Cases of damage to-- Eggs 355 8.41 Butter 99 2.35 Hats 119 2.82 Paint 20 .47 Powders 59 1.40 Preserves 129 3.06 Liquids 925 21.92 Foodstuffs 575 13.63 Merchandise 1,002 23.75 China and glass 368 8.72 Liquids 925 21.92 Fruit 194 4.60 Poultry 51 1.21 Flowers 53 1.26 Other articles 270 6.40 ------ ------ 4,219 100.00 Damage cases insured 137 3.25 Damage cases on star routes 304 7.21 An Opinion by Daniel Webster on Mail Extension In this period of unprecedented postal growth and activity when history is rapidly made and great achievements are born in a day, it is interesting to recall that in 1835, during the discussion of a measure in the United States Senate to establish a post route from Independence, Mo., to the mouth of the Colorado River, the learned Daniel Webster closed his speech in opposition with the following language: “What do we want with this vast worthless area; this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust; of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use can we hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, imposing and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What use have we for such country? Mr. President, I will never vote 1 cent from the Public Treasury to place the Pacific Coast 1 inch nearer to Boston than it now is.” “I can safely venture,” said Hon. D. C. Roper, late First Assistant Postmaster General in his speech at the Denver, Colo., Convention of the National Association of Postmasters, in July, 1913, from which this extract is made, “that were Mr. Webster to return to earth and accompany me on this western trip he would confess in chagrin that in no expression made during his long career as a public speaker was he wider of the mark.” A Blind Woman on the Pay Roll