Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-05 | Page 2 | Hyphenated Postoffice Names

Hyphenated Postofflco Panics Some of the residents on the shores of the Hudson seem to be especially restive under the humiliation of being compelled to live in places bearing such commonplace common-place and mere American names as Irvington Irving-ton Yonkers Tarrytown Poughkeepsie Newburg etc and insist on heading their note and letter paper with their hyphen ized ideas of what their postoffice addresses ought to beas TarrytownontheHud son and similar deviations from the actual names of their postoffices There was doubtless good reason in England Eng-land for such names bestowed in prepost office times as WestonunderLizard Mid dlctononthe V aldsStokebyXay land and like compounds needful to distinguish them from numerous other Westons Mid dletons and Stokeses but in this country where there are no two postoffices of the I same name name in any state such linking link-ing on of useless addenda is simply one of those freaks of fatuous folly I The practice is a vexation to postoffice clerks and often leads to the missending letters and this fact is doubtless the reason rea-son for the admonition which appears in The New York Postoffice Guide under the head of Suggestions to the Public Fanciful additions should not be made to the names of postoffices as they are apt to mislead and confuse assorting clerks and so cause errors For example Patta gumpus Me should not be extended to Pattagumpuson the Penobscot New York Tribune