White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-14

my boy JIM" You must have no
ticed Jim. because he's six feet TALL
And Of course she couldn't be expected
10 know that that wasn't Just the sort
of descriptive information which might
help in placing Jim. nor that In that
splendid regiment known as Per
shing's own" made up Of units from
all over the country. there were 2,IOo
men who stood six feet and better.
One mother for whom "the boy" had
made allotment and asked government
allowance answered the formal inquiry
as to whether she had other sources OF
income with the ~painstakingly consci-
entious statement. "only Fred's hens"
Show Hearty Willingness.
So into the bureau Of war risk In
surance by the hundreds of thousands
pour the letters bearing their manifest
stories Of hearty willingness to con-
form to requirements and simple. In
corrupuble honesty. but frequently so
vague In respect 10 necessary infor-
nation as TO render Identification Of
the cases difficult If not impossible.
The mail section of the bureau works
on a 16-hour basis with one shift work.
ing from nine In the morning to nve
In the afternoon and a night shift from
one to eight In the morning, handling
directly from the post ONCE all mall
arriving during the night.
During the period October, 1918. to
October, 1919. this section received.
sorted. classified and distributed q to-
tai Of 10, $50. 533 pieces Of mail, and for
the same period received from the va
nous divisions Of the bureau, arranged
according TO states. and Forwarded to
the city post once q total Of 22,o27,oO
pieces Of mail. This makes a grand
fetal Of 42,S94yo4l pieces Of mall pass
Ing through the mall section during
the course OF twelve months.
On July IA. 1919. the mail section,
under instructions from Director r. g.
Cholmeley- Jones. took over the arrang-
Ing and listing Of all tenders In pay.
nert for insurance premiums. These
remittances during the period July
l4th to October It'll numbered 1908
1872 at a valuation Of 50. 7s4,186.3S.
Takes On Additional Duties.
The mail section from time to time
Is taking on additional duties In order
to relieve the various divisions Of the
bureau, and Is functioning with a
lower percentage Of errors than the
minimum allowed by the United States
post office.
The bureaus mail trucks make
hourly trips between the post Office
and the Arlington building and also
collect or deliver at nine offices of the
bureau outside of the Arlington build
Ing, and at eleven other government
offices.
Around the first of the month the
mail comes in at the rate Of about
l4O,O 900 pieces q day, later falling to
10000 or $4,000.
Premium receipts make up about
half of the entire incoming mail dur
Ing the 6rst half Of the month. Sew
enty-fve per cent Of all mall received
ls for the insurance division of the
bureau.
The mail section also handles each
day $4,000 to 100000 pieces of out.
going mail and about 10000 pieces of
Interdepartmental mail. Between De-
cember 1. 1918. and September 80.
1919. the bureau received 4.503, 465 dis.
charge notices alone. In January the
nood Of discharge notices rose to $685.
300. In August 1t reached the high
water mark Of 700. 1926. The total mum.
Der Of pieces Of incoming mail re-
ceived during August was 2,2S7.43
How Mall 10 handled.
Mall 40 It comes from the mail sack
IL separated unopened into 81 classes.
The letters are run through the letter.
opening machines at a rate Of from
two to three hundred a minute.
From the letter openers the mail
goes to forty women expert mail read
ers. who make AZ separations Of the
mall brought to them. 1t takes good
judgment as well as good memory to
decide unerringly under which Of the
4S heads a letter belongs, but the mail
reader does II at the rate Of 900 to
1900 letters a day.
Letters containing checks, money Or
ders or other valuable Enclosures 20
to a group Of girls In the next room,
who sit around a big table covered
with wire baskets. All checks are list