The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-05-11
ROUTES
ARE FEASIBLE
>JCH u VERDICT INSPECTORS
long AND MORRIS oF THE
POSTAL SERVICE.
MAKE INSPECTION
I'm Order That They May Make IN
Ineligible Report the Inspectors
Travel Over Routes and Talk
With Patrons

For two weeks or more Inspectors
Long and Morris of the postal depart
ment have been making a most thor
ough investigation of the motor mail
routes throughout Ellis county. going
personally over each and every
route When they first came to Ellis
county for this purpose they refused
to discuss the matter for publication
but on Wednesday afternoon a Daily
Light representative was given an in
teryiew that may throw some light
on the motor mail service. Mr.. Long,
who is in charge Of the inspection
work, said in substance:
There is no question but that the
motor mail service Is feasible on the
basis upon which 1t has been estah-
lished, and there is no question but
that the people will receive far
more efficient service than is possible
under the old horse and cart system.
For instance, the people in the Pal
mer portion of the Waxahaehie ser
vice get their daily papers where they
never got them before. This Is due
to the fact that daily newspapers
arrive in Waxahachie before the
rural carrier starts out and are dis
patched by the motor mail routes to
rural patrons.
Let US consider Waxahachie A
route. 55.75 miles in ltngth which
was formerly two old routes of prac-
tieally the same length. A large
United States collection box has been
erected at the intersection of the two
cid routes near the Methodist church
in the Clopton community beyond
Rocket. When the motor carrier
gets TO this box he takes the short
route into Palmer, necessitating a
change in addresses of the people
from the Clopton corner to Palmer in
order to get mail properly each day
In the year and earlier than former
ly. Because of the difference in
route the carrier gets to Palmer
about the same time the Hustler
arrives with the daily papers, thus
giving every man and woman a daily
paper if he or she wants it. Such
DAYS when motors cannot be operated
the Waxahachie carrier proceeds With
horse and buggy by the shortest
route to this collection box and
dumps into it all the mail for the
Palmer patrons who had to change TO
Waxahachie. BY reason of the fact
that the emergency carrier travels
the long way around on the Palmer
end of the route he arrives at the
collection box after the WaXahachie
carrier has reached it and deposited
mail for all families living between
said box and the postoffiee at Pal
mer, thus giving them their papers
just the same each day in the year
while being covered by the emergency
carrier with horse and buggy.
eve have found that in each and
every instance the motor carriers are
serving two of old routes and a few
families more in less time, by from
half an hour TO an hour and a half.
than one of the routes was formerly
served by horse and buggy. We
figure that II the automobile operates
nine. ten or eleven months in the
year. that during that time we are
giving the people better service.
The motor route advances mail for
three-fourths of the families and
makes il late for probably one-ronrtn
as against the horse drawn vehicles.
During the DAYS upon which il is nee.
essarv to serve the routes with
horse and buggy the patrons are get
ting the same service they got and
would continue to get with the horse
and carts.
This does not mean that The man
who was formerly ON some other
fhan a waxahaehie Ennis. Milford Or
Midlothian route Is obliged % trade
~ the place from which his mail g
delivered. RE may sim go 70 Bis
home town 90 trade. but r the change
n the system enables the rural
PATRON 10 ct bis daily Hapers carrier
IS wiIl b. aniv zoo glad 70 avail
himself of This opportunity it H
merely IA effort 70 give The rural
raaaie 3 mere efficient mail service
less cost thaa heretofore The De-
uar-marf Is not aftemptiur 20 and De-
rat building up ons toNa Ef fas -.
neasa 81 faa other. but simply csn-
meeting the latifinF taens aith ne
eoartr seat. TO- iareer tp~us Ard
fsa-s possessing ne tesf mail tafi'i-
ues