| Show f C R T Y O US 1 BIG 19 JOB I A CHAT WITH f THE UNCLE L SAMS L GEN E IL t g Special Correspondent c of If the It Des D I baud W Just JUl had n Ion long talk with n Ii who knows hla hi Jab Joh 1 r t to U 13 Cortelyou nur Ilo postmaster Ile He entered th the Io lomeo department as B a stenographer when lie he canto camo to toWa Wa 15 13 Steps ago ugo and t there er tour four or Ilva 1101 yeats Cau holding orlou before Mor ho Wn aas pro rooted mote to III tho While l 11 this x lend clerk and secretary of Presidents Cleveland and lt he has been closely b with our and I that there I la not noot a n public man In the tho who row understands I Il Letter better than h he Quit oUn 1111 JOB JOU JOUIt JOBI It I ix tu to know n bu I Ike this and tie lile man who tt It I meet have brains nerve honesty and I 0 ability Lc ilia 1 allow ho you OU how hov this i the Job I ts Tho postmaster general 11 mo me the hot but I 1 use only round e an ant d Imn lato life his word t Into It IL la big hie In Ine tile e money handled We spent l i toO eo on It last year and It brought In InU U Nevertheless Ih theca II sums name I ore lire small I III all In with the Iho job 11 that um aunt we rte carried the tho mall of at t and It II cost coat Nu each h or of them i only 17 11 edits tar or the tho service The Tho job Is s a big one In his the hande om em emt 1 t hUH hux inch nen J under him and hi tits Clrk carry our let IIII OrOr st ashy rul forties lt If tile they could ho be placed to end they 1 Tend reach tram front the earth to 10 the moon and t 1 hark and leave leaVo more than tO mlles mile 1 to spare In alit own country alone Ilono the nt of domestic mull travel a 0 hall hulf Jillion in n one Vcr and ancl the Iho number ot of handled Cu the Ihl f amount to 10 Such euch I are ro j AHE CLEmS 1ST E T During the talk I 1 naked the tha Il almus ter M n to graft In the depart i wt Netos N by Frank G Cementer m matter and d erY must Iro ho In III person la tc tho sH and tiN the carrier cartier lx III required to Ir take tallo them tt to the patron dool It ona mill of the Iho route roule lie Ih bt b required to to carry U a 1 t lit n t o t am pa r l n loUal postal card arils am u and hn he can matter for regle tuition and give Cle for tor the nto same IM lIo He mast nHut olsa accept money fur for the JUt of money mOM order tar fur which Ito 10 must give t tHol liow Hol about the Uncle Sam them themI 1 I No Do they Ibey nr are put pur U up nt at the cost of the persona who deals the tho and Iho boll h btu erected by the Ihl so HO that the Iho currier cat cun reach th without from Ida hili 1111 Icle lI department fixes thin Iho size shape and of th the boxes h x anti nn iI that each must U be equipped d with 1 n bl t ignal I b by the tho may moy know thorn 1 hi 1 mull ht hI It 1 A All II In thin Iho cl curt l ot of rural delivery It Il u ne over I last year and the Iho appropriation for tor this year 1111 Is fa moro lucre than OOOO Thu lh revenue Oil nn the tho moll better maHr b by the of the ler eer vIco Ico amounts tu to IS 8 per cent ot of the cost hut but it II is IH behoved that thin 8 brinK thin the department nn In ht creased rv uno from outer 1 1 II It t is vey en popular and hoe hilI be been 11 valli 11 In th the general of bush bUill pees and Inc tn ht thin tho diffusIon ot of genre UN UNCLE g SAMS SAIS POST OlI CE i iDo 1 Do Ou nu not lIot think that Uncle Sam an 1 own on his hla on a w n o a l 1 There Is III I u ot of opinion o oa that subject said the postmaster gen general n eral It Ie 18 t to o say that the KO 0 hould have tor all 1111 the class and fr for the larger of I the hI second cia class 1 thInk build more with regard to the demunde of the future As It la Is lano Isnow no now IL a government building Is he badly ly ready to for occupancy before the tho postal business 8 for tor It Is II intended hue hueso II so