The times., 1897-08-11
MERRY POSTAL WAR RACES
BrightwoOd Citizens Begin a
Boycott on the New POStOliice.
GET THEIR NAIL By BEARER"
Citizens Of the Vanquished Village
Organize "a Private Mail Service
Between the OLD and New OF
fiees-street Car Company Takes
q Hand.

A further mix-up between Brightwood
and Brghtwood Park is to be reported
The angel Of peace which has been fitting
between Rrightwood and Brightwood PARK
has taken flight, and a demon of hate
waItzes Ia its stead. Thepostoffioe fight.
which seemed To have subsided, has broken
out in more virulent form. The placid
ness which has been reported in Bright
wood and Brightwood Park during the
last day and a half has been ru5hlessly
shattered and iTrevocably smashed. 1t was
the calm that came before the storm.
Monday night Bri rightwood Park celebrated
ats victory in securing the removal OF the
site OF the l3ostoffice from BrightwoOd 10
BTightwood Park. This Celebration was
said TO lie designed TO rub it in'' on
Brightwood, and the echoes OF the tri-
Gmphal speeches had scarcely faded out
Of the palpiating air when Erightwood
got its second wind and reopened the War
fare
Messrs. Thomas & Shaw, who keep tie
grocery store ia which the Brightwood
office was Ioca ted secured an order from
each OF the partisanS of the old site calling
uron the new postmaster, Mr. Van Horn,
TO deliver their mail to bearer
This bearer" then draws all the mail
out Of the Few office. places it in sack
and rushes on TO the old postoffice, where
1t is redistnibuted in tie various boxes, TO
be called Tor by the people Of BrightwoOd-
By thus arrangement Brightwood practical
" retains postoffice.
Those who have thus far directed that
their mail he delivered to the bearer" are
as follows:
Theo. Thomas, Fred BeX, Molly Barnes,
Mary Barnes, Thomas Beall, Lucy Braster.
Philip Caffrey, Nelly Cafrrey, Laura Clark,
Policeman O. 4. Coffin, Mrs. F. n. Coffin,
r. d Corwin, Z. l.. Corwin, DR.. Henry
Darling, T Hayes NJ. C. Gale, o. ].
Maus, kapie McKenney. j. T Morgan, X. j.
Morgan. D. Morgan, W E. NaIly, A. B.
NalIy. Mrs NJ E. Nally, william o'Brien,
]. O'Brien, A. G. Osborn, y. E. Robinson,
sr,N. e Robinson, tr-, 5. C. Robinson, S F,
Robinson, A. r. Robinson, Edward Rest,
George Washington schrellinger, Belle
Staples, II. p Tuttle, a. W. Terry, o. j.
Waters and May Wallace.
il is the understanding that those who
call for their mail at the old office will
also post their letters there TO be mailed
by a bearer and it is morally certain
that this bearer will see to it that
those letters are Cancelled at some other
poStoffice than Brishtwood Park. If this
Is done the Pos5office department announces
Its fncIln aSion to involve itself in the con
troversy and do what it may 10 straighten
matters out.
This bearer plan has caused great re
1oicing among the citizens of Brightwood,
and It is probable that they viii soon hold
a celebration al which they will give thanks
for their deIverance out of the thr aldOm OF
their enemies OF Brightwood PARK
BrightwoOd after planting this blow upon
the heart Of Brightwood Park, dealt its
hated rival another. The Brightwood
Street Railway Company filed protest
with the PostOffice Department against
taking the mail into and calling Yer il
at the new postoffice, alleging that the
distance is too great. IL is exactly 100
feet from the center Of the railroad track
70 the entrance TO the new office. This
protest viii receive due consideration at
the hands OF the authorities of the Post
office Department.
A nuuler OF Tie citizens of Bightwoo1
Park told The Times man last night THAI
the railroad company did not have To
carry the mail SO far from the track as
it did before the change of site. Then the
car would stop al the hay scales, some dis
tance from the old office, and a conductor
would call for and deliver the mail.
The day on which the site was chang gsd
the railroad company carried the mail
past the postoffice and 10 the power-house
The postal clerk, j. s.. Walsnith, had 10
call there for the mail.
The people of Brightwood Park explain
the hostility of the railroad company by
the alleged fact that some OF the prom
inent people of Bnshtwood own stock in
the line. The superintendent, Thomas
o'Brirn, Day Clerk Harrison and Treas
urer c. p. Williams are members of the
BTightwood Citizens Association.
The people Of Bnghtwood Park are urg-
ing the matter of a single fare into Wash
yngton. This, the Bnghtwood AssociG-
tion claims, would never do.
Feeling s quite bitter and VIII con-
tinue so fof some time.