The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-26

many lAeasAaAs OF ,aino b. Is q.
9a,.~d 70 a~arr. -~ssi clerk fo-Ts
e0s r~~sstrn a prirsssis SALARY Nsen
clsfs fires enters the service b.
~ isea pct year After b. has b~<a
IN .he service thrr~ months be II
eligible for promotion. should his
| exAriratior ssTrsnt and e.as. : IL
- ua.t step. ~,sh e salary os 1900
then class 2. a, iI.oee, rias~ 40. a.
8 Toe. oias~ I. al 1900, and class
g. al t3.7ae. Then there are other
divisions kuo~n "a classes s. and
; Glasses $. : and take clerks Off
be road they then become vithsT
chief clerks. assistant snperintsnden's
or division sup.rfutcnden'a nat The
rise il an up-hiIl climb, Ike all 9th
er things of its Kind. and only The
ftitess ever reach the above places.
| The others reach class s. the highest
on The road
The report Of the general Superiu.
snd.nt OF the railway mail service
shows that for the year ended June
30, Their. we're in operation IN the
United States los FUN railway postal
lines. with 2.2a2 crews. or ,,i55
| clerks. 1881 apartment railway
postal lines, with a.53a crews. or
$50 clerks 20 electric lines. with
| 20 crews. or % clerks; 80 steamboat
| lines. with 81 crews. or 81 clerks
| making total OF /. i96 lines and
| tl,42s clerks In addition 10 this
| there were in the service 50 officials,
| f24 chief clerks. $40 transfer clerks
and 331 clerks doing clerical work.
making a grand total Of 2.41i men
Iemployed in the service.
! There were a.674 .25S,2S0 pieces
! of first-class mail matter distributed
| S.44S,6i5.6 500 pieces of second,
| bird and fourth class matter, max
ing total of Isles o3, $50 pieces
of mail distributed, exclusive OF the
registry matter
! As an idea of the wonderful ac-
lcuracy with which the postal clerks
discharge the duties aud the records
each make, the report of the general
superintendent will also be cited for
this purpose. The report that there
were 32,410,373 cards handled,
upon which an average of 1851 per
cent was made.
1t is during the Christmas holt
days that life almost becomes pain
full TO the postal clerk and when he
7 ,,sy}c l. low.
! his average of IS per cent, which is
usually maintained. The Christmas
rush is the bane of the mail clerk S
existence; he breads it and he has
reasons to dread it. During this time
1.-THE mail clerk has to work sometimes
double time he has three and four
times, and even more, as much mail
matter on hand as usual, and extra
help remedies the condition but lit
tie To put substitute on during this
holiday rush remedies matters some
what, but as the substitute has to bt
shown the aid received from him i
not very much and the regular clerk
have most of the rush to handl
; themselves. On the runs where TIL
| business IS not expected TO DecOm
abnormal no substitutes are put on
but on the long runs the crews arr
Increased and the clerks allowed ad
ditional help But even with this
when person takes into consider
lation the thousands of things the
mail clerk has 10 know, what he has
TO do and under what conditions he
works, is il surprising that Christ
mas presents and mail matter during
the holiday season are sometimes de
layed and missent? Everyone makes
mistakes and the one surprising
thing about the whole matter is thai
the postal clerk does not make more
than he does.