. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . know whether the next steamer leaves fromSan Francisco or Seattle or Vancouver. As hehas thousands of letters and packages to distributeevery day, this knowledge must always be instantlyready. Railway Mail Service.—The railway mail serv-ice also requires much intelligent and rapidwork. We have all seen a mail-car and observedits internal arrangement. A large number ofmail-bags are hung up along the inside of the is a mail-bag for every town on the route ofthe train and fo^ important cities farther the mail is ha
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . know whether the next steamer leaves fromSan Francisco or Seattle or Vancouver. As hehas thousands of letters and packages to distributeevery day, this knowledge must always be instantlyready. Railway Mail Service.—The railway mail serv-ice also requires much intelligent and rapidwork. We have all seen a mail-car and observedits internal arrangement. A large number ofmail-bags are hung up along the inside of the is a mail-bag for every town on the route ofthe train and fo^ important cities farther the mail is hastily dumped into the mail-car atthe different stations, the mail-clerk sorts it andplaces every individual piece in the proper pouch. The railway companies are paid veiy liberallyfor carrying the mails. It is difficult to determine 108 CIVIL GOVERNMENT just how much they should receive for this service,because the amount of mail that is sent over theline varies greatly from time to time. The govern-ment pays for the use of the mail-cars, but per-. Chicago and Northwestern Railway DepotThis depot, with land and approaches, will cost $20,000,000 haps it would be better if it owned all the carsused in the service. Classes of Mail Matter. — Mail matter is dividedinto four classes. In the first class are letters andsealed packages, or anything containing rate on this class is two cents for each second-class mail is composed of newspapersand magazines sent out directly by the pay only one cent a pound. This rate is,of course, far too small to pay the actual expensesof the service of handling this mail. It is, how-ever, looked upon as educational work to dis- THE MAILS 109 tribute cheaply among the jjeople of the nationnewspapers and magazine hterature. \\hen anewspaper is sent through the mails by a personother than the publisher, the iDostage is one centfor each four ounces. The third class comprisesbooks and other printed matter, on which
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