Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-07
HE Is GETTING HIS MAIL.
The Boys Do Their hest to Satiate Charles
II. Jonas, Jr.

II. Jonas, Jr.
| From tho New York sun.
| Charles II. Jonas, jr., is a clerk in the In.s-
| rior Department at Washington. He is also a
| good, very popular member of the Columbia
Athletic Club at the capital city, which boats
OF a membership OF some 1900 Jonas has his
pecuiiarities and his pet failing Is his inordi-
| nate love Of receiving letters. Some ill-natared
| friends have gore SO far as &c suggest tina: the
\ young man is in the habit of writing to himself
| for the pleasure of receiving them through the
| mails No matter how often he makes hi- ap-
! pearance at the club house. be il twenty times
| a day, he religiously presents himself at tie
! Office with the remark:
How are you Mckee, any mail for me!
| and when answered ir the negative he turns
away with sigh and a soft Ellrmer Of That's
funny; am expecting some
On recent visits to New FORK with club mates
| he often detained them for amoment on Broad
way Until Il can run over to the Hoffman
(Flfth Avenue, BarthOldi or any other caravan
sary that happened to be near by and see if
have any mail" The boys got tired of it and
resolved that the next time the crowd went
visiting they would see that Jonas was either
cured OF killed.
Last Monday Jonas, in company with Frank
McDermott, prominent business man; Alex.
| Shaw of the patent Office and George Scar
borough Of the State Department. all members
of the Columbia Athletic Club, started on a
trip for Boston by sea, their ultimate destina-
ton being New York Prior to leaving the
capital McDermott. locally famous wag, had
! numterless mysterious interviews with kindred
spirits at tie club. Jonas was excluded from
| these secret sessions. the pass words to which
were: viii Charley get his mail?' the answer,
| well. / guess?" The secret sessions took in
! 100 club men good and true, and each and
| every one was sworn to see that Charles II.
Jonas. jr., was supplied with mail from the
time he left the club house in Washington until
| he arrived in this city.
The first batch, consisting of twenty special
delivery letters and kilograms. was handed to
! the young man at the train rs it started out Of
| the station at Washington The contents con-
| sisted of duns from horists hverymen and
| washerwomen. club dues and notes from i'm
aginary young women. AT every station al!
! which the train stopped between Washington
| and Baltimore the conductor duly reported
with IA telegram When Mr.. Jonas boarded the
steamer at Baltimore the gentlemanly clerk
presented him with batch of some ffty
| letters and papers. the former bearing S. ID.
| stamps and marked immediate Mos. of
them contained anxious inquiries. short but to
| the point
| Dear Charley--Do Won get your mail regu-
! larly so far. Sincerely
Inc steamer clerk had HE instructions and
mail was delivered in large quantities TO Jonas
| at each meal and the steward hammered at his
/ state room door at 3 o clock in the morning and
sang OUT Mr.. Jonas. here's your mall
| At the Adams House in Boston batch Of
| 500 letters, papers, packages and kilograms
awaited Jonas and it required the assistance
| of two porters to remove his mail to he
| rooms assigned to him. Among this lot
| were old dramatic papers. newspapers
! and magazines several years old. warnings
that his house and furniturs were about to be
| seized for non-payment Of rent sentimental
| notes and verses purporting TO come from
| members of the fair sex and the usual
1 anNiov InuuIrles from cluh friarHs ahaut he
| receipt of his mail. The constant knocking
| at the door OF his rooms in the hotel by mes
sengers bearing special delivery letters and
4 kilograms began TO grow a trife monotonous,
| but the climax was not reached until his
arrival at the Imperial Hotel in this
\ city yesterday morning. His club friends
| had concentrated their forces at this point
and when the hotel clerk a dapper little
fellow with piercing black eyes and flowing
| mustache approach the desk and register in a
back hand. Charles H. Jonas, jr., Washing
| ton, ID. C., he knew the man he longed for
had arrived. Ringing the bell under the desk
he called 'FRONT.' and when the call was an
| swered he rang for the pcrters and had Jonas
| assisted TO his room with his mail. Not con-
| tent with this master stroke the fun-loving
hends in Washington had sent innumerable
letters to Jonas in care of every man in New
| York he expected to meet, SO that after their
greetings were over the New York friends would
| remark: by the way, old man. have quite a
| way had batch Of letters for poor Jonas, and
Judas McDermott was sure to remark when
near any of them: Lets 20 over to the -
| Hotel and see il you have any mail
Everything mailable has been sent him--old
| rubber shoes. advertising cards. cigarette pic
lures, Interior Department reports. congress
sional documents by the dozen, Washing tou
papers weeks old heavily marked with blue
lead pencil. bills from imaginary creditors
and threats Of suits for breach of promise.
Over Il hundred notes in feminine handwriting
are among the lot. The Washington committee
| have attended strictly to business. and as long
as Mr.. Charles H. Jonas. jr.. remains away from
the shadows of the big club house at home the
boys are bound by their oath to See that thei,
victim gets his mail.
Hub Smith, the author of Listen To Ny
Tale of Woe who, by the way is a member Of
the club. is engaged IN Washington rehearsing
| chorus of 100 voices in a song of welcome &c
Jonas, the refrain of which runs as follows:
Oh. Charley boy: dear Charley boy.