The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-16
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leaVe DenlnO Wneu we are calleu ~
visit a convention. It has been rule
of the department not to send de-
partmental head to a State conven-
| ton. My coming here is an infrac-
ton Of the rule. and I will hear from
1t later on from other States. There
is a great deal of good to be obtained
from these conventions however.
ct might suggest that several States
in New England get together and hold
a convention in one place on one day.
They tried that out in Kansas and II
worked splendidly. They had meet
| time and they kept the speakers go
ing from one meeting to another.
! Five States were represented at that
convention"
General DeGraw paid compliment
| to the rural carrier service and said
more loyal body Of men In Uncle
| Sans service.
| He said there were many men in the
rural service who, he believed, did
not have SIS left for themselves at the
end of a month after paying for
carriers Of South Carolina were not
the kind that were continually writing
| their Congressman for an increase in
| compensation. but on the other hand
| had addressed a communication to the
department asking for more pay cat
| that the service warranted It," He
said that nine-tenths of the South
Carolina carriers were college grad
yates.
President John Mckinley was very
| humorous in his story on the disap-
holders from the lobby of the post
| offices when they were left here for
the use of the general public. He
| could see where the disappearance OF
few pen holders: etc. daily from
! each Of the $1,000 offices in the coun-
| try would amount to small fortune
at the end of the. year.
| Among other things President Nc
Gfnley said: IT believe that all of the
post office employees from the post
masters down to the 1anitors take a
pride in their work. This is an era
Of Improvements In public office. and
believe that the post office employees
are all trying to do something better
! for Uncle Sam"
To show the efficiency of the service
| he told Of the delivery of a. letter ad-
dressed to the Third House in Amer
| ica''. written by German who had
arrived a short time before and gone
West. The letter was sent to the
New York office which in turn sent it
/ to Hoboken. Here a clerk made a
writer might have come over on. and
going to the pier tried the third house
from it and struck the right place the
very first time.
Postmaster Frederick Gaylord of
| Ansonia, told a Farmer reporter that
the Postal Savings Bank being run in
connection with his office. the first in
| the State. was destined to be a great
success. He could not give the num-
Der Of ACCOUNTS opened. but said. IT
believe that some of our citizens of
foreign birth would deposit their
| Ca -,
terest was paid for the same. There
is something about the name of Uncle
Sam that makes them come to us at
the start. The dime feature of the
bank is a big thing. There are hun
dreds of children who have bought
not been satisfied until they have
made 1t a dollar and started a SUBJ
stantial account. There is no doubt
but that the bank has come to stay
Between the speeches the postmas-
tiers present were entertained with
songs by Michael j. Clabby
The postmasters present included the
following: John Mckinley. New Lon.
don; F. L. Gaylord, Ansonia; H. G.
Lindsey. Branford; c. N. Hatch,
Bridgewater; George A. Warner. Bris-
George S w p Edwards co sliey ch g. r.
Chaffee. Derby; George X. White.
East Hampton; F. L. Scott. Farming
ton; James F. Holden. Forestville;
George W. Merritt. Greenwich: L. o.
Chittenden. Guilford: F. A Haggerty,
Hartford: Edward Gilbert. Higganum;
Rudolph Karl. Litchfield; Henry Dry
hurst, Meriden; A. B. Gardner Mil
ford: c. G. Potter. Mystic; I. L. Trow-
bridge. Naugatuck; William J. Nc
Kendrick. New Canaan; w. M. Rey-
nolds, Newtown: G. E. Andrews,
Noank; E. S. Adams. Norwalk: Will
liam Carruthers. Norwich; George w
Randall. Rockville; William Holmes.
Shelton; G. D. Carey. Sound Beach );
A. w. Crane. South Glastonbury; E.
E. Grove. South Norwalk; Nelson r.
Jessup. Stamford; N. p. Noyes. Ston-
1ngton; w. B. Bristol. Stratford; Ed
mund Halliday. Suffield: Thomas F.
Higgins. Terryville: c.. A. Curtis,
Thomaston; ]. w. Hague. Torrington;
Charles C. Georgia. Unionville; Char
les S. Hail. Wallingford; Frank M.
Buckland. West Hartford; Charles T.
Welsh. Windsor; and J. P. Glynn of
Winsted.
The date for the next semi-annual
banquet which will be held during the
summer months was not decided upon,
but will be selected later.
Guests present were G. S. McGregor,
assistant chief railway mail clerk for
Connecticut and one of the most able
men in the service; w. T. Meyer. for
mer Inspector and now cashier of the
local office; Assistant Postmaster H
w Lyon; Supt. of Mails F. J. Brock
bill; Assistant Cashier James H.
Grady; Judge David Nichols of Shell
ton. and J. S. Monahan of the Rail-