The growth of the Bell System, its broader usefulness and resulting prosperity, are shown in the annual report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for 1911 by the financial statement and other comparative statistics. At the end of the year 1911 there was a total of 6,632,625 subscriber stations, of which 2,158,454 were operated by connecting companies. The Bell toll lines now reach 70,000 places, which is 5,000 more than the number of post offices and 10,000 more than the number of The railroad stations in the United States. The traffic over the Bell lines shows a daily average of 24,129,000, or at the rate of 7,770,000,000 connections a year. There was spent in plant additions $55,660,738 in the year. There was applied to maintenance and reconstruction during the year $58,840,000, making a total provision for the last nine years of $342,300,000. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES. EARNINGS OF THE BELL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. PRINTERS' MARKS. O Period. Comma. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. pt. ital. caps. not were chiefly to see that the proof corresponded to were there, and stet. tr that the sense was right. They cared little about orthography, bad letters or purely printertr errors, and when the text seemed to them wrong they consulted fresh authorities or altered it on their own responsibility. Good proofs in the not modern sense, were possible until professional readers were employed/ men who has first a printer's education, and then spent many years in the correction of proof. The orthography of English, which for the past century has under gone little change, was very fluctuating until after the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, and capi i str. tals, which have been used with considerable reglead spell ularity for the past 80 years; were previously used on the miss for hit plan. The approach to regularity, so far as we have may be attributed to the growth of a class of professional proof readers, and it is to them that we owe the correctness of modern printing. More er/ors have been found in the Bible than in any other one work. For many gen-lead. erations it was frequently the case that Bibles were brought out stealthily, from fear of govern [mental interference. They were frequently Out, see copy. h l.c./ who printed from imperfect texts, and were often mod. NUMBER OF WORDS AND EMS TO THE SQUARE INCH. CHAPTER XII. POST OFFICE AFFAIRS.* PART I. STATISTICAL INFORMATION. UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. For the first time since 1883 the annual financial statement of the Post Office Department of the United States, shows a surplus instead of a deficit. The revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, amounted to $237.879,823.60 and the expenditures to $237,660,705.48, leaving a surplus of $219,118.12. The wiping out of the deficit has been accomplished without curtailOn the conment of postal facilities. trary, important extensions have been made in every branch of the service. OF SUMMARY ALL CLASSES DOMESTIC Number of routes... annum 12,208 2,710,894, 592 .483,683,998. 79 $286.58 16.06 17.15 Annual rate of expenditure....$77,689,935.44 Average rate of cost per mile of length Average rate of cost per mile traveled, cents Average number of trips per week RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. On June 30, 1911, there were in operation 171 full railway post-office lines, manned by 1,750 crews of 8,429 clerks (including 88 acting 171 151 full lines, had Of these clerks). apartment-car service, manned by 987 crews, of 1,489 clerks. There were also 1,413 apartment manned lines, by 4,208 railway post-office crews, of 5,543 clerks; 18 electric car lines. with 20 crews, of 21 clerks; 55 steamboat lines, with 101 crews, of 93 clerks; a total of 1,657 lines of all kinds, manned by 15,575 clerks, representing the working force of the lines. In addition there were 30 officials, 130 chief clerks, 784 transfer clerks employed in handling the mails at important junction points, and 509 clerks detailed to clerical duty in the various offices of the service-an aggregate of 17,028 employees in the service. (Continued on page 324.) This chapter is divided into two parts; the first gives statistics relative to the Post the World, the second deals with information relaOffice Affairs of the United States and Revised through the courtive to rates, etc., domestic and foreign and the "Parcels Post." tesy of Postmaster-General Hitchcock. (Continued from page 323.) Of the 1,464 full railway post-office cars in use and in reserve, 369 are all-steel cars, 147 steel-underframe cars, and 948 wooden cars, and of the 3,819 apartment cars in use and in reserve, 111 are all-steel cars, 106 steel-underframe cars, and 3,602 wooden cars. In view of the rapid development of the aeroplane as a practical means of aerial trans portation, recommendation has been made for an appropriation of $50,000 for an experimental aer al mail service. During the past year a number of experiments in aerial mail transportation have been permitted, without expense to the department, and it is desired to give this method of transportation a test under more practical conditions where other modes of transportation are difficult. MAIL SERVICE IN OPERATION YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1911. COMPARISON OF REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES OF THE Excess of revenues over expenditures..... Amount of losses by fire, burglary, bad debts, etc.... Deficit in the postal revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.. 224, 128, 657.62 223, 190, 830. 39 6,786, 394. 11 229,977, 224.50 224, 128, 657.62 5,848, 566. 88 32, 915.07 5,881, 481.95 $232,607, 557. 29 5, 272, 266. 31 237,879, 823.60 230, 516.814.45 7, 132, 112. 23 237,648, 926. 68 237,879, 823.60 230, 896.92 11,778.80 219, 118. 12 EXPENDITURES, APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES FOR ALL 1 Star service, except in Alaska, transferred to office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. 2 Includes $1,121,200 made immediately available and applied to deficiency for fiscal year 1911. *Includes $48,200 made immediately available and applied to deficiency for fiscal years 1910 and 1911. *Includes $247,400 made immediately available and applied to deficiency for fiscal year 1911. 2,916, 728. 55 3,322,600.00 2,500.00 213, 866.82 291.75 81,042,209.99 87,993, 580.00 United States of America 12,660,000 The postal business of all states of the world. America: 14,643,129 Asia: 2,677,498 26,090 StraitsSett 15,100 Fr. IndoChina and oth Puss. Philippine 7,230 Islands 3,640 Hongkong Jogan 1446.000 Bri Portuga 107,600 • 3,370 and Macaol thousand pieces 310,000 54,530 with Bosnia 2,233,000 Turkey Ceylon 102 Samos Rumania 42,720 North Borneo New-Found- Honduras 1668,000 Brazil Canada 6,460 Bolivia 6,870 Costa Rica 322,360 4,420 Colombia 4,230 Porto Rico 3,130 @ 2,620 Bermudas 2,050 French Gulana 1,968 Brit. Guiana 1,950 Brit. Honduras • 410 Halti 350 St. Pierre and Miquelon Falkland Is. Australia: 705,987 thousand pieces Australia o Hawail 693,000 D French Poss German Poss Algeria 1,530 Angola Tunis Fiji Islands |