Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-07-08
RURAL CARRIERS
HOLD CONVENTION IN DENVER
Gathering Of Men Who Garry Mail to
tho Farmes.-coiorado Rural Car.
riers' Association In Session.

the Farmers.-coiorado Rural Car
riers' Association In Session.
Denver. July a-RuTai Tree delivery
carriers on routes in Colorado. organ
lied under the name OF the Colorado
Rural Carriers Association. met In this
city yesterday and listened TO addresses
on topics OF interest to them In their
work.
The Convention was held al i5is CAL
ifornia street and lasted late into tho
afternoon. After adjournment the car
fiets rode about the city seeing a few
OF the sights and taking their trains
late In the evening,
During the afternoon J. 7. Doyle.
secretary Of the Civil Service Commis-
sion. and the DenSer postmaster. 7. J.
Sours. addressed them. speaking many
words Of encouragement for tho work
which is yet In embryo and prophesy-
the organization.
President X. NJ. Titus presided over
the meeting and delivered brief ad-
dress.
Congressman II. W. Bonynge ad-
dressed the convention. He discussed
tho Affairs Of the service ns presented
to Congress and sald that many bills
OF benefit to the service would hayo
been passed had IL not been for the in
Producing OF numberlsEs and confusing
amendments by the friends OF the bills.
Ho said they were not syHtemRtIe In
their Efforts and did not seem TO know
Just what they wanted. lie said that IL
was true that the compensation for tho
work was not all that II should be.
but that this would doubtless be rene
/ died nj the rest session OF Congress.
This address was replied TO by ". T..
Siven. secretary and treasurer OF the
organization. lie thanked Mr. Eonyn.e
for his kind words and said they
would doubtless result In great good to
the organization.
Those In attendance ut the meeting
were:
President X. n. Titus. Loagwood:
Postmaster Sours Of Denver. Secretary
II. l.. Nlycn. Berthoud. John u. Well
b man. Longmont: Fred T.. Marsh. Fort
Collins: Louis Y. Alder. Denver: James
l.. Prince. EdTewa;sr: c. II. Mcneil.
New Windsor: a. =. Holland. Pine:
W. =. Burgess. Broomncld: W. L. vap-
Ion. Fort Collins: Emmett Fox. Fort
Collins: Fred Upton. Trinidad; Ed
ward N. Miller. Boulder: CharlcS r..
Smith. Broomhcld: J. &. Teas. Greeley.
and ]. +. Harrcll. Boulder.
In the afternoon Senator T. NJ. Pat
tcrSon made u few remarks to the con-
ventlon upon the growth made By the
rural systems In the past few years and
tho great bcncilt conferred upon resi-.
dents OF the rural districts.
B The same officers were reelected for
the ensuing year. being X. NJ. Titus.
Longwood. precedent: F. Z. Marsh.
Fort Collins. vice president: Harry L.
Nivcn. Bcrthoud. secretary and tcaS-
uTor.
/ The convention next year will be n
joint convention of the city carriers of
Colorado and the rural carriers, and
will be held In Boulder on the Fourth
OF July. II has been determined to
have the carriers OF both the city and
rural diEtricts work along the same
lines rs much ms possible. Secretary
Siyen was elected us delegate TO the
national convention OF the Rural Letter
Carriers Mt ST. Louis In September. at
which time some definite plan of action
will be determined upon to have the
scale OF wages paid to rural carriers
made to conform more closely to that
paid to city carriers. The rural carriers
now receive s720 per year. but under IN
order recently issued by Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow, by
which they are to be paid according to
the distance travelled by each on his
route. some OF them will get less than
the former 5000. There seems to be n
general feeling of dissatisfaction with
the latter plan and some means will be
determined upon at st. Louis, which.
II successful, will remedy It.