D. H. M. FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO NEW YORK. Aug. 29-Lahn (North German Lloyd).. 6 22 42 Aug.-Columbia (Hamburg American).. 6 18 20 FROM NEW YORK TO SOUTHAMPTON. April 17-Lahn (North German Lloyd).. 7 0 35 Sept.-Columbia (Hamburg American). 6 18 23 FROM HAVRE TO NEW YORK. June-LaBourgogne (French line)....... 7 12 0 FROM NEW YORK TO HAVRE. Aug.-La Champagne (French line). D. H. M. D. H. M. 7 12 18 The City of Paris did not beat the record made by her in 1889. The time is given below. The times of the other two vessels were made in 1890: D. H. M. 5 19 5 5 19 18 FROM QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK. Aug. 7-Teutonic (White Star line).. Aug. 28-City of Paris (Inman line). Sept. 18-Majestic (White Star line)..... 5 21 20 FROM NEW YORK TO QUEENSTOWN. Sept. 17-Teutonic (White Star line). Nov. 5-City of Paris (Inman line).. Sept. 3-Majestic (White Star Ilne).. D. H. M. 5 23 34 5 22 57 5 23 16 C. C. Talbot.. Col. James McLeer.. Joseph C. Hendrix.. George J. Collins... 1890 *In 1874 the Williamsburgh Post Office (C. C. Talbot, P. M.) and the Greenpoint Post Office (Samuel S. Free, Jr., P. M.) were consolidated with the Brooklyn office, and Talbot was appointed to take charge of the consolidated office. The Cruiser Maine. The United States armored cruiser Maine was built and launched at the Navy Yard in the presence of a great assemblage, on November 18, 1890, at 12:45 P. M. Construction was begun in September, 1888. The Maine is still at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it is the intention of the Department to complete her. The vessel is the first armored cruiser of the new navy to be launched. Her general dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 324 feet 4 inches; length on load water line, 318 feet 3 inches; breadth, extreme, 57 feet; mean draught, 21 feet 6 inches; displacement, 6,682 tons; estimated speed, 17 knots. The collective indicated horse power of the engines at 132 revolutions per minute is 9,000. The armament of the Maine will consist of four 10-inch breech-loading rifles, mounted in two turrets; six 6-inch breech-loading rifles; fourteen rapid fire guns; four revolving cannon, four gatlings and seven torpedo tubes. The armor of the vessel will be carried in a belt along the amidship section, and extending below the water line and on the turrets, smoke stack and conning tower. The side belt will be 12 inches thick and 180 feet long. The turret armor will be 83 inches thick. NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN BRIDGE. The management of the Bridge is under control of a Board of twenty trustees, eight being appointed by the Mayor, Controller and Auditor of Brooklyn, and eight by the Mayor, Controller, and President of the Board of Aldermen of New York City. The Mayors and Controllers of the two cities are members ex-officio. Term of service is for two years without salary. The Bridge offices are at Washington and Nassau streets, Brooklyn. Construction commenced January 2, 1870. New York tower contains 46,945 cubic yards masonry. Brooklyn tower contains 38,214 cubic yards masonry. Depth of tower foundation below high water, Brooklyn, 45 feet. Depth of tower foundation below high water, New York, 78 feet. Size of towers, high water line, 140 × 59 feet. Size of towers at roof course, 136 × 53 feet. Height of towers above high water, 278 feet. Clear height of bridge, in centre of river span, above high water, at 90 deg. F., 135 feet. Height of floor at towers above high water, 119 feet 3 inches. Grade of roadway, 34 feet in 100 feet. 2,000 1,500 Weight of each anchor plate, 23 tons. Total amount received for rentals in 1890 was $95,209.77, of which $82.156.72 was received from real estate, and $13,053.05 from telegraph and telephone wires. The number of wires used by each lessee was as follows: Metropolitan Telegraph and Telephone Company, 341; Western Union Telegraph Company, 43; Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, 7; Law Telegraph Company, 4; Postal Telegraph Company, 3; J. J. Nallon, 2; Thomas T. White, 1; F. O. Pierce, 1; Commercial Cable Company, 1 cable. Total Expenditures. From May 23, 1883, to Dec. 1, 1884.... $553,647 78 From Dec. 1, 1884, to Dec. 1, 1885.. 560,928 23 From Dec. 1, 1885, to Dec. 1, 1886.... 951,944 58 From Dec. 1, 1886, to Dec. 1, 1887. 989,451 22 From Dec. 1, 1887, to Dec. 1, 1888 831,497 22 From Dec. 1, 1888, to Dec. 1, 1889....1,267,115 19 From Dec. 1, 1889, to Dec. 1, 1890... 