Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1916, Page 7

THE BEE: OMAHA, U nts but one bme, some | Ay | cel post matter was handled in the week | piatform on the west side of the bullding, | Wharton and occuples & room on the | quarter, 86 Total, 300, Total enlistments | Pfl 2 3 M J be_ kuined of the enormous tonnage of | preceding Christmas this year than in | which Eives the Postoffics department | main floor of tne postoffics bulldine, | leet secr were 3% ot the Omane 2nvon | PHIEUMONIA i8 Most mail paseing through the Omaha depots | that week, 1914, more space to handle the malls. This | The total number of separate accounts | with 257 at the three substations GENTER lN 0 during the Christmas period | The mumber of letters handied at the | cost ‘-anum There was also in- | has increased siightly. . | e Dl’ea,d Dlsem fOr —_— ocal offic uring e period December | stalled window ventilators all over the On cember 914, the total number : | / MAHA MORE MML ”ANDLED HERE "n :, u":.:.fl:.m:m':‘n 1':%“ h‘urlm in- | bullding at & eost n‘l‘ .:mul u‘n A n:\' ot m:f.u...:'.:‘.' tl.w -:d 'on :ho u:- Saloon 18 RObbed 1915 in This Gity THAN FOR PREVIOUS YEARS | crea#e of .40 over the same period | tle roof over the east porch cost #0 date in 1915 the depositors numbered 2061 Of Sevel‘al PilltS wrvehe Ch;ngg in Amount Due to War and | b Iast year. b On December 81, 1904, the total deposits | » s s o Various Conditions Which Have Parcel post business at the Omaha of- oy REGISTERED MAIL SHOWS oy e NG5 the VRS SN y ik ¢ - ™ " .‘.\u:y‘:-y::“::::- :n':: :u'm::nl:.:l:: b.‘: Been Altered. fico made a decided leap ahead during | EIGHT HUNDRED NOW AT MOST DECIDED INCREASE | 15 they had increased to 294,301 ohn Parrait, W2 South Thirteanth hile the v . v o visited | “dread disense” in Omaha during the |1915. This was atiributed larsely to n-| WORK IN FEDERAL BUILDING While there are only forty-three more erts that his asloon wae visited es who gained entrance to the | last year, the deaths from this dlsease MIN. RAIL creased facilities offered the public, such AN JIGIORSG OF 15 P0r G0Nt th the Nt | SEPBAIGHE (he G6PGES’ have imcrenied ’n‘.. by forcing a rear window, and then | numbering 32, nearly twice the number TER AL WAY OFFICES &8 collection on delivery feature, lower- | The Omaha postoftice or federal build- | DoT Of Pleces of registered mall dellversd §29,000 “..,.‘.‘ ,,:‘ ,.,,,,‘,‘, ,,,.‘,l..,\ s : of tubercular fatalities. Although there The fourteenth division of the rallway 'fl':“"' the insurance rates to & minimum | jng oocuples & block and cost $2,000,000, :'y‘ "'“"'"‘I oo e Vg e ;‘""r"';“ by ARMY ENLISTMENTS The United Machine company, %4 Doug- | were many searlet fover cases reported mail service, with headquarters at|co 'h':'":_' for a value up to #, extenslon | There are nearly 00 men and women em« | '"° o W s Bor s branch of Post | 1a8 street, report the theft of one of their | there were only stxteen deaths of vic- Omaha, comprises the states of Colorado, | o\ U ize limit of packages to elghty- | nioved in the bullding mastér Wharton's domain. SHOW BIG FALLING OFF | slot machines from a local cate tims of this disease. Five typhold fever Nebraska and Wyoming, and has jurisdic. | 'UT inches, extension of the weight mit, | The care of the building comes under| THe total number of pleces regls w4 Chartes Gallett, 616 Baneroft, found that | geaths were reported during the year. tion over transportation of the mails on | (o cton of the welght per pound and | Custodian C. W. McCune, and the payroll | ered during 1915 was 100060 and the total | Tl (4 teol house at %i1 Boulevard, had been | Tie bieth records show a total of 3414 all lines In that territory and over all)'N® Parcel post receipts, as well as the | nciuding tiremen, engineers, janitors, | "Umber of pleces delivered was ion2 | O K COO army through the Omana |L10KCN INto and tools to the value of | ¢y Greater Omaha, an increase of about postoffices with respect to €xelr out ’}‘:" ”’d‘"“:"‘“": d"“' '{" ':"""‘h of the | charwomen, elevator men and watchmen, | * OtAl of 2117 recruiting station (s shown by ths figures | ) s A p R the year Before. There were s |city and knowledge of the advantages | amo. to abou — A “ ', bl oyd leRoy, Sholes, Neb., stopped 10,90 yeaths, Of the desths two we . . S sl i | e *"The butiing w sdministered by the su- | POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITS ~ ™™'7on Opo ry Rt ink Serkeant Hansen | argue " current topics with . eolored | Low 