A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . the place of the horse. Stillmore recent is the aeroplane, or flying machine, an Ameri-can invention, which is now widely used. Postal Progress.—The first regular mail route of whichwe know in this country was started in 1672 between NewYork and Boston, by way of Hartford. It made the roundtrip once a month. In 1729 the mail between Philadelphiaand New York was carried once a week in summer, once a 34 524 STAGES OF- PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. of the reaular mail. fortnight in winter. The mails were carried by men
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . the place of the horse. Stillmore recent is the aeroplane, or flying machine, an Ameri-can invention, which is now widely used. Postal Progress.—The first regular mail route of whichwe know in this country was started in 1672 between NewYork and Boston, by way of Hartford. It made the roundtrip once a month. In 1729 the mail between Philadelphiaand New York was carried once a week in summer, once a 34 524 STAGES OF- PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. of the reaular mail. fortnight in winter. The mails were carried by men onhorseback, their saddle-bags sufficing for all the letterssent. In remote places a mail was sent out when enoughletters had collected to pay the cost of carriage. The oldcarrier is said to have jogged slowly onward, knitting stock-ings to pass the time. Newspapers did not then make part In 1753, Benjamin Franklin was ap-pointed postmaster-gen-eral, and spent five weeksin making a tour of thecountry to perfect hisplans. The service wasmuch improved underhis _r-^-Fe &.;.\;^ The Pony Express. Postal Service in1790. —In 1790 therewere seventy-five post-offices in the country, and five mails a week between NewYork and Philadelphia. It took two days for a letter togo this distance. The mail routes were then eighteenhundred and seventy-five miles in length, and about twomillion letters were carried yearly. They are now overfour hundred thousand miles long and more than eightthousand million pieces of mail matter are carried are more than seventy thousand post-offices. Theannual cost of carrying the mails is over $150,000,000 Rates of Postage.—In 1792 the rates of postage on asingle letter-sheet were eight cents for a distance under fortymiles, ten cents under ninety miles, and so on. It cost sev-enteen cents to send a letter from New York to Boston andtwenty-five cents to send one to Richmond. Two sheetswere charged double. In 1845 postage was re
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