1,075.436 71 Diameter of each cable, 153 inches. Length of each single wire in cables, 3,578 feet 6 inches. Ultimate strength of each cable, 12,200 tons. Weight of wire, 12 feet per pound. Each cable contains 5,296 parallel (not twisted) galvanized steel oil coated wires, closely wrapped to a solid cylinder, 15% inches in diameter. Permanent weight suspended from cables, 14,680 tons. Width of bridge, 85 feet. Length of river span, 1,595 feet 6 inches. Length of each land span, 930 feet. Length of Brooklyn approach. 971 feet. Length of New York approach, 1,562 ft. 6 in. Total length of carriageway, 5,989 feet. Total length with extensions, 6,537 feet. Length of driving cable, 11,600 feet. Speed of trains, 10 miles an hour. Original cost of construction, $15,000,000 Annual rentals, real estate, $74,948.49. Annual rentals, telegraph wires, $11,028.46. Receipts, March 2, 1885 (first day of package tickets), $4,021.43. Receipts April 30, 1889, Centennial day, $5,018.80, largest day since opening day. Employes-Collectors, 34; gatemen, 19; conductors, 100; policemen, 92. Number of arrests, 1889, 191. Three persons died on the bridge in 1889, 72 were accidentally injured, and 35 were taken ill. There were 36 runaways. The first meeting of the corporators of the New York Bridge Company was held in the Supreme Court, Chambers, at the County Court House, in the city of Brooklyn, on Monday, the 13th day of May, 1857. John A. Roebling was appointed Chief Engineer May 23, 1867. The following statement of traffic of the Brooklyn Bridge for the several hours of the day and night on selected representative dates has been made up from tables compiled as the result of counts carefully taken under the supervision of General Ticket Agent Henry R. Van Keuren: 12 to 1... 1 to 2 2 to 3 3 to 4 4 to 5. 5 to 6 6 to 7 7 to 8 8 to 9 9 to 10. 10 to 11 11 to 12 Total 335 3.818 253 429 4,024 287 396 4,510 326 400 2,308 159 315 2,963 209 317 3,206 208 347 3,442 201 BROOKLYN POST OFFICE. General Post Office, 317, 319 and 321 Washington street. George J. Collins, postmaster. Samuel Smith. assistant postmaster. Andrew T. Sullivan, cashier and accountant. C. H. Lyon, superintendent of mails. Walter A. Smith, superintendent of city delivery. Edward McIntyre, superintendent of registry department. John R. Gewecke, superintendent of money order department. Carrier district-From East River and Wallabout Canal along Wallabout Canal; to Hewes street; to Williamsburgh road; to Flushing avenue; to Bedford avenue; to Atlantic avenue; to Grand avenue; to Ninth avenue; to Garfield place; to Carroll street; to Gowanus Canal; to New York Bay; west by East River. Collections-4:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 11:30 A. M.; 12 M.; 1, 2:30, 5, 7, 10 P. M. Sundays, 1:30, 6, 9 P. M. Deliveries 7, 9, 10, 11 A. M.; 1, 2:15, 3, 4:45 P. M.; also at 7:30 P. M. to hotels, clubs and theatres only. Albert H. Station B, 1260 Fulton street. Frost, superintendent. Carrier district-From Washington avenue and City Line to Grand avenue; to Atlantic avenue; to Bedford avenue; to Flushing avenue; to Sumner avenue; to Gates avenue; to Stuyvesant avenue; to Fulton street; to Sackman street; to East New York avenue; to City Line. Collections-5, 7:30, 9:45, 11:45 A. M.; 1, 2:45, 5:15, 9 P. M. Sundays, 12:30, 4:15, 9 P. M. Deliveries-7, 10 A. M.; 12:30, 2, 5 P. M. Station G, 360 Manhattan avenue, near Greenpoint avenue. Edward Brooks, superintendent. Carrier district-From East River and Newtown creek along Newtown creek to Meeker avenue; to Richardson street; to Union avenue; to North Fourteenth street; to East River; west by East River. Collections-4:15, 7, 9:45, 11:15 A. M.; 12:30, 2:15, 5, 9 P. M. Sundays, 4, 9 P. M. Deliveries-7:15, 10 A. M.; 3, 5:15 P. M. Station S, Broadway, corner Willoughby avenue. J. H. McCooey, superintendent. Carrier district-All east of a line from City Line and Fulton street; through Fulton street to Stuyvesant avenue; to Gates avenue: to Sumner avenue; to Flushing avenue; to Morrell street; to Johnson avenue; to Randolph street; to City Line; east by city limits. Collections-4:45, 7:30, 9:45, 11:15 A. M.; 12:30, 2:30, 5, 8:30 P. M. Sundays, 4, 8:30 P. M. Deliveries-7, 10 A. M.; 12:30, 2, 5 P. M. Station V. 486 Fifth avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. B. F. Conlin, superintendent. Carrier district-All south of a line from Ninth avenue through Garfield place to Carroll street; to Gowanus Canal; east of Gowanus Canal and New York Bay, including Windsor Terrace, in the Town of Flatbush; south and east by city limits. Collections-4:45, 7:45, 9:45, 11:30 A. M.; 1, 3, 5:15, 8:30 P. M. Sundays. 