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AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE

OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE

FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1917,

AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

•WITH REFERENCE TO THE PNEUMATIC-TUBE SERVICE

MAY 9 AND 11, 1916

PART 2

Printed for the use of the Committee on Post Offices

and Post Roads

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1916

8.0.0.4/28/17

recat LKS 29 F 44

CONTENTS.

Pneumatic Tube Commission..

Subject.

American Pneumatic Service Co.; communications..

American Pneumatic Service Co., history tube service.

Ames, William H., of Boston; communications..

Automobile, mail experiment fails..

Autotrucks for Postal Service..

Batcheller, B. C., of New York; communication.

Blackmon, Fred. L., of Alabama; report..

Boston Pneumatic Transit Co.; communications.

Brief by Daniel F. Buckley, of Boston.

Buckley, Daniel F.; brief.

Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.

Communications:

American Pneumatic Service Co.

Ames, William H.

Batcheller, B. C..

Boston Pneumatic Transit Co..

Chicago Postal Pneumatic Tube Co.

New York Pneumatic Service Co.

Pneumatic Transit Co..

Postmaster General.

Page.

212, 229, 235, 245

262

229

111

99

235

396

220

257

257

107

212, 229, 235, 245

229

235

220

223

218

133, 135, 139

133, 139, 212, 218, 220, 223, 226, 229, 235, 242, 245

91, 102, 135, 212

President Woodrow Wilson.

138

St. Louis Pneumatic Tube Co..

226

Compiled reports pneumatic-tube service, Postmaster General.

263

Congressional Record:

On auto trucks...

99

On auto mail service..

173

Contract 1892; Post Office Department with Pneumatic Transit Co..

153

Emerson, Merton L., of Boston, statement.

210

Failure of automobile mail experiment.

111

Hearing, Pneumatic Tube Commission, Philadelphia...

History of pneumatic-tube service from Government reports..

179

263

Koons, John C., chief inspector, Post Office Department, statement.

Merchants Association of New York, resolution.

Milholland, John E., of Philadelphia; statement.

Pneumatic-Tube Postal Commission, by Fred L. Blackmon, M. C....

Pneumatic-Tube Postal Commission, by Victor Murdock, M. C................

Pneumatic-Tube Postal Commission, by Hoke Smith, Senator from Georgia.

Pneumatic-Tube Postal Commission, by Joseph Stewart, Second Assistant

Postmaster General...

Reports Postmaster General, 1889–1915.