Evening star., 1902-01-24

went through. The amount of unpaid mail
must necessarily vary with the season, and
only averages can be taken.
From weighings made in the city post
off1ce, covering period of about two and
half months. 979.s20 pieces of paid mat
ter and 100000 pieces of unpaid matter of
all classes went through, the unpaid matter
on some days running as high as 135O00.
l2i,WO, 126oDo, 125.O 900 and 122, 600 pieces.
while the percentage per day would often
go 10 about 30, crawling up as high as
% per cent on single day, and averaging
SJS4 per cent every day.
when these enormous totals of unpaid
matter, though only covering brief period.
are taken into consideration il will be un-
derstood why the city post office at WASH
lngton employs such large force, handles
such tremendous quantity of mail matter
and yet has an actual postal revenue of
only S139, 700.
Comparison of Individual Cities.
Washington may be shown to still great
er advantage in several ways
milwaukee, Wis, has a population Of
2so,315, according to the late census an ex-
cess OF 6,597 over Washington, while the
revenues of the post Office at Milwaukee
last year were S692 400, or S41 ,31S less than
those of our city post office
New Orleans also exceeds Washington
in population, having PSI 1o4 people or an
excess of $3.50 over Washington. while it's
post Office receipts amounted last year to
sos. .924. or s123s less than Washington.
Newark. n. j., is somewhat smaller than
washington, with population ofs248000.
The post office receipts OF that city last
year were Si6l,23i, or S2fS 544 less than
Washington.
Thus it is shown that but for the free
mail matter mailed in Washington, arguing
from the point of possible revenue, the, post
ONCE at the nations capital would rank
well up among the honored ten post offices
in the United States which do an annual
business of 81 100000 and over
1t is these great Offices which mainly
contribute to swell the total gross post Of
hce receipts to their present large aggregate
New York, of course. heads the list with
SlO,3S4OO0 or three times as much as Bos-
ton, nearly three times as much as Phila-
delphia and five times as much as St.
Louis, but, and here the residents of the
windy city will breathe a sigh of relief not
quite twice as much as Chicago.
Where the Revenue Comes From.
Chicago follows second with s77O6OOO
Philadelphia with S3G9s, 600, Boston with
S3,3l1.O00, ST. Louis with 81 145 600. Brook
lyn with 81 100000, Cincinnati with 81 .37O.-
600, Baltimore with 81, ,239, COO San Fran
cisco with $1015,00O. and Plttsburg with
s.. .O3O 600.
THE position of honor among e differ
ent large post offices in having attained the
81 .OO0O 900 mark during the year is given to
Pittsburg, where the good times among the
steel magnates sent the increased receipts
up to over 100000 for the year. and placed
that city on the front seat of the postal
band wagon.
THE cities whose post office receipts are
between S1.000.0oO and $JO0.oO0 are Cleve-
land Ohio, S992.6l2; Buffalo. n. a., Sg25.-
224; Detroit, Mich, $S26.s17; Kansas City
Mo, SsOS, i29; Minneapolis, Mimi, s1i0.664;
Washington, ID. c., S739, 49, Milwaukee
Wis, $685., 400: st. Paul. MINI, S54l. .e9s: In
dianapolis, Ind, 500. $50; New Orleans. La,
SJOo,924. and Louisville KY. 500. $50
1T will cause the residents of Minneapo-
lis to smile with glee when 1t is observed
that the receipts of their post Office exceed
those of their rival city, st. Paul, by two
cities, and S199, 4o5 in amount"