Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-02
ANOTHER JOLLY
Noticed in Our Esteemed COntempO-
rary'a st. Jacobs Oil Column.
Gus" Gets There in Great
shape at So Much Per.


A. W. Macheu, General Superintendent
Free Delivery System, is better known
among the farmers of this country than
any other Government official His popu.
laTity Is due to the peTsistency with which
he undertook the task Of developing the
rural free delivery system Three years
ago the service was an experiment. There
are now between 1000 and 5000 routes in
operation. Ten thousand dollars sufficed
for the FIRST experiment. The last Congress
appropriated ST. 500, 600 to carry on the
work. The Rural Free Delivery Service is
now under Civil Service, and 56, $50, 600 will
be asked of Congress to continue the work
This has been made possible because of the
remarkable executive ability possessed by
the General Superintendent of the free de-
livery. Mr. Macheu was born in Toledo
Ohio, November 1861 He entered the
Postal Service as assistant postmaster in his
native city, and has risen 70 a position in
which he practically controls the official acts
of twenty-odd thousand letter carriers in
cities and 1000 rural carriers Times TOllY
COiuR9R
This reminds u.s. as Artemus Ward was
wont to say, aud we turn back the files of the
GLOBE TO Jolly the farmers popular idol
little more. All is not gold that glitters"
and the new editor of the Times will dis
cover this truism when the appropriation
bill for Rural Free Delivery comes up in
Congress. There is probably more con-
centrated humbug in Rural Free Delivery
than in any other branch of the public ser
vice.
In the Star rural free delivery organ at
81, 500 per annum) of the 2Sth ultimo ap-
peared an illustrated prospectus of The
Winner Magazine" published at St. Louis,
Mo, IN which the readers Of that periodical
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Delivery, written by the General Superin-
tendent of Rural Free Delivery, Washing
ton, d. c.
No other branch OF the public service, it
seems, requires such persistent advertising
to keep it before the public as Rural Free
Delivery. The readers Of the GLOBE must
pardon this repetition Of the three words. and
we will henceforth coin il into one word
yaLfyeedeitgeyV. In this illustrated pros
pectus we have the pictures of a public
highway good roads"-carrier's vehicle
and horses; carrier unlocking a rural box.
cats, dogs and other animals; house in the
distance, and last, but not least, the pictures
Of three delectable little four quart letter
boxes mounted on poles al the roadside
In order that our esteemed neighbor, the
Times may become a little better &C.
cent jOlliness we quote FROM a previous
publication in the GLOBE:
Yes, sir, these express packages we're
opened by Mr.. Bellman and the
money taken out There is no question
raised on that point at all He had
to do that to honor these orders
About this time Bellman received orders
TO pay for these /eiiozO5, on account of
this campaign. sending certain orders
amounting some to $50 apiece and some
SIS apiece. Nr. Bellman paid these orders
as he did all other orders AfidaWts
were made 10 the Civil Service Commis-
sion and they finally held that Mr.. Bell
man was directly connected with receiving
money for campaign purposes, and quoted
20 the Postmaster General the Civil Service
law and recommended his removal from
the service. The Postmaster General re-
ferred the matter with the statement about
as : am giving Il 10 you, to the Attorney
General The Attorney General made
ruling 10 the effect that Mr.. Bellmau, in
paying these orders, was acting as the agent
for these agents, that these men made the
campaign Subscriptions by the hands Of
Mr. Bellmau, through the hands Of Mr
Bellman, and not 10 Nr. Bellmau. etc"
There you have 10, Mr Frank Muusey, as
/ clear az Potomac water in January. VIM.
| M. Bellmau is the brother-iB-law Of August
/ w Machen.
/ Mr, Machen was then . Simon pure, un-
/ de6led, uuterri6ed Democrat, co-worker
/ IN the vineyard With bis friend by Dear
/ Governor James r Campbell, the Dem.
ocrauc candidate for governor Of Ohio
against Mr.. Bushnell in rS95 Mr Hschen
and his brOther-iu-law Beliman, moved
heaven and earth and an the money they