The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-18

| iI1OSE MESSING HOSIAL NAILpS,
Visitors to, the exposition who pur-
chased souvenir postals'-and many
there must have been who squandered
their wealth in this way-are wonder
ing. doubtless. why those highly deco
rative missives never reached their des-
tination.
Soribbled in haste, perhaps from a
corner of "the Connecticut room," or the
Massachusetts, building, or from some
resting place upon the grounds, a one
cent stamp was affixed, and they were
then confidently intrusted to the care
of Uncle Sam. who now appears to have
failed in the discharge of his duty.
Some of them may have been intend
ed to convey tidings of comparative i'm
portance, but most of them simply
bore some words Of greeting to home
friends who naturally enough would be
pleased to receive both the message and
the souvenir. But nearly 10000 of them
have not yet come to hand, to the sur
prise OF senderS, and the disappoint-
ment OF senders all the way from
Walla Walla to Skowhegan, Where
are those pretty pictures now? Safe in
the Atlanta postoffice, neatly arranged
according to date in rubber bandaged
packages. To say nothing of the num-
Der upon which the careless writer in
scribed a message, leaving the address
side blank, the 10000 are held for lack
of sufficient postage Not having been
recognized by the U. S. government,
these open letters required two-cent
stamp as much as any sealed epistle.
This was not generally understood
hence the blockade.
AS these cards were sold two for
five" or a package of thirteen for a
quarter, they cost, with one-cent stamps
from two and -thirteenths to
three and one-half cents apiece. The
ten thousand now cluttering the post
office represent therefore quite a tidy
bit of money. Those who think 1t
worth while to rescue these captive SOU
venirs. and send them on their belated
journey, can do so by forwarding ad-
dresses and a penny stamp for each.
Thus would they help to relieve the
plethora of a postoffiee that was badly
oyerworked air through the days OF the
exposition, and that has not yet had a
chance 20 draw long breath and get
rested
CRAGIE HOUSE, JUNIOR.
/
OF all the chapters of the Daughters
of the American Revolution the ATTAIN
ia chapter is now the proudest and hap
piest. 1t is the first chapter to acquire
a building of its own, and a very beau
tiful one it is, and entirely appropriate
for this use to which it is to be hence
| fertb onnranriafad
The Massachusetts building at Pied
mont Park is a reproduction Of the old
Cragie house at Cambridge, Washing
toms headquarters at the time he ac-
cepted the command of the Continental
army and in later years the home where
LongfeIIow lived and wrought his po-
etic fancies in undying song, and greet
ed with unfailing kindness all those
who sought him there
The historic and literary suggestions
that cluster about the venerable house
: at Cambridge seem to reproduce them
selves here, just as the copy OF a fine
picture may awaken the same fancies
that are called forth by the original.
1t Is a substantial structure, costing be-
tween eight and ten thousand dollars,
fitted UP in colonial style and contain
ing the exhibit of the state, agricul tural,
industrial and educational. It's Long
fellow corner, with portraits and busts,
manuscripts and other mementoes OF
the Bay States greatest writer's, schol-
ars and statesmen. 1t is a generous
and graceful gift of the old state to the
descendants of it's heroes of Lexington
and Bunker Hill, and one that is most
thoroughly appreciated. This gift was
supplemented by others-1bookcases
from the colonial department of the wo-
mans building, carpets and cases from
the Connecticut room, furniture, pic
lures, books. vases and ornamental
plants from the Forestry building, made
UP a goodly and valuable showing of
New Years presents
1t must be somewhat embarrassing
to own a building that lacks a perma-
nent site. This difficulty confronted the
Atlanta chapter, but happily 1T exists
no longer. Atlanta's pioneer, Mr. Col
Her suggestively named George Wash
ington, has generously endowed the la
dies with a large and valuable lot OH
which to establish their home. Mr. Col
! lier is a. publie-spirited, energetic man,
efghty-two years young. BY industry,
| forethought and persistence he has built
, UP his fortune. when T was nine years
DID," he says, 81 worked from Monday
morning until Saturday night and kept
up my end of the row. The only time
, had for going to school was between
: the time of laying by the corn until fod-
/ der time" At twenty-one he labored at
/ whatever his hand found to do, and
, thought himself well paid at fifty cents
J a day, but he had gained, by his own
labor, nearly six hundred acres of land
l He bought more land, and still more
holding 1t and waiting until there grew
up a city, with, as one might say, him
self as a nucleus. He lives where he
has lived so long, under the shade Of
| seventy-year-old walnut trees that were
$ planted by his own hands, but wha
> was once little farm, reached only by
/ an Indian trail, and rescued by hare
: and unremittlng labor from the wilder
: ness, is now a busy and thriving city
and city lots have bought a fortune t
their shrewd possessor.
An additional tract of land is to bt
given to the Atlanta chapter, so tina
their home will stand in the midst o
handsome grounds, with an approach
| from Atlanta's boosted street-beauti
s say its proud owner. is to be placed
there as soon as possible, to be ma
> tionai patriotic institution, in which