The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-11-24
LETTERS STOPPED IN TIME.
People Saved by Postmasters From the
Result of Hasty Action.

Result of Hasty Action.
1.-The tears We're streaming from her
eyes like spray from tho Yerkes foun-
tain, said u clerk in the inquiry di-
vision of the postoifico, laughing at the
memory of the stout, fiorid woman who
rushed in ono hot afternoon with tho
plaintive wall; Stop my letter. Give
me my letter to the old countryp
THAT letter, tho man went on,
was dropped somewhere within the
city limits and was mixed i'll with some
1000, 600 other letters, yet she wanted
us to get it for her quicll-seemed to
think that would bounce out of my
chair like a rubber ball out Of tennis
racket, snatch up that particular epis-
Ito and como running back breathless
and hand it 10 her Now, the facts are
that the government does not permit
the stopping of letter that has left the
writer's hands unless it is important
that it should DO done 1t makes an
enormous amount of extra work. Here
is blank that must be filed out, stat
ing tho box in which tho letter was
dropped, the time, tho address and the
reason why tho request for the recovery
is made. That reason sometimes dis
closes some very interesting and roman
tic facts; but, of course, most of tho
letters arc stopped for tho business
houses about town. When we asked tho
rcd faced Niobe what her reason was,
she boohoood Mo nn my man had
some troubles, an | wrote to my fader
for moneys to 10 home, but my man
an mo have mado up, an | would not
have that letter go for Il t'ousand dol
lar. We got that letter for her.
"rhcro was another n young woman
who rushed in here during the opera
season, and when she had caught little
breath she said she wanted letter she
had addressed to Peoria, Ills. There
were some 50 opera tickets in it that she
wanted to use that night She had had
letter written to her family, and,
thinking there might be u postscript to
add, had not sealed it. She bought her
seats to 'Tannhauser' and left the win
dow with her purse her letter and her
tickets i'll her hand. The open envelope
was SO inviting II place for tho tickets
that she Thought she would carry them
there, but Just rs soon MS she saw n let
ter box it was like Il red rag to bull
She sealed the envelope and posted it,
tickets and all, and it WAS hours before
she remembered what she had done and
then came down To us for help. We got
her tickets too
young women who have 'reconsid.
cred n proposal or who regret hasty
note, like tho men, blushingly confide
their troubles to MS and we have pre-
vented 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 person 5 OK
pense. We have moro than once cabled
TO Berlin and st. Petersburg to head off
u billet douX or some request from an
inpatient and petulant son for n check.
A scion of noble German house came
| i'll hero to implore US to prevent the de-
! livery of a demand for money, written,
| ] fancy, in a tono that, IN tho light of
recent remittanees, would endanger his
inheritance There is some mighty in
| teresiing reading among the blanks re-
questing letters stopped, all OF which
| are sent on to Washington. Chicago
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