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be ujDside down. With the express com- 

 panies it would not be out of sight at any 

 time, but in the same position all the time. 

 The aboAe-mentioned conditions will hold, 

 no matter how many caution or fragile no- 

 tices the packages may be endorsed with. 

 I can now bring out my point by a single 

 illustration, somewhat lengthy, but showing 

 practically the exact number of times a 

 package would be handled in transit. 



We will assume that The A. I. Root Co. 

 at Medina, Ohio, mailed a package of bees 

 to go b}' parcel post to Mr. Doolittle, at 

 Borodino, N. Y. The postmaster at Me- 

 dina places the bees in a sack with other 

 second, third, and fourth class matter, and 

 dispatches it by wagon to a railroad depot 

 at Medina. It is then taken from the wag- 

 on at the depot and placed on a truck, and 

 wheeled across the station platform and put 

 on the train, where the postal clerk opens 

 it and makes proper separation of the mail. 

 The bees are then placed in a sack which is 

 labeled " Xew York," along with all other 

 mail for that State. 



At Cleveland the sack is taken oi¥ this 

 train and placed on a truck with many 

 others, and wheeled across the station plat- 

 form to a wagon awaiting the arrival of this 

 train. It is then placed in the wagon and 

 transferred across the city to the depot of 



the L. S. & M. S. railroad. Here the con- 

 tents of the wagon are sorted, and each in- 

 aividual sack placed on a truck with ouier 

 sacks for the same State, and then wheeled 

 to the car of the train into which they are 

 loaded. As the sacks are taken into the car 

 by the men, they are placed in a pile until 

 each individual sack can be sorted. That is, 

 all the sacks labeled " N. Y. State " are 

 placed in one pile, and those labeled "Mass- 

 achusetts " in another pile, and so on. In 

 the New York pile there may be anjrvphere 

 from ten to forty sacks full of mail. The 

 sack containing the bees may be on the top, 

 in the middle, or perhaps at the bottom of 

 the pile. The next procedure is, distribut- 

 ing these sacks — that is, dispatching each 

 individual piece of mail to its proper des- 

 tination. This time the sack containing the 

 bees is carried from the pile in which it was 

 placed when taken aboard the train, and 

 contents dumped on a table, so as to be 

 readily accessible to the postal clerk, who 

 places the bees in a sack labeled " Syracuse 

 & Rochester R. P. 0." (railway postofRee). 

 Before arrival at Syracuse the sack is tak- 

 en out of the rack in which it was suspend- 

 ed, and placed in a pile of mail to be put 

 off at that point. It is then loaded on to 

 another truck and wheeled across the depot 

 platform to the " Syracuse and Rochester " 



