The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-12-21
Gross Reuenue in the Postal Department Wa
$224, I28, ,657. 62, and Total Disbursements
We're $229, ,977, ,224. so Deficit Is Cut
to $5,S48, sec. S8-Policy of Max
ing No Changes Where Service
Is Satisfactory Has Been
FolloUed

Washington, D. c., Dec. 21.-Dr.
Charles P. Grandfield, first assistant
postmaster general, in his annual re-
port submitted yesterday to Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock, shows that the
number of postoffices in operation on
June 80, 1910, was $3.50. The gross
revenue of the postal service during
the fiscal year amounted to $224,12s,-
65762, an increase of $20,566, ,247.55.
The expenditures for the year aggre-
gated 1929, ,977, ,2245O, an increase of
$s,97S.121.61. The deficit was $685.
'566SS, as compared with $17, AL, 1852
for the preceding year Although the
business of the postal service inereas-
ed during the last fiscal year more
than 10 per cent the expenditures de-
creased from an average of S.06 per
cent for each of the ten years preced-
ing to 406 per cent in 1910.
The number of postoffices establish
ed during the year was 1909 and the
number discontinued 2,O73. At presi-
Dental offices 2,576 postmasters were
appointed and at fourth class offices
I9,428 postmasters were appointed.
The net increase in the expenditure
for postoffice clerks during the year
was $2917 900, making the total ex.
penditures $S1.5SS,5S7; for letter car
riers the net increase was $1,S50,825,
resulting in an aggregate cost of $780,
392,579, which was $16,047 less in 1910
THAN in the previous fiscal year.
The policy of the department to
make no changes in postmasters so
long as their services were satisfactory
was followed uniformly throughout the
lcountry during the year.
An urgent recommendation is made
that the department be given author
| ity properly to adjust the salaries of
assistant postmasters. Under the pres
ent system it frequently happens that
an assistant postmaster receives a
smaller salary than some of the clerks
whose work he supervises. The de
partment has estimated appropriations
to adjust this anomalous condition.
1t also is urged in the report that
somewhat increased salaries be pro
Vided for supervisory employees, in
cluding superintendent, assistant su
perintendents and foremen, some OF
whom now receive less in salary thar
is received by some clerks and letter
Icarriers 1t is pointed out that many
efficient supervisory officers have re
ceived no promotion since their ap
Ipointment although they are subjected
to greater responsibilities than the sub
Iordinate employees, greater expenses
land longer working hours. The entire
amount requested for the promotion
of supervisory officers is about SIS, ,00(
1t is recommended, too, that proyis
ion be made for the promoting to high
led grades and increased salaries ot
1 expert distributors of mail in various
Offices. 1t is pointed out that the serv
Iiices of these men are invaluable an(
Iithat they are difficult to replace wher
Ilthey leave the service.
! An urgent recommendation is made
that in the event of the death of
postoffice clerk in the line of his dut!
Iprovision be made for the payment 0
a reasonable sum to his heirs, precise
ly as now is done in the event of tn
death of railway postal clerk in tn
line of duty 1t is shown that the ir
creasing use of labor saving machir
cry in the modern city postoff1ce make
greater the liability to accidents. L
the Office at New York alone four en-
ployees have been killed and 64 in
capacitated since 1908, as the result O
injuries received in the performance 0
their duty, yet it has not beer possibl
for the department to afford them o
their families any assistance.
It is earnestly recommended that al
appropriation of $4,000 be made t
reward postal employees who presen
to the department patented devices 0