Arizona republican., 1912-08-02
BACK FROM A
 FINE OUTING
Postmaster J. H. McClin- tock on the Job Again After Three Months of Recreation, Sight Seeing and Travel

Colonel J. H. McClintock the Phoe- nix postmaster, returned home yester- day after the longest vacation he ever had in his life. His only regret is 1 that he could not further prOlong it, but he thought it necessary to return | and take up the numerous matters 1 that will require attention preliminary ] to moving the office into the federal building He finds the business of the office has been well cared for in i his absence, due to the hard work of
 F. E. Anderson, the efficient assistant postmaster, whose effectiveness is
 more to be appreciated through the 1 fact that the business this summer l has been much larger than ever be- fore, and at this season there are us ually at least two clerks absent all the time on their annual vacations i provided for by the department.
 Speaking of his own vacation the l colonel says his desire to stay longer was not prompted by a spirit of lazi- ness but that he went away about l the first of June, much earlier than usual, on account of his health, which [ was not good. and also because he was tired out and worked out and had l to. He returns feeling fully restored l to his normal health and as full of 1 ambition as a school boy. He feels | that he not only needed but had earn 1 ed his long vacation. as his previous | outings have been short and last year | he was gone but two weeks.
 ] He went first to Yosemite, where
 he attended the convention of the | California Association of Presidential l Postmasters. He said he met a fine 1 lot of men and finds that pOstoffice 1 problems are quite similar the cOun- | try over He finds the California
 officials thinking the same thoughts and trying to solve the same prob l lens that confront the Arizona post masters. But, though the colonel was | gone long time. he was busy as
 bee every day and not all of his time
 was spent in recreation, as he was devoting a great deal of it to ac- quainting himself with conditions gen.
 orally in his field of activity.
 He visited a great many pOstoffices and says he notes a distinct improve ment in postoffice conditions through | out the west, due largely to the in telligent and systematic control of 1 Postmaster General Hitchcock and | First Assistant Grandfield who have i managed to get closer to the individ- | uaI postmasters than any of their | predecessors and inCulcate d spirit. of l harmonious cooperation. Many changes | for the better are now in process. 1 The system of handling the money l order business has been simplified in ! the elimination of detail For in- | stance. instead of burdening the re- port blanks with long lists of names
 of postoffices each office is given a number and only the numbers are en- | tered Great changes are soon to fol- 1 low in the postal bank system. There | will be but one style of certificate | instead of the many now issued, and | the amount of each check will be per l forated on the check at the office of
 issue.
 Colonel McClintock went to San | Francisco after the convention, and remained there for some time. going both ways by steamer, one little skittish tub that made him sick, and the other a fine big vessel He | had a fine time in San Francisco, that being his boyhood home The city, l he says, is expecting enormous bcne- i fits from both the exposition and the | opening of the Panama canal, and is
 -mortgaging it's future heavily in sup port of that idea It is estimated that 1 s2OO OOO 900 will be spent between now 1 and the opening of the exposition, in l cIuding the buildings for the latter, | the bringing of a fine water supply | from the Sierras and in various mu- | nicipal improvements. Many millions 1 will also be spent on the harbOr. One l of these improvements is the building | of a huge pipe line system to cover 1 the entire down town district, to use ] sea water under pressure of 45O 1 pounds to the square inch. for fire | protection. Having in mind the pos l sibIe recurrence of earthquakes these pipes are all made of heavy cast | iron. bOIted together with steel rods
 at every joint. in such way that it | is rot believed they will be broken | unless the earth gets a bigger wrench than it did before.
 | Returning from the north MT. Me i CIintock spent some time in San Diego and at Catalina island. where | he devoted himself energetically to rowing, swimming and a well directed | but unsuccessful effort to depOpulate 1 the ocean of it's fish. He made satis- | factory catches but they did not seem 1 to affect the general result, and the 1 fish were biting freely when he left, ! as in the beginning. San Diego is | lively, even though it is the dull sea- son. The city is growing rapidly, but 1 thus far building is keeping pace nicely with increasing population
 Asked abOut the probable date of | moving the Phoenix postoffice into | the federal building, he said the build | ing will be completed early in the
 winter, but he is apprehensive of de- | lay in securing it's furnishings, which will have to be specially ordered and provided. That is one of the things Ihe is trying to hurry along. While
 he cannot say definitely, he hopes to