Show STAR ROUTES The Investigation Still Goes Bravely OnMore JEspomures New York 18Times Washington The great political sensations of the day may overshadow but they do not disturb dis-turb the investigation in progress under direction the postmastergenetal Tho work of examining records and papers and accumulating evidence against the numbers of tho ring it going on slowly but surely It ia intended the investigation investiga-tion shall be thorough therefore it cannot can-not to completed in a few day There il a vast field to be covered dome divisions divi-sions of the investigation are but jut begun be-gun The table of ninety thrae Star lOuUu published tome time ago by authority of the department was only a sample of tha work of the rings It contains con-tains some of tho most striking examples ex-amples of rascality which can be found in the terries but there are hundreds of routes outside of that list which the ring have manipulated and the field which demands investigation stretches away on all sides of that Hit The field is wide and Ito examination of it needs time Foundations for an cx hauitiTejnvflstigation are being laid with gr ll > t careflfur reduction in the COlt jf service already made the routes upon which action 11 been taken have been except those reported by the commission in the south those which came under the eyes of the officers from day to day in Boo regular course of business Search for useless service has begun but except in steamboat routes and one or two other case iU results have not yet appeared A limes correspondent gives the history his-tory of several Star route contract of which the following are the must prominent prom-inent Route No 38018 from Monument Monu-ment to River Bend Colorado held by the Dorsey combination show some very suggestive facts Distance 59H miles service twice a week time thirty three hours Here were twenty bidders the highest 2970 and the lowest Joshua H Watts of Sant Fo 948 The contract was awarded to Watts and the latter sublet the route to N B Williams Wil-liams of Denver for 1200 It waS soon announced that Watts had failed and the route was relet to A H Brown by Brady for 1200 In thirtytwo days after tbe route had come into the possession of Brown orders were issued by Brady which raised the pay of 1200 a 11200 and the trip were increased to seven per week and the time reduced From thirty three to seventeen hour Brown had received on this route 73000 and for the same time under the original orig-inal contract Watts would have receive about 2000 There is sworn testimony to the effect that Watts Miner Peck and Dorsey were partners Watts teems to have been unfortunate rnd to have gone out of the combination Route No 33113 from Rawhns to Whito River Ocloado ws let to John W Dorsey for 1700 It nfterwnrds pasted into the hands of exSenator Dor sey Tho service was once n week distance dis-tance 180 mile time 10S hours The servicj was finally increased to seven trips per week and the pay to 309S1 The route No 46132 in southern OslO fornia from Julian to Colton tho contractors con-tractors annual pay was raised from 1188 per year to 3910 The line is in the hands ot the Dorsey combination and the contractor is J M Peck exSenator Dorcevs brotherinlaw Tho bidders were Zemri McDonald 52393 William Buckley 2350 A AVestmore 2346 j M V Nichols 2290 Wm J Began 52201 William M Griffiths 82155 Hugh White 1900 Knight 1 Deaner lfc > 00 H W Robinson S17S8 O J Salisbury 1760 B Price 1667 Jacob Bergman 1000 Stewart Pierson 1659 H E Parks i1400j JSL Peck 1188 J C Hayes h evidently a man who lived in the vicinity of the route and became be-came a subcontractor from the beginning begin-ning of the term with an annual pay of 1069 His understanding with Peck being that if the service should be increased in-creased to two trips per week he would receive 2138 for three trips per week 2207 and for six trips per week f 6415 This subcontract was withdrawn after it had been in force for three months and the route WAS turned over to H M Vail April lit for the full contract price Yiilo had come into the Dorsey combination The additions were made after March The papers upon which orders for increase and expedition were based consisted of a petition endorsed in the usual l manner by members of Con grees from California The clerk in charge of the CiO reported that the annual an-nual revenue of the four offices which would be benefitted by the increase and expedition was only 314 The additional addi-tional pay was 7 722 td |