Evening journal., 1915-09-21
PROTEST MERGER Of
RURAL MAIL ROUTES
Residents of MontroSe and
Bellefonte Stirred Over
Dropping Of Carriers
NEW CASTLE HUNDRED
DELIVERY CHANGES

Residents OF Brandywine hundred
are aroused over the report that their
rural mail service is to be curtailed.
According to the report, which Is said
TO be authentic, the present system Of
delivery will be done away with, the
two routes will be merged into one,
and the carrier will start from Will
mington instead of from Edge Moor
as at present. The people are so in
censed over the matter that public
protest meetings will be held.
At Bellefonte and Montrose the pro-
tective association of that place will
hold special meeting Of protest to-
morrow evening A formal appeal
will be made to the Post Office De-
partment at Washington, through Sen
ator willard Salisbury, not TO alter
the present system. II is contended
that the service is much better at
present, when the mail Is delivered by
two carriers and their horse teams,
than it would be with an automobile
delivery and one carrier. Some side
roads in the hundred as so bad. for at
least five months in a year. that one
carrier will be unable to cover the ter
ritory. Il is contended, especially with
an automobile. The patrons of the
Office are angry that the efficiency OF
their satisfactory delivery of mail Is
TO be interferred with. Yesterday as
the rural carriers delivered their mail
fhev informed their patrons that az
ter October I their addresses would
be Wilmington Route No. /. and that
william Shaw. who Is one of the car
riers in the district now. would be
The only carrier. Leon Cooley, the
,iher carrier, will be dropped. Both
men are Democrats.
Patrons Of the service at Montrose
and at Bellefonte are stirred up be-
cause Of a report that instead OF hav-
Ing their mail left I'm boxes in front
of their homes, il will he carried TO
a central street i'm BellefOnte and the
residents will have to go to that point
20 get their mail This. they declare.
Is almost unbearablo. and would sub
ioct their mail TO the danger Of being
tampered with by persons so in
clined. II also would make a row
of letter boxes that would he insight
". This matter also will receive
attention at the meeting tomorrow
evening.
Senator Salisbury recently an
nounced that he intende- 10 take this
matter up with the Postofiice Depart
ment at Washington 10 ascertain If
The present efficiency Of the system
will he maintained as a result OF
merged routes.
II also is understood that Rudolph
A. Valctte and Weldin Vining. rural
mail carriers Of New Castle, will be
discontinued after September 80. Post
master Murphy will appoint tenn
porary carrier to cover the two routes
Both men are Republicans. During
The first two weeks i'm October civil
service examinations will be held fol
4 carrier TO cover both routes at q
salary Of 81 800 a year AT present
Valette covers a route OF twenty
three and one-half miles and Weldir
covers twenty-five miles. The former
receives S96 month and the latter
500 a month.
II also is understood that Carrier
Johnson Of Porters postoffice win hC
dropped and but one carrier will b'
retained there. During the next two
weeks the New Castle and Porter''
districts will be resrranged The
part of Porter's that overlaps tho
New Castle district will be taken int,
The latter district and the part o
New Castle that overlaps the Porte
route will he taken into the Porte
route The New Castle route coveri