The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-27
'ney Are Not to be Established in
the Larger Cities Because They
Are But an Expert
rnent Yet.
MAGAZINES BY FREIGHT
After June Next, the Plan VIII b.
Tried Of Using Fast Freight
For Car Loads Of
Periodicals.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The
zoo additional postal savings banks
authorized by the post office ap,.o-
Eflation act will be apportioned as
nearly equally as possible among the
several states. With the single ex-
cept1on of Washington. the additional
repositories will be confined to Of
nces of the second class. The only
reason for establishing depository at
the national capital is that it will en-
able Postmaster General Hitchcock
and other officials to supervise per.
sonally its operation.
Each state will get five additional
postal savings banks, and a few will
be given one extra. Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock expects to announce
the names of the post offices that will
be designated within the next few
days.
81. Louis and other large cities will
De excluded because of the fact that
the postal savings bank system is still
In an experimental state and the
smaller communities furnish better
Held for working out the ultimate de.
tails. The relative cost of operation
In smaner communities also is lc S,
by reason of the smaller number of
depositors, and Mr.. Hitchcock desires
to make the S500,000 appropriation for
the service go as far as possible.
Magazines and other bulky period
ieals after July next will. be trans.
ported by the post Office department
in car loads as fast freight
Postmaster General Hitchcock is
developing as rapidly as possible
plans which he decided upon last De-
cember to utilize fast freight in the
transportation of magazines when
practicable and in instances where a
saving to the government in transpor-
tation charges may be effected.
The plans | have decided upon,
said Mr.. Hitchcock, ARE not proposed
as solution of the pending contro-
versy over the suggested increase OF
the second-class mail rates on the
advertising sections OF magazines,
but they probably will tend to bring
about solution Of that question
more easily"
The quadrennial weighing of the
mails in the third contract section of
the country, comprising the states of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri,
is now in progress.
BY direction of the postmaster gen
eral, given in accordance with his
plans for transporting periodical mail
by fast freight, the weights of month.
ly and semi-monthly periodical mail
matter weighed in large publishing
centers are being taken and kept
separate from tne weights of all other
mail matter.
The publishing centers are Boston,
Springfield, Mass, New York, Phila
delphia and Chicago.
From July next periodicals that
can be transported in car load lots by
fast freight through the section weigh
ed without disadvantage in delivery
will be carried in this manner and
paid for at freight rates. The weights
of the periodicals taken during the
present quadrennial weighing will be
excluded from the basis of adjust
ment of transportation pay for the
four-year term on the railways affect
ed
Distributing terminals have been
established in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, st Louis,
Omaha. St. Paul and Cincinnati.