4, 8 P. M. Deliveries-7, 10:30 A. M.; 2:30, 4, 5 P. M. Station W. Bedford avenue, corner South Fifth street. William B. Hopkins, superintendent. Carrier district-From Newtown creek and Meeker avenue through Meeker avenue to Richardson street; to Union avenue; to North Fourteenth street; to East River; to Wallabout Canal; to Hewes street: to Williamsburgh road; to Flushing avenue; to Morrell street; to Johnson avenue; to Randolph street; to City Line: northeast by Newtown creek and city limits. Collections-5, 7:30, 9:45, 11:45 A M.; 1, 2:45, 5:15, 9 P. M. Sundays, 12:30, 4:15, 9 P. M. Deliveries-7, 10 A. M.; 1, 2:30, 5 P. M. Station E. Atlantic avenue, corner Hendrix. George A. F. North, superintendent. Carrier district All of the Twenty-sixth Ward, late Town of New Lots. Collections-5:30, 8:15, 9:45 A. M.; 1, 4:15, 8 P. M. Sundays, 7:30 P. M. Deliveries7:25, 10:30 A. M.; 1, 3:35 P. M. SUB-POST OFFICE STATIONS. The following Sub-Stations are located within the carrier districts of other stations, and are not delivery stations. They are sub-post offices for registry, domestic money order and postal note business, for the sale of postage stamps and other postal supplies, for weighing and rating of mail matter and for accepting mail matter too large for street letter boxes: Station A, Henry and President streets. Flavel N. Bliss, superintendent. Station C, 838 Fulton street. J. R. Martin, superintendent. Station D, 689 DeKalb avenue., William M. Davis, superintendent. Station F, 590 Atlantic avenue. F. H. Newcomb, superintendent. Station H, Hopkinson avenue and Herkimer street. J. H. Benjamin, superintendent. Station J, 586 Myrtle avenue. Charles J. Hazzard, superintendent. Station K, 1587 Broadway. H. Asher, superintendent. Station M, 518 Grand street. R. C. Knipe, superintendent. Station R, 302 Van Brunt street. Joseph P. Forbes, superintendent. Station X, 1027 Third avenue, between Fortieth and Forty-first streets. J. W. Beatty, superintendent. Newspaper and Package Boxes. For public convenience newspaper and package boxes for the receipt of mail matter too large for the ordinary street letter box have been placed at 130 principal points throughout the city. These boxes are collected several times a day, Sundays excepted. About one hundred Stamp Agencies have been established, principally in drug stores. Brooklyn Post Office Transactions. Year ended June 30, 1882. Year ended June 30, 1885. YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1890: Total receipts for year...... $713,619 02 2,463 00 167 56 $290,737 85 340,548 27 350,295 47 377,883 45 413,628 82 490,490 02 597.779 60 656,342 82 .$716,249 58 $509,261 34 Total expenses for year. PIECES OF MAIL HANDLED BY CARRIERS: 59,906 76 29,435,154 34,815,447 40,639,838 46,290,214 Year ended June 30, 1886. 53,893,506 Year ended June 30, 1888. Rates of Postage. FIRST CLASS-On letters and all mail matter closed against inspection, two cents for each ounce or fraction thereof, excepting postal cards or letters for local delivery posted at a post office where no letter carriers are employed, in which case the rate is one cent per ounce or fraction thereof. SECOND CLASS-On newspapers and magazines, including nearly all regularly published papers and periodicals, one cent for each four ounces when mailed by the public, and one cent per pound when mailed by the publishers. BROOKLYN POST OFFICE-Continued. THIRD CLASS-On circulars, books, pamphlets, business cards, hand bills, engravings, chromos, etc., not exceeding four pounds in weight, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. FOURTH CLASS-Articles of merchandise which by their form and nature are not liable to destroy, injure or deface other articles in the mail, or harm the person of any one in the postal service, and not exceeding four pounds in weight, one cent per ounce or fraction thereof. Seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and plants, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. UNMAILABLE MATTER. The following are absolutely unmailable under any circumstances: Liquids, ardent, vinous, spirituous, or malt, or those liable to explosion or spontaneous ignition or combustion by shock or jar; inflammable oils, poisons, explosives, animals alive or