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Show PARCEL POST DOUG III BUSINESS About 40,000,000 Packages Handled in January; Chicago Has Record.. WASHINGTON, Feb. C. Approximately Approximate-ly 40.000.000 parcel post packages wero handled In January. At the fifty largest postofflces 19,365.133 parcels wero handled In the first month of the operation of tho new system and tho business of the last two weeks exceeded that of the first two weeks by more than 5.000,000 packages, pack-ages, Chicago exceeded all other cities in tho number of parcels handled. Its total being be-ing 1,163,153 Now York handled 3.51U.-7S8; 3.51U.-7S8; Boston. 1.1S1.40S: Philadelphia, 1.035.000; St. Louis. 917.809: Cleveland, 879,768; Brooklyn. JjS-t.OOO; Detroit, 510,-072; 510,-072; Cincinnati. -112.3S1; Kansas City. 357,102, Baltimore, 3'JS.500: Minneapolis, aOO.000; San Francisco, 290,000: Buffalo, 261,000; Washington. D. C 222.953; Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. 212.940. Pittsburg, 207.076: Atlanta, At-lanta, 1S3.000: St. Paul. 1S1.05G: New Orleans, Or-leans, 166,391: Seattle. 155.692; Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, 152.912. Dallas. 1,130,200; Louisville. Louis-ville. 114,076; Denver. 110.396: Richmond, 100.000; Nashville. 09.270; Jacksonville, 42.9G3. Tho present season Ik the dull one ln postofflco business, but even If there should be no Increase In the parcel post work about 500,000.000 parcels would bo handled In the first year. Some postmasters post-masters estimated that 1.000.OO0.00O packages pack-ages will be handled this year. From tho more remote sections of the country, postmasters report that iner-chants iner-chants aro preparing to extend their fields to the rural districts through tho new system and the farmers are preparing prepar-ing to r.end products to cities and towns upon the opening of the spring season. The preliminary appropriation for the establishment of the parcel post has boon exhausted and Mr. Hitchcock today asked for an additional appropriation of i $750,000 |