The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-06-19
GROWTH PROVES STEADY ONE
More Than $3.50 Families Now Receiv-
ing Mail in the Free Delivery Dis
trict-Need of Further Force at the
Post Office is Shown by the Report.

If government statistics are to be
believed the city of Kenosha has pass
ed the twenty-five thousand mark and
is now well on the way toward being
city of thirty thousand people. AS
sistant Postmaster NJ. f. Zens this
morning forwarded to the department
at Washington new survey of condi-
tions surrounding the postal work in
the city and on this will be based a
request for further employees in the
postoffice here. The report of the as
sistant postmaster shows that there is
total Of 5,197 families residing with
in the free delivery district Of Keno
sha. Counting five people to family,
the ratio adopted by the postoffice de-
partment, the city of Kenosha would
have population of close to 10000
people. The postal district does not
include all the territory Of the city
and the report shows that there are
about a thousand people living within
the corporate limits of the city who
are not receiving free delivery of their
mail This would mean that the city
already has a population of $4,000
people. 1t is claimed that the growth
of the city in the past two years has
been even larger than in the years just
succeeding the taking Of the census
in 1910.
The report Of the posJas district is
interesting 1t shows that the district
contains 1928 residences, 665 factories,
stores and Offices The carriers make
a total of 1862 stops and the actual
average Of the daily stops is 1851.
The growth Of the mail box idea in
Kenosha is shown to be phenomenal
and at the present time eighty-fve per
cent of the people Of the city have
mail boxes at their homes A total of
3,079 mail boxes have already been
installed in the city. Mail will no
longer be delivered to places where the
boxes ar8 not arranged for the con
venience of the carrier save in old de-
livery districts.
During the week just closed all of
the mail handled by the city carriers
has been weighed and counted and
while the week is one of the lightest
in the business Of the office for the
year the total number of pieces of
mail matter of all classes taken out by
the carriers was 65,148. The carriers
delivered 43,7S5 letters or an average
Of 456 letters each daily. The aver
age daily delivery of all classes of
mail per carrier was 678. The total
weight Of the average daily load Of
the carriers was 6SA pounds. In
March year ago the average weight
Of the matter carried by the carriers
was shown to be 81 pounds. There has
not been a falling off in the business
of the office, but the difference is due
wholly to the time of. year in which
the weights were taken.
The statistics as provided will be
forwarded to Washington to aid the
department in figuring out the demands
of the city for increased services of
carriers and clerks and it is pretty
certain that an added appropriation
will be made in a short time to take
care Of the demands of the Kenosha
office.
The annual report Of the office will
not be issued until later in the year
and it will show a notable increase in
all departments of the office for the
year.