Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-20
CHRISTMAS Ar The LIVERPOOL POoT.ffICE

with Il refreshing disinfectant, ana u
medical officer Is met inspecting gen.
eraly and testing the temperature
MOTORS AND TRANSIT.
A few minutes interval IN the yard
find the contractor rejoicing at the abb
sence OF fog and slight frost, together
with the good work done by the light
delivery motor-van, q novel acquisition
which has greatly facilitated inter-
communication with the branch offices.
The postmaster OF Liverpool has con-
slstently held that postal work ought
not to depend on horse drawn vehicles
and he Is being steadily encouraged In
the substitution OF motor propelled
vans and other vehicles. In hllly Liver
pool the horse must often be found AT
fault In comparison with the never
wearylng motor.
FROM THE CAPE,
A sudden lncursion OF a truck into
the great sorting hall attracted notice
In trlce twenty-slx bags are counted
Off on the counters, emptied, and their
contents rapidly hanlled. THE Liver
pool section OF the South African mall
ex Walmer Castle. Southampton, and
Via Western Travelling PostOflice," ex-
plains the cicerone. As the sacks pass
the eye reads In rapid succession, Cape
Town. Durham, johannesburg, Pieter-
maritzburg, Pretoria--signs these that
peace still reigns In South Africa, and
that Briton and Boer are fraternizing
with each other and the rest or the
British empire through the postoihce'
As the sacks discharge their contents
the bystander thinks that South Afri-
ca appreciates the picture postcard
even more generally than England
Public buildings, rural scenes, coast
views, and hundreds Of natives, sngly
and IN groups, have been photographed
and colored for the cards which come
with Christmas greetings from the
friends beneath the Southern cross.
What an album could be collected IN
Ave minutes II the passive observer had
liberty to select; but, OF course, he
dare not, and certainly would not, even
touch the counter.
ELECTRICITY AS A CIVIL SER.
WANT.
In passing, It Is seen that the small
cauldrons Of bubbling red wax are
electric heated; that pieces OF twine
flung on the floor are collected with
rakes 20 avoid the raising OF dust and
that even a longtime superintendent
Of the postoffice regards with astonish-
ment the rapid growth OF the Winni-
peg and japanese parcels traffic. En-
pire-builders can regard with Joy the
remarkable development OF the Cana
dian parcels mail Among the many
evidences OF expansion, this parcel busl-
ness with Canada stands out promi-.
nently. BY the way, the declared
value" far below the real value OF par
.xI fxsAr
celved from places abroad during the
current year reaches nearly f10o0,Ooo.
These later notes are made while en-
route to the electric stamper, which
Manchester has adopted after Liver
POOLS pioneer example In this, and al
So let us remark, the telegraph boys
institute. The electric stamper deals
with 500 letters per minute, as compared
with the hand stamper's 200 IL the
public viii learn not to begin the adj
dress Of letter within an inch or an
inch and half of the top OF the enve-
lope these electrical civil servants VIII
act with more complete satisfaction.
STRIKING FIGURES.
Here are. In few paragraphs, some
remarkable Christmastide statistics
collated at the Liverpool postofiiee.
Letter mails received from United
States and Canada. l4th December, per
Cedric, 5000 bags banded at Queens
town. nth December, per Umbria, L.
0i9; 2lst December per Baltic, 1860
Oanded at queenstown. En- route,
since landed Carmania sailed from
New York December l6 american Line
boat left same day., 522 bags; Majestic
sailed from New York Dec. 80 $500
(due on Wednesday,.
Letter malls to United States and
Canada dispatched from Liverpool
very many more bags from all parts
OF the kingdom were put aboard AT
Queenstown) 9Th December, 1905. 1861
bags; corresponding mail, 1904, SIS, 18th
December, 1905, 1,166; corresponding
mail, 1904, 1900. THE falling of here
is accounted for by the fact that the
mails from the continent were dis
patched via Southampton. goth De-
cember, 1905, 2.0l2 bags corresponding
mail, 1904, 1854
Christmas letter mail for West Coast
Of Africa 1905, l72 bags; 1904, 140,
Parcel mails received: Elk Virginian,
from Canada on 10Th December, 1881
parcels, ex Baltic, from New York, on
2lst December 1900 A very large
parcel mail from Canada and Japan
will arrive per Tunisian about the 26th
inst. Each parcel to and from abroad
has TO be specially treated, and all from
abroad are examined by officers from
Ii, M. customs.
Parcel mails to Canada: 14th Decent
Der, 1905, 1854 parcels; corresponding
mail last year. l294s; 2lst December
1905, S,3ii; last year, 6,0e5.
Parcel mails TO United States: 10Th
December, 1905, 2,S71 parcels; cores
pondlng mail last year, 1872; 10th De-
cember, 1905, 1873; last year, S7l.
Christmas parcel malls TO West Coast
of Africa 1905, 1,15l: 1904. 1872.
Is not our postofIlce great CONNER
clal and international school?