grown that It Iii Id barely enough Iou 11 to lt It A As to our rented We pay low rates for far postal accommodations In III most and I e oo C tt ttY Y i it t if M lr t a 7 tl t a at iI f dAr t Ilex I i I r y I iI Iti l L Ll Li i f W e eI I I I i i y I II If C 1 C 4 J t to o 0 O 4 t 14 A oo O 0 M nON ION GEORGE B CORTELYOU A Knows IIII the fob Jo putting the Iho blunt all as to government clerks were hOtt hOl nt eat The rho po general genral replied I yes OH and It ll ask Illk whether IhN are aro to Ih dt vertigo a in III I 1 will nay yes Take are tend In 1001 Tads billions of awl other matter Icon JOI ot of that Ilu du rOil yuu we 0 lost Just Jus thre of j 1 pc per cent ona that losses lons lonstrom lam Iro dro null toad nil as well iI a from J stealing It meant n III hose ot of 3 I cents In and u mono to tobt Iw bt of le lees than I 1 bo be bolI beC C lI leave vl there I la u a private In the world that can dhow n II better UNCLE HA SAMS IH Dm ray n your report 1110 1 too that the tha poll spent lat last y year ar just about more mON than It took In t tj Duos not Hot our OUI postal service pay nay and It not 1101 ho y can that t h Nn l lly j fly ly tho word pay I Infer that you ou mean to 10 ask whether department lIt I is Thin 11 tor flub last lineal year vuis more than you slat by Oc over half I a million dol 1101 al but that I iN due to the Iho net lint the revenue from certain ot of mull matter is 18 not equal II to the cost ot of their parts of the tho service it ft could ho 10 I b by giving lie Us credit for all ull lash han died hy by the 11 do and II by members or of ll llor or b by n h higher InrI upon ono ot of of mull matter nod especially upon I second du class matter I 1 les think hank It 11 Would Woul be b bettor hetter business to In have hav each department 11 pay Its own 01 portage Wo Re should then know just what It ro IK to 10 each tach branch lit of the government and Ihl lie pa department get Ket credit for Its ser services I r vices t z Ax H to In butter con continued i up two of thin built hullt wll ht of our cite nod n pert ot of It Is III d nl 01 1 a toms of hit by br till the is ht Nr ear tied tree nile sad thin lx III at 1 rt nominal po postal ull or n II cent n Upon all such matter It Is tilI til cs I I that tho I Is only about or of n cent a I and th the wo we romp romo mainly from the Iho high rate rillo Ithe Iho other classes It If thu tale rata Oil on second cla class M matter here and I It all the tho mall it I carried paid there WOUld lip he nn 1111 II ta it II is ho non the Iho amount lacking has hal to 1st hy by n II draft upon th the ors for tor mon moneys 1 tram olho ti or of government revenue nUE lU JJ Tell Inn something about the rural ruml delivery mull mall The Tho rural delivery service tins bean prell pretty well throughout the tho United States have huo now more than rG 7 routes and we 0 36 rural mall carriers Almost nil all these thero deliver and collect Nong NongI I their routes every day Th They lettera to 1110 more than families 4 fir or to 10 almost persons ink lok inkt t ina tho ho population of the tho States nt at the Iho round number of If fully one person In every CrIT six get his hie lieu mall lq IW rural Jun what pro the tho Cit of a rural mall CArrier canter of rt 14 r II deliver t to th t box Ir fl patron nil all tM the mail mall f to hl family and to collect nil alt mall m lI In Ih the box bux fOr dl tell I In SOIlO places we have leases nt at the rental of Df a doper dollar a a y year ar the contract Including Mat heat I ht and ail other such lIch YoU TOll see lice the IH he often nn advantage to 10 n a lucidity and to other anti In such liuch cases men nr lire glad a date un III hit the lowest rent JoY flow about t n new po building lor Washington 7 1 do n not lt think we a need another for thus just at this time wit 1 should larger noon The