station has within a few
| weeks had an additional route Norway
| has been given a fine service with two
| carriers who traverse 1914 miles of mail
road. West Buxton. in York county.
has likewise been given a magnificent
service with two carriers on a road al
| most 40 miles long.
| Certainly Maine is profiting from the
increG sed appropriation for rural free
delivery. and undoubtedly more routes
| VIII be authorized in the State before
| the session of Congress opens in De-
C. mber 1t is noteworthy that the
| Maine members secure these improve
1 ments without frequent Journeys to
Washington during the heated term.
whereas other statesmen have to hurry
| to the National capital and impore
the remembrance of postal authorities
| to the needs of their communities.
The post Office at Augusta is evident
| ly gaining on the post Office at Port
land. the largest in the State, for IN
the annual reldjustmcnt OF salaries of
! postmasters recently announced Post
master StinsOn gets raise from $4,000
to $1,000. while the postmaster at Port
land is not remembered This read
iustment of salaries is based on the
business transacted. Another of the
large cities in the kennebec valley al
so received one of these pheasant re-
minders of good postal business. the
\ HOStiIidSttl al NditI Iilt IcCtiNlIS ii
raise from 5000 to $500 The appoint
ment of c. +. Goodwin as a utility
clerk and of Francis f. Blake as sub
stitute carrier for the Augusta office
have recently been buletined at the
POST office department.
| The young men and young ladies of
Maine who aspire to positions in the
departments here in Washington
through the civil service. which is
about the only way to get into govern
ment service nowadays. will do well to
get out their books and post themselves
preparatory for the annual civil ser
vice examinations. The places are not
easy TO get and often one must wait a
very long while before being selected.
50 that many think the game is not
worth the candle. but nevertheless the
government gives these young aspir-
ants an opportunity two or three times
, year to show whether they are quail
D., flied. Notices have been given that ex-
! aminationS will be held at Portland.
Sept. 20 and Oct. %. and at Bangor.
| Oct. 10. These examinations will be
conducted under the regular civil ser
vice boards in these cities. The require
ments and the subjects will be made
known to applicants who write to the
civil service commission in this city.
The arrivals of Maine people in
Washington travelling north and south
which were numerous earlier in the
season, have ceased almost entirely.
The exodus is now the other way for
the many natives of the Pine Tree
State residing in Washington, are
moving off one by one to their old
homes for a short vacation. Then there
are hundreds of others in the Nation
al capital. many of them high officials
and people known in fashionable soci-
ety. who go to Maine for portion of
their summer vacation. 1t is a pretty
safe statement that no other city in
the country. compared with it's size,
furnishes more patrons for Maine sum-
mer resorts than the city Of WASH
ingtOn.
A Maine man Of distinction. Hudson
Maxim. who is living for the present