| Show uncle sams mai aa 5 us Z 1 04 E in U 4 9 egg I 1 ala V va 1 t it 1 I sot 30 t problems Problem 5 of the de ent cue man Y by JOHN DICKINSON DICKINSO N SHERMAN SHERMA A v E yo you u ani been one ot at uncle be sums r B ifton mall if clerk cherka 1 ta hla him etc nka a new gaa a m sol 11 all 11 he be lint in but h he e pa has to wear it aad nowadays 1 to keep 9 byj up 11 alth ll the times you se see 1 in 1 that h t 1 big it anun rubbery robbery nut not long lone age aeo tie near chicago fit the robbers not net only had an airplane and four all automobiles laum bilm ole erlice sawed off hot runs goes and automatic pistols late i a but also gas masks and ad gas bomb bomba so ten or a dozen dome robbers had an easy busy time bm I 1 in holding up the 50 mail clock clerks on solid mull mai 0 and express train on tile the st paul on and it get getting away with registered annall mall containing two or so I 1 it was the gas bombs and it gas gam masks mask that did the business to be sure aure uncle sam isam has but can caught most of the rubbers sad and g got f back most of at the money but such thin things make 1 lota to of trouble and uncle so sum pa baa plenty of a mail it troubles baubles a as tt IB just look fit at the I 1 eixe se or of lilg mall briem hes ha tut got something om ething like post dust offices and a to more r being established every day of the year ear except pt sundays end and legal thom there a are nearly early workers in the post past office depa department mine of find and they handle every year and uncle sam fiam not being in the business to make money he has all 11 ll kinds ot of trouble in 1 making I big both ends meet at 1 in the fiscal year of 1923 for example it cost but him oer iS OOOO bud and he took so in only about ar huff and think bills of the things he has to attend I 1 to at stampa amsa a and oil an envelopes elopes newspaper appena and ar P postal earn cards money orders foreign and B d dome domestic nt postal savings bunks bank first beat second and third call cum matter ind and parcel post airplane railway cottony enier said and rurel 1 route room service alco bud and so on IS A why by postmaster st at general b hew e has be just JIM been a on receiving 1 bids for ODD skimped envelopes led and newspaper wrappers tile the postal savings it bave saut about poll ow to his til credit of depot thom there are am 45 rural routes and more than alian 10 atar ter mail ani routes the latter involving an annual travel by automobile at tills and ad wagon A of at a miles little things like these them ge a bi bint at of wason ome a of uncle sam a mail troubles is A thing filing that keeps uncle sam on the jump ecy minute in hi his mall mail business to la our iacre In increase cre 1 in population bill that afee aas from beat about to 1 in 1 the e too ten years and OR in eael antl rente by the census a here bureau puts put our beir p pan illation failon july 1 11 1924 at nn an increase of about 1 in the last to four a eura and it that alth it me restricted I 1 this thia an bienas more camm towns a M more post pilot offices mure more letters lettera more everything this new estimate of tile the population a sn shows tk that at there them see are now 79 cities hiving hitting a population of 0 a or BE more am as compared r ad with 68 last th attili no geons that llad ancle inch slat sim Is hard put to it to keep up with the promotion procession in the large home cities his post pon office facilities have a way of becoming inadequate over mer night here beret a an moment rat inn ni years team ago he built the great federal In building filding in chicago occupying whole hot block black 1 in the I loop IP P it was sea to be tile the last ward ard in punt post offices and tile the asive a sive pit pile was out of if date before it was coin re pitted che d 1 in that other ads words himeo hl cocos mall it business a krew grew faster it than led sun built britt britten of illinois hlll III introduce a bill at it the next east session ies slon of congress cone to sol sell the but building ing and alt jelte for approximately 22 and use a the it mi ney ter for fee tv o post offices ma one a on no the south U old tide and one on an tile est at side 14 another thing ng that chat keeps uncle sani sam awake 1911 1 la the im incessant ant ever increasing demand tor far speed and more marc a speed P bad time Is s mcney anney aias a tile the adage it comes m I 1 near an S beenk fil ardly tu true in the malls the deperta have 11 calculated iid that tile the new transcontinental in at refi mull twice a aves a anywhere from iad tn in M JO al a it day my rep ral resting resent in e interest on an money franf ported ad acres the country jl clyde kelly of pennsylvania 90 21 flo to far us as to hold held that the ohp sort service by strung throe three days I 1 cremati our ava Hable cash reserve by am each day he id there in fore m spen sponsoring surin g a bill in cout congem r cm greatly terms la ing g its to scope I 1 in athe the man manolas olms requests to for far at air mail srim service lire are pouring peering in on staled second assistant militant postmaster general henderson for air service III al alaska went wants it it I 1 Is no me wonder ads fit clial I 1 tl the be chicago post poor office we was ato out it of date before finished A As