Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-08
.1H[ IOWA POSIOFF|C[
,Hawkeye State Has Made I'm
usually Good Showing in
the Annual Report
FOURTH IN NUMBER OF OFFICES
Considered Remarkable in View of the
Fact That the State Is Eleventh in
the Matter of Population-some In
terestins Statistics From the Fourth
Assistants Report Just Made Public.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Washington, D. c., Jan. s.-The re.
port OF the fourth assistant postmaster
general contains quite a summary O.
facts and figures of interest to the gen.
eral reader. One hard fact is found IL
the number of attempts to defraud the
postal service. During the past yea
there were LAS postoffices burglarizet
and only 2S7 burglars arrested, not as
igood showing as one would suppose
Ilynx-eyed Uncle Samuel would make
The total number of arrests were 1,721
OF this number 112 We're pos tmasters
| twenty-five assistant postmasters
sixty-four clerks in postoffices, thirteen
railway postal clerks. twenty-nine let.
ter carriers and forty-three mail carri-
ers. The remainder GLAD were not II
any way connected with the posta
service, being just common, ordinar,
| thieves.
Iowa has 146 presidential postoffice:
that have been officially treated" the
past year. OF these four resigned, one
was removed, two died and thirteen
We're raised to the presidential altitude
There were All fourth-class appoint.
ments, based on 215 designations, thir.
| ty-nine removals. thirteen deaths, sew.
enteen established and 127 discontinued
Rural mail delivery is largely response.
BILE for this shrinkage.
| The money order offices in Iowa num-
iber 1000; non-money, 1872; total num-
Der Of offices, 1,462, a decrease Of l2i
over 1902.
Iowa holds fourth place among the
states in the number of presidential
postofices, the three states showing an
excess being New York, Pennsylvania
and, Illinois. Missouri, with nearly q
million more people, has only few
more than half as many postoffices, the
exact proportion being 265 to 1913. Ohio
with nearly double the population, has
seventeen less presidential offices thar
Iowa, and Wisconsin, ranking state
lin population, has Ill less offices Of this
class. This showing is remarkable and
adds new laurelS to the Hawkeye state
as realm where illiteracy is scarcely
known. Iowa ranks eleventh in the
matter Of population.
Hawaii has five presidential post
offices, Alaska four, Porto Rico four and
| the District of Columbia two. The in
sular possessions are struggling UP
towards the highest type of recognition
Statehood next.
| The average compensation of fourth
class postmasters in Iowa is $S15.S7, and
| in this respect the state stands fifth In
the United States. On this line 1t is
exceeded, first, by the Samoan islands;
second, by Massachusetts; third. Rhode
island: fourth; Connecticut; Iowa,
fifth; while New York is eleventh and
Pennsylvania twenty-fifth.
| The gross receipts CT the postofhces
OF Iowa were $s,259.544.24 and the aver
age amount expended per capita was
s1.43, as against 1919, and the average
amount expended per capita was Sl.4o
AS against $3.19 in Washington, which
was the most expensive per capita
postal station on the list. Iowa ranked
nineteenth in the list, taking the num-
Der of postofiices into the reckoning
The receipts in New York were over
$40, 100000 and in Illinois more than
ISL, 100000.
In the year 1890 there were seventy
five postoff1ces in the United States;
lin 1900, s03; In 1890. 62,401. and in 1902
l75,924. In no way is the marvellous
growth of the country better accentu-
ated than by these figures concerning
| the development Of the postal business
A queer fact connected with this data
LA the absence Of any statistics In the
governmental archives concerning the
year 1873. That year contains the only
blank in the list, proving, IN way
that way back in the beginning OF
things the number thirteen" was a
pronounced hoodoo. And since that date
matters connected with that Inflated
,,,,,,her have gotten no better very fast
| The postoffice succession at Ciesce
10 d. matter that will be taken up WITHIN
a few days, probably, by Congressniah
Haupen. The term Of the present IN
cur,hent Mr.. A. d. Patterson, expires
more than a year ago, but the question
of h,s successor, whether it shall be
himself or another, has apparently TO-
haan determined at this date. Ihe
claim ia made that Mr.. Patterson has
/ the support Of large majority OF tne
/ natrons OF the Cresco postoff1ce and u
regarded as having rather the best o.
the situation, altho strong pressure Il
being brought to bear to induce Con
gresham Haugen to appoint anothel
1 candidate.
| The statement is authoritativeiy
made that President Roosevelt will In
dulge in no more hunting expeditions
during his incumbency of the office
There is an intimation that some adj
verse comment has been made touch
ling the disposition of the president
to indulge in sports and 1t is no
likely he will give rein to his in.
clinations in this regard in the flu.
ture.
The "job" problem is ever and al.
ways uppermost in this city which
lis fondly supposed to be reeking witt
easily enviable positions by a multitude
who are dead tired of rural and provin-
ciai work AS a natural result, Wash
lington is constantly congested with :
class of people who have hope in The
heart and nothing in the lap. The!
soon get on to the fact that the dis
tribution of jobs is under the broad
rule of state allotment, the Distric
of Columbia coming in for its share
and then some, usually. The record