The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-27
Postmaster MaIoney Planning To
Outline New Carrier Districts
for Kenosha Post Office
WILL INCLUDE NEW TERRITORY
Many People Rush the Work on Side
Walks and Gross Walks in Order
to be Ready for Change
in District Lines

| Postmaster Maloney is planning in
the near future to outline new routes
in the city for the use of the mail
carriers and it is expected that at that
time a large amount Of new territory
will be taken into the carrier districts.
For the past six months people living
OH the outskirts Of the city have been
clamoring for delivery of the mail and
some Of the people who live almost in
the very center Of the city have been
denied the privileges Of free delivery.
The work of redistricting the carrier
districts will not be done until after
the building season is over so as to
give the people a chance to get in as
many sidewalks as possible. The gov
eminent laid down the law some time
ago declaring that there would be no
mail delivery where the walks had not
been built and many people IN the
suburbs have made a special effort to
get the walks in during the summer
The City Council has been besieged
10 force the completion of small pieces
Of walk in order to complete the walks
Oh certain streets The government
has not only demanded the building
or sidewalks on the street, but they
have demanded the building Of cross
walks on the part of the city. This
will probably result in many cross
walks being built before the opening Of
the winter season. People residing
west of the railway track on several
OF the north side streets have asked
the postmaster for free delivery and
they have laid walks in front Of their
homes, but the inspector in charge of
the district visited Kenosha a few
days ago and he declared that he would
not consent to take this territory into
the carrier district until after the city
has built the cross walks. Tt is de-
clared that in the winter time it would
be all but impossible for the carriers
to get through these streets. One of
/ the strangest conditions in regard to
free delivery has been on South Ex-
change street, The people there live
within a half mile Of the postofice
and the street is nearly entirely built
up, but the people on the west side of the
street, south Of Eagle street, have been
forced to go to the postofice in order
to get their mail They have now Sc
cured the building of all the walks on
that side of the street with the excep-
tion Of a stretch Of fifty feet and the
postmaster gives assurance that they
will be included in the carrier districts
as soon as the new plan is made out.
1t is probable that when the new
districts have been arranged it will be
necessary for at least one and possibly
two more carriers to be added to the
force. No additions to the cartier
force in Kenosha have been made dur
ing the present year, notwithstanding
the fact that the city has taken in
several pieces of territory during the
year. The territory has not been in
cluded in the free delivery districts,
but most of it will be taken in. rhe
people in the newer parts Of the city
seem to have taken more pride in Sc
curing the building Of walks than those
living in the older districts Of the city.
It is estimated that fully seven miles
OF walks have been built in Kenosha
during the present year