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Show It appaubstly does not cost mail trains so nmr h to bo fust aa it does male men. According tn the report of Mr. Bangs tho father of the syytem, the fast trains on th Chicago route have added $113,070,10 to tho expenses expen-ses of the department since Sept. 10, 173, but tho new system is said to have led to the discontinuance ot eight lines of postal cars and tho discharge of a largo number of clerk, tiie decrease amounting to S'.)7 ,827.71. Fant mails on thin route eo;'t, thero fore, tl7,iil8.ofJ inure than nlnw mails, and inasmuch as 23,000,000 pcoplo are benefited by the earlier receipt and dispatch of their letters tho superintendent super-intendent considers the service a cheap blessing. |