The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Good Idea of 1t Is Afforded by a
Description OF the Work
Done for Buffalo.
MANY ADDITIONS TO BE MADE.
Pan-American Display illustrates
the Various Stages of Devel-
opment Of Mail Dis
tributiOn.
The Republic Bureau,

18th st. and Pennsylvania ave.
Washington, March 9.-The postal ex-
hibit for the Pan-American exposition al
Buffalo Is being prepared at the Post Once
Department and the officials say that when
it leaves there the exhibit, with numer-
GUS additions. will be prepared for the st.
Louis Worlds Fair. The work Of getting
the exhibit In readiness Is being supervised
by S. 1. Slack, Curator Of tho department
museum, who served as the American
postal representative at the Paris exDosi-
tion.
What the Post Office Department Will
contribute to the interesting features at ST.
| Louis can be seen by a brief description OF
its work for Buffalo.
One of the features Of the exhibit Will
be u collection of stamps which is said by
authorities to be the most complete In the
world. The stamps are handsomely mounted
and shown In column cases.; that Is, IN
winged frames, which swing from columns.
Until recently the Post Office Department
had not a complete set Of American postage
stamps, but now all breaks in the series
! and issues have been filed by means OF
purchases made from dealers and collectors.
The market value of the collection OF Ameri-
can stamps is placed at 5000. The collec-
ton of foreign postage stamps Is also COM
plete.
Foreign Systems illustrated.
Figures and models illustrating the postal
equipment of all countries. having a postal
figures of English, German. French ana
Swedish carriers clad in regulation uniform
and carrying their usual equipment ,ntinYaa ,,s Ihe bS
foreign Governments for the transportation
Of mail and models illustrating methods or
mail transportation in India, showing the
carriers OF Bombay and Calcutta and types
Of the native runners.
In the illustration of postal methods OF the
Government Of the United states there VII
collection cart, screen wagon and rural oe-
livery wagon to the railway post office.
There will be the model OF q dlstripuung
rack and samples of all kinds of pouches
and boxes Canoeing machines In operation
will be a part of the exhibit,
tr 1l!s5tastlze Of ii . sasly united msdhe state 81 t %as
will be exhibited the old Concord coach.
which was used to carry the mails between
Helena and Bozeman. Mont; This coach
agents and attacked by Indians. and was
once used by. General Sherman. while in
omnmnnsnd OF the t army n,,i III making nost e tour in tS Ss
Northwest. A dog team and sIedge Criven
by an Indian will also be shown. Thu group.
having eAi had the Contract for several years
for carrying the mail in tho Lake Superior
region
Stages Of Development Shown.
A mounted carrier, his horse represented
as being at a run. has been arranged to
illustrate the pony express, which before
the day Of ra~nscontinenta railroad earr Zee
Francisco. There is a lay figure of a Porto
Rican mounted on a donkey, with a huge
mail box swung. on each side, showing mail
occupation. Mr.. Slack has prepared the
figure of a Cuban. carrier taking mail from
many years in one Of the streets of Havana.
1t is big and heavy and bears the Spanish
coat-of-arms painted in brilliant colors.
steamer The Southern. the first
She piled between Savannah and
e~ndeavored for some time to get the con-
tract, the opposition Of the Post Office De- |
Iartment being that steam vessels are I'M
sissippi. River steamboat St Louis. the
oklawaha and the modern
ships Paris Oceanic, Kaiser Wilhelm der
Several Of the paintings from the Post
Office Museum win be sent to Buffalo. Ono
Of these is q portrait of BENJAMIN Franklin. I
OF Charles Emory Smith. the pres
ent Postmaster General. There Is a paint
Ing Of a mail coach of the type common in
1890 and one of a fast mail train Of 1900.
Stuhcd Figure of "Owney."
The stuffed figure of the old postal dog,
"owney." will also be sent to Buffalo. The
tached to owney in his wanderinss over
the various mail routes of the world. This
dog made. the trip to Europe several times,
and travelled on a large number of routes
England and Scotland, He went to
Japan, and was patted by the Mikado. HI
met death at Toledo, it being said that
Postal Clerks there Overfed him. and, be-
Ing sick, he wandered off. In a fit of tenn
per he bit q man and was killed before his
identity was known.
In the dead-letter exhibit, which will be
sent to the Pan-American Exposition is a
lock of Guiteau's hair. While In the Dis
trict Jail Guiteau addressed a letter to a
who had left the United States and
who. could not be located by the postal au-
The letter, after long travels,
to the dead-letter office, ard was
opened several months after the writer of
it had been executed. It contained a re-
guest for money to aid in the conduct Of
case and a bit of hair wrapped in
paper. on which was written: This is a
ock of my hair"
There are also a fan and pair Of gloves
steamship Oregon. They had been under
water ia days when brought UP. There
Ire human skulls and weapons of many
Kinds. In Jars of alcohol are a rattlesnake
and some tarantulas which were sent alive
through the mails. In the collection is the
bomb which was put into the
nails and addressed to Captain Eulate and
he ViZcaya when that shin called ar New