09010 U6 the Sesihs tg wers bed road lines there are five terminal rail- | The number of parcels Insured at the | pervising architect of the Treasury de- SHOW GAIN FOR THE YEAR!the closing of the three sub.stattone | PCmOn Thursday evening. and loa: the | o\ on were between %0 and 100 years way postoffices, two of Which are lo- Omaba office In the week before Christ- | partment at Washington — which were maintained in Des Mofnes, |~ oo Snd io tesbit § of age cated at Omaha and the others at Coun- | ™8 Was 8 per cent greater than the | Expenditures during the last year for| Postal saving deposits in the Omaha | Eious City and Lincoln e R T on was oeard | “Mareh led an the momth of Wrthe s cil Bluffs, Ia., and Denver and Pueblo, UMber Insured during that period In | improvements were less than during the | hank have increased very materially dur- | Bnlistments by i duving 18 | tocus one o thots waning L Y el e G Colo. These terminals were organized |l previous year, the largest item being re- |ing the last year. The bank la under were as follows: First quarter. %: se-ond > — for the purpose of taking up the dis-| TTIrtY-tWo per cent more sacks of par- | pairs to approaches and extending the |the direction of Postmaster John ¢ | quarter, 1: third quarter, & fourth Read The Fee Want Ads It pays Read The Bee Want Ads. It pays! tribution of circulars and parcel post, \ it can be performed in them more eco- | nomically than in postal cars. There have been some changes during the yoar in the distribution performed, certain | j | terminals in neighboring divisions, and vice ver: There have also been I changes in the matter of the malls dis- Iigt 4) == I - - = = N tributed by postoffices and turned over i m ’m /‘\ to railway postoffice lines for dlstribu- I T i T tion. i il The total distribution during the year l h\ ’ 195 in these lines and terminals was 17,169,155 packages of letters, 4,633,562 | sacks of papers and 638,078 sacks of par-| cel post, an Increase over the year 1914 of approximately 500,000 packages of let- ters and 330,000 sacks of papers and a | ‘l”fl Hl’ decrease of about 12,000 sacks of parcel LI | post. St s it Change in Terminals, The decrease in parcel post is accounted for by the fact that the parcel post from the east for South Dakota, which was formerly distributed in the Council Bluffs terminal, has been transferred to the terminal at Sjoux City, Ia., and the Colo- rado parcel post from the east, all of which was formerly distributed In the Denver terminal, has been transferred, 80 that that coming from the Chicago @ateway is distributed at Omaha, and o that from New York by way of Pitts- burgh is distributed at Kansas City; so the division has lost all of the South Dakota and about halt of the Colorado. In addition many of the big eastern mail- order houses which, when the parcel . post system was first inaugurated, shipped thelr mall so that it was dis- tributed In the terminals, have now found it cheaper to ship by freight to varlous minor points at which parcels are malled for offices in nearby zones. the combined freight rate and local par- cel post rates being cheaper than the through rate on parcel post. A great part of such shipments is made up by the mail order houses themselves in di- rect sacks for many postoffices, so whilo they are transported they are not dis- tributed by this service. The number of men employed in the D N \\\ \ e \\\\\\\\\ DROPPING THE PILOT ARSI \ dtvision, including officials, was 97 on — — -~ — — ——— e e e e e < e ;‘t::,":':ec]r'e.‘:shu.rr:. ’t‘l:e :“o.:.on!u:l:(};ty‘. /; At midnight, Friday, we dropped the old pilot and took up the new one. 7 T goslorel 7' The old year, with its joys and sorrows, becomes nothing but a memory, and 1916 is here, Work is Changed, . : " d2s n The terminal rallway postoffices were z with a brand new set of opportunities. " ok Peiejratsa drinkto InEee; By & Z Let’s forget about our yesterdays, with their petty successes and failures. Let’s look :u"eh“fcri“'?;cfi"t.am ‘:cor';or:’:«: ; NN the new today right in the eye and determine to make this new year the best and happiest upon the lines. It required many men —— e { we have seen. to man them and tnese had to be ap- pointed at once, while the reduction upon ¢ ” / o e cota- e v e v | [ | OUR BEST WISHES FOR éffect upon them of the terminals was 1 | / / ascertained. So that the year just closed tepresents a readjustment to meet the : . First of all, we wish you the very best 6f good health. Given that, and a