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Entered as second-class matter Feb.
26, 1207, at tbe potiothee at Nome,
Alaska, under tbe Act of Congress of
March ’ 1878.
Copy for regular advertisements
must he In by 10 o'clock on the day of
publication.
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1916.
WHAT WAS THE REASON?
A comparison oi the early win
ter statements 01 tne rep»esenta
tives of the postottrce department
Win! tne subsequent minings of
tlie eliamuo; oi commerce reveals
singular ieatures wmcn suggest
a number of tilings, tne cmei of
which is that there are uencien
cies m the interior mail service
other than those made so glaring
ly, apparent by the recent arrival
of second class matter three and
even four months old.. In testi
mony thereto we submit the fol
lowing communications, first is
a cable from Air. V ailie, superin
tendant of the railway mad ser
vice, dated at Seattle, January 16,
191b, and addressed to Mr. J. H.
Felise, chief clerk at Nome, which
reads as follows:
Advise Chamber of Commerce
no congestion Nome-Seward pen
insula mail known at this office.
This in answer to their telegrams
of J3f.l1 and 25th instants.
This message was transmitted
o the Chamber of Commerce by
Mr. Fehse with the following ad
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demda:
Ahis in compliance with the
above instructions and would fur
ther advise that this ottice has
recived no reports to date of any
congestion of mail en route. * -
This was on January 26,<re
member. Judging from the two
statements, tb«?re was either ^ no
mad congestion at that time .'or,
if there was, neither the super
mtendant of the railway mail.ser
vice in Alaska or his chief clerk
in Nome knew anything about it.
We would very naturally ex
pect, considering the general thor
oughness of the methods of the
postofhee department, that if
there was an accumulation or con
gestion at any point along the
route, that the superintendent, at
least, would know about it.
Whether or not the local repre
sentative of the department would
be aware of it or not, we do not
know. In any event he appears
to be but little concerned in what
follows. In view of the denial
by Mr. Vaille one would natural
ly suppose that there was no con
gestion, at least at the time it was
was made. However, let us pro
ceed a little farther to what may
be termed “Exhibit No 2." This
is a cable front the Alaska bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce directed to the Nome
Chamber of Commerce and reads
as follows:
No mail congestion here. Ad
vised about one thousand pounds
at Cordova Wiring Washington
for relief.
This was recived Febraury 16
and was forwarded from Seattle
the same day. This does not in
dicate much, it i« true. Nothing
more than that a small amount of
congestion has begun to appear.
However, we will pass to “Ex
hibit No. 3;“ a telegram forward
ed to the second assistant post
master general at Washington, D.
C. by the Alaska bureau on the
same date the above cable was
transmitted to the Nome Cham
ber of Commerce. This message
reads:
Nome Chamber of Commerce
cables second class mail arriving
three months old. We are advis
ed that there has been an accum
ulation of second class mail at
Cordova since close of navigation*
During November this aggregat
ed about 2,500 pounds. Since De
cember 4 the weekly average of
mail unforwarded has amounted
to about 1060 pounds. Cannot ar
rangements be made whereby
this accumulated mail can be for
warded ?
Now, things commence to ap
pear a bit more interesting- Here
we not only learn that there was
c>ne congestion but, also that
there was considerable congestion
—not only at the time Mr. Vaille
made his statement but both be
fore and after that time. We
learn that in November there was
an aggregate accumulation oi
2,500 pounds. Also we learn that
regardless of what disposal may
nave been made of this Novem
ber accumulation, from Decqm
ber 4 up to February 16; the
weekly average ofjuiail. unfor
vvarded amounted to about' xo<3o
pounds. When one comes to com
pare the statement of Mr. Vaille
<with the above, one is forced to
wonder how it was he did not
know that an average of lo6a
pounds of mail was unforwarded
at the end of each week, not only
in the week in which he cabled
to Mr. Fehse but also in the three
preceding weeks of January.
