| Show I 1 aft AN INSULT TO THE PUBLIC V k f the treatment which this city is receiving in the matter of postal facilities 1 I 1 ia Is simply scandalous pleadings r and protests protea tB are alike futile in bring 1 1 ingan improvement complaints go 0 tor for naught and arguments are a waste f of effort recommendations from the u pc Bt and from the department 01 0 officials seem to be pigeon pigeonholed ho holed led the r moet most that can be hoped from them is k P that in the course of the unwinding 0 aw I 1 orsome interminable bobbin of red I 1 1 tape they may be reached and con ei oi dered this is an insult to a busy community numbering twenty thousand P people and a disgrace to a government 1 believed to be run on business bustness J V principles 0 As a matter of fact the facilities for 1 the handling of the mails today to day are 1 precisely what they were when our population was one third what it is now the postal business has probably K increased tenfold ten fold today to day not P a box is to be had there is not room enough in the building forthe for the I 1 people who are compelled to call for their mail at the window there is L 1 scarcely room for clerks enough to e handle it and there is certainly not half money enough to pay such stich az 14 number numb r of clerks with every I 1 I 1 dollar of the postmasters allowance 1 paid to employees and 1 with the public even then only halt half 1 1 served the niggardly policy of postmaster general johns department 0 merita merits all the execration which an indignant public heap upon it what is to be bo done 7 the postmaster cannot be asked to employ a r larger larker force and pay them him himself elf it ought to be enough that be gives his own compensation receiving his bis reward 11 I 1 for the care and responsibility of the position in the frequently 1 unjust criticisms of the public can I 1 any anyone one suggest a remedy we believe I 1 it would pay to raise a fund by i subscription aub to hire suitable quarters quarter a 1 2 and employ clerks in sufficient number to correct this present impediment 41 to business this cause of losses t and disappointments this provocation t k to harsh language and find ill humor cl but would such a course be permitted 7 11 it any one thinks it would shame the department into doing its plain duty I 1 quickly we are ready to advocate it at 1 I 1 once and heartily |
