The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-06
TRACER BUSY WRITING ABOUT
 MAIL SERVICE
SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL SENDS MANY
 COMMUNICATIONS.

From the number of answers to in Quiries concerning the winter mail banks which have been received here, most of them containing eX- tracts from letters signed by Otto Praeger, the second assistant post master general, it is evident that Mir. Praeger must be some busy man, for practically every periodical which received a circular letter sent out by some Fairbanksan has writ ten to the department concerning the matter, ard has received an an swer from MT. Praeger. In each case the excuse of MT Praeger is the same-inadeQuate transportation facilities. He Is kind enough, however, to state in an ex- tract from letter recently received by Guy Erwin from Arms and the Man. sporting publication, that all mail offered is carried after the opening of navigation.
 The letter received by MT Erwin is as follows:
 Washington, D. C., Sept. 14, 1915. Guy B. Erwin,
 President. Panama Rifle Club, Fairbanks, Alaska.
 Dear Sir:
 We beg to advise you that the following reply has been receivel l from the Postodlce Department in regard to the transportation mail service in Alaska during the win. ter months:
 "In answer to your letter of the 26th instant. which the Postmaster General has referred to me, you are informed that on account of the difficulty of transportation mail ser vice for points in the interior Of Alaska during the winter season is limited In dispatching malls dur is given, first, to letters in their usual and ordinary form and postal cards, and second to single newspa- pers and magazines addressed to pub lie libraries, newspaper publishers and to individuals. Books, cata logues and periodicals sent to dealers for purposes of trade and merchandise (parcel post matter) cannot be forwarded to interior of fees during the winter season, ex- cept when the weight of the pre- ferred classes of mail for dispatch will permit. However, from the beginning of navigation (about June 1sD all mail offered is carried from Skagway via Dawson to Eagle and other points on the Yukon river.
 "'The most efficient service prac- ticable will br provided for Panama and Fairbanbs'
 Trusting this information will be of use to you, we remain,
 Yours very truly
 ARMS AND THE MAN
 "E. MOFFETT"
 On the same mail, however, an other letter was received. It was from Frank G. Carpenter and was addressed to Wallace Cathcart, sec retary of the Fairbanks Commercial Club. It speaks for itself and is as follows:
 ITO Wallace Cathcart, Esq,
 Secretary Fairbanks Commercial,
 Club, Fairbanks, Alaska
 Washington, D. C., Nov. 10, 1915.
 My Dear Sir:
 T have this morning just re, ceived yours of October IS. and in reply would say that met the Post master General some days ago i'll the Cosmos club and told him thought it was a question whether the mail service of Fairbanks anl other parts of Alaska was as good as it could be made and that l ex- pected to take the matter up with the department little later in the year. He said he did not know that the service was not good and that If l would come to the depart. ment he would see that l was given all information and facilities to in. vestigate the matter.
 q am not sure that I can take this subject up for some little while yet, but l will do SO and will men. tion the condition of affairs in my letters.
 Very truly yours. FRANK G. CARPENTER.' E.,,, Ca+. +la