The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-07
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ROUTES [:
Tenth Iowa, With $50 i II Opera
ton, Leads List Is; Of Con- Cor
gressio Districts.
HOW VIRGINIA IS FARlN \
Outsof Grand z otal III 1,6S9 Pc 7'e:;.
titions, Were Reported :.l
Adversely ~
HOW VIRGINIA IS FARlNG
fFrt,rn our Ror,,lar 4 c,orrcspot,d ent, )

{From Our Regular Corresponds t.)
wAsHiNdTo ron. D. G.,#Atgust 6.---on
August list. "A with the returns for July
complete there we're 36.7G7 rural FREQ
delivery routes n operationi In the rnitNed
II States. "A total .Sof 53.832 petitions had
been referred. 14.767. petitions had been zen
adversely reported, and 3,097s petit ions re-
+ nained for final action. 4 Hi
8 or tho 1856 congressional districts, 349.
II have one or more rural routes IN ope
y ton @ The thirty-sever1 districts which
have no rural routes are Inetropo DIS 4
trlcts, having city free delivery, and are ll
2Gas follows: The Fourth alifornia,S IN san
X Fifth and Eighth Illinois, In Chicago the
Tenth and Eleventh lfassa chusetts 81 IN
Boston; the Ninth and Tenth New Jersey.
Y in Newark and III oboken; slxte en- Of AtheS
twenty districts In the borongh OF Man
\ haitian and Brooklyn. and one IN Bunalo,
& In the state OF New York; the = we emf
first Ohio. In Cleveland; the Tenth and
4 Eleventh Missouri. in st. Louis. and. N
Pennsylvania, six districts in Y 2 iladel-
4 phia and one In Pittsburg.3
The greatest number or rural free de-
a livery routes IN 81 single district was $780,
I'm the Tenth Iowa /, District, Of fourteen
counties, represented by James P.3s Con-
ner. Ranking next Is the First Tennessee
District, OF twelve counties. represented
by walter p. BroWnlow.s vii ~ routes
IN ope ra ton. The Seventh Kansas. rep
resented ny Victor 5Afurdo ok. n wi tn thirty
six counties, Is third, with 272 routes OPP
Grating. 53
n BrownloW Leads.
The distinction OF representing the dis
trlct having the most rural routes operr:
ating was. up to the present report, the
proud possession OF the Tennessee mem
y ber. Mr. Brownlow' s recen. troubles at
4 home, with various wicked consplracies
working TO down him as the Republican
4 boss OF Tennessee, probably best accounts
FOR the slump in his batting average,
which allowed the Iowa rural route sWats-3
man 10 forge ahead. q ri is8 l
II or tho petitions referred. the average
number OF reflections for the s49 districts
4 having rural routes Is twenty seven per
cent 5of the whole. a The district IN which
there was the largest percentag OF re-k
tertions---sixty--is the First u Ala bamn,
represented BY George w Taylor. Next
IS the Eighth North Carolina, represented
ny Edmund Spencer blackburn. the one
Republican congre ssmanf from that State.
The Fifth Virginia, which, up to the time
OF his election as Governor OF Virginia,
was represented by Claude Swanson, had,
out OF 465 petitions rcferred-the greatest
number referred Ia any &distrtct-hfty-
per cent. rejected. ST "a
Rural Routes in Virginia. NJ
EaI5 The figures for the ten districts OF Vir-
ginia are ms below: Al 83 I'll ssiS /; fss
\ q No. No. petitions No. Eo.tSF
pctI- adverse routes petit
4tions re- ~ re- ope- tons S
5sa fnrrnd q rorte &c. IA tin q. pending