Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — HORSELESS MAIL WAGONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HORSELESS MAIL WAGONS.

Postoffice Department «Will Expert* ment with Them in New York City. A scheme to use horseless mail wagons in New York City has been proposed, by Second Assistant Postmaster General Neilson. One of the vehicles is in the courseof construction, and the experiment will be tried soon. If the horseless wag-

ons should prove to be a success mail taken from the street boxes and sorted during the collection from box to box at the end of the trip can be taken direct to postal cars. Thia change would relievo the pressure at the branch stations and the general postoflice,

HORSELESS MAIL WAGON.