Eastern Utah Advocate | 1899-04-13 | Page 4 | The World's Largest Accounting-Room

the horld largest efto u uncle sam has the largest accounting room in the world it Is the armce ot the sixth auditor at washington where every single ot the entire postal ervice finds finis final examination the th magnitude of the work the infinity or of detail tie tle mastery of 0 system Is al a palling F ve hundred clerks cona the working corps in 1898 1893 they passed accounts and claims involving iva or over 1 COO for each working dby day every one of the 73 postmasters submits li a quarterly report every item every figure every memorandum la in each ot of these accounts must be subjected to microscopic scrutiny every report passes through the bands ot of nine beets ot of clerks letters by the thousands and vouchers by the million must be checked and classi classified fled