Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-20
DELIVERY OF
!. MAIL NOT TO
u. Be HAMPERED
Clerk of Railway Mail
Service Declares Proposed
Changes will be for Good.
ACTION
IS misunderstood
Edwin c. olwin confers
With Club
Committee on Service.

Contemplated changes in the mail
service on Great Northern lines
through this section of the northwest
will not lessen the efficiency Of the
department, but will bring about
quicker deliveries, according to Edwin
G. Qlwin, chief clerk Of the railway
mail service, who spent this morning
in Grand Forks In Conference with
the Commercial club.
the request Of the local Commercial
club, which has been protesting
against any changes which may be
to the present mail service.
He conferred this morning with q
Commercial club committee appointed
for the purpose of considering the
matter.
Action Misunderstood.
Referring to the proposed changes.
Mr.. Olwin said:
Grand Forks has misunderstood
is now under consideration, as it is
now generally believed that we would
lessen the efficiency Of the service. 1t
is not the desire of the department to
cripple the service at any point as We
are continually working to place IA
cilities on q more systematic basis
with a consideration for economy.
what we T planning on doing is
to take the r. p. o. service off Of
No. 9, the Great Northern passenger
train running between Fargo. and MI
moving the mail clerk on his train.
We will continue the closed pouch
service, however, and the train will
carry exactly the same mail as 1t
carries now. The same change will
be made on Great Northern train No.
4, operating between Williston and
Fargo, the removal Of the clerk mere
mail in h various postoffices instead
of on the mail car
Will Improve Service.
be somewhat different. The closed
Paul to Fargo, but in the latter city,
the r. P. o. will start and a clerk will
be in charge of the mail through to
Minot. This will bring even better
service to this city.
ION trains No. Ill and No. 112, the
local between Grand Forks and Fargo,
we will establish a daily mail service,
Devils Lake; which is now being held
at st. Paul, for train No. /. will be
dispatched at st. Paul to fast mail
No. 81 and worked in that train and
again dispatched to No. Ill at Fargo,
bringing the mail to Grand Forks
three hours earlier than at present.
First class mail and daily papers
for the smaller offices between Grand
Forks and Minot, now carried by No
9. will be dispatched to train No. 20
insuring a delivery which will be two
hours earlier than al present. Trair
Nc. 8 will be utilized for the dispatch
Of parcel post mail between Grand
Forks and Minot as at present. The
service will be continued on trains No
10 and 80 as at present.
Effective After juno 4.
II hope to be able to aid in getting
clerk service established on trains No
201 and 202 between Grand Forkf
and Devils Lake, as it would be 9
good thing. for this city. However, j
can not promise to get. this action
through at present."
Mr.. Olwin is Arm in his belief tina,
I the contemplated changes, which II
made will not become effective before
June l. will not lessen the efficiency
Of the Service but rather improve it
Mail between nearly all points will be
more speedily delivered and better
connections will be made from the
twin cities.