. The street railway review . any may obtain acounter injunction to prevent the obstruction of theUnited States mails. The car runs on a schedule. Ata certain hour in the morning it arrives at the generalpostoffice to receive the sacks and pouches. Stops aremade at twelve points at certain hours to deliver thesacks of outgoing mails to carriers who are in waiting,and to receive from them the incoming mail. All of themail received on the car is stamped by the clerk and dis-tributed to the respective pigeon holes and sacks, thuseffecting a saving of time, which is one of the principalobjects of
. The street railway review . any may obtain acounter injunction to prevent the obstruction of theUnited States mails. The car runs on a schedule. Ata certain hour in the morning it arrives at the generalpostoffice to receive the sacks and pouches. Stops aremade at twelve points at certain hours to deliver thesacks of outgoing mails to carriers who are in waiting,and to receive from them the incoming mail. All of themail received on the car is stamped by the clerk and dis-tributed to the respective pigeon holes and sacks, thuseffecting a saving of time, which is one of the principalobjects of the postoffice department. The trial trip was attended by representatives of thepostoffice department and of the Atlantic Avenue Rail-road Compan). Schedule time was made and the mailwas handled without a hitch. The street railways of Pittsburg, Pa., are co-operatingwith the postoffice department to give that city a bettermail service. As yet the improvement in the serviceextends only to the use of regular cars as carriers of. INTERIOR MAIL CAR. mails from one station to another. In time special carsmay be employed, as at Brooklyn, on which to distributemail matter en route. The first of Pittsburgs numerous traction companiesto receive the honor of carrying Uncle Sams mail is thePittsburg Traction. G. W. Elkins, president of the com- (^tud^5\aiiwa^j\eylW 689 pany, has accepted a proposition of the government totransfer the mail from the central postoffice to Station Ain East Liberty, a distance of five and one-half contract becomes effective November 15. Themail pouches are carried on the platforms beside thegripmen and motormen, in whose custody they employe of the company will be sworn into thegovernment service, and each car carrying mail bearsthe inscription U. S. Mail. The next to carry mail will be the Citizens TractionCompany and the Birmingham Traction with these two companies have been submittedto the department at Washington for a
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