The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-25
BIG POSTAL GAINS
FOSTOFFICE REVENUES SHOW IN
CREASE IN CITY's BUSINESS.
LARGER THAN EVER BEFORE
RECEIPTS FOR 1898, LARGEST IN
HISTORY, EXCEEDED ~ PER CENT.

Report of Postmaster Doyle an En-
cOurnEinG Indication of Savan-
nah's Rapidly Increasing Business
Life-In Every Depa rtment of the
POStOfIice Large Addition to the
Volume of Business Is shown.
Uncle Sans Net Profit for Last
Year sos, O07.S4, While the Gross
Receipts Amounted 10 1854, 6S3.49.
Much Is Due to Postmaster Doyle.
The rapid and continuous growth of
Savannah, the increase in the volume
and extent of it's business and the ex-
tension of it's business connections into
wider fields are in no other wise more
! clearly and conclusively demonstrated
than by a study of the postal expen-
ditures and receipts.
The annual report of Postmaster ].
F. Doyle, that has just been forwarded
to the department, demonstrates this
large increase in business by a simple
comparison of statistics. Not even for
1898, when the 10000 soldiers encamped
around the city, brought a large in
crease to the business of the postoffice,
did the receipts approach those for
the year that has just drawn to a
close. Surely, if the postal revenues
are to be taken as a fair indication,
Savannah has embarked upon the
twentieth century with the fairest
hopes of steadily increasing prosperity
1t every division of the postoffice the
increase for the six months ended Dec.
81, 1901, has been phenomenal, although
the business for the corresponding pc
riod in 1900 was considered large and
encouraging.
postoffice for 1898 were SIG, 924.43, and
net revenue $77,O43.96 For the year
1901 the gross receipts were $154, 6S3.49
/ and the net revenue sos, 097. "a, the lat
ter being Uncle Sans net profit, after
all expenses of the office had been de-
| Quoted. The percentage of expenses TO
gross receipts for 1901 was but 80, as
against "a per cent. for 1898. The per-
| centage of gain was 80 per cent.
A comparison of the quarter ended
Dec. 81, 1897, with the last quarter of
1901 in the money order division shows
an increase in favor of the latter of
nearly S6 per cent. Money orders is
sued for the last quarter of 1897 We're
1851, amounting to $57, 599.36; fees col
lected, $47S.04; for the last quarter of
1901 money orders were issued to the
! amount of $4,002, amounting to $7S,-
681.27 for which fees were collected
| amounting to $627.43. Orders paid last
quarter of 1897 were 9,079, amounting
to $79, 242.76; remittances, 1917, amount
ing to $3.50, S32. 49, For the correspond
ing period in 1901 the orders paid
were 1923, amounting to $106. 205.S7; re-
mittances, 2,140 aggregating 1921, 047.07.
| has been continuous, and while the
business was very large for 1900, that
of 1901 shows an increase slightly over
| 10 per cent. The number of letters aud
packages dispatched by the registry
division in 1900 amounted to 1895; those
for 1901 aggregate 20,y1S.
The retail sales of stamps, postal
cards, envelopes and newspaper wrap
pers at the stamp window alone for
the six months ended Dec. 81, 1900
were $52,4SS 80. and were elating to
those who noted the increase over
/ corresponding periods, even over a
like period when the army was en-
camped at Savannah, but the retail
sales at the window for the six months
ended Dec. 81. 1901, were much greater,
being $64, AIS. so, an increase of nearly
$4,000, averaging an increase of nearly
$1,000 per month. This does not in
clude the money received at the stamp
window for request envelopes" or
dered in 500 to 10000 lots by the rail-
roads and business houses.
During the past year the growth of
the city has been so pronounced, and
the demand for postal supplies at
points nearer than the main office so
great that Postmaster Doyle succeeded
in having the department establish
four additional sub-stations. There
are now six of these stations, which
have proved a great accommodation to
the public. An idea of the business
done at these stations may be seen by
the following statement of postal sup
plies sold by them for the six months
ended Jan. 20, 1902:
Station No. ................S ], 1924 so