The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-08
PLEASE BREAK THE CHAIN.
THIS LETTER BUSINESS GETTING
TO BE SLIGHTLY TGREsoME.
Mail Clerks Protest, But Here Comes
Oklahoma With n Chain Which
Would BanI>rupt Uncle Sam
Want Ten Cents to Guild u Church
With.

Readers of this paper will remember
the expose of the "chain system" which
was being used to obtain lot OF can
ceIled postage stamps by a crippled girl
in Illinois, who was, when she had OBJ
tanned a million, to be admitted TO nos
pital for treatment free of charge.
Miss Edna Brown is the young lady'S
name, and she lives at KaneVille. cross
roads town nine miles from Aurora, and
five miles from d. railroad. In the nelgI-
borhood of the pOStofice are probably
Just now the postmaster is IN a cohdlI
tiOn bordering upon letterdemenud anu
all on account of this chain system;
A few days after the frst three let-
ters we're sent from kaneVllle, contain
ing the modest request cited, ana Wnlch
has been fully explained, the postmaster
began to receive good many letters ioT
Edna Brown. The letters for MISS EdL5
Brown kept increasing. They soon filled
a busheI basket daily. Then they nIIeu
several baskets. 1t rained letters IN
stead of the usual small pouch tne IAdilS-
vile mail required several. MOI ohiy Iet-
tiers came, but boxes and bundles OF can
celed stamps from Well-intentloned put
idiotic people. -
with mail bags that there was no room
for passengers The postmaster was
obliged TO hire an assistant to help nan
die the stuff. An average OF from S,uUU 10
poStoffice for Miss Edna Brown, 10 say
nothing of boxes and bundles of stamps
by mail and express.
Wednesday the number received was
1000, Monday it reached 1900. The post
master gets twenty or more letters of in
quiry every day. The mail clerks on the
trains demand when this thing IS gong
to end and Mr.. SChrelhOrn can only
shake his head and mournfully reply
that is what he would like to know.
OF course, one person cannot look over
IL 4 T.VTf 1nTl n
the farmers wives, who, for the salts
faction of reading the letters. open them
and trim the stamps for the little GRIP
pie. She passed the three-million mark
| long ago, and there seems TO be no way
to stop the avalanche.
But notwithstanding this scheme has
been exposed and it has been shown that
it was a sort of a fake in its way, now
Oklahoma, and mails the following, a
copy of which has been received in Salt
Lake:
Chandler. Oklahoma, wishing to aid in
building an Episcopal church there, and
not having the means TO do so, think OF
| no better way to do it than to, form a
chain in which you are requested to join
You are requested to make three copies
of this letter, putting the next number
at the top of each. Then send this letter
| the three friends to whom you have
written TO Mrs. j. z. Fletcher, Chandler,
| Oklahoma.
This may seem a small matter, but any
break in the chain may mean serious
| loss to the enterprise.
The persons receiving No Is will make
no COPIES but return the letters as that
| ends the chain. So faithfully do your
duty in the name and for the sake of
| Christi
I Mrs Fletcher may be an innocent par
| ty, but if her scheme pans out there will
! not be Decent pieces enough left in Am
erica to buy cigars with to say nothing
of bread and if all the money accumu-
| lated is expended in the enterprise men
toned. Chandler. Oklahoma, will have the
biggest church in the world. Readers are
| warned against the plan. It is not safe.