rhe city of If Washington may some somo day be trans tran tented to near neRr the new railroad ter ler This Thill matter maUer hn has been fI erred td b by theo the department There It Is no doubt ouM but that thaI n a better service could coull ho given by havin the tho la Ill nn close lIS as to the tho railroad 1 eta ta IN OUR oun FAR AWAT COLONIES What II s your do dolor hll In n nIh Ih Porto Tho postal vica ot of th the Philippines h iii not lot under lOIler tills MId the ills postmaster I noral It Is under th the supervisor ot of n II director o of posts who Is 18 accountable to the lo local nl civil Of the We lVa the atolls for 01 awall h and Porto and have hlO agents In both bolh colonl to tn the mail transportation In n lucre thoro lire 6 63 mall routes ax more flan 1004 Ol and Ind In loco 43 S routs routes having II a length or of miles We Re have r recently IS cc h d I tt rural f service III ht and Ih the postal ac c ot or Ihn ho colonies are aregood good Tim TILE I IMPROVING i 1 lucre r rd cd the Iho general as to 10 lit in the c lIe replied Wo have hae made a number of import not changes l During Daring the past Int year yar the department has hae Men been entirely zed and has approved of the Many or of my rec have been boen adopted end with the Iho readjustment ot of salaries th thI I extra tra till for rural ruml delivery the tho tube e and the gun erni acceptance fir of th the departments J lIc n the ot of 10 the tiun outlook for th the future I III bright THE rim tS AS GENT nut UI ar are than not mUI many naya Ia In which the post postal service could be ex t I 1 ill 1 over Ocr Europe art are carried b by post pott both bolh farmers and Llo do tin nn express through the tho malls mall 1 think the conditions are different here replied Mr Cortelyou Our distances are aro so mil great that It would bo be to establish such n and n a uniform rate ot of postage WI We should l havo to 10 have havea a high rata or 1 4 temporary The ho express s companies would compete wIth us in under the tho ono foe 0 short hort The Ih t result would be that Sam would get lIet all the long Ing distance parcels l and an the tho ox ex express press all the Iho short distance lI The Tho would there therl therefore tore fore work at a urea dl II In deed decd I doubt whether It I Int would Quid be t wino nt hit this jinn to pk Congress ter fM 1 n sep Mp orate pot although to In ply last annuAl report I that and fourth lI close a mail matter should h hit cd tot It the ell Je 0 1 1 SeAt for I Vr An Army of S Who Handle in the Post Poat fire Govern Government Government ment Clerks Cleric Rural Delivery Uncle Sam Own His Own P Post st OHice s The Mails of Our as Express A Picture Card and the Civil of Clerks MU Must t tl Not Mi Mix In l v w rIf rj d U a Jy r J wp 1 tr 1 e hat t lr Y eth t 1 f An 1 Fret Iti r ra r C taA 4 1 p t J aYa 1 t i I u 1 t d r i N t Zt fl J t 4 s br tk f r My r r 11 1 a A 4 ra 9 ti Y 21 t tr ta 1 w b r ale rr r a 1 4 yf t r f t r verr Y i 1 G READY TO START ON HIS ROUTE Otto Ouo Sixth Buth ot of 1110 of hue tho United Now Mall by Buret De two to ounces 05 could be done with Ith o out c h tb tn 6 our OUI g and all 1111 r lien parcels ot at untie unde tour four pounds would Wen their be ba earned In our ordinary I at n In Iho Ir present ent rates This would light lIht packages lu be sent many places not Iy the tha express s companies anti and the be enough nou I to 10 pl pay the government t for the tho actual cost ot of transportation I understand that reductions sure to h he m our foreign letter rates sir 41 Postmaster General said I That b s true The matter came up before tho Universal Postal congress on re s slit lit alt Homo and It hUll has been boen l taut with t Oct I 1 tM the rote for lint gloss S matter between tI Q countries ot of the postal shall ahall be reduced l At Al the rate rale is 11 p 