The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-10-25

narcelS post service Will also De
Started from this city on January l.,
1918.
1uaugurating Rural Free Delivery
Under Postmaster Boyle.
In an interview Mr.. Boyle says {:
That in October, 1896, Postoffice In
spector Maxwell was sent to West
minister, Carroll county, Maryland,
by Postoffice Officials of Washington
TO inaugurate the rural free delivery
service. He, together with Mr..
Bowie, drove over the county within
a radius Of two miles Of the office to
obtain the sentiment, or feeling of
the patrons of the Office as to the
benefits Of a daily mail being receiv-
ed at their homes, together with the
daily papers. Many of them were
very much in favor Of it, while 9TH
ers positively. refused to allow their
mail to be delivered in that way,
preferring to 60 to the office themsel-
YES for it. Many were their excuses
and reasons for refusing the new in
novation. Some said they would not
be willing to pay for it's delivery,
others feared it would be tempered
with if left deposited in an unpro-
tected box, others, that they would
not 90 to any expense for boxes, &C.,
and many other reasons were pre-
ferred for not wishing it to 60 into
effect.
How it Has Worked.
Postmaster Boyle divided the terri
tory into four rural free delivery
routes, each extending over the ter
ritory not farther than two miles
distant from the office, the following
carriers being selected by the Post
master, viz : Joshua N. Corbin,
David r. Geiman, Samuel A. Tubman
and Mark Yingling, Mr.. Corbin
probably being the first carrier to
leave the Office with his little bundle
of newspapers and letters. This SER
vice has since grown to such an eX-
tent that there are now seventeen
carriers from this office which deliver
over a circuit of twenty-four miles
with their wagons heavily laden with
papers, letters, magazines and other
mail matter, which is the largest
number of carriers from any Office in
the State of Maryland and about as
large as any other distributing point
in the United States.
Postmaster Gorsuch and Committee
Confer With Carroll Countians
About Parcels Post.
The wonderful development Of the
rural service throughout the coun-
try has resulted in the passage of
the parcels post bill, and this act
provides for an addition to the rural
service. and like the rural delivery
Westminster seems to have been Sc
lected as the starting place from
which the parcels post will be in
augurated as indicated by the action
taken by the postal committee which
ment in this city, October 3, 1912. AT
the request of Postmaster General
Hitchcock, Mr. H. P Gorsuch, Post
master called together a number of
prominent business men, merchants,
manufacturers, farmers and others
who assembled together with the ru-
raj carriers in Boyle Hall to meet the
following committee Robert S.
Share, chief postoffice inspector;
John c. Rooms, Superintendent of the
Division of Salaries and Allowances +;
A. A. Fisher, chief clerk to the Office
OF the second assistant postmaster
Oo~AGAs Sld1 >. Ivy, CAlC1
clerk to the Office Of the third assist
ant postmaster general, and George
!. Wood, superintendent of the Di-
vision Of Rural Mails.
Westminster is highly honored in
Delng the first town visited by this
distinguished body of experts and in
Delng the center Of the territory in
winch the results of the plan will be
most closely studied.
Special Gasoline Car Designed for
Parcels Post.
FRIDAY the Parcels post car with
carrier Walter =. Coppersmith and
John Dudderar the driver delivered
the mail over one Of the worst routes
III Tie county and then left for Balti-
more distributing the American Sen
tlnel OF Westminster, to the farmers
en- route. Yesterday Congressman
David ]. Lewis the father of the
Parcels Post Bill at Frederick saw
the first Parcels Post delivery gaso-
nhe car especially designated to han
uie the new service. He was pleas
ed with it and expressed his thanks
70 the promoters for what they had
already accomplished and wished for
tnem complete success stating that
next to the passage Of the parcels
post Dill, the transportation problem
was the most important to insure the
success of the parcels post. The
apparatus might justly be termed "A
5ostof1ce on Wheels" or the rural
dellvery. The r.. ID. special body il
MADE Of galvanized steel. 1t contains
caDlnets, each provided with the pig
con holes and large receptacle for
newspapers and magazines. Each
eaDlnet is made on a quarter circle,
an ana when in action swings out easily
Mnen not in use it il thrown back in
~ the body. One Of the cabinets is
!ocated In front convenient to the
urlVer's seat; the other two are in the
rear. The cabinets are interchange
aDle SO that when q cabinet In front
- empt1ed of mail it can be placed i'm
the rear and a full cabinet Of mail
from the rear brought to the front
MS feature saves a great deal OF
ume IN handling Of mail by the car
rier
Compartments for stamps, postals
also located in front, convenient to
the driver.
81 the cabinets i'm the gasoline
mail car can be easily removed and
taken into the postoffice To b. refilled
With the mail, which can b. distrib-
uted alphabetically or numerically as