Show j OUR R POSTAL SERVICE I j Second Assistant Postmaster I General Submits Report I r ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR i There Will be Needed for All Transportation I Trans-portation of Iho Malls 851430 I 249m Increase of the Present Fiscal Year of 2108610 or 324 I Per Cent More Than the Currant Appropriation Star Servics Will Require 5580000 Some Interesting I esting Figures Pressntcd I Washington Nov 2The annual report re-port of W S Shallenberger Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral was made public today H shows that on June rOth last the annual rate of cx j pendlturo for Inland mall service was I 55116000 for foreign service 2011 C38 expenditures 537100505 There I were 22554 star routes with a total mileage of 2CnSOS involving an annual rate of expenditure of SS13387S 1913 special olllce routes 1S2 steamboat routes 2GCS railroad routes annual expense ex-pense 33I2l17S2 22S railway post olllce car routes annual expense 5SaC9000 b693 railway postofllce i clerks < annual expend lure S916121 7190 mall messenger routes 220 wagon routes In cities 2S7 electric and cable car roes live pneumatic routes annual an-nual expenditure 52222CG Necessary and special facilities on trunk lines of rallroada Involved an annual rate expenditure ex-penditure of ltJ3i13 and mail equipments equip-ments cost 3257I The Ioutes of all kinds In the domestic domes-tic mall service cover over 690000 miles In length and the miles traveled over I I them per annum was 103203773 An nvornco of almost nine trips a week on each route was maintained throughout j the country Mr Shallenberger refers to the steps taken looking to slopping speculative bidding for mall contracts and announces an-nounces that the new policy of awarding award-ing all new contracts only to persons living on or contiguous to the route involved bus worked satisfactorily The equipment of box delivery on star routes whereby persons along the line should have mall brought tram the 1 next olllce by the star route carrier and left in a box erected by such persons has worked satisfactory In South Carolina and the next star route contracts con-tracts will provide for such service In creasing the mall facilities in the rural ru-ral districts J at a moderate Increase of cost costL lotler mall for the inloriorof Alaska was carried last winter by a service that was reasonably well performed For the coming winter the arrangements arrange-ments double the frequency of dls patches for points supplied by various overland routes supplying the offices I along them with letter mail four times I amonth Malls will be carried by reindeer rein-deer this winter from Eton to to Kotse bue l jolnt north of the Arctic circle Plans for various overland routes are announced and the necessity empha sized of cooperation with the War department de-partment in opening an allAmerican military post road from Valdos lo the upper Yukon The service In Porto Rico Hawaii I andthe tempordry military postal service ser-vice In China are touched on briefly The special 1 and general weighing of me man tnrougnout tne unitea states whose results were announced last February showed the railroads carried an aggregate much greater than geli erally supposed and that EG per cent Of the tolal mailer was sent direct to the railroads Relief legislation for families of those killed In the service Is asked and the creation of a fund to retIre onI pay a clerk whose usefulness Is cut short by < permanent disability Incurred In the line of duly Reorganization and reclassification re-classification of the railway mall service ser-vice legislation requiring separation of secondclaaa mailer by publishers and legislation for the punishment of persons per-sons who by force attempt to enter postal l car or assault the postal clerk on dut < y are recommended No estl male IB submitted at this time for pneumatic tube service or for special facilities on trunk lines The tptal estimate Cor all mall trans portallpn for the fiscal year ending June 30 1002 Is GM3024J being 52158 610 or 3G1 per cent more than the current cur-rent appropriation The estimates submItted In detail arc ns follows Star service 5SOH0 stoahmboat service 53SGOOO railroad transportation S3i700000 railway postoffibe cars 4SG1000 railway post office rJdrJs 103787ll mall messenger service S103SQOO electric and cable car auyjce 5500000 wagon service In ltles iSOOOO mall equipments 320 500 miscellaneous items 1000 total Inland service J5S72G210 foreign mall trangportallon 2510000 balances due foreign countrlcB 155000 SENTENCE WILL STAND i Lewis Brown Will be Dismissed from I the Army Washington Nov 2 The Distrlbl Su i prcme court today dismissed pcll tlon for mandamus forHiy Levfs Brown former Lleul volunteer In famry against the Secretary of war I to compel Issuance ot an honorable dis charge Brown wes tried by court martial at San DulfJ Cuba on the charge of gambling and was acquitted Gen Wood refused to accept the ver dict and referred the case back to the qourt which later found Brown guilty anti sentenced him to dismissal Brown In his petition claimed that the first action of the courtmartial was final |