Show HEAVY T FOR PAST YEAR Postoffice Department Is Shy About Fifteen Million Dollars ESTiMATES ARE ALSO HUGE REPORT OF POSTMASTER GEN GENERAL ERAL CORTELYOU Nv slot General ard forwarded to of the treasury the for the flie for the fiscal year ending Juno tO fliey a of excesses wherever It IS believed it aill not Impair the service ice but provision for development of postal facilities to meet the growing flOods of all sections of the country Estimates Are Large The estimates for the postal ervle at held an years appropriation of about represents the normal growth of the service based upon what the authorities regard as the most careful and te Each succeeding year sees a large Increase In the business of the depart The items In the itt crease are tite rural delivery service railway mail servIce to and their clerks and corn of letter carriers Rural Delivery Por the maintenance of rural dour cry service and Its proper extension over will be required This Is an increase of over the appropriation for the current year which in turn is over more than that of last year so that the estimate is less than the increase of the over the year That the extension of the pneumatic tube service Is contemplated is shown by the fact that the estimate carries more than the current Deficit of The del eit for the fiscal year ending June 30 was This amount the difference between the and the revenues the department it officially an flounced may be said to represent the actual of the postal s to the people It recent calculations are as accurate as they have been fee In the st they good reason for believing that the deflit for forthe the year ending June 30 1906 wilt be considerably less It is an fact that the total revenue for the fiscal year exceeded the total cx for the fiscal year 1901 by nearly |