The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-21
LETTERS STOPPED IN TINE.
People Who Are Saved by the POST
master From the Result of Hasty

Action.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
"The tears were streaming down her eyes
like spray from the Yerkes fountain" said
a clerk in the inquiry division of the post
office, laughing at the memory of the
stout, forid woman who rushed In one
hot afternoon with the plaintive wall
Stop my letter; give me my letter to the
old countryv
THAT letter." the man went on, "was
dropped somewhere within the city limits
and was mixed in with some 100000 9TH
er letters, yet she wanted US to get It
for her ,quick-seemed to think that
would bounce out of my chair like rub
Der ball out of a tennlc racquet, snatch
up that particular epistle and come run
ming back breathless and hand it to her
Now, the facts are that the government
does not permit the stopping of letter
that has left the writer's hands unless IL
is important that it should be DONE 1t
makes an enormous amount of extra work
Here is a blank that must be filled out
stating the box in which the letter was
dropped, the time, the address and the
reason why the request for the recovery
is made That reason sometimes dis
closes some very interesting and romantic
facts, but of course, most of the letters
are stopped for the business houses about
town. When We asked the red-faced Nj
oble what her reason was, she boo hooed
me an my man had some troubles. n
l wrote to my fader for moneys to go
home, but my man and me have made
up, and l would not have that letter 90
for a tousand dollar We got that let
ter for her.
There was another, young woman.
who rushed in here during the opera sea-
son, and when she had caught little
breath she said she wanted letter she
had addressed to Peoria, Ill.-there were
some IS opera tickets In 1t that she want
ed to use that night. She had had a let
ter written to her family, and thinking
there might be a postscript to add, had
not sealed it, She bought her seats to
"rannhauser" and left the window with
her purse, her letter and her tickets in
her hand. The open envelope was so in
Viting a place for the tickets that she
thought she would carry them there.
but just as soon as she saw a letter box.
it was like a red rag to bull She seal
ed the envelope and posted It, tickets and
all, and 1t was hours before she remem-
bered what she had done, and then came
down to US for help. We got her tickets,
too.
young women who have 'reconsidered'
a proposal or who regret hasty note, like
the men, blushingly confide their troubles
to us, and we have prevented more than
one broken heart.
Sometimes the letters have left our
hands, and we have to telegraph to catch
them, which Is done at the persons ex-
pense. We have more than once called
to Berlin and st. Petersburg to head off
a billet-doux or some request from an inn
patient and petuant son for check. A
scion. of a noble German house came In
here 70 implore us to prevent the deliv-
cry Of demand for money, written,
fancy, in tone that. In the light of re-
cent remittances, would endanger his in
heritance. There is some mighty interest
ing reading among the blanks requesting
letters stopped all Of which are sent on
to Washington"