The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-04
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
SUPERINTENDENT OF ELEVENTH
DIVISION IN CITY.
Something Of the Magnitude and the In
crease Of the Postal Business
in Texas,


being the greatest readers of current liter
allure on carth-such as newspapers aud
magazines arc ot the same time easily the
leaders OF al the nations ia the art Of let
ter writing Their postal establishment is
the most gigantic business enterprise In the
" orld, aud there is not in cxistcBcc a count
ing room equal in the volume and the
chafactcr Of the business done hy the audit
or office TO the postotnco department ~
the unitcd States
fcw minutes consideration Of the sub
icct VIII convince the most shcpuCal Ia
tho hrst place. an the end Of the last nscal
year Juuc 30, 1901 there were i6o4A post
offices iu what Is now termed continental
United states The hGurcs ior the uum
her IN Alaska and the new possessions are
not 90 haud Some OF the offices have moge
lhan thousand employees, and very Few
have less than Two. Ihis numuer does nos
iucuuc tnc railway postal cicr1N tut arm!
oi inspectors. the cuuers ON Stat Foute,'
,uu u.,iEs at Washington ut tine 4env.a' ot.
u.vrs on tnr u,pbluueut. tsuE tae as "a
oasis, a. is vass to ucacyc ,uat tAe sttt.'
pu.v oI matuatr,y runs cas- stHr"tu aH
,ruu-u 10 W,tr ,uupueuu ui euru -H"
u,une tult tucg Nr.e W4yg .uy c5c dut
ul.ttt supervision rl one luuut-ti- lh'
4u.l Is tutt pusu one ot tue mun4uadla WHO
go 10 muht 40 tuis VAST IuHNutur 90 itauF
'etN sWau Hh,,s uia uu,yer nr Stops 10
cate nuu-yu fuC proportions ut the Alrtl
CONCERN So 81 nl4 De I- sutu dN lnHNlrsIu"l
pott. Meu are placed $50 ie-pon-i"r post.
UuuS here uud ilrIe ans Ntuue pl Gt,ls."N'
departments aud districts. lhcY, lu tlIh.
divide t4rir trilltUlts auu iui~ H.-t.h By
made an uf uustuIulrs ju cities Ne, Itya~-
luu the postmaster can NOT -rc uu4 Hityut
10 ,nvr,fhIuEt aud Doe TOO. mas heads ut
departments iu lis Cfuce. ln almost every
Instance auy great movement 10. lAe De.
Torment ui the service either uNEluui'a WiJh
tut luaer sjaiicrr. Cr uuuS its Way back to
lutW iol thrlr ENDORSEMENT. ht,ofc d. lo
iuaugursled Che opinion OF % ciryA, or "a
l"tttr cuJrrr, or railway postal ctrrh, Is
always llNcu cuu=iuvaugn, because ;ney
alc Ga" practical workers. thrf aie tnt
people. aud they are tuc ones WHO hnuW
what rs wanted. Nearly o century and
quarter at experience has taught the de
partmcnt heads an Washington where to Eu
education. During me past eighteen
months on two years the trend OF travel as
well as that of immigration, HHTs been to-
ward Texas. and particularly toward Inc
southern ana southeastern portions OF &c.
The resulting Increase OF mail mas been
tremendous. OF course Il was slow, but
hen comparison of Its present proportion
Is made with that Of II few yenrS ago ms
volume can be appreciated. This has nc
cessitated an increase In the number Of ON
ployes IN az postal departments 30 thia see.
ton. The hrst body Of workers to feel the
weight Of an Increasing volume of mail are
the railway postal clerks, and when they
have such an amount TO DO that they can
not work up from station 20 station a. the
train carries them from one end OF their
run 10 the other, then the very object for
which the railway postofhce was estab-
lished has been DESTROYED. aud they might
~ well be abolished altogether II the mail
can not be distributed en- route the work
might as well he relegated TO the postof-
ices and locked through pouches dis
patched. Recognizing mis- TACT. s. VI.
Gaines superintendent OF thc eleventh q
headquarters n Fort Worth, haS, ocen busy
seeking lnt9fmailon as 70 Whal .lH men Ha'
10 90 ana Ectnmh tuHIl LOUIS l., "n in..
creased ioIce nave c9hruluL,g tnT ul9Iu'
part OF nus coFIesR,2}ndtng' WIN ""'0'"s
'oI Iol aonetn.lf ~ -. w" r.s,. ,,o, ,i,a