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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1916)
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOI'RNAL. SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916. Vhat Is Done That Your Mail May Be Delivered to You at Your Home In onliT to keep a record of tlie wnrk dime ly tin' rural carriers tlirnngliout the ruuiitry, tlie N.rnf fii-c lt-j rt at Wasliiiiclmi requires that a monthly record lie kept every fourth month ty rural Furrier, xhiminjr the number ! jiicees of mail rarriril, weight, nnmher of hours worked, number of families and boxes served, ami tlie nniouiit of mail colli-Hcd. Kaeli carrier tmt ulnu hlion how the deliveries are made and the capacity of hi wnnn or nutmno Idle. And lie cannot use an nuto unless Riven permission ly the (lepnrtinent. I)iirint,' the month this record is kept, the report in turned in daily. Eight nun and one woman deliver the country mail for Salem, those on routes six. seven and nine delivering liy auto. Mrs. ((race 1'iih on route nine lias what is termed the lightest of any finite, and she travels in an auto, work iny seven hours ami four minutes as u daily nvernue. I.vnmn McDonald, route three, mioht lie termed the hardest w.orked man on the joli. He delivered more pieces than any, Ufil7, and carried out on one (lay the heaviest mail, 1,173 pounds. His working hours were also the longest diirint; April, with an average of nine liners and l'i minute. He had more families tn serve. X"i, and had to stop tit more boxes than any of the other furriers, his lioxes numlierino; 27S. (I. I.. Fisher, mute six. came next to IdcDonnld ia the number of pieces de livered, ns lie handed out l.ll" pieces of mail ilurin)! April, hut this mail neighed :).-- pounds, compared to Mc Donald's 2.Si!. His heaviest day's work was when (ifi'i pieces were deliver ed. Mr. Fisher travels in an auto and for this reason works on an average of (even hours and 2J minutes. Last January, during the rainy weather, it required an svrr.ie of nine hours nrnl 21 minutes, nlthnuuh he had about l.l'tiO more iiees to deliver. He has "i!0 customers at the state penitentiary, and this is one of the rea'ons his collected mail weighed '2'M pounds for tho April record. .fames Albert, route five, ranks third when it comes to the number of pieces delivered during the month. The five (date institutions that he serves re ceive considerable mail and they send nit extra mail, as Mr. Albert collect ed' 'J.ii-O pieces, which is u lot more Hum any of the other boys collected. He gets nway with the job by an liver itge daily work of nine hours ami V.' minutes, just four minutes a day less than Mcllouald work-. F. I.. South, route seven, is next in Hie number of pieces delivered, and hi record for the mouth is about like this: Number of pieces delivered. Hi. .'ill: to tal Weight, 2,71. 'I pounds; largest Millil iter of pieces colic, ted any one (lav. SU'.i; heaviest mail carried out any one day. 2n pounds, and this is heavier than any oilier man carried on one da ; iivcruge time 01' working, eight hours and Mil minutes; served 2s I t ain ilies with 2.".2 boxes; collected 2.1!t liicics of mail weighing 'J.'IO pounds. (ieorge Litchfield, route 'four, comes next in the number of pieces handled. ITi.Sln. This mail weighed 2.0'm pounds: the greatest number carried on any one day was SOU, and his heaviest mail any day was Ibl pounds. The families H'rved lire 2!i"t, in 2.".2 noxes. Konte four did not do nun h letler wnflng during April, as but l.."ivt pieces were collected, weighing 2i'4 pounds. Knule four i jiist an average job, although the 2!'."t families is next to McDonald's .'!."!. Percy I'ugh tl'nvclliuo on route sev en in an aulo, ranks sixth when it comes tu the number (if pieces delivered during April, and he aUo manages in gel away with his job by working sev en hours and one minute on the aver age, which is something none of the others .an do. Mr. l'ugli earned his monthly salary by handiag nut l."i.4l:! pieces of mail weighing 2.2.II pounds; by serving 2'iO families in 2L'0 noxes and by collecting 2.tl.'i!l pieces of mull weighing Hid pounds, .1. A. Heiningloii on route one. ranks Kcvcuth when it comes in the number of pieces delivered (Inline, April, but he rualis first when the weight of mail collected is considered. His record for the test month stands ns follows; Num ber of pieces. I;l,272, weighing 2.171' liniinds; biggest day's work when 72!' pieces weie delivered; worked a daily niernge of eight hours and 112 minutes.; ncncil lio families wild loll boxes; col lected LP 1.1 - pieces oi mail Weighiug 4111 pounds. t'harles liiasher, route two, gets off pretty easy when it conies to the tiuin lirr of piece delivered, lie works in l'olk county on the Oak Grove road, coming back on the Dallas road. Mr. Urasher earned his April salary by making the following record: Delivered r.V'iio pieces of mail weighing l.ii.Vi pounds; the biuge-t day's work was in (leliorving HtM pieces weighing 177 pounds;, worked on an average of eight hours and 21 miiiiiles. which is about an average; served 210 families with boxes. Collected I.O'U ldeces of mail which must hne heen mostly let ters an the weight was only SO pounds. Mrs. Ornre I'ugli, route nine, rides iu an auto and delivers for the lightest mail route out of Salem. Although this in a light route, it selves more families than routes five or one and Ins riore lioxes than either of these routes. M'. I'ugli V record for April is a follows I'ieces delivered. 10,215; weighing I. l'i 1 pounds; heaviest day's, work, 8' pounds; worked seven hours and four minutes on the average, which i three more minutes n day than did Mr. Tugh; delivered to J 78 families with lt5 Ivoxes: collected l2S pieces weighing i pounds. COAL STRIKE SETTLED. I'hiladelpliia, May fl. Tlie onthiucite coal miners injreriiictit Willi opeiatnn ratified nt l'ollswtle was formally nigned lo re today by representative of the ojierators and miner. Try Capital Journal want AJl. 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