The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-28
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Postmaster Hcsing Lost While Trying 10
DISCOVER Some of liz Branch Onirc.


One day last week Washington HeslnR
postmaster OF Chicago YVES lost in on.
of the cty's painless forests. For hour,
he and the party with him wandered
about for some human habitation whcrs
they might inquire the way 10 the Chicago
Post-oftce. Bat when at last they sight.
ed the lonely cabin OF a frOnticrsmar
and asked him question he answered in
Polish and they couldn't understand him
Later they found a man working in
cornheld.
"NIv man" said the Postmaster. vii
you tell me the way 90 the city,"
who be your was the response
My name is Hcsing. I'm postmaster
OF Chicago
''Neyer heard OF you"
And this was what surprised the Post
master even more than being lost. lie
said he thought the man Was FAR below
the average IN intelligence. lostinas,'f
Hesing has lived in Chicago all his lie.
and he regards himself as being as Ia
mliar with every part OF the cry AZ
any man in IT, He has seen II made so
10 speak a..
Every few weeks the Postmaster his
private secretary and few other oin-
Gals make the rounds OF the branch oihc's
TO see how the work IL done. IN INC
downtown districts where we sIt's-
car companies are compeNhb TOT p"-iy'..
age this is "A comparatively easy mat.
ter but Chicago Is a DIX city anu ~
Is an entirely different task 10 ieach lts
uttcrmost corners -.
LAST week the Postmaster went 10
Pullman and having inspected the Office
there. concluded 10 penetrate dt I'D ihtS
the wilds beyond carrias, vas nlr.l
and the driver was directed TO go 10
Riverlaie Now RlVcrdalc Hes poo the
oxtrorne southwestcrly corner or fne Guy,
almost twenty miles 10y ROAD rom me
heart Of chicago. Most oil me p''pir Mlo
get their mail there are farmers, TOT
that part OF the city from lNin street 70
fsot, street cam be used 10 excellent ai-
vantage for raising caDhagrs aNl onions.
The POstmastcrs party ted'N'H NN'I
dale without mishap, @llnohsl "l t''
turn of the sandy road th'N aH i'it prs
if tbcv were discovering some unknown
From From Riverdalc It is about four miles
as the crow fies 20 reg" -S.h, NJ 'I'
extreme sOuthcastcrly corner OF '.i'at''
and within a short distance OF me ln-
diana state line. There IS no eiftet me
of transit between the Two places hnt
the country is a waste OF SNaHit7 HHun
hills. and scrub oak forests a Tow me
anderng country ioann '"e '"+''o' -
here and there. DOL,
asked the Postmaster anNlouril'
THE driver was certain That ne toNld.
60 ,ha marty set out and. although b. was
"a hot afternoon they cOulin htlp ENJOY
ing the rural scenes about them.
The horses ulodled along DO INC 'aNt
for an hour but there was h9 ShH on
and once "A railroad, and then. slideuls,
the road stopped az "a fence behind Nnl,n
there was "A cormheil SO they al fot OUT
ana although the road was narrow, the
driver succeeded in turning around.
Then they drove ana drove nhni '"es
anallv APPROACHED town.
"This is Hegowisch.' SAID the iost~
master but il was Hammond. lnl.
So the driver turned to the north ana
drove in and out through the country
roads Finally they reached place ,,, ~n saS
a forest ON the other. Then they came to
some bars. which the driver got on, anu
lei down. He said Dee didn't hno" ""'''
I'VE are lost" eroaned The POSTMASTER,
despair I'm his voice for u was aliles'
dinner time. Al last they came 10 iahe'
and "a native said that h was VOL ; Lake,
after CONTRASTING that be had never heara
of Postmaster Heslns t.. pt,.,r-
dale the party reached HeseWis, "a inc me
and with a heightened ldea AS 10 ,, ,lie
mensity of the rural districts OF 'hl,'so'
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