The Beginnings of the True Railway Mail Service: And the Work of George B. Armstrong in Founding itLakeside Press, 1906 - Počet stran: 85 Geschichte der Bahnpost i.d. Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika - USA / Fotos: George B. Armstrong u. Denkmal George B. Armstrong. |
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A. N. Zevely addressed appointed Assistant Postmaster assorting offices bags Bittinger Centralia Charles Emory Smith Chicago and North-Western Chicago and St Chicago post office Council Bluffs destination distributing offices distributing post office duties establishment exchange of mails G. B. ARMSTRONG George Hannibal and Saint head offices idea improvement Iowa letters deposited therein letters for offices mailed direct mailing and received Missouri River Montgomery Blair North-Western Railway office of delivery office on wheels offices on railroad offices supplied official history package Post Office Department post-billed and mailed postal car postal reform Postmaster at Chicago pouches proper route Quincy rail railroad companies railroad routes railway distributing Railway Mail Service railway post office Railway Postal Clerk railway postal service regular exchange route agent route offices Saint Joseph Railway Schuyler Colfax special agent Superintendent terminal offices therein for mailing Third Assistant Postmaster-General traveling post offices TRUE RAILWAY MAIL Washington Wisconsin
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Strana 66 - Finding that the mail cars had not been arranged according to promise made instead of going to Quincy I proceeded to Hannibal, and succeeded in getting cars temporarily fixed, in which (though with some inconvenience) I think the work can be done until the new cars are ready. The distribution was commenced on Monday at Palmyra, and I assisted the clerk, going up as far as Clarence, at which place I turned back with the clerk who had come down to go up on Tuesday ; assisted up to the same point on...
Strana 55 - ... post office at the last moment of the departure of the mails from the office for near or distant places should travel with the same uninterrupted speed and certainty as passengers to their places of destination as often as contracts with the Department for the transportation of the mails permit. It is well known to the public that passengers traveling over railroad routes generally reach a given point in advance of letters, when to that given point letters must pass, under the present system,...
Strana 66 - Davis reported to the assistant postmaster general what was the practical beginning of railway mail service • "1 have the honor to report that in obedience to verbal orders received through Mr. Waller, special agent of the department, one of the clerks and myself left here on Saturday, 26th, so as to be in Quincy on Monday, 28th ult., to commence the distribution of the overland mail on the Hannibal and St.
Strana 55 - To carry out the true theory of postal service, there should be no interruption in the transit of letters in the mail, and, therefore, as little complication in the necessary internal machinery of a postal system as possible, to the end, that letters deposited in the post office at the last moment of the departure of the mails from the office for near or distant places should travel with the same uninterrupted speed as passengers to their places of destination as often as contracts with the Department...
Strana 48 - ... overland mail route from Green Bay northward to Marinette, where the sawmills and the lumbering interests require "increased mail facilities." During this same session the legislature urged Congress to introduce "the new railway distributing postoffice system." because under the system then in use "a delay of twelve hours and upwards is necessarily incurred at the Chicago office" in the transmission of a letter from Wisconsin to the East. To Justice Cassoday a public office was a public trust...
Strana 18 - States, from Maine to California, and from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, including the Canadas.