El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-21
FIGURES On THE
POSTAL SERVICE
More Pay Is Urged for Ger
tain Employees Many
New Postoffices.

Washington. D. c., Dec. 21.-Dr
Charles P. GrandfieId, first assistant
postmaster general, in his annual re-
port submitted today to postmaster
general Hitchcock, shows that the num-
Der of postoffices in operation on June
80, 1910, was $3.50. The gross revenue
Of the postal service during the fiscal
year amounted to 1924, 12S. 65762, an
increase of s2O,566,247. The expendi-
lures for the year aggregated 1925, 977,-
224.50, an increase of sS,973. 12161. The
deficit was $5,S4S, 566.SS, as compared
with S17,441, 1882 for the preceding
year. Although the business of the
postal service increased during the last
fiscal year more than 10 percent, the
expenditures decreased from an aver
age of sos percent. for each of the ten
years preceding to 4.06 percent in 1910.
Many New Offices.
The number Of postoffices establish
number discontinued 2O73. At presiden-
tial offices 2576 postmasters were APP
pointed and at fourth class offices
942s postmasters were appointed.
The net decrease in the expenditure
for postoffice clerks during the year
was 2,917, 900, making the total exren-
ditures ss1,5S3,5S7; for letter carriers
the net increase was S1.S50,S25, result
ing in an aggregate cost of S30,292.-
SIG. which was s1s.O47 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
country during the year.
More Pay for Chiefs.
An urgent recommendation is made
ty properly to adjust the salaries Of
assistant postmasters- Under the pres
ent system il frequently happens that
an assistant postmaster receives a
smaller salary than some of the clerks
whose work he supervises. The depart
ment has estimated appropriations to
adjust this anomalous condition.
II is also urged in the report that
somewhat increased salaries be provid-
ed for supervisory employees, includ-
ing superintendent, assistant Superin-
tendents and foremen. some Of whom
now receive less in salary than is re-
ceived by some clerks and letter car
riers. 1t is pointed out that many Of
ficient supervisory officers have re-
ceived no promotion since their appoint
ment although they are subjected to
greater responsibilities than the sub
ordinate employees, greater expenses
hHO longer WORKING nOurS- Inc entire
amount requested for the promotion of
supervisory officers is about STE, 900.
1t is recommended, too, that provision
be made for the promotion to higher
grades and increased salaries of expert !
distributors of mail in various offices |
1t is pointed out that the services of |
these men are invaluable and that they !
IRE difficult to replace when they leave |
the service.
Death Benefits for Employees.
An urgent recommendation is made
that in the event of the death Of a ]
postoffice clerk in the line of his duty
provision be made for the payment Of a |
reasonable sum to his heirs; precisely |
as now is done in the event of the death |
of a railway postal clerk in the line of /
duty. 1t is shown that the increasing |
use of labor saving machinery in the
modern city postoffice makes greater
the liability to accidents. In the office |
at New York alone four employees have
been killed and 81 incapacitated since /
1908
1t IS earnestly recommended that an
of $4,000 be made to re-