Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-19
First Request Of Postmaster
G. H. Smith Is Granted By
the Department
BUSHES OUT BUSINESS MAIL
New Man Makes Eleven Carrier
Collectors, Really More Than City Of
This Size is Entitled To-voIums Of
Business Done. and Increases, Fac
tors in Granting tho Request.

"A new IOi eAh~
| Marshalltown postoffice has BEEN or
dered by First Assistant Postmaster
General Hitchcock, according to no.
tice received by Postmaster G. II.
Smith Thursday. The order is the re-
suit of a request made by the post
master. asking that the force be in
creased by one man, that business
mail collections might be handled to
better advantage. 1t was the first re-
quest made the department by the new
postmaster and the business men of
the city will be glad to learn that 1T
means much to the handling Of bust
ness mail and getting 1t into the post
office from the boxes, where busy men
deposit it.
Postmaster Smith has recommended
the appointment of George Fanton,
senior substitute city carrier, as the
new carrier collector. This has been
confirmed by the department, which
has fixed May l as the time the order
will go into effect.
While Mr.. Fanton is classed as q
carrier-collector, the same as the ten
other city carriers his work will In
reality be more in the nature of a
special collector. The delivery service
of the local office has been good, but
the collecting service poor At the
present time the carriers. when leav-
ing on their first trips at about 7:4b
a. M, are not able to make a heavy
delivery and get back TO the office in
time to deposit their collections and
get them out on all of the morning
trains, leaving here between 9 and 10
o'clock. With a new man as a special
collector, an early morning collection
will be made, and all mail collected will
get out on the morning trains.
The work OF the new collector will
be confined, as far as the collecting is
concerned, to the business districts, in
Guiding the depots and factories in the
south part of town. -Four special col
,lections will be made, one for the early
morning trains, one for the trains leav-.
ing between IL m. and 1888 p. m.; an!
other to get mail out on the evening
trains, leaving between 5 and o'clock,
and one after supper, to catch the
night trains.
Gives City Eleven Carriers.
The new order gives Marshalltown
eleven carriers, including two mounted
carriers. This number is really larger
than cities Of this size are entitled
to, but because of the good showing
of office receipts, which are also much
larger than expected in cities of this
size, the department has evidently seen
fit to increase the force.
Office Makes Fine Showing.
The Marshalltown postoffice has
made fine showing for the first quar-
ter this year, and for the year ending
March 81, 1907. The receipts for the
first quarter of the present year, JAM
uary, February and March, from the
sale Of stamps and stamped envelopes
alone, aggregated $13,018.96, as against
$11, 9S3.19 for the corresponding quarter
year ago, or an increase of $1,035.77.
The years business, ending March 81,
1907, amounted to $4S,24790, as COM
pared to $42,944.42 for the preceding
year, and increase Of $5,303.48, and fully
$4,000 bigger than any year in the his
tory of the office. This business is ex-
elusive of the money order department,
which does an annual business of about
$4,000, and will show an increase for
the first quarter this year of about
25 per cent over the corresponding
quarter of last year.