The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-24
TILTED CAR RIER'S REVENGE.
How He 60 { Even With the Faithiess Girl
In the General Delivery Window.

How ht6 $50 Y EN6t Vitn inc FuituISSo StTt
in the General Delivery Window.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-.The Romance
Of a General Delivery Window o. the Re-
venge Of the Tilted Mail Carrier. Ia the title
under which a case recently under i'vesti-
cation by Post Office inspectors mas beome
known throughout the Department.
A letter carrier in an Ohio Post Office ws
engaged to a young lady whose aspirations
ran In the direction OF a Government Office
The letter carrier had an aged mother to
support. and IL was his intention to save
a sufficient sun of money to enable him to
marry and keep those dependent upon him
in comfort as well. Yielding to the per-
suasions Of his lady love he went TO the
Postmaster and recommended the young
lady for a clerkship. In due course Of time
the girl passed the civil service examina-
ton and was appointed to a place at the
general delivery window. She wasn't In
the place very long before she conceived an
exaggerated idea Of her own Importance,
and when the carrier through whose in
stnlmentality she had been appointed
came 10 the window for a chat. he was
coldly received. Things went from bad To
worse and after a month or 80 she gave the
mitten to the carrier. He took his dis
missal with very bad grace and vowed to
get even.
A month elapsed. One day the girl
appeared in the office of the Postmaster.
Il can't work in that Office she ga id
tearfully Its dreadful. There is such
a terrihc-er-smell somewhere
The Postmaster, impressed by the man
ner Of the fair clerk. accompanied her to
the little box-lke general delivery office.
1W-h-e-w," he said with a long drawn
breath. How long has this been around
here2'
Its been getting worse for the last
week" responded the clerk. i didn't
want to say anything about IL AZ first. but
I'll have To go home II IL isn't taken away
Something must be dead under the
floor said the Postmaster after due de-
liberation, and he ordered the boards re-
moved and the space beneath searched
II was lone and nothing found
Then the Chief decided that an army OF
rats must have fought q decisive action
behind the partition walls and lac ordered
the carpenters to remove the wainscoating
and hunt for the victims, But the s@arch
revealed no sign Of a fray among the ro-
dents, and all III. time Ia" smell grew WORSE
In despair the postmaster sent Tor a plum
hrr. who pronounced the sanitary con-
dition Of the pipes and drains 70 be "a
ccllent.
IN. smell continued TO grow in force.
volume and efect. however. and the far
clerk applied for a weeks leave, when was
granted A man was sslect.d 10 tempo
rarly nh her place. and he appeared Tor
duty equipped with n nos'g guard ana
several bottles OF psrfumsry After a day
Ia N. stuhy onios, however, h", too, pro
tested against the lnhumAn cruelty 81 a
ohief Who would ask . man "a work Ia al
atmosphere which he descrled at great
length IA exceedingly picturesque language.
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