Arizona republican., 1913-05-20
NEW DIRECTORY
 OF POSTOFF|CE
Eight Volume Document
 Finished Now and Will Supply Much Needed In formation - Some Pecu- liarities Seen by Goodman

Being naturally a fastidious old uncle, Samuel was not suited with the make shift directories by which the mail Of Phoenicians has been sorted of late years, so about four months ago one of Sam's hardwork- ing nephews in the Phoenix post offict began a stupendOus work-a new book of addresses Twenty seven thousand names and addresses are now in the book which has grown to eight large loose-leaf vol umes. The assiduOus nephew is Maurice Goodman. whose expert brain has been working over the problem of classifying names since almost Q year ago. Goodman is long time cmpIoye of the Phoenix office
 The new pOstoffice directory shows how Phoenix is growing. For one thing the number recorded is large showing q total of about 9, 900 people served in the city alone, with 15,000 in the rural districts, making the en- tire service over 10000. Less than five per cent of the names are for warding addresses. Some days as many as 250 new names are added. and some days less, but the average always runs about 150 By a system Of double checking the addresses are kept accurate. Each carrier gets his new addresses each day and main tains a set of books himself. The aggregate of the carriers books check with the general directory.
 This is the third system that has been in use in the Phoenix postoffice inside of a year. The old card sys- tenn was badly antiquated long ago Then the force tried using the clipped and pasted pages of the city directory augmented by marginal notes as new names came in. This soon proved in efficient, so the powers that be ap- piled some brains to the problem and organized the system that is now in use. The books. which were official ly completed yesterday, will from now on until the end of time. as measured by the activity of the present postal system. be changed only by the ad- dition of names from the carriers notes and from change orders.
 Goodman is a humorous man. The ordinarily dry and uninteresting job proved highly entertaining to the man for four long months. He singled out some mighty funny names, and kept some mighty interesting statistics From the ineXhaustible supply of Mir Goodman are taken these fine ex- amples:
 The longest name is that of a Spanish woman, Sonora Dona Jo- sephina Pillar de Iturnal de Troien- sito de Quaesada Iturbide
 The shortest name contains two letters. It is also the name of a woman and strangely enough the given name is the same in English as that or the champion Spanish name. The woman, who has moved to Up- iand. Cal, is Miss Josephine AK. Hers is the only two-letter name in the entire register
 The longest name contains 3S let ters
 There are Lions, Tigre. many Bulls, Oxon, no sheep. but many Shepherds and Lambs.
 There are Diamonds, GoIdstones. Firestones, Pearls one Ruby, and of Gold and Silver a great plenty Fish and Fishers in great numbers, and one Fishlein; several Pyes, but nei- ther bread nor cake: there's Doe to make 'em of. and Bakers to bake 'em, and Cooks to use the Mixers tC mix the Doe.
 Of furniture the office has a great quantity. r9DqiO0