The times., 1899-11-05

The new form Of postal money order re-
Gently adopted by the Postofice Depart
ment is giving entire satisfaction TO the
public. The postofiCe authorities are
pleased with the popularity Of the new
system. Before the end Of the month every
money order ONCE in the country viii be
supplied with the new forms
With each Of the new money orders goes
a receipt for the sender. The receipt shows
the number Of The money order the date
of issue, aud the amount. On the hack Of
The receipt there is room for the sender to
make q note Of TO whom the order was sent
and for what purpose. The mere fact that
The ramitter gets two slips Of paper from
The postal money order clerk, the order
and the receipt is sufficient TO call his at
tCntiOn TO the fact that only one OF them
Is the receipt and that the other mus. be
sent TO the person who is entitled 10 the
money. Perry 5. Heath, Assistant Post
master General, in his articles OF exp ana
ton 10 the postmasters throughout the
country. says that in the one improvement
alone Of receipts for money orders the de-
meBt viii be saved much trouble and re-
search IN looking up old records. Il not
lnfrequently happened that persons who
received money orders did not acknowledge
iL 10 the remiJter. Remitters who used
money orders frequently for the tran smis-
sion Of small sums generally made a record
OF the number Of the order, the amount,
the date Of issue, and the postofiice Issuing
the order
In such cases il was always very little
trouble for the authorities here TO look up
the matter and send word promptly that
such and such an order had or had not been
collected by The payee Bur IL frequ Htly
happened that the TemitJess never took the
precauti0n 10 make note OF the time and
number Of the order, and after yerai
months they could not even remember the
month In which the order was issued The
tine spent by the corps OF clerks here in
trying 10 find out whether such money or
lcrs were ever paid was enormous. In
many cases the sender did not even reaol-
Ilcl enough data about his money order TO
warrant the authorities in attempting The
search.
DimcuIts Obvimted.
Tie new receipt attachment Of the latest
sjylc of money order wiu obviate all this
difficulty. provided the remitter retains the
receipt for its number and the name Of the
issuing Office are printed in red letters on
Tbe receipt BY sending that simple record
10 Washington the remiuter can always as
certain whether a money order has been
paid TO person who has failed 10 acknowl-
edge its receipt
Since the original money orders were
issued Ia june. 1861 there have been sew
gral styles OF order but none OF thep be-
fore was ever Ia the shape Of an ordinary
bank check The latest styIe OF money or
der is Of light blue color, and resembles
bank check or draft The form OF money
order which is now being retired was
adopted April 20. 1895. II was known as
the marginal figure order. aud resembIed
the order Of an express company. II was
much wider than an ordinary hank check
and therefore could not be handled easily
with regular commercial paper As banks
frequently accept money orders from their
depOsitors IN the regular course OF the
banking business, It was always 4 nuisance