the railroads sup up planted fact the stage plage end and pony express in the troice poi chatS vf of tile the wells ma ch tea abeen because aae I 1 tl soon sam come came to 10 be th the railroad centor center ut of the country mum came abe to be tile the mall mail center through 11 i now me aidie the av might 1 a maw of if mall mutter it but 1 i centralized anaw anywhere h eve a on earth mail list operations if quickly I 1 outgrew magrow facilities T clr I 1 got get BO an had in 1819 1919 that a of it alie rail wayman service mude made a thorough study of tie a operations at chica Clil A As a small of tills study the dommu necee Bary war were flohil out but and ad H coin pre hen give scheme he ot of terminal op opera tion ws adopted the plan pian called for a site coo con avem vem oil I 1 located led for both railway ballway mall mail cars can and auto uto track a building of adequate rod nd design do 1 la which to handle the 1 mail I economically and on aa extensive application of mechanical still who ine result of all this to that there ther has hai just bem been ca GO I 1 s it 41 it I 1 v I 1 ni temple completed ad as an a part pan of the new chicago unon union station project a railway calley mall it terminal bunding abi which eh to Is unique among such structures it I 1 IB not net only y if the a largest existing building of at its sort art being boo feet fact I 1 loog lan 9 by 73 13 lea feet 1 in width with a belt height id of Q 1 I akas boe basement ba Bement track level isiel and sub basement but contains mechanical conveyors convey ora bud and transportation a equipment without an equal 1 in the world orld T this his equipment ts 1 capable of handling 8 1 tons of wall each 24 hours homes A further fit idea of the magnitude of the operations opera tlona carried on in this terminal Bl will be gained from tile the tact fact that more or the than 1000 clerks and porters palmer are am employed in the railway mail terminal department alone robert a moultra Moul toa a chicago writer thus th do the workings of the new plant vu was visited bv mall win men from all ail over the world amrid wh who iha are IS in search tell of 1 and ad speed the mail terminal building extends lead team van bar buren to else hantion isn street between before canal east street met on an the east and the chicago river on IS the east with ith a private driveway along the full length on tile the east I 1 vide tide the building is IB of th the latest a got fireproof ure deal deahn of steel and concrete and to Is furnished throughout with factory type test wah sash to pro I 1 e tile the emi mum light and ventilation Us its floor la is square feet it in 1 of tile the two level type and ad IB served by platform tracks track on tile the too lower level and ad a leakway on the street level the private referred to affording 1580 feet of clear tailboard space apace or amand for far CO 60 arms vehicles at one if time tr the truck track level a he has platform lagle bengtha adequate adisto re to serve til 61 car cars while the basement of at fords communication by means mean of tunnels with ith carb to it at union station platforms platform remote from the terminal perhaps the most notable feature of this fell cpr admal Is IB the system of belt a employed 1 in the building according to the resident engineer who be be baa ime been IS ID charge of 1 it the installation of tile the an mall handline hond dim line g rpm equipment c this 1 e in 1 la the lane am of eat at 1 not lotion of it its kind ind in the world it con can alone of 71 belt e conveyors requiring tile hie use a of op approximately eight miles of twirls selling filling trucks truck of a special design 1 behooved type track of a standard type and ad a nom her bar of tract tractors I to in handle the I 1 truck rucks hely the building buil dini in n addition to these to fa ellit lea there here am 15 fright elevators eleter ly IY 9 by IS 18 feet fee each the terminal lina has a variety artery of at f ti am our one of the most important 1 la it the him di g of if mall ro re ceded sit from find and dall delivered omd 1 to feel nt it the union mutton th tills I 1 consists primarily of the tr transfer far of 1 mall I t mark heckh tie fioro bin trial el chelleu ehl clen to mall if cain or omd and vim vice tarsa eran A real parl or r tile the ap ier of tie heideier hei hB weier cc cons Is Rf 1 in he be receipt 11 classification bud and dispatch of all cuts I 1 losnes at aidi id perrot parcel poil past inell all in col CM ease anco no well sell I 1 oanfa of tilts a li lecuse cuse I 1 ww ins ing through the city alle ablie I 1 its lad bulk of tile the tile nin feel a I 1 Is race received 1 rd in the terminal nil already and with iab the conid a portion lofb of it him hj not unde remor these operations and to take ill of the latter a post office he has been provided 1 in file building it 1 nall the fit bial from tho tile the street 1 IB room received ad all along g the middle punk ot if tile the arl driveway tie I 1 veony spice a 1 I aliat I 1 at from trains on an the be 1 or r track level I 1 prom these two points of receipt it Is IB dol delivered hered to the upper illard of the building for the necessary work of station formerly period parcel post poat mail originating in ahlm wu we sacked cited unit loaded into track at basic