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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
December
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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UNCI.B SAM'B MAtLS. Washinöton, Dec. 4. - The postmaster general's annual report, made public Thursday, shows that in spite of the faet that over $1,000,000 worth of lottery reverme has been lost during the last year the postal ficit of 86,000,000 is surely appearing, providod the saino of revenue aud expenses obtaii. July 1, 1S9S. It appears that all oi lottery mail has practically been dr f rom the mails, and the fidelity oí departinent in tryingr to enfor most unanimous wish of congi ■ shown. It is shown by 8(?nreB tha! □ tenths of the causes why letter wrong are due to the carelessü. the public, and Mr VVanamaln i only shows how the worlc of the letter office may be redueedbut i inends the establishment of a bra in San Francisco. He ann chances in the postal guide whie! make it contain popular informa aud enable it to be sold for on instead tire. The postmaster general rene recommendation for the división of the country into postal district and duces raany reasons why the ret would be beneöcial. He anno uno - that the extensión of the merit sj - of promotion, so successfuüy put in operation in the department lately, to the large post offices aud the railway mail service has already been begun. The postmaster general reeomnit the adaptation of the telephone as as the telegraph to the postal syttem. showing that it is not only the eonstitutional privilege but the duty of con gress to utilize all the of modern science forquickening the transmisión of intelligence. He says: "Oneceut letter postale, threeoout telephone meBsages and ten-cent telograph matBages Bre all neor posslbllltles under an en lightened and compaot postal system uslnft the neweat telegraphlc Invontlons. Thj ad vantage of tying the rural post office by a telephone wlre reiuirtng no operator to the raüroad station must be obvious. The beneflts arlslng frotn telephonlc connevtlon with the post offices wlll easily "iuijxost theiusolves In a hundreil ways to those who want the entire peoplo to share in ooinmon privilege. The rural populatlon would be the greatett gaiaer. telephone message rom the post office to the railroad station miles away to ascortaln if expected freight had como wonld save the farmer many a needles trip over bul f oads; news of approaching froats cnuld be promptly spread over country disiricts nul trult-growlng regions and many a valuable erop saved. The day's market prioes rorrattle andgraln and wool and product may be obtained by the farmers direct by imiuiry froni ulliers than the buyer who drives up to the farm in his buggy. AU these may seem homely purposes to dwellen in citics, but country Ufc would !ose some of itu drawbacks by the esteusion "f suoh faeilHles to those who bear tlieir full share of the burdens of the : receive, in postal resp iIiüti tbetrshara of lts bene tit i.Mr. Wanainaker belieTes in tlie ful) pareéis post. but does not recommend it -,it present. Se urges the abollHon of personal buretyahips of postmasters, as they ure too frequently under obligation liiel damare the service. He proposes to extend the money-order system everywhere. It appeara that iieiitly 8,00) miles o{ additional railway post-office service have been establtshed, 1,800 Dilles in the Pacific coast stiltes. :,:(io in the other western Btates, 3,400 in the sontbern states ;iikI about i.uod in tlie ; easteru status. Bome idea of the I tent of the service in tlie west may be obtaiued frotn the statement that 14f mail trains arrive :n 144 dopart frnm Chicago every lv. Arguments why thi service ought to be continued and enlarged are adduced, and it is sliown how mach similar qfforts to extend the free delivery into I the country ure to be made along star routes and bv inean of BUburbac ( trie roads. Mr. Wanamaker commends the passage of a bilí to entitle towns of population letween 5,000 and ,0W to the free delivery, and shovs that the special delivery service in oities h;i inereaaed onc-third j tnia year over the average oí the lat four years. He argües stienuously for potal savings. Flf relterates his plan of last ! year aud aM-: "Anothei plan, quite uimple imi thorougbiï ' practica!, WOOld be to Ibsuc at the post offices ) üon-ncííot&b!e ccrliEca'.cs oi postal clp-,t In 8Um of HO. :ƒ). K) and ÍM' r -i l the rütc 9t huif cent a day ur: tbc doliar (ll.88'4 per year) aiter the lust of the montb followln Uu: dau of deposlt, and tbs prinoipiil anu inKret 'l"mund at any money order office by proptM' ndorsemnt and idèQtffloatlon ander rrgulations of thr ( maller general. Mr. Wanamaker saya be l.Tives clerUx in posl offices, letter carriers, railway postal elerUs, Fotirth elass i masters aml other employés of the department should bc fairlv paid and ■ ougbt not to bc overworked T)is can never he done. Sovríwr, so long a a defleiney íb postal revenues atarea an appropiiation commiUe in the fftoe. Ad interest iiir coinp.irison in tli past js made itl thp presen) n (h tvords: "Id 1861 tlif i mi re revenu-; oí departa mi waí!8,8,M0ttndtbeexpDdlthres lia,Wn Wlth 8,Si iwt orne; iv.'n. tbf fleflotenoj WftS ovrr ". ;Vi.í( Kl cu c:,rly a-' rrnict. a? M wa-s last yeai Tordaj wi'.ti reduoed postage nú More tban Iwicc many poftt offices and 691 p#r env. more miles of mal servios andan 3tpDl)ture of 17,009,114.56, ïhe dftp&rtment pToducfp al) lt Beed wilbout practloaiiy 1n Éreaíirip lile tlefni w for í'at war. "ï'hf future of the postai Bcrviott Is very brtgbt Thí osi otfice dep&rtuM-M Iheone ootniDon m'tlnc fround of ali th1 people. it Reena !■ nrjf th;ti iher: bi enough lo it Lo dose ta b worthy tjjecarfiil thnuírhl of l-hc brl mpn in 1 ■ n , tion ."

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