Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-27
MORE INVESTIGATION
THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE TO
BE ovERHAULED.
Several Inspectors to Be Detailed for
the Work, Which is to Include Every
Branch Of Business.

A special investigation of the New York
post Office will he begun in a few days by
inspectors working under the direction of
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow. There will be thorough overha uling
of all the affairs of that office and matters
in every department of the Office will be
thoroughly probed. The investigation,
which is supplemental to the investigation
there that occurred incidental to the gen.
eral postal inquiry. is likely to occupy at
least a month and probably longer
IT is stated at the Post Office Department
that the investigation of the New York office
has been long in contempla ton. and that an
order for 1t was issued several months ago.
The general sweeping inquiry however,
brought into reuuiS.tion every available man
on the corps OF inspectors and il was
round necessary to defer the thorough in
quiry into the workings of the New York
ONCE until after the general investigation
was brought to 4 close and some of the in
spectors who have been working on the
larger inquiry could be spared.
NO charges are known to be on file re-
gardfne the New York office. but the facts
established by the inspectors when the lines
of the general investigation led to that office
ON a number of subjects long ago persuad-
ed the investigating authorities of the de-
s,fabiiity OF general and detailed probing
into the affairs of Postmaster Van Cott s
office There have been many reports of
lax1ty of administration and extravaganza
and all these will be looked into, but the
WORK or the inspectors will not be confined
to any allegations or limited in any wav
there. their orders being in substance to
investigate everything in connection with
the office. There will be at least three and
probably more inspectors detailed for this
duty at New York The exact number has
not been determined upon. and Mr.. Bristow
viii personally select for the work n num-
Der or the best men on the staff of inspect
ors. The President it is understood, has
talked over the matter with Postmaster
General Payne and the latter has said that
the Investigation of the New York office
has been contemplated for a long time, and
That the only reason 1T has not taken place
before now was the inability to spare any
of the men who have been ferreting the
frauds under the general inquiry. He Sug-
sested that other large offices would be in
vestigated. Mr.. Bristow declined to discuss
the matter in any way. The actual investi-
CATION has not yet been begun. but the men
probably will be started to work on it with
in week.
Investigation Will Be Thorough.
There is no doubt that the investigation
will be thorough. The charges of post Of
flee inspectors are to the effect that the
widest extravaganza has been practiced N
many of the divisions of the Office. Expen-
ditures that have been made for material
entirely unnecessary for the proper con-
duct of the postal service, the management
OF the entire office, the syndicate alleged
10 nave been formed for thc purpose OF
procuring positions in the service for its
members or the advancement of employees.
wanton waste and other like conditions
are said to be a few of the items that will
De investigated by the special commission
which will delve beneath the surface and
unearth the true state of affairs in the Of
flee 1t is said that it has been the en-
ueaEof OF the projectors of the syndicate to
overslaugh those who declined to enter the
rng, and 1t was these persons who gave
the first intimation that opened up the in
Neshgauon and resulted recently in the dis
charge of Otto Weis as the head of the
scheme