Someway, one would naturally
expect that the superintendent of
this division of the mail service
would naturally be notified of a
weekly overplus amounting to
over a half ton, unless there is
some laxity somewhere. However,
Mr. Vaille said that he did not
know and we must accept his
word for it and let it go at that.
Next let us peruse the following
from Mr. J. L. McPherson, su
perintendent of the Alaska bureau
written to the Nome Chamber of
Commerce, February 16, the same
day on which were forwarded the
above messages to Nome and
Washington.
Upon receipt of your cable wt
took this matter up imme
diately with the postoffice inspeo
tor at Seattle, and by him wt
were advised that there was no
congestion or accumulation of
mail of any kind at Seattle; tha\
there had been a slight accumu
lation of second class mail over
arid above the 4,800 pounds for
warded out of Cordova wefckly
The amount of unforwarded sec
ond class matter at Cordova, he
stated, had been at the end of each
week as follows:
November 20 week end 2,600 lbs.
November 27 week end 2,500 lbs.
December 4 week end . .. .933 lbs.
December 18 week end 1,124 lbs.
December 25 week end ..530 lbs
January 1 week end_720 lbs.
January 8, week end_1,028 lbs.
January 15 week end....860 lbs.
January 22 week end.. 1,600 lbs.
January 29 week end.. 1,943 lbs.
February 4 week end_800 lbs.
These figures are illuminating.
Here we have the evidence of the
postoffice inspector of this depart
ment disclosing that in the very
week in which Superintendent
Vaille denied that there was any
congestion that he was aware of,
there was close to a ton of un
forwarded mail lying in Cordova,
waiting until time or convenient
circumstance should permit of its
being forwarded to destination.
Also we see that at no time after
December 4 was there less than
530 pounds of unforwarded mail in
cold storage at Cordova. In only
one instance was it so low as this,
however, and a perusal of the
amounts after December 25 dis
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closes a steadily rising accumu
lation in spite of the large
amounts forwarded, as indicated
by the considerable lowering of
*the figures at intervals. From 53°
pounds on December 25, the low
. est accumulation rose to 720
pounds on January 1 to 860
pounds January 15 and to 800
pounds on February 4 By Fel>
ruarv 16 this had increased to
about 1,000 pounds, as indicated
ih the McPherson cable of that
date. In the face of the above
.statement the professed ignorance
of Mr. Vaille appears most amaz
ing and it truly continences to ap
pear that not all of the inefficien
cies of the mail service are charge*
able to the department at Wash
ington. It is no more than just
to allow that Mr. Vaille may have
been uninformed of all this but
the above, and subsequent evi
dences show that there wajs a
steadily rising accumulation of
unforwardcd mail for weeks be
fore he issued that statement. Mail
had been steadily piling up at the
second most important point in
his Alaska jurisdiction since the
close of navigation and it seems
truly remarkable that he, the
head of the department in Alaska,
should know nothing of it. The
postoffice department back at
Washington knew all about it, as
attested by the following extract
frori a letter written by the sec
ond assistant postmaster general
to the Alaska delegate in the lat
ter days of February and by him
forwarded here. Mr. Prager says:
While there was an accumula
tion at Cordova of some second
class matter for Nome and other
points in the interior, since the
beginning of the winter service
the amount of accumulated
mails has been reduced so that
according to recent reports • not
only the second class but all other
classes are now being dispatched.
He adds, however, that, “with
a view to expediting the trans
portation of the through mails, an
order has been issued today au
thorizing additional service.
to relieve local congestion.”
Thus it appears that the depart
ment and the postal inspector
knew that there was an accumula
tion of surplus mail so it is dou
bly hard to understand why Mr.
Vaille, the man directly in charge
of the division, remained in pro
found ignorance thereof.
It may be that Mr. Vaille does
not terrrj mail “congested” that is
held over for a week or two or
three on the way to its destina
tion
We really wonder if he was
aware that the batch we recently
received had, some Of it, been in
storage ever since early Novem
ber and must fftve been there
when he issued his statement so
suggestive of efficient service and
no delays.
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