New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-02
Five to Advise
Hays ON Better
Service Here
Michael Friedsam Heads a
Committee for Consulta-
ton on Enlarged Facili-
ties and Improved r. O.

Postmaster General Hays announe ed
yesterday some Of the steps he hsd
taken since coming to New York. or
intended to take soon, for the i'm
provement of the postal service. The
pre-war system of transferring incom-
ing ocean mail to the postoffice at
Quarantine is to be reestablished and
Mr.. Hays has obtained the consent Of
five citizens of New York to assist s,im
in an advisory capacity in improving
the service in this city.
The advisory committee members
are Michael Friedsam, president Of B.
Altman & Co.: Clarence II. Kelsey.
president of the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company; Darwin P. Kingsley.
president of the New York State
Chamber of Commerce and of the New
York Life Insurance Company; William
Fellowes Morgan, president Of the New
York Merchants Association. ana
former Governor Alfred z. Smith.
They will assist the Postmaster /. ~
eral in investigating the recent recon .
mendations of the joint pos. al conf
mission of Congress affecting the an
largement of facilities and the Grove
ment of the service in New York City.
All have accepted the a2poinsm ent.
They will serve without remuneration.
Nj Kelsey. md Mr.. Kingsley are out
q town nd heir acceptances were
i&de 'Hrougn rhe.r representatives.
.ificials Visit Quarantine
Thu FIRST matter to be taken VI, by
tns 'ostmaster General was the Aan-
diiag Of the foveigr mails. Accompanied
by representative Halvor Steenerson,
charm I q of the House Committee or
Post Oifices and Post Roads; DR.. Hubers
Work, first; Colonel L. H. Shaughnessy
second, and w. I. Glover, third Assis.
tant Postmasters General; Postmus-
ters Morgan of New York, Burton of
Brooklyn. Ely Of Jersey City, Book
of Newark and Lankering of Hoboken
and other postal officials he went to
Quarantine yesterday on the President
This boat has been obtained from
the War Department for a dollar a
year and is to be operated by the New
York Central Railroad at cost. 1t will
form one of squadron of three ves-
sells used by the railroad in meeting
incoming liners and removing their
mails.
Prior to the arrival Of the party al
Quarantine the service had been in op-
Grafton since 1880 a. m., when the San
Lorenzo discharged 451 sacks of mai
in thirty minutes. Later the Cedric
discharged 1,347 sacks in an hour, the
iceland 361 sacks and the Ryndam 6
small consignment, all unloading before
8 a. m. From five to twenty hours
were thus saved in dispatching the mail
to destinations, both here and through.
out the United States.
Returning to New York, the Post
master General met reporters at the
Waldorf last night and entered into q
discussion of his work.
"New York is the neck of the bottle. ;
Mr.. Hays began. "This harbor boat
service is pretty consequential. It wa.
abandoned during the war, but the
plans now are to divert the incoming
mails to piers in New York and Brook.
lyn. Distribution, when perfected, viii
be made to three piers or the Jersey
side of the river, whereby so per cent
of the mail that comes into New Yors
will be taken care of direct by the New
Jersey Central, the Pennsylvania arc
West Shore railroads. OF this so pei
cent one-third is mail destined 70,
Asiatic countries. The balance, 40 pc,
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