The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-15

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Leading Citizens Freely Express Their
Opinion Relative to the Propositions
and Further state that the Use of
+ Their Names was Not AHthorized by
Them. Mr.. Hawley's Prospects for
sunday Mail Service CIouded. #
OSCAR H. HAWLEY. ~ e8K'fa
III Morristown, Nj
Office, No. Hoffman Building. Telephone ISL
/ The Call, Newark
{ The Herald, New York. r,e ss
The North American, Philsdelphia. tky. 8
January 18th, 1904.
Mr. ------ 4----. Town:
DEAR SIR For some time j. have
been conducting campaign for Sum
day Mail, as you are well aware, and it
seems likely that the fruition of my
hopes will soon be realized.
Recently | employed Mr.. H. G.
Reynolds to make a postal card can
vass among the business men and
other citizens of Morristown and
secure signatures to the petition.
He has succeeded very we'll, having
secured over two hundred signers up
to the present time. These / am
mailing at the rate of ten a day in
order to keep the matter constantly
before the department. While it
seems almost unreasonable to think
that it is necessary to conduct a
campaign for better mail services
when it should be freely given, yet
there has been some opposition to it,
mostly from the post-otfice and as a
consequence the item of expense has
not been altogether absent. III you
feel that the matter is OF sufficient
Interest to you so that you could help
defray the expense by small con-
Etribution, | would deem it very
great favor would, of course, be
lglad to- stand the entire expense of
this campaign alone, only as l do not
thappe1 to be one Of our local million
aires and inasmuch as many others
are asdeeply interested in it as my
self, it seemed to me quite likely that
you and others would gladly give the
proposition your financial support as
well as the support of your name.
am sending this same letter to the
following well known men all of whom
are heartily in favor of the improve
ments in the mail service which
have asked for in my petition: viz,
ID. 2. Mcclellan, Alexander Bennell,
Charles H. Green, Philip Jaqui,
Eugene Troxell, James Donnelly,
Joseph .Kronenberg, r. A. Trowbridge,
Isaac katz, j. Il. Janeski, Christensen
Brothers, Frederick Pant@nius, Rob.
srt r. Johnston, William S. Shape,
Edward r. Cahill, Joseph Lusardf,
Oscar Babbitt and S. B. Carson.
\ Ii each one contributes small
lamount the expense will not fall
4 heavily on me. At the same time ]
lido not wish anyone to feel that he is
under obligation to donate one penny
toward this fund. Trusting that |
( will hear faworably from you, am,
/ Yours very truly,
4 OSCAR III. HAwLEY.
4 The foregoing letter was received by
a well-known merchant a few days age
and, and much to his surprise, found
that he had been quoted in the letter
as being heartily in favor of Sunday
mail service for this city.
The matter of a Sunday mail service
for MorristOwn was sgitated a little
more than a year ago by Mr.. Hawley,
the writer of the above, letter. and a
petition or request for the same was
sent to Washington and the req uest
granted by the Post Office Depart
ment. Befone the order could be put
in operation, however, the business
men and residents of MOrristown heard
of it and sent to the Department a
counter-petitiOn that the request be
not granted and the order was re-
scinded. Mr.. Hawley was quite indig-
nant, and accused the local postal
authorities of iiiStigating the opposi-
ttion. He then wrote a series of per-
sonal letters to the Post Office Depart
ment and an inspector was sent to
Morristown to investigate.
h The Inspector came and quietly
made number of calls on the more
prominent men of the town and upon
his return to Washington reported
against the Sunday mail for Norris
town. A number of other letters were
written by Mr.. Hawley to the depart
ment and another inspector was sent.
This one called on the postmaster and
then on the business men of the town.
Again report was turned in at Wash
ington that Sunday mail for Norris
town was not desired. Still more let
ters from Mr.. Hawley and this time a
division uperintendent came to in
vestigate. The superintendent re-
port was the same as those of his pred
ecessors and we are still worrying
along without Sunday mail.
The next move made by Mr.. Hawley
was to have canvasser get signers to
postal card petitions for the Sunday
mail. A man was found who agreed
to get 100 signers for $1,000. He did it
and got his $10.00-and says he has
been ashamed OF himself ever since.
He added, too, that with possibly one
exception none of the one hundred
slgners could be classed as a repre-
sentative citizen even by the widest
stretch of the imagination.
A Chronicle reporter yesterday took
the above letter to number of those
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