The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29
RAPID TRANSIT Of
MAIL IN SALT LAyF
Fourteen Days, Five Hours !,
Get a Letter to The
Tribune.
1T WAS MAILED IN
SALT LAKE CITY NOV. l|
Efficient Management of Sal
Lake PostOllice Took Two
Weeks to Deliver 1t.

"ai' Lake Tribune, but there aro *
people who do not know tba, tha II
OF Inc Tribune have spent tbree.ona-,
OF million dollars in one NJ ~,
newspaper plants in the United o..
mere are other papers that are laTas
nnt none better-none with mo,a
oern and improved machinery. ~
with finer business office: pona -; ~
a liner editorial floor, and nono u,..
better equipped mechanical plant
Everybody in Utah. with Tho n.-.,,
exception of the three nrom;nspnss pvSst2
Smoot;, Sutherland and Sprv. ana 5.
wee Thomas, the absolutely ;nnFS; sT y
postmaster of Salt Lake Civ and
sloner at the crib of Uncle Sam ~
preclate, this evidence Of enternr;s,
:, me three first named are map,;on n, ;o
because they arc responsible for IS,
retention IN office Of man wb,
mltted a pouch of first-class mail n 1T
IN the Salt Lake postoffice thirtv@ v's;nt ~
Gays before it was distributed csn' x
ing great inconvenience and loss ~ s5
business public of the capital civ +
Dtah. why! Because Peewee Tboms
is one of the federal bunch who n'' y
apart men, like Bill Spry. 10 be governs
or Utah. and then called upon ttab ~, ~
pie to ratify their choice. ~
W course, Peewee Thomas has c;no
on the place; in fact, the Thomas fam;j
mas SO long been fed at the public cI
IN Utah that should the tethcr wh;t
holds them to the public manger bres
a calamity would certainly follow.
This Is "Going Some"
But This is a depression. On N
vember l3, 1908, at 1 0 clock D. m
cordlng to the postmaster of the 81
Lake City postoffice, which is under a.
direction and control OF a postma asA
who permitted g sack OF first-class ms
TO remain IN his office thirlv.eight daf'
before it was distributed. a letter w,
mailed. This letter was addressed
"Tribune, city, =
Fourteen days and five hours latf
this letter found its way to The Tri,
une office, The letter was mailed r
the Patterson Real Estate Tnvestmef
company, real estate and loans, q
Main street, Salt Lake City, Utah. til
was the card printed on the corner
the envelope. TIE address was plai+
similar to what any business firm WON
place upon letter.
Peewee Thomas, the inefficient poG'
master of Salt Lake, the postmaster WI
permitted q pouch Of first.class md
to lay in his office thirtyeeight dat
before il was distributed knew who;
The Tribune office was located.
knew that The Tribune rented II
boxes in the postoffice over which
presides. one for letters aud one d
papers; and that from the superscri
tion upon the letter that it belong
in one of those boxes.
Was it placed in one of tbose boIs
Not on your Iifel Secreted, hidde
missent, or placed in wrong receptacl
Friday night it was received at II
Tribune office. The Time was Q o. 'cloi
p. m. 1t had required fourteen DAY
five hours for the letter in question Y
90 from the Salt Lake postoffice to q
boxes owned by The Tribune In te
Salt Lake posCDff:ce.
Not Unusual.
But this is not unusual. Sevent
two hours is and has been REQUIRE l
deliver a letter from the Salt La
postoffice TO a point ou south we
Temple street, four blocks away. J.,
UlTlN -Cl1UL I'd - d4 aNIu'-NN. ~, ~E
liver mail which has been received N
the Salt Lake postoffice in !o:ktR
pouch and held there that long befo's
it has been distributed. .
Papers mailed in the Ogden post9 I
flee in the afternoon required twenty
four to thirty-six hours for delivery
Salt Lake. Yet this man, VINO is y
mem Der of the federal BUNCH. who, w,is
the other members OF this delectao
gang. sets apart men to hold place =
Utah Ike Bill Spry and poses as =.
efficient office-holder.
Ism I it about time that the taon (:
family were relegated from o1tlce !
Utahl Isn't it about time tpat tle>
stood upon their own mert' sa'1
than upon the shoulders or US
national and state admlFlstfsJhSfs
When they do this the tethor ~, MH'i
holds the to the public crib wln w
fastened to the neck of tine oTSe'Sr Tse Sr,;#
Meanwhile, the columns OF inc - i ~
upe are open to Peewee Tnomss 20 ~
plain why he allowed a pouch OF ~
class mail matter to lay in his OIL OH X
thirty-eight days before II. was usd "
uted, and why it required Foufteea u )
and five hours to deliver let;Gl I !,
dressed to The Tribune and naieu
Salt Lake City and bearing t9s pI
mark Of the Salt Lake postoLiio''