Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-04-01
NEW RID IS
FrSTARTEDIyODAY
CITIZENS OF NOPA1ITA SECTION
ARE At LAST To HAVE MAIL De
LINERED To THEIR DOORWAiS.
J..D. CRAIG FIRST CARRIER.
TRIP A s. HOUR ONE
AFTER TWO AND A HALF YEARS
OF PATIENT LABOR. BACKED Up
BY CONSIDERABLE LABOR.
ROUTE * ESTABLISHED.

Rural Mail Route M. = from the
Brownsville p~osiofficc was duly inaug
rratcd today April 4. with Jack ID. Craig
n mail c%urrier. Piloicd by Mrs y. T.
Hughes. The carrier. with his brand new
mil bag loaded with mail II all classes
for the residents living along the new
route. started out from the post office
shortly aftcn om, o'clock. As announced
pre- ~yiutisly. the new route lies through
the N.pllita district. making a loop
around "a the Military Road n far out
as' Villa Nucva. The entire loop from
the post nificc and hack measures Ill
miles. according Ia the route n mapped
mt by the rural mail division II the
fourth assistant postmaster generals of
flee. The time occupied by the carrier ia
completing the trip H. scheduled at five
hours.
After over two and a half years of
waiting. the people of the Nopaliia sec
tion aic ut last rewarded nv receiving
their mail M their own homes in the
country NJ the hands If u United States
mail carrier. The accommodating volunteer
neighhorbood mail carriers. who have
served more or less faithfully for the
past 80 many wears. conveying mail out
Ia people on their road. and bringing i'm
mail Ia post for them. whenever request
"a. have IA last resigned the job. for
which they have been paid literally
enough. 10 he sure. in thanks. and now
leave the carrier ~ Route No. . Ia fill
the postal needs IT that section.
While a god many of the prospective
patrons have not vet erected boxc>.-
which. If course. will dcpriyc them of
the carriers services. until they do 80
.ct the majority of them have provided
boxs. and these today endowed the priv
ilcgc If having their mail delivered.
Many were just erecting their boxes to
lay. and IL j. whispered. NrS. Hughes.
the carriers kind ani enterprising vol
nntarv pilot on his first trip. carried u
number Il mail hoxcs ont today for the
tardy ones. or the skeptical ones. who
had refused up ~ the very last moment
Ia believe that the new service really
would he inaugurated todav.
The new service was started under diff
ficultics. The rural mail distribution
ease necessary for the u~r ~ the carrier
in asserting the mail prior Ia starting
on his route each dav. has not vet l~cn
received 81 the post office. which j. quite
u haudican In handling the mail for the
route. With a large number of the pros
pectiye patrons not vet registered nj the
no>t office. anl u patrons not well
known To the clerks ii was difficult 10
separate and assert the mail for the new
route. Starting M one o'clock. IL also
an Inconvenience for the force. all Of
whom are extremely busy M the noon
honr distributing the heavy mail which
arrives M that time However. ID is In be
cSm-cted that il will require n little
while Ia get the new service thoroughly
established and regulated. As the post
master stated tadav. ii will require the
ccoeration of the patrons. as well rs the
~rrviccs If the postal employees. 10
smooth ont things and get the machinery
%nroerlv adjusted.
The natrons ~ the new routt should
congratulate themselves ~ having
ainone themselves Mrs. y. T Hughes
- had ID not been for her energetic and
nntiring efforts in behalf Of the estab
lishment ~ the service. the ralization
of their wishes for rural mail delivery
very probably would nave been DELAYED
for a long time to come. Mrs, Hughes cir
rulatcd petition after petition for sigma
lures. 10 ask the post office dcnartment
tor the new route. After II had been fin
ally granted. she was equally actinve IN
obtaining pledges 81 patrons Ia provide
approved rural mail boxcs. and then
pnshed aud urged until she had Induced
q sufficient proportion of them TO have
the boxes erected in time.
The list " patrons numbers over one
hundred. hut il is hoped that the route
may IT, extended before long 10 include
about fifty more persons who r~ide con