body can meet oo gt g hap oty dedigcs \ 2 the blows of fate with a smile, this division, in that while there has 1, - Z / We wish you a few real friends to back you up in your reverses, and to help celebrate Y e Ty 1o, 1he fEe v | SN your victories. For any real friend is worth more than an army of acquaintances. the clerks, and it has not been necea- . Z And, lastly, we wish you the good judgm ent that enables one to magnify one’s good for- s BT e v, [ i "N ? tune and ignore one’s bad fortune. Both kinds come to all of us, but the really happy person substitute clerks, as the process of tak- 2 /s \ N is h@ Who ref!l&es to b(’. “nhappy' ‘\Iay t'hi! ‘)e yl)ur fon“nate 10(' ing care of the regular clerks has left no / : ) \ vacancies for new appointments. This [ ] readjustment, however, has now been to care for, and with normal increases 1 n the mail and the normal vacancles /// Z which occur, the coming year will offer . / 2 better prospects for those who have / taken the civil service examination and | / are carried on the substitute rolls. 7Y War Has Its Effects, Uudoubtedly also the war has had its ' / | ) NF77//0)7, effect on the volume of malls, and the il / 9 i \".V4 last two years have not seen the mnor- ' H I s K E Y mal increase of about 7 per cent per N/#/ Z i annum which usually occurs. More re- cent Indications and such statistics as are avaflable indicate that this period of depression has passed and that the malls are again increasing In something Uke their normal proportion. The holiday mails may be taken as some index of the condition of pros- IE;quurity and Flavor sl ! perity in the country, the week before Christmas showing always N { e 5 Increlnuln the n'.'fu. ume;n ';::.my‘::: N S y The liquor question will be settled eventually between those elaborate preparations were made to Z K NN Sy 2 L who know how to use liquor temperately and demand |hf- right handle these malls during the ten days 5 to purchase it, and those who deny them such right. The de- ended with Christmas day, in order to / \ 7 4 mand creates the supply. There are many thousands of con- avoid congestion and delay. The flood was kept moving this year with less friction than ever before, motwithstand- ing there was an unquestionable increase sumers for every manufacturer; hundreds of purchasers for every seller, Statistics prove that, notwithstanding an in creased consumption of whiskey, there is less intemperance than in the quantity. Officlals of the Bur [ | - R ) 3 P ever hefore, because Americans have learned to use it tem- .“ lington estimate that on its lines out of ; N . perately. Good whiskey, like Golden Sheaf, diluted, for in- Omaha it carried about 3 per cent more 77 = ¢ v stance with charged waters, is no stronger than milder bev- mall during this period than in the cor- 2 erages. and the purest of all stimulants, Heing germless, it responding period a year ago, and the increase on the Union Pacific lines carry- ing the overland malls was quite ae marked. as the abuse of anything, s harmful; its moderate use bene- is sent to the terminal in the Burling- You Have the Distiller’s Guarantee of inauguration of this terminal more than ceding Christmas there were distributed and 9,412 sacks in 1916, this state as compared with a year ago, the country's prosperity. During the cannot be fermented or spoll, like so-called soft drinks, nor PRSP = - - Y p ficial. The medicine chest should not be without it, - z / ton station at Omaha, and as there has P OMAFTA two years ago, it is considered a falr in- f \ Z 3 G 1 F “ v l f Y M dex of the comparative volume of the 2 / : — ettlng u alue lor our oney. 54% sacks of Nebraska parcel post fn During recent months there has been owing to the mailings by the mail or- der houses above referred to, 8o that the increase during this particular week is the more marked as indicative of the 9y number of Christmas parcels golng week preceding Christmas it was no un (11 »” common thing to send out of Omaha on ud the Overland Union Pucific trains as cause acldity or bilfousness in the system. It's abuee, as well Parcel post for Nebraska from the east When YOII Blly “ GOLDEN SHEAF ”» been no change in this practice since the t Christmas mails. During the week pre this terminal in 1913; 8612 sacks in 1914, some decrease in the parcel post for through the mails as representative of many as twenty-five carloads of m: fu a day, and the trains un the sain fire from the west brought in as high as sixteen cars in a single day. As ihis