. American railway transportation . n 1907 207,237 miles. If each car carrying the mailsbe taken as a unit^ the annual travel or car mileageaggregated 387,557,165. The Second Assistant Postmaster-General estimatesthat during the fiscal year 1907 the railway postal clerkshandled 11,153,019,150 pieces of first-class mail and9,330,976,200 pieces of all other classes, making a totalof 20,483,985,350 pieces. In addition to this they han-dled 51,321,134 packages and sacks of registered sums make a total nearly twice the entire numberof pieces of mail transported by the railroads and allot
. American railway transportation . n 1907 207,237 miles. If each car carrying the mailsbe taken as a unit^ the annual travel or car mileageaggregated 387,557,165. The Second Assistant Postmaster-General estimatesthat during the fiscal year 1907 the railway postal clerkshandled 11,153,019,150 pieces of first-class mail and9,330,976,200 pieces of all other classes, making a totalof 20,483,985,350 pieces. In addition to this they han-dled 51,321,134 packages and sacks of registered sums make a total nearly twice the entire numberof pieces of mail transported by the railroads and allother carriers, but this simply means that the same pieceof mail may be handled by more than one railway clerk,that a package of mail may pass over two or more mail-routes on the way to its destination. The accompanyingmap, taken from the report made by Prof. Henry to the Commission to Investigate the PostalService, shows the routes over which the mail traffic isheaviest. A table showing the entire mail transportation service. THE MAIL SERVICE OF THE RAILWAYS l^l^i^V by a\ routes and carriers indicates something conce^etins:the extent of the service performed by the railroads. The Mail Service in Operation June 30, 1907 Service. Star routes Special office routes Steamboat routes Railroad routes Railway post-office cars Railway mail service (officers and clerks) Mail messenger routes Wagon routes (in cities) Electric and cable car Pneumatic-tube routes Necessary and special facilities on trunk lines Mail equipment Freight or expressage on empty mail bags, etc Miscellaneous items Number. 14,976 1,003 222 3,224 14,357 7,455 292 487 Aggregatelength, miles. 194,,, 207, 5, 1, 6, Total inland mail serviceForeign mails: Aggregate cost $3,123, Less intermediary service to foreign countries 181, Total. Annual rate ofexpenditure. $7,232, 34, 804, 45,118, 5,889, 15,248, 1,370,
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