| Show IMS I 1 1 1 7 f itao IA 10 FLEET placed on the penn sylvania baltimore ohio road dec 1 special all freight rates on pacific coast business were today advanced ten per cent in accordance with a recent decision of the tram con tin association representatives of all the railroads running west northwest and southwest from chicago will hold a meeting here to for the purpose of advancing rates on all classes of freight this action it is reported is by tho fact that all roads have their equipment fully taxed with the business which is now moving FLEET locomotives washington dec 1 new powerful and fleet locomotives built specially special lr to haul fast trains between new york and this city were to day placed on the pennsylvania baltimore and ohio line the run heretofore has aea made in five hour but be made in four hours and a half the distance is miles being about 60 miles an hour postmasters gei o d deport nov 9 the postmaster general in his annual report shows that the past year over two hundred thousand dollars was eared on poa tal card contracts the carda though inferior at first were quickly brought up to the required standard four hundred thousand dollars wag caved in stamped envelope contracts and two hundred thousand dollars on certain mail carrying at the same time mail routes have been extended over almost two million miles of railway steamboat and stage linee the gross revenue was nearly five million dollars larger than ayar before almost five thousand new post offices more than in any other year before have been established upon petitions of communities sub and stamp agencies service railway post office services free delivery and other matters have been greatly extended during the year the star route mileage was increased over five million miles and railroad mileage over eleven millions the work of the dead letter office has been grf catly reduced during the year touching on the postal telegraphs mathe postmaster general says the swiftest mail is not fast enough in these days for all the needs of commerce nod special correspondence in oje form or another the public imperatively demands cheaper telegraphy and the post office department can supply it at less cot than any corporation unless the latter has rent light fuel carriers and clerks free the plan proposed for a pontal telegraph involves no outlay of money no appointment of clerks no financial liability it is surely to fair consideration touching the anti lottery act the report says the press has aided ohp deft ment by very general approval and the public at large has seconded its efforts to make the new law effect tive the report shows that postmasters were removed during the past two yeara appointed during the same time Ee garding reduced postage the post master general in part in point ol 01 fact there is a clear gain of thirty millions of dollars from letter postage this large profit with the annual deficit which lost year amounted to is all swallowed up by losses on othir claesges of mail matter carried at less than cost of distribution and handling the amount received from letter postage last year waa about thirty eight millions the reduction to the one cent rate would bring this down to nineteen millions the deficiency for the current year is about four and one half millions which would make a total deficiency of 23 this deficiency fici ency would be reduced bv the natural increase of business due to the stimulus of a low rate and by the completion of pending legislation to collect proper postage arm sample copies of so called newspapers and from paper covered books by this the sample copy business alone over one million dollars is annually lost to the revenue and in the transportation of paper covered books considerable more than one milli ion dollars is kept out of this postal income forthe benefit of certain book publishers the deficiency under the one cent rate might bo still further reduced by the adoption of improved devices from time to time which would save time and bonev the most formidable item however is worth of performed annually without pay for the executive departments if they hai to pay postage revenue that would be 8 more annually than now the resources of the department for the fiscal year aers expenditures and liabilities the deficiency for the year therefore 13 SOO catarrh in the head Is a constitutional and A constitutional remedy lako hooda sarsaparilla Saraa parilla which purifies tb blood makes clr Bei tores health try it now THE aamold concert co failed to appear at the opera house oil saturday night last the management were notified at 5 p m olter the went to presa that the company coald not fill their engagement because of signer indisposition no one ever tried jimmona liver regulator without being satisfied with its effect |
