Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-21
W. H. BRADLEY, Esq., CHICAGO,


 Stamped across the face in blood-red let ters, enclosed in hand with 8 long index finger extended, was the following legend:
 Returned to writer. Cannot be found by Chicago postofice, March 12."
 Stamped on the back, also in red ink, was: "General delivery March 5, 1888, il a. m.;" also New Haven postmark bearing date of March 8.
 Recognizing tre address to be that of the Hon. W. H. Bradley, clerk of the United States courts one of the land marks of Chi cago, who has been president of banks, ,direc- tor and officer of street railroad companies and a man known to almost every business man in the city, the reporter handed the let ter to MT. Bradley and asked him the mean ing of the strange device on the front, to the effect that the Chicago postof1ice could not find him. "Why," said Mr. Bradley, "I have been for years in the same building, directly over the heads of these officials, and am in the receipt of large mails several times 8 day and how they came to miss me, unless they are blind, is more than can tell"
 MT. Bradley then explained that the letter inclosed was one from the Darlington Pub fishing company of New Haven, under date of March l, inclosing receipt for sub scription to their paper, the Connecticut Herald and Weekly Journal, which he had been receiving from them through the mails for years. The Darlington conapany was greatly SurprlS6Q to r0C61V6 GR61r 1oGC6E Dack with the information that MT. Bradley could not be found, and on March 16 addressed the following communication:
 POSTMASTER, CHIcAeo.-Dear Sir: If you will
 have the inelosed letter placed with MT Bradley s
 under the same address, we feel sure that it will THE G1RRNeToN COMPANY. Accordingly, ,>on March 19, Mr.. Bradley re- ceived both his own letter and the above. :'Luckily," said Mr. Bradley, "this letter was of little importance, but it might have been otherwise. There is, I believe, the name of one other gentleman of the same initials to be found in our city directory and on some rare occasions we have received each others let ters. On this occasion, however, the intelli. gent posteffice officials seem to have entirely forgotten to consult the city directory" It may be, however, that the extreme re gard of the present administration to keel | the surplus in the treasury intact may havt prevented an appropriation for the purchase of city directory for the Chicago postoffice If they had consulted MT. Kinsley's directory across the way they would have found eithe, of the names there, and an application eithel to MT. Bradley OF to his namesake would hay, readily found the true owner of the letter. A reference to the city directory supported the statements of Mir. Bradley, the following being the only names of William H. Bradley to be there found:
 bradley, Wllllam h., artlst, D. 1c9 Ooutl \ Green.
 Bradley, William H., clerk U. S. courts | 40 Govt building, h. 335 La Sale avenue. Bradley, William H., shoemaker, h. 4, AZ \ Cottage Grove avenue.
 Further comments are unnecessary. Fror | the many complaints made against the con \ duct of the Chicago postoffice since the pres | ent political party has had it in charge | would seem plain that Q strict inquir
 should at once be made by Mir. Judd int | this extraordinary blunder, the absurdity o | which, displaying as it does the grossest ie noranee on the part of someone or other | must be apparent to all.