| Show POSTAL FACILITIES Greater New York lias the Urges Postal Receipts Re-ceipts and the Quickest and Bell Service It was all Ingllh writer who pointed out that oU excellent method l ot ma urlng the clvlllzatlOIl ot a community was by no means or the number of letters sent annually by each of Us citizens Measured by this standard the United States not alone leads the world but It ham practically no second so far as the other competitors In the race are concerned Ot the postal bust ness done by the United States that of New York exeeeds and excels all the rest The per capita figure are so large as to seem almost Incredible The Ilec08 carried are for past the billion mark and the total amount of the money orders exceeds the entire value ot many of the smaller powers of the Old World The consolidation which went Into effect on New Years day doubled the size of the postal sjs tern of tho city Before that time It wa larger than 1url and almost III large as London Now It la In advance ad-vance of even the British capital It consists ot two mugnlncelll mnlll buildings the one 011 Droadwny Manhattan Man-hattan and the other on Washington street Brooklyn Each la a vast stone structure Pro proof tormproot and almost IImeproot and each colltalna wlthlll Its walls court rooms judges chambers and the other accommodation accommoda-tion demanded In Manhattan by the United Stale district and circuit courts of the Southern district tit New York arid In Brooklyn ot the eastern district of New York In each of these main buildings Is a Inanclal department where money orders or-ders and postal notes are Issued and where millions ot dollars are receive and disbursed In each there Is an office of-fice for the reception at blind letter the place which Is a humorous comment com-ment upon human infirmities There appears to be some mental law I w hereby here-by one person out of a million In nd dressing a letter will put on the name of the recipient but not the address There Is t another person In a million who will virtto nothing at nil upon tire envelope but will drop It nevertheless Into tho poslolTlce There Is I a third person who will but the name and the street but not the city or the state There are too persona In a million who NIll put the name antl the city bu not the state There Is I ono person whoso writing Is so bud an to require an expert I to decipher It There U another rh fJ If Jhr other whose spelling Is so extraordl nary as to require an expert to make out what In I meant These men arc always busy the number of letters they receive being just III conlalll aA the change from day to night In each of these two headquarters there la I ample provision made for the economy of time III the handling and dispatch of mall matter There are gwlftfooted boys and joun men who deliver letters ono on-o there are special delivery stamps there are quaint little chariots chari-ots opened in the rear with which collectors drive from lamppost box to lamppost box gathering the letter which have been dropped Into them by the public there are powerful express wagonsdrr by strong horses which loaded with malt bug and marks are driven like the wind from malll office to branch from olllco to leamcr plet and railroad oICIbt In Brooklyn there arespeclal lOt allies trolloy calll and In New York post omcc cable earn fitted up Its min Lattice ral way ofllces In which mal matter Is I sorted and dlltrlbuled as the car rolls uptown or out of town In the country The saving on time which this mean may be Inferred from the fact that fifty years ago the average mailing time for the sender In New York to the recipient In Brooklyn Queens or inch mond was twentfour hours while today It Is I often cut down to three houia and four And even this low time Is I about to be still further reduce by pneumatic luloe8 runnlnKtho length ot jfanlnttnn Wand > nl I extend I ni g through the main thoroughfarea of the Dronx Queens nrooktjn and Hlch o mond down to the I err boundary line of the huge new city Formerly the hoiirn for collection were those of the business day but the Increasing pressure of this demand halt lengthened this period at both ends so that the first collector starts out at the I 1 i2 0E I t dawn anti the lust may be seen In the llent thoroughfare at 11 I celoek In llm liogll11 VenlnKHvcn I thin 1 In 1 beginning to prova iwufflclflU anti l tt look nil It very noon there nnulil bo collections made and letter forwarded the dark holm of the night by means ir Rllnleht bra let anol rrwllmallo oIlaqt hn A Indlcatcd hy Postmaster Van Cot In a rcenl speech thl 1 I coul1 he dDnD 00 the ugltly that t ho I ellser Would erD mall Efra 100 a ° III dable rival to the mcsseniicr and 0 thln city limit to the telegraphic message tinder then two great ofllces tire branch olllces In Manhattan anti the llrunx there lire 110 live I than twenty ot these Indicated bj Inters of tho alphabet nnd Others unlettered nt I city Ishnd Illrhlirldn Klngsbrldge < Vnrthr Itndlfon Squire Tremont Westrhester Wllllnmsbrldge and University Heights III Brooklyn there are nine lettered undone und-one numbered and others at Flalhush Truth Bach III j tinUna nt Cannrslo Coney Inland Tort Ilamlllon Hieeps head nay rind Manhattan llonrh In addition to this the Imroush across tho river lias no 1w I tlmn slxtyfour Oil lhlomce stations well distributed III err part of Its Immense territory The magnitude of the postal business rnftY be estimated from the official reo tllrlt ut the government The Blots receipts of the New Yorl omoo the loft fiscal rear worn 7817 f I 1 If ce roo 0 yn 112 i Or Long 101n1 City s3tw nf Ja trillion S1Z9U lOr Port lIhmo1 SIT rOlt ot IIrlhton SrtOO ot RIIton 12400 of For Ilocknwaj 17400 of Flushing 123700 of Tottemllle K 700 of 1ompkln vlllp H2tli or Weit New Ilrlshton JIGSOO and of Woodhavon 2000 making n total of lutMeen nine And ten million nf dollars tin industry or the largrtt proportions Improvement Is I mill tli order of the < I 0 and every vtek PeeR some nw ncicstlon process or laborsaving contrivance A nw BIDmrln ochlne for cancelling stamps Is I among the latest lat-est noieltl and reduces thtt time nf the operation onehalf or doubles the effective power of the operator The mall chutes In the ornce buildings and the firstclass hotels bae effected ooothr leaving II time hlch nmnllnl tn several minutes In tho nrDII lot tr The electric moll trollea have cut down time hy at least all fquni amount anti the owireff practice hlh In I warmly enourngol b > the l outhorl ties privitte cltlienn ami i to ot keeping ncIIoI hoxR for the lv ory of lotters W tho post In I aln aiding the Increased roicelifitv at dlhy The next step will as Indented bit the connection or the main offices and nil the I branch velth capelu Mien matte thc which In tho case of ill tnneo more than n half mile reduro the tlm from ten Minute to onnhtt Co minute o mlleN Y Mall And Dx prosee |
