The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-07

responding orders are presented, and | ignorance of the holders of such obli-
 gations will not be construed as laches on the part of the patrons of the sys- tenn. It is the peoples system and it is operated in the interest of the people.
 Private companies and banks go to no such extremes to place the money in the hands of the people as does the gov ernment If you do not call, you do not get the money. Private concerns have millions of unclaimed deposits. The government desires to effect the interchange of money among the people with the greatest possible dispatch, and these few figures reflect the thorough ness with which we succeed in doing so. | HOW MONEY ORDERS ARE LOST.
 "Why are not money orders present. ed for payment? Oh, for various in- teresting reasons. Many persons, par ticuIarly theatrical people, shoWmen. travelling men and others on the go, buy orders payable to themselves, which are not known of and never presented by reason of the death of their owners. Other orders are lost in shipWrecks and accidents on the rail when the orders are burned or lost, and they disappear from variety of causes, from forget fulness to indifference to ask for pay ment
 During the close and shortly after the civil war thousands of orders were lost by reason of the death of the hold CTS, and the same is true during the late Spanish war for the same cause. As an example, an American engineer 1 in5 ;,, nI in $1 ,00O in money orders over a year old were found among his effects. Had he lived they were better than money, for had they been stolen or lost none but himself could have cashed them, as they were payable to him. We have re- stored the amount to his heirs. The largest single amount which has been found upon one person came under the observation of the department recently. An American who died in Mexico was found to have fifty-siX orders of $10O each upon him, or $5,600, and this sum will be paid to the proper parties This case is remarkable one.
 Public school teachers are instruct ing their pupils in the use of the money order system. They take their classes to the postoffice and buy orders for d cent of two and instruct their pupils how to secure the orders, and how they are paid at d distant point. Many peo- pie prefer to invest their savings in mo- ney orders rather than in a bank.
 Payments are now effected ninety per cent. quicker than ever before. No advantage is sought to be taken of the public, and it is a reflection of credit upon our American institutions that the public have such faith in the govern ment It cannot be expected that the intricacies of the money order system can be understood by all especially for eigners and the uneducated. They know that when their money passes over the counter of an, American post office that the government will cheer fully do the rest toward getting it into the hands for whom it is intended, ei- ther at home or abroad. or that they will get it back with out additional expense.
 That the aggregated increase of mo- ney orders issued last year over the | preceding year amount to nearly $39, | OO00 GOO, out of an aggregate of $294, ,000.- | 900, attests the popularity of our Amer ican methods of fostering the needs of the people in the transmission of mo- ney in comparatively small sums from one to another."