dead (stuffed natural specimens excepted); explosive or poisonous powders, matches and other articles easily inflammable, fresh fruit and vegetables liable to decomposition, insects (except queen bees and their attendant bees, and dried insects when safely secured), substances exhaling an offensive odor, all other articles (not securely wrapped or cased and then safely packed in hard wood or metal boxes with screw lids or secured by clasp or slide, strictly conforming to methods prescribed by the Post Office Department) which are liable to destroy, deface or damage other mail matter, or to harm the person of any one in the postal service; obscene and indecent books, prints, writings or papers; all letters upon the envelopes of which, or postal cards upon which indecent, lewd, obscene, lascivious delineations, epithets are written or printed, all "dunning" notices, all matter upon the outside cover of which appears anything which reflects injuriously upon the person addressed, or is plainly calculated or intended to injure his feelings or reputation or bring him into discredit or threaten him, or anything in the nature of an offensive or threatening "dun" apparent upon the envelope, outside cover, or postal card, or conveying the suggestion that such dun is inclosed; all matter concerning lotteries, so-called gift concerts, or other similar enterprises, offering prizes, or concerning schemes devised and intended to defraud the public, or for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses; and all matter not addressed to a post office, or to no particular person, firm, company or publication. FOREIGN. Mail matter addressed to countries in the Universal Postal Union, including nearly all civilized nations, is subject to the following rates: For letters and sealed packets 5 cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof if prepaid, and double that rate if not prepaid. Postal cards two cents each. For printed matter of every kind, commercial papers and samples of merchandise the rate is one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, but at least five cents must be paid on each packet of commercial papers and at least two on each packet of samples of merchandise. Letters will be sent without prepayment of any rate; other articles will only be forwarded if prepaid in part: insufficiently prepaid correspondence of all kinds is chargeable with double the amount of the deficient postage, to be collected on delivery. UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION. MEXICO. Matter mailed in the United States, addressed to Mexico, is subject to the same postage rates and conditions as it would be if it were addressed for delivery in the United States, except that articles of miscellaneous merchandise (fourth class matter) not sent as bona fide trade samples are required to be sent by "parcels post.' FOREIGN PARCELS POST-JAMAICA, BRITISH HON- Any article of merchandise admitted to the domestic mail may be sent to the above named countries under the Parcels Post Convention. Postage-For a parcel not exceeding one pound in weight, twelve cents; for every additional pound or fraction of a pound, twelve cents. Dimensions and weight-the dimensions allowed for Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, areGreatest length, 2 feet; greatest girth, 4 feet. The dimensions allowed for the other countries are-Greatest length, 3 feet 6 inches; greatest length and girth combined 6 feet; the maximum weight for all destinations, 11 pounds. The parcels must be securely and substantially packed, but must be so wrapped or enclosed as to permit their contents being easily examined by postmasters or customs officers. The sender is required to fill out a customs declaration giving an accurate statement of the contents, date of mailing, signature and residence of the mailer, and place of address, and will receive a certificate of mailing from the post office. EXCLUDED FROM THE MAILS.-All articles not mailable for domestic delivery, letters or packets containing gold or silver, jewelry or coin, or any article liable to customs duty, except such as are sent by "parcels post." MONEY ORDERS AND REGISTRATION. Orders not exceeding $5, 5 cents; over $5 and not exceeding $10, 8 cents over $10 and not exceeding $15, 10 cents; over $15 and not exceeding $30, 15 cents; over $30 and not exceeding $40, 20 cents; over $40 and not exceeding $50, 25 cents; over $50 and not exceeding $60, 30 cents; |