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Show iEXPECT HEAVY HOUDAY MAIL R. M. S. Prepares to Handle Increase of From 10 to 40 Per Cent Railway mall nervlrc officials :ire iprnpririn'; tn handle im lncrea of BBywJiere from 10 per rent to 41) per cent of the holiday mall of last season, sea-son, according to V . n Taylor, chief 'clerk of the loral Railway Mall Service Ser-vice department, who returned yesterday yes-terday afternoon from Omaha, IVeh., where he wont to attend a conferenre 'of Railway Mall Sor lr,. officials and Irallroad officials of practically all the ;blp eastern railroads passing through ithnl place. Th'-r werCJ -'1 persons In attendance attend-ance at the conference, ho said The principal speakers wero J. H. Muasrave, superintendent of the four-teentli four-teentli division of the Railway Mall Service; R. S. Brauer, superintendent ot the Thlcago division. S. Cleler, superintendent of tho Rt. iouis division divi-sion and Assistant uporintpnii nl eel of the Chicago division Railroad offli lala that have, been gathering statistics relative to the In- teed holiday business statci that at tho present time the railroads v. re carrying iulte as much mall as they carried during the holiday season last year. On those figures they based their estimates that the coming holiday season sea-son would see an incra In the amount of mall carried all the way from 10 per cent to 40 per cent Mr lr.ylor Bald Inst night that h would leave Ogden this afternoon for jfan Francisco to attend a conference of B similar nature He expects to return the latter part of the week. |