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Excerpt from The Railway Mail Service: Its Origin and Development The account presented in this book appeared substantially in the same form in my recent volume Of recollections, My Day and Generation. I have tried to make the article of interest to the general public, but I have also had especially in mind its appeal to the great army of faithful and efficient postal railway clerks, who, night and day, in darkness and sunshine, through storm and flood, are traversing this vast continent, so distributing our mail that it may reach its destination in the shortest time possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...
Excerpt from A Life Span and Reminiscences of Railway Mail Service In the late Summer of 1908 I wrote a reminiscent article on "The Railway Mail Service," which was published in the September issue of "The Railway Post Office." This article was prepared in response to the request of a large and important association of the splendid men who had served with me, and under my supervision, during part or all of my long career in that most remarkable branch of the civil service of our government. The reminiscences began with my entry into the service - March 5, 1866 - nineteen months after the inauguration of the first railway post office, and when the whole corps of its employees, railway postal ...