Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-30

to report thereon known as document No.
?1O, II. R., Sixtieth Congress, which. the
Postmaster General says, contains infor-
nation OF great value to the postal service
and to Congress. There were 1902 star
routes In operation June 30, 1905. repre-
senting an annual travel of 94,314,s42 u
and an annual expenditure of $3.50. 1867
Former recommendations Affecting this
service are renewed.
The no, steamboat routes in operation
June 20 represent an annual travel of
4,917.9;D19 miles and an expenditure of
sos, 235. 90. The special Office service to
supply post offices not on any established
route represents an annual travel Of
3. 29S, 0G9O4, involving an expenditure of
SIS. s2S61. There were increases in the
number of these routes and in the annual
travel over them and decreases in the
length of the routes and in the annual
rate of expenditure.
Cost of Foreign Service.
The foreign mail service carried to for
eign countries by sea during the year
oo31, III pounds of letters and post cards
and 12,466.612 pounds Of other matter.
The total cost of the service was $3.50
911.I2. The cost of the contract ocean
mail service is given as $1,1S5, 1926 Ne
gotiations are pending for the establish
ment of International sea post service on
the fast steamers of the Cunard and
and England and France respectively,
and the Postmaster General says 1T is
hoped that the service will be extended to
these lines at an early day Statistics
are given of the matter handled in the
international parcels post service. and
reference is made to the modification of
the Universal Postal Union treaty reduc-
ing the rate of postage. The empire of
Ethiopia, says the Postmaster General,
entered the union during the year.
"a he Of mil trov lo1 1,1.r, g q
clerks while distributing the mails dur
ing the year is given at 2sS, $50, 1Gi. The
cost of the service was S17,37:5 $50 81
During the year clerks and substitutes
were killed. 104 clerks and substitutes
seriously injured and $50 slightly injured
in railroad accidents, a decrease of Il
killed and n injured as compared with
the previous year. Recommendation is
made of legislation extending the leave
of absence of seriously injured clerks an
additional twelve months, with pay at 81
per cent of the regular compensation
that clerks be allowed the thirty days
annual leave given other employees. with
thirty days sick leave. with the under
standing that their duties be performed
without expense to the government during
the period of the sick leave, the clerks to
provide their own substitutes: the allow
ance of travelling expenses Of postal
clerks while away from their homes and
the initial points of their runs on duty;
and for the retirement OF postal clerks
who have become unfit for active service
by reason of physical disability incurred
in the line of duty.
Money Order Increase.
The total value of money orders issued
during the year was S49S. 699. 631 80, or
more than nineteen millions more than
for the previous year. The fees for or
ders amounted to more than S4.IO0,0OO.
There were Al BPS letters and parcels.
paid and free. registered during the year,
an increase of more than three millions,
or 1.99 per cent.
The special weighing of the mails show
ed that the postal service carried free
for the other executive departments mail
matter which, if paid for at the regular
rates. would have yielded revenue of
so. 00O. 600. and periodicals which. If paid
for by publishers at the same rate charg-
ed the public for second-class matter.
would have yielded a revenue OF more
than half million dollars. Nearly seven
hundred million pounds of second-class
matter was carried at the cent-a-pound
rate for publishers
The dead letter Office handled during
the year 13.14o.172 pieces of mail matter.
which failed of delivery. and returned
7,202. 6S4 to the senders.
The total receipts of the Post Office