The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-12-03
SHOW BIG DEFICIT
IN POST RECEIPTS.
HEAD or DEPARTMENT REPORTS,
SERVICE is NEARLY $17,-
100000 SHY.
LABOR PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
immigration Exceeds Emigration and
Death Rate Is Reduced More
Than One-half.
HAVE $ss,ooo,ooo STILL AVAILABLE.

WASH INGTON, ID. c., Nov. 30
In his annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1908, Postmaster General
Meyer gives the total receipts for the
year at 1871 .47S,663 and expenditures
are S20S351 $50. thereby showing def
cit of $16,S73,222, the largest in the his
tory of the department, with an addition
al loss from fire, burglary, etc, of S37,-
/ OoG. The deficit of 1909 il is estimated
again will exceed S16,OOO.O0O
Attention is particularly called to a
number of improvements in business
! methods of the department as tending to
its advantage and the saving of consider
able amounts. Recommendation is
/ again made for the creation of the posi-
ton of director of posts, Mt high salary,
and who shall hold Office during good
. behavior. the object being to have a con-
! tinuity of policies for the benefit of the
postal service and the people of the
United States.
The necessity for, good roads is pointed
out i'll connection with the development
OF the rural free delivery service.
Parcels Post and Banks.
1.-THE special parcels post" says the
postmaster general, will enable the
ut their gates. to live be- rer, and to OBJ
tain easily the necessaries of life Per-
mission is requested to establish expert
mentally limited parcels post in not to
exceed four counties in order to demon
strate the practicability of the plan:
The postmaster general urges legisla
ton permitting the establishment of pos
tai savings banks or depositaries in con
nection with postofiices.
Experiments with stamp vending ma
| chimes, says the report. are still being
conducted, with every prospect that the
defects which developed in the prelim>
mary tests will be overcome. These ma
chimes, 1t is expected by the department,
VIII add UNNECESSARILY to the public con-
yeuience.
Pays to Keep Good Postmasters.
A marked improvement in the efficiency
of the service is noted by the postmaster
general which, he says, is due to the
policy of retaining poStmasters of all
grades whose records have been salts
factory.
Figures relating to the railway mail
service shows a decrease of fifteen IL the
number of railway postal clerks killed
and of twenty-one in the injured as com
pared with the fiscal year 1907. In 1908
there were four clerks and two substi-
tutes killed and lO4 seriously and 536
slightly injured.
Leave for Postal Clerks.
Recommendation is made that railway
postal clerks be given annual leave of alb
senCe with pay for thirty days, and that
when SO seriously disabled rs not to be
able to resume duty mt the expiration of
twelve months, they may be granted dis
ability leave with pay at 80 per cent. of
their regular compensation during such
disability for not exceeding twelve add
tional months.
The regulations covering sample"
copies are treated at length i'll the re-
port, the postmaster general concluding
with the statement that the publishers
with rare exception have indorsed the
position of the department and commend
ed it for the course it has pursued
The attention of Congress is invited To
the previous recommendation for Il re
duction in the rate and m increase in
the weight limit for fourth class mat