Evening star., 1901-11-15
FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE
SUPERINTENDENT BROOKS SUBMITS
HIS ANNUAL REPORT.

In his annual statement to the Post
master General for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1901, Captain N. M. Brooks, su-
perintendent of foreign mails, shows that
the total amount of mail dispatched by
sea to foreign countries amounted to 9,19S,-
933 pounds Letters amounted to 1,OS6, 44S
pounds. and other articles S,112.4s5 pounds.
OF the transatlantic malls the mail for
Great Britain comprised 1897 1888 pounds;
Germany, 1,GOO,734 pounds, and France,
523, ,519 pounds.
Regarding the cost of the service Captain
Brooks says:
THE sums required to be paid on ac
count of the transportation of the mails
dispatched to and received from foreign
countries by sea during the fiscal year
amounted to 1921. $685. SO, which included
the amounts credited in the general postal
accounts to foreign governments for the
conveyance of United States malls by
steamers subsidized by said governments,
and the sums paid to the Panama Railroad
Company for transporting by railway from
Colon to Panama the United States mails
for the west coast of Central and South
America: the cost of sustaining sea post
offices on the fast steamers of the North
German-Lloyd Hamburg-Ameriean and
the international Navigation Companies,
and transfer service in New York harbor.
1T is estimated that the sum of 81, 49,
2S4.S5 was received by this department as
postage on articles exchanged with all for
efgn countries, and that Of that sum the
postage collected on the articles exchanged
with foreign countries other than Canada
and Mexico amounted to $2OO5 323 .61 or
$942, 40 more than the net cost of the
service, exclusive of the cost of transport
ing the articles between the United States
post offices at which they were mailed or
delivered.
1.-THE St m a. cd n
be appropriated for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1903, are as follows, viz:
For the sea transportation of the malls,
including foreign closed mails, the railway
transit across the Isthmus of Panama the
cost of maintaining the United States
postal agency at Shanghai and contingent
cies, including casualties, $2,454, 600; for the
expense of maintaining eighteen post
offices on steamers plying between New
York and Southampton, Bremen and Ham
burg, $4,000; for transfer service in New
York harbor and to and from the transfer
boat, $4,000: total on account of transpor-
tation, $2,542 900.
For balances due foreign countries, in
Guiding the United States share of the
expenses of the international bureau of the
| universal postal union, and for this de-
partments annual subscription for the
monthly Jurnal L'Union Postale, and the
Universal Dictionary of Post Offices, pub
lished by that bureau, and for contingent
cies, 100000; aggregate, 2,7O2, 600"
The universal postal union Is discussed as
follows:
There has been no extension of the uni
versal postal union during the year. There
is maintained under the name of the In
ternational Bureau Of the Universal Postal
Union central office, which is conducted
under the superintendent Of the Swiss pos
tai administration, and the expenses OF
which are borne by all the administrations
of the union.
This bureau is charged with the duty
of collecting, collating, publishing and dis
| tributing information Of every kind which
concerns the international postal service;
of giving, at the request of the postal ad-
ministration concerned, an opinion upon
questions in dispute; of making known
propositions for modifying the acts of the
congress; Of giving notice of the changes
adopted, and, in general, Of undertaking
| such researches and labors as may be in
| trusted to 1t in the interest of the postal
union.
/ 1.-The latest report Of the director, for
| the year 1900. shows that the total cost Of
| maintaining the bureau was $24, ,125. Pur-
suant to the provisions of the universal
postal convention this sum was divided into
| $40 units, Of which this department paid
25 units, or s931 49,