bues and it ported to the mull mall station I 1 I 1 mm 25 to 30 80 minute were required to load a 11 truck talk bud and a similar length of time needed to unload it under the new A stem the same work 1 a dune dine in from the three to five minute of at each end of the fine thus effecting effect effecting in a moving laving of close to an hour on ench motor truck loud load the oret met step la in the system begins at the targe large bechem ban or mall mail order coi emern nerna ahe mail to Is loaded lodell into mix elx or eight of the small tilting trucks bud the bitter are am v conveyed d by a large motor truck to the mall to initial building arrived there tile the tilting trucks are pallid nui of of the iho motor truck coupled ti gather in ID train and touched attached to M an fee tractor which beat the them to a trough rough or pit BO 50 feet long and 45 sachs wide in the floor door A bumper at one tile side of the pit marks tile tho route mute fw for the irala imm or of tilting trucks atud ad Pro prevents lents tt it fee from 9 into the pit am A the train P em long along tilt lit each truck and nil the favento slide to ill the tied hell belt there them being three theme feet of apac am ench each to for 40 taca a b below III the belt la i hiir x r trum that of the tram team and th thus u s it clears cleara each true truckload in time to face recene the he next t load lead tile the con conveyors voters are from 50 thoo to IOD feet to in lennith they y travel 40 feet a minute an am carry all the prec am aed cd me mall going through tile the hit the width of if the belt 1 la 2 inch and ad it he haa a cal carrying capacity of 15 per squaire us enot athla would amount to approximately pounds or 12 tons per par hour two maln conveyors convey ora hour tie dellger v s to inclined c on ey orti am which in turn doll deliver to I 1 two amb primary units on the send second and third floora fibers T the h a separation an I 1 I 1 on the fl third fa d floor which 1 Is teet feet im long takes ho care are of tile the mull mail for fee tile the far of to ion a imil nna Alse millin II if bioli ten and ohio I 1 he sort in no clerks stand baand on a plot pint aime extending b wee the he two tiers ter of belt nea I 1 e q s I 1 r i UP D babet they pick tram feel the food feed balt bait the be packages package intend ed ad for or the different states ore ond ad II 11 throw them hers onto at the various belts belta specified tor for those these states state can co vaa alm flares at the allies aldea of tile belts belta prevent packages from going onto into the floor nt at the aade nine time deflecting packages to belts belt mad br breaking I 1 ig their fall A separation unit on the fourth floor or I 1 hakea me care of 11 the belta bell assigned ad to tile the late of mi ala mla snarl bourl new I 1 lork evil kentucky etc the primary separation sa eisten stem on this floor has the same num lier bar of bails belt do as if tar system a on the third floor anz the only billy difference being that the fourth floor system it Is CO 60 feet let long 1119 whereas the third filled floor la Is feet fast Is 1 ga the final separation and ea classification 1 it of all mat handled by the terminal fa forces i Is sa made at tab on the second d third filled fourth and ad filla hoort debts where he tile the mall all 1 Is placed 1 in mael backs and ad properly marked ready for far delivery to the union station force fares on an the track floor or the or to the street vehicles on the street goor floor fr for delivery to various parts of the city or to other t her stations such mall mail 1 in sacks lack IB 11 handled bandied by means of tractor reactor trains which take the sack direct dimet to mall me cars the movement of the sacked marked mall it from the athe fl floors ort mentioned to the track or street floors floor I 1 Is by carrying the sack on balanced type trucks to holes la in tile the floor lea leading effing to in i n u if a office ca come iorg mw his HP to u floor door holcli extend attend practically the entire length of the build ing 19 th eliy nab mall 1 Is dropped ort onto a llie its ceiling COD n flam say a openings pa or by chus chairs 1 in the Is floors iber eliere or are 60 of at these thee chutes cheate 24 to 30 inches in size fire to a floor and they are uniformly spaced I 1 im it to if not at to have the fit mall amr seek backs drop it tha full fail aal erthal distance ot of 7 feet from the floor 1 livel 1 to the ceiling iso conveyors the chutes are am en vach fach gh chen a quarter turn M an arrangement which penults file fhe ticks sacks to hilde within tilts three feet fee of ill the belte belt fah or of the 20 calling co nevor belts Is tile canner ted with fill no one of doubt double spiral chutes chum placed in different ent parts pans of tile building alie bolling belling forming tile the conveyors Is made of chah ran four ilear Ile cr of no canvas weighing two pounds pound to tile the square lard inn in Pil clug the helta belts flax feebie ible momi hiring IB 1 ind tile the ends code of the belts belt are I 1 pulled lukather by recon of at clumps clamps a and ad the teeth ah a strip 1 I I 1 of metal mend inverted led to ki ep them from pulling part apart the belts travel tn on t n rollers of cold dran s no 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