Show PO S IAL Oual ners M during tho list ton lears xia hat Io boullett the postal service of the country advances with extraordinary growth within twenty kara ears both rec reel nue lues and expenditures of the pos tonice torlIce depict depart havo have mul ciul three told old in III I 1 tho the last ten bearn eara they have nearly doubled our postal business grows much more rapidly than our population rt it now involves an of a year numbers number 73 and enrolls employed emp loyes this remarkable 1 extension of a which chic 1 Is an accurate index of the public conditions di t lona presents gratifying evidence of tile the advancement advance men t of education of the increase of communication and business activity t v ity and of the tha improvement of mat leading to their c constantly 0 n augmenting uw uge the lie war with spain pain laid new an and d ex optional cerU onal labors on the tha posto inco depa dehait I 1 I 1 eilent mustering of the and naval cices of 0 the united states required r special mall maji arrangements for ever even camp and ei e ery campaign tho the communication between home and camp was Datu naturally rally eager an expectant in coma of th tha I 1 irger klales ea of ous as anany an a GO CO letters a day n handling uhla illis necessity was met by the prompt tall etall of experience I 1 nien men flail bioni tho the established foice and by all the hie of the dillway mall tind roe rott ovice beirce so BO far as aa essny to this new nied Congre Conf ireat ei lin an act empower it K g tho the postman to general to an all office ir i r arandi at every military camp or station arid and under this authority the postal machinery was Y put into effean live operation ACROSS tim SIAS anas under tho ilia same authority when our foncell advaney adv anctil d lipon cuba porto illo and the philippines they acie attended and followed by tile the postal vervia hough 11 the tha act 0 of Con BieH authell ald the alia ai of wh ele it was wae early debei mined that the public interests would be ba beat not ly IY new but bytha by aho detail of experienced men familiar with evary branch of tile the lee this ihla policy was wab followed when A lie rl the territory which was waa the theater of 0 conict conti lct camo came into oui it be baine to establish reestablish re will mall facilities cili ellIt ties les for the resident population wa ita well ns no to provide them for out oui forces of occupation and the former requirement was waa met through the extension and in d application of the latter obligation I 1 grave gave the requisite aut horty arid and tha ilia same barne general principle was waa applied to to os as to other branches of civil adain admin under military occupation the tit details lire are more particularly given in the report ot the osani ant r fineral gi g and while the Is only j t t begun it to la to be ba able I 1 to 0 sa ba that tho the X service a arvice in the teri atory which wl I 1 fell has come coma under tinder our control Is already materially improved |