The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-05
ENORMOUS CAIN.
Big Increase in All. POstOffice
departments.
Sixty-Five Per Cent jump in
Money Orders.
NEW CLERKS HIRED.
Force at Main building Is Aug
mented.
NEW CLERKS HIRED.
Postmaster Rodgers Blames To-
peka's Marvellous Growth.

The first institution TO follow out the
new Topeka slogan-''Topeka Kan: To-
peka WHIPS the postoffice under the
supervision of Postmaster A. K. Rodg-
ers and Assistant Postmaster A. NJ.
Fuller. If Topeka has ever shown her
growth she has done it in the last three
months through the mails at the fed
eral building.
Last Christmas time when the quar-
terly statements were made out and
the balances were checked up it was
found that the local postoffice had
performed the greatest task in it's his
tory-made a high water mark record
far above anything ever written on the
government books before.
But according to the records issued
by Postmaster Rodgers for the quarter
ending March 81 the Topeka postoffice
department has shown an enormous
gain over the big Christmas record of
a few months ago-and this is the
worst time of the year for postoffice
business.
Postmaster Rodgers said this morn
ing after he had taken another proud
glance at the reports:
This is a sure sign that Topeka is
growing. During the Christmas sea-
son we always expect a rush and a
record but not at this time of the year.
can see no other excuse whatever
just good big substantial growth of
TOPEKA. We are doing our best to live
up to the new slogan Topeka Kan:
Topeka WILL"
Robert Caldwell, finance clerk, re-
ports to the postmaster that the entire
stamp sales Qneluding stamped en-
velopes) for the last quarter from
January 1 to March 81 amounted to
$S1, 505.91. This compared with $685.
343.3S the, corresponding quarter last
year shows a sensational increase of
$16,162.53 in one year. In other words
the business in the stamp department
has increased PAT per cent. This is a
larger gain than any other city in the
state of Kansas and hundreds of cities
over the United States. There are
very few offices in cities twice the size
of Topeka that can make the showing
this office does every year. This re-
port of receipts for the last quarter is
10 per cent more than the big record
breaker of October, November and De-
cember, 1908, when the sales jumped I'D
TO S74,661.67. 1t is really in the stamp
department that the business of an
office and the size and growth of a
city can be determined
The money order department un-
der william Tinker as superintendent
has made the most marvellous advance
OF any part of tie government busi-
ness since its installment. The money
averaged 80. per cent larger than
the number of money orders in the
corresponding quarter last year. The
total number of money orders made
out during the last quarter was
35,922. The average number of money
orders made out every day amounted
to 1.241. The entire debit of this end
of the business for the past three
months amounted to exactly SEAL
401.34: This is another record broken
in a thousand pieces.
The registry department has not
been slow-in fact under the foreman
ship of c. E. Pyle, this department
has increased it's business SO per cent
in the last year. The number of reg
istered packages received and opened
amounted to 1904. The number dis
patched 4,640. Sacks and jackets re-
ceived and dispatched, 1921. Regis
ter packages in transit, 1886. Pieces
delivered. 1928. Pieces registered,
4,192.
AS a whole this is one of the great
est records-in fact it is the greatest
record ever made by the local post
office department. On account of the
increase in business it has been neces-
sary to use an additional number of
clerks in all departments.