The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-16
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.

Little If Any Change to be Made In the
 Wanamaker Designs.
 From the New York Times.]
 MT. John Wanamaker, the last post master general, will undoubtedly de- rive satisfaction from the fact that the postofflce department has decided that the designs of the ordinary postage stamps which he adopted shall remain practically unchanged in the present fiscal year. The Columbian stamp has had it's day, and as soon as the present supply is exhausted the familiar two- cent stamp of tarmine hue and the George Washington head will take its place.
 Some time ago the department gave the contract for furnishing postage stamps to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which offered to perform the service at lower rate than that of the American Bank Note Co.,, of New York, which held the contract last year. It was venture for the bureau to enter into this class of york; but its chief believed that he could perform 1t in satisfactory manner, and after careful examination of the matter, Postmaster-Gene Bissell reached the same conclusion. Provided that com plications do not arise, the department will save money in the coming year. In order that the bureau might begin the issue of stamps at the beginning of | the fiscal year, MT. Bissell caused to be transferred from New York all the stock of stan ps held by the American Bank Note Co. on June 30. This supply comprised nearly 7OO,O0O,0OO stamps, | worth in the neighborhood of $2O.0O0,- 900. l To the credit of the department, the l transfer was made in less than one week, without any friction whatever. Every stamp of this vast collection is now safe in the vaults of the bureau The present stock will last at least twenty-five days, at the end of which time the new supply which the bureau is now engaged in providing will be drawn upon. Some idea of the output required of the bureau may be gained from the fact that last year over nine million postage stamps were used daily
 Tn order to distinguish its work iron that of the American Bank Note Co. the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has caused to be printed in the upper corners of the ordinary stamp figure which represents a clover leaf. Thi! figure simply serves the purpose fol which 1t was intended. Changes will b. made in the series of ordinary stamps by the omission of the thirty and nine ty cent ones, and the addition o stamps of the denominations of fit! cents, one, two and five dollars. Tn, design of these stamps, it was said a the Post-offlce department to-day would probably not differ from thos already familiar to the public. ~.a-
 A radical change has been decide, upon in the newspaper and periodica series of stamps. There will be- omit ted the following issue: Four cents,
 cents, 8 cents, "A cents, AS cents,5 6 cents, 72 cents, 84 cents, 96 cents, .31. .9i B, ts, s9, $12, S24, $s6, $4S and seO. Ther ! VIII Uc duuSO kOs thlo ScAicS Ol0Ahp0 V
 the denominations of cents, 10jcepti 25 cents, 50 cents, $2, 5, $10, $2o, $50 an $100. The newspaf,er and pertodice stamps will be made somewhat smRlle than those now in use, and the design
 may be eventually changed, althoue no order to that effect has yet been is sued. The present designs represen allegorical figures largely, some attri
 bute of the republic being typified whatever changes may be made, the SC ries will continue to be of the ssah general character. l- '''
 The colors have not yet been ,deoide upon. A stamp which will look :welll . red may prove very unsatisfactory 1 blue. The lines of the engrav wing hay
 much to do with the general effedA, Although the Bufeau of Ennra%iu and Printing was authorized some tin ago to make, the slight changes dread outlined, samples df the work ware nc
 submitted to. the Post-otiice depart ment until to-day. So far IS canrbe ., certained. this preliminary work isssl sisfattorr, and n astsw days thestap Iof supplying the enorfAaHSs sdeanah | tt v-k