The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25
Two Hours, Fifty Minutes Re-
quired From Basket to Can
ceiling Machine.
NINE MANAGER CITES
INSTANCE OF DELAY
Important Letter to His Super
intendent Is Held Back for
Twenty-FOur Hours.

Not single day passes without new
and cumulative evidence being produced
to prove that Arthur l. Thomas should
not hold the position of postmaster at
Salt Lake
n mine manager gives an instance of
the incompetent manner in which the Of
flee Is conducted and tho unsatisfactory
manner those who make complaint to the
postmaster In person are treated.
The mlno manager wished to send
letter or especial Importance to his su-
perlntendent, and for that reason, after
the letter was ready to be mailed, the
mine manager took IT TO the postofice
himself. There is only one mall train
day to the destination point and that il
could not possibly be delayed he took It
to the Salt Lake postoffice one hour and
nfty minutes before the train started for
that point The rules OF the Office re-
Quired that mail should be deposited in
the office one hour before the train left.
In this instance the requirements were
not only met but fifty minutes additional
were added.
Beat the Letter to Camp.
The day following the mine manager
went to camp, leaving at tho same hour
at which his letter should have left the
day before. Arriving at the mine he was
told that his letter had not arrived, but
when the local mail was distributed the
bclated letter WAS delivered 1t bore the
cancellation stamp OF the Salt Lake post
Office, but tho hour of stamping was just
one hour after the time that the train
had left end two hours and nifty minutes
after 1t had been deposited in the Salt
Lake postofflce
Management Greatly Inconvenienced.
BY reason of the letter being delayed
tho management of tho mine was realty
inconYenicnced, so when the mine man
aEer returned to Salt Lake he registered
q complaint with Postmastr Arthur L.
feature of the transaction that has hap
pened In the Salt Lake postofce time and
ngGin,
Excuses Did Not Explain.
Mr. Thomas at first disputed the fact
that the letter had been mailed at the
time the mine manager stated that he had
mailed 1t. When he WAS assured that
there was no doubt OF tho accuracy OF the
mine manager states that MIR Thomas be-
gan making excuses without number but
that none OF them explained One of tho
excuses was that often lust before trains
departed the business men would throw
largo quantities Of mall in tho office.
Worse Than School Boy.
When told tha. Boston. New York and
ether Eastern places required that mail
be deposited before train tlme only thirty
minutes In order TO be sent out upon
cuses that we're worse than those made
by a school boy. II got no satisfaction
at all. said the mine manager. "and 1t
would have been just as We'll II I had
stayed away"
Refuses to Learn
The mine manager then stated that Mr.
Thomas was worse than school boy be-
cause he refused to learn and n school
boy could and would learn. He stated
that such actions by u postmaster would
not be tolerated east of the Mississippi
river thirty days. That the people of the
East would make II so warm for such a
Management that he would want to get
out of Office instead of wanting TO hang
onto the Job. Thomas, he declared has
no conception of the Importance Of the
position he holds and has neither the IN
c.ination or ability to grow into the per-
fOrmance OF those duties.
Talks Much, Does Little.
Postmaster Thomas, continued the min
ing man, has probably talked more about
improving the service and done less in
that direction than any postmaster in the
United States. He seems to look upon
the position as II he held it by a revival
OF the doctrine OF the divine right OF
kings To oppose him is. in his mind
treason to make complaints OF the serv-
Ice Is unpatriotic and TO refuse to sup
port hin js ungentlemanly.