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Show I TE11L CLERKS HAVEJJUSY DAY Rush Is So Great That Many Miss Their Christmas Dinner. Special to Tlie Tribune. OGDEN. Dec, 25. While a majority of Ogden citizens wero spending from one to three hours Id the leisurely consumption consump-tion of their Christmas dinner, there wero i few, about thlrty-flvc. who were forced to forego this pleasure that others might he made huppy. They were the clerks at the rallwav poslofflee terminal mall sla-tlon. sla-tlon. W'lilic some of the clerics were al-. al-. lowed a half-hour In order that they might hurry home and snatch a bite of warm turkey, others wcro obliged to content con-tent themselves .-with slices of cold turkey from a lunch basket. This sort of Christmas for tho mall I clerks was necessary In order that me station might be kept clear of the tons of Christmas pnekagc-s which am still arriving on every train. And the clerks havo been very successful In their campaign cam-paign against tho Christmas rush. For a. week past the work at the terminal has been carried on under the personal direction of Chief Clerk W. F. Bangasscr of tho railway mall service, and at no lime has the condition at tho terminal reached a point which might bo termed "swamped." According to Mr. Ban-xasser, Ban-xasser, fully 70 per cent of the parcel post matter throughout the country this . Christmas was handled by tho terminal i Rations. In tho case of the local situation, tho terminal has greatly relieved tho rUKh at the federal pnatofflec building. Postmaster Postmas-ter Vv. Browning added another deliver- wagon, malting five in all, to the equipment used In delivering parcel post mall thrcuiElinut the city, und the mass or Christmas mall at the local office was delivered Vcforc early afternoon. Persons who called at the postofflcu between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock today wore quickly accommodated. The plan of delivering de-livering parcel post packages rather than having the pare: els called for. at the post-office post-office lias worked very successfully. |