Bisbee daily review., 1913-06-08
Investigation Committee Re ports Present Poor Condi- ton Due to False Economy and Rapid Growth.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
 MADE SINCE MAR. 4.
All Departments of Huge Sys- tenn Have Been Increased In Efficiency; Public Well Pleased.

WASHINGTON. D. C.. June T.- Immediately upon his induction into office on March ;. Postmaster General BurleSon was confronted with persist, eIit and serious complaints throughout the country of generally unsatisfactory mail facilities Realizing that efficient postal facilities are vital to the com mereial prosperity of the country, and to the social happiness Of our peOpls Mir Burleson set about at once :u T bIsinesslike way to remedy the de. fleets Naturally his first action was to ascertain the causes responsible for the deplorabAe conditions and to this end appointed a committee consisting of the four assistant postmasters gen. eral and the chief clerk or the depart ment and charged this committee with ;hs duty of ascertaining the financial, physical and working conditions of the Gepartment and of the entire service. A thorough investigation was made by the committee and report Of their findings promDtly submitted. The re- port traced the causes of the com plaints of inefficient postal facilities and made suggestions as to how re- lief could be secured and the service restored to that high state of efficiency demanded and required by the public. Triefly stated, the causes of the eOndi- liens complained oi were attributed 10.
 Ql The undue stress placed by ths former administration of the depart nent on economy at the hazard of in 3ury to postal facilities which in some instances so impoverished the service as to make il necessary for the new administration 10 act quickly and dras- ticany in order to save the integrity of the service and bring relief to the people.
 t2D The difficulties O fthe situation were intensified by the rapidly in- creasing volume of business brought lv the parcel post. which went into operation January ], 1913. and from the adjustments made necessary under the eight-in-ten law. The business-like and effective man ner in which Postmaster General Bur leson has grasped the situation and launched the necessary plans to neet inc emergency which confronted the service is forceibiy illustrated by the following resume of some fthe things which have been accomplished since March 4;
 Clerical Aid Given
 DnlrinR the ninety days Of the ne" administration about LOCO addiuona clerks and approximately 800 addltloh al city letter carriers have been at tached to the various post offices throughout the country, and besIde' ,basa additions to the regular force snnro,-imately sI.0O0. .0O0 has been au thorized for temuorary clerk hlns ah' etopt $500 COG for temporary lette' carriers These unusual financial de mands made it necessary for the Pose master General to go to congress 1T May for an emergency appropriailoi os s6O0 GOO. which was promptly granted. and S300, 900 allotted for tenn norary clerk hire and a like amount for temporary carriers.
 Postmas.er Appointed
 on March ;, 1913. there were aDou' . ao0 vacant postmasterships or th' u-esideutial grade. and some 300 have become vacant since. Of these mor' ,bap i 800 cases have been brieted anI about 800 nominated to the senate of inc fourth-class postm2stership' Srhtch were found vacant on March D t,clrding those which have becomi ,-scant since amounting to about 4,oOo more than l.70O have been filed as th' reeult of Civil Service examination or inspector.' reports leaving at th crescent time about 1000 tthe presl Ssutial grade and some 2.sO0 ot th sorr4b-olass to De disposed of. Thes gre heinz dealt with expeditlonsly-
 Rural Routes Authorized
 within the last sixty days 4sS pc .;.tons for rural delivery routes hay been disposed of resulting in the e tsbiishmert of 2O3 routes, invoivih an aDntal expenditure for mafnte nance of approximately slOO,O0o. E the estabIishment of those new route ana inc extension Of old routes nor man 2O0.OOO people are now rsceiyin ,heir mail at their doors, instead or a remote post-ofilces.
 sackstsnpine of Mail
 I, nursuance of the policy ot ezp' d,,in1 inc delivery of mail the pos nsster general has ordered the ol -o-tinuance of the back stamping o1 ordinary mail which heretofore ha Aalsved its delivery anywhere troi twenty minutes to one-half hour A jnvestigation of the conditions sho"