The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-01
DELIVERY.
DISTRICT is
BIGGER
Additional Portions Of Honolulu
to be Given the Letter Carrier
System, A Contract Already
Made for Carts and Horses,

On the first of the year, providing
certain conditions are computed Win,
the residents of the higher slopes OF
Punchbowl, along the northern line OF
the present delivery districts, the resi-
dents or the colony known as Little
Britain, lying south of King street ana
east and west OF Sheridan, and resi-
dents of Kakaako will be given the
privileges of carrier delivery.
Four mounted men, or five all.told,
including the collector, are now part
and parcel of the local postott1ce sys-
TEN. j. w. Erwin, Assistant General
Superintendent of Free Delivery, Is
about to make several improvements
in the door to door delivery of Homo
lulu ara this morning closed contracts
with q local firm for supplying four
horses and canopy carts, similar to
those now used by the collector of the
mail who owns mis- own outfit. Hlther-
to in bad weather, the carriers In
many districts have been unable to
take all their load at once and have
had to return to the office to take up
the remainder of their delivery, thus
delaying the route. With the carts the
whole bundle of each carrier can be
taken out at once and delivered much
more readily and promptly.
With these additional resources, pre-
parattOns are being made to extend the
delivery districts as above mentioned.
The condition is that all houses are
numbered. 1t is impossible for Uncle
Sam employees to waste their time
making guesses as to where Mr.. Jones
lives unless Mr.. Jones thinks enough
of ths pleasures of house delivery to
put a number over his door or gate.
And r. Uncle Samuel everyone is Mi.
Jones. Importance in financial circles
or long residence in the Territory does
not appeal to the machine like metnods
of the Federal service. No number, no
letter.. will be the inheXible rule.
The mauka delivery limit of the city
of Honolulu, as far as the resident por-
ton is concerned, runs along hlnau'
LLunaliio, Thurston, Wilder, heWaio
and Dominis streets. The new portion
dences lying north of this line with the
exception of College Hills. Little
Britain lying south of King street and
east and west of Sheridan streets is in
cluded in the plan and an extension
will be made eastward out Wilder
street 10 Metcalf. .l
Kakaako also gets the benefits OF
free delivery and if they provide the
conditional numbers. residents Will gel
their mail handed in at the front door
Along the question of numbers local
tate the working of the department
and the delivery of their monthly bills
if they would inscribe upon their in
dexes the actual address of their Gus
toners and also get their bookkeepers
to transfer these addresses to the en-
Velopes. Present bill sending methods
are very lax in that respect.
A change is to be made in the city
delivery which will facilitate matters
by more equal division. The portion o.
the city lying between Nuuanu stree
and river was, before the fire, quite
thickly populated, and the letters fol-
that district were more numerous thar
they are now. The present carrier III
that locality has almost a sinecurt
while nIs brethren in the actual dowI
town limits are overcrowded. While
Mr.. Erwin is here, it is probable tha
a readjustment will be made and pos
sibly new down town district anI
carrier added, sEAt u