The evening times., 1896-12-28
30 cards
and copper
plate, 75C.
and we guarantee the
finest work and the finest
quality of cards. Usual
price is Soc.
Goldenberg's,
026=028 7th-7O6 K Sts.

>SO-1&O Wv - ASSs
have provided yourself with house col
lection and delivery box and have become
your own sub-postmaster.
By purchasing box you engage Uncle
Sans services as a messenger boy for all
such emergencies. You find your celluloid
pouch, draw out the washable order-slip
and wipe off the old ortier for yesterdays
supply of stamps. You observe that at the
top is printed: Enclosed find $ cents
postage on - unstamped letters"
You mark in the appropriate spaces the
number OF stamps desired and the number
of letters to be mailed. You next glance
down the list of purchasable stamps de-
scribed above and make your cross in the
little square block opposite the proper line.
Let Us say that you order two fives-
You inclose twelve cents and write YOUR
name and address upon the appropriate
space at the bottom. Thus you have paid
two cents for a stamp to be placed upon
your letter at the postoffice, and have in
closed ten cents more for the postman TO
bring you five twos.
You insert the pouch, with slip and money
inclosed, into the collection department OF
YOUR box, after raising the carriers sig
nal, as described. The carrier notices This
on his next trip, and after delivering your
mail, if he has any for you, into the de-
livery compartment, unlocks the box, ex-
aInires the order and money through she
transparent face II the pouch, and, II the
proper change beinclOscd, ,siraightwaytakes
your unstamped letter and accompanying
pouch with him, depOsIting both with the
proper Official in the postoffice Later.
The official takes out the money inserts
the proper number OF stamps, affiX"s the
extra stamp to your letter, and has it nm
mesiiately sent in the next mail. He then
hands your celluloid pouch to thecarr'er for
your district. who returns il TO the delivery
compartment OF your box. You take out the
stamps and keep the pouch until you care ts
use it again.
Sending a special.
Now, suppose you wish to dispatch spe-
cial delivery letter to friend, whom you
wish to invite TO dinner. You have neither
an ordinary stamp nor special delivery
stamp. You Gothroughthe same process as
before as regards the 2-cent stamps, or
whichever denominations you purchase, in
addition to those which are To be put upon
your letter.
Attne bottom of the order Slip, below the
list of stamps, you will observe after the
general heading, ''lnclo>cd IND. these
additional space To be filled; - cents
to pay for - special delivery = ps' to
be affixed at postoffice.'
The directions further state that YOU
must write the word special on the up
per right hand corner OF the envelope. upon
which you wish the special delivery stamp
to be affixed. This is to indentify special
deliveries from ordinary unStamped letters
in the postoffice. You willinciose 10 cents
in addition to the price of the 2-cent stamp
for your letter, and the other stamps TO be
returned to you. Your letter will be dis
Matched by messenger Immediately from
the postofJce.
Tie only step in all of these processes or
transacting business through the new
poucLcs which is liable TO bc misunderstood
at first is that caused by the necessity OF
ordering additional stamps to be returned
to YOU after your unstanped letters have
been mailed.
Unless you send an order for stamps to
he brought back. you Will fail to have your
pouch returned. But, after all, tins VIII
not seriously inconvenience you, although
il will cost you at least . cents every tine
Won mail an ordinary letter. The smallest
sum which you can invest in pouch order
FOR starlps will be ) cents for five ones. But
YOU would not have your stamps affixed at
thepostofficeif you did not need more. And,
besides this, Uncle Sam would almost al
ways be faced with the necessity OF hav-
ing to lick the pubic's stamps if he did not
make it necessary for your supply OF unat-
taciied stamps to be constantly re-enforced
Designs of Boxes.
The new private branch postoffices,
which will be officially known as house col
lection and delivery boxes, in connection
with stamp selling envelopes, are 10 be inl-
provements on the boxes authorized for use
in the house to- house collection and delivery
system, adopted for several cities by the
last administration.
They are of many designs and grades,
from which the purchaser is at liberty to
select. Some may be screwed to the front
door, the openings to the compartments ex-
tending through, and the compartments
| themselves being on the inside Others may
| he fastened to the outside of the house. The
| arrangement of some into compartments
the collection compartment and the delivery
| compartment-enabl the carrier to hold
the regulation key to one and the owner
| a different key TO the other, thereby pre-
| venting one owner from holding q key
| which will unlock his neighbor's boxes as
would be the case il the uniform carrier
key opened both of the compartment doors
The owner may learn whether mail has
been deposited by moving lever extending
into his house. or course, no boxes ex'
| cept those tested and sold by the post
office will be allowed in the service. They
are being made by the Postal Improvement
| Company OF Norristown, Pa. A. Darling
Cushing, secretary OF the company, is th'
inventor OF the cciluloid pouches and nlanl
OF the other improvements necessitated b.
| the ne W system. The stainp-seliirg ponche'
viii, not be used except in connection witt
the regulation boxes. The purchaser "l
each box receives with 1t one Of The resu
lation pouches free Of cost