6 rents per halt ounce tt October ot of next year ear Ute the foreign rote rate for elite rr wUI wf le jo r tor rho first pod a I cents tr for each Mch additional ounce Q that one can ean then for tor g 8 cents first class ranas matter which non nil cost c Oats him hl m 20 5 0 cents Another change made mue b by lint enables ono to prepay the re reply reply ply to 10 a 11 letter whIch he sends abroad 1 b by means et o I n coupon t tich co 6 cents Such coupons will bo be on sale at our poe And they wilt will bit 1 exchangeable In tho ho countries to WhIch tho they are ura sent for tor the Ihl postage there O to tM the lue or b 5 centimes or 3 cent Th The u nl Q provided that mw may he written on an the alt a I sides ot of postal ante lr will willbe bl be tl to II hl kuro c who t wish I e to i o e picture lQ horne rte PICTURE ANU ND tIIE flow Ho about picture poet cards 7 Hare they u our nun They rhe undoubtedly have replied 11 the rho postmaster general and that In a most I way These rhe host Ilo t curds curda area lC uniform weight Thc They turn easily an lol because o th they occupy py II but email nUll and Ire tiro tun great n t the Iho letter It tithes 10 I O of them to a 11 and all as the rate rata for or each Is 1 cent tilt Ihl revenue mIC gat a a pound of such earths la 18 U sl U O This lh Is IS also true ot of the tha States they 0 IIi f slat That is III 1 b which thorn lima 1 must I t hm regard them nil as n fad think th their h use Iee will IIII ally Ill dl out nUl They file ore very r convenient oral nub one OM to tat lot his hili know lma ho is III thinking fit of n Ion long letter JI that respect they l ey are popular h I suppose ll panel o of the Iho tIU post ale Catlin hopt e es Wit w have Il I large ill hut foreign maths a dent to 10 Ihl hie country bern rn In p live lit at horn home I hl II no bonne or of l I h the lIt of rust crul l 1 whIch conies comel Into thin tho United States tOnt noun for tor 11 countries is hI many lase titan Ihan the Ihl of postal we 10 Use at al home Of cour course the Iho front 1 mailed In foreign 1 es ed d to 10 of our country IS III 10 the ut at rho Iho tUI foreign where they aro mulled foreigners tIn do not hare th In America as oly Ol its travel In foreign rile fhe hal of trade c In this IIno is III o In ht favor ot of the foreigners Inasmuch its III post cards carda are arc handled reciprocally Indeed It Is behoved that three or four our ouri i foreign pot post cards cants come to the United i Stales for tor very every United States poet 1051 card gent abroad AND TIlE TIIE POSTOFFICE How about civil service In your do Mr Postmaster General Is Isit It a political machine run for the tho hone tlene I lit of Ula he party In Not It at all was the thEl rell rcpt The I civil service rules prevail Oil Our r n Y ca are lr q atel without regard g 1 to 10 their political and we ort are having fewer complaints hail Ihan ever aNo IA aN IAto to at an Im n r o 1 ere partisan r activity o t t part part about or ot of govern the they ho be encouraged ngel aged It 11 the tho tI II and their It they are formed far tor social tit I or for tor I the at t in they Ilia lit nay I P oe und and even 11 a III th With 0 ny eth III t nr 10 t tho tha public pubic It 11 is numbers tl ona wont r nuu JUly I WUI to II COlm rr lilY any tl n HII t I e clerk cierI all as an JI g lire ev UP Iv h to Ia ad nUlt a 4 hr d r fIl a 0 00 Ids hl m alone rho rhe nuu tt tre II u au went Is h r t nn I r th the la have II to m i I It I I Ot or nil all tho Iho II ill a t I r I 1111 1 digit h nt Nil al h 8 eel r Ly by The rn I n UI au lit of oai rr rI 1 should be I cam 1 I e the ha IV and Iho I sl and It hould bI L liMit I that th the Chatty fly w UI tin tr of ct the po the Iho II Ule me I IT ll a to 10 dupart ollar n 1 u s nw 1111 je Ja nap not Ih the on t I 5 I I In l hr In n of nuy ot of employee r l 0 N 1 |
