The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-06

Washington, June 5.-fSpeciai.) )-Col John B. Brownlow of Tennessee. who will | have charge of the Postofflce Department exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition, and who performed the same service at the Chicago, Omaha and Buffalo Expeditions. | Is very much interested just now in ad- ding new features to the exhibit to be | installed at St. Louis. Colonel Brown low is a man of the broadest culture, ex- tensive reading and possibly has no peer
 in a departmental position for familiar
 ity with the country's history in all its notifications. He Is well assisted in his present work by s. l. Slack. Curator of the Postofice Museum, from which col- lection a majority of the exhibits will come MT. Slack studied the effects of an artistic installation in Paris and those objects exhibited at Buffalo will realize that he did not visit the French capital In vain.
 Colonel Browlow's second assistant is his son. William c. Brownlow, named in honor of his grandfather. the famous "Parson Brown1ow.' Among the features already in shape for St. Louis. which has never been seen at former expositions. Is a quaint wood-
 en chart used in the postoffice at Ma nila. The names of those who have let- ters in the postoffice are written on a slip of paper and pasted on a strip of wood which fits into its proper niche on this wooden chart When the Spanish Filipino went to the Manila postoffice, If he saw his name on this unique bulle- tin. he asked for his letters. If his name was not on the chart, he did not disturb the postmaster. Our late rural might learn a lesson in expedition and economy from this method. the result of which would be of great benefit to the country's taxpayers.
 There will be model of the latest mail wagon now used in Alaska and pulled by dogs.
 Near by is a new model of a complete
 ly equipped rural delivery wagon. This wagon Is really 8 travelling postoffice, empowered to cash money orders. send registered letters. and to take and de- liver letters of every kind. On its face | this manner of delivering the mail to | mend itself to visitors to the St. Lou.s | Fair. The investigation of the conduct | Of the rural free delivery office ordered l by First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne will give to this feature of the l exhibit a special interest.
 A curious old Spanish mafl-distributing
 case used at Manila will also be in the l p0stoffice exhibit. It Is hand made, of
 ,ne most beautiful mahogany, and is un-
 like anything ever before seen in t.lis l country It Is one of the trophies of the ] war with the Filipinos.
 The model of the steamship Southerner, the first vessel that carried the United | States mail across the Atlantic, will af- l ford curious interest to those who con- trast the old with the present swift | transatlantic steamers. Models of hand some railway trains, lighted by electricity and equipped with every known device | for facilitating expeditions mail delivery.
 will be exhibited along side of the old | time mail coach that carried the mail through the territory embraced in the | Louisiana Purchase. President Roose- welt was particularly interested by the old coach at the Charleston Exposition and examined with true rough-rlder con- cern the bullet holes which had been
 made by train robbers and mountain Horace Greeley any many another fa- nous national character have been pas- | sengers fin the ancient vehicle. It will be exhibited with the elegant electric across the country Napoleon ceded to | Jefferson's administration, about which
 Important and essential fact President Roosevelt, in his speech at the dedica- April. appeