Show POSTMEN OP OF HAVANA itle by which they in crea edwd sod their pay under the spanish system mr rathbone found that the letter carriers received their pay by charging tro from 3 to 5 cents and sometimes more for every letter they delivered it took only only a day or two to have that system abolished in havana much to the relief of the Iner merchants chants the carriers were put on KA salaries Is les equivalent to that which they were sup supposed posed to earn by the assessment M ent method they were perm permitted bitted to use under the former regime the carriers under the spanish system not a only charged for the delivery of mall mail matter but they rifled letters freely and made money by stealing stamps from mall mail matter and selling them the letters and other grads grades of mail matter would be forwarded without stamps and the carriers at the other end and of the routes would collect not only for delivery but for the stamps that had bad been stolen there was simply an unparalleled looseness in the conduct of postoffice post office business and every man an seemed to have license to steal wherever he coma even newspapers would be stolen from firm bundles and sold for whatever could be got for them another fora of corruption was evident when the salary lists were examined there was w no scale of salaries in one city a postmaster would receive twice the salary that the postmaster of a larger city rec received elved salaries seemed to be arranged on the pull plan with the of division with the appointing power afterward attar yard places that under the liberal payment of the united states would rate at 1500 a year were worth frequently as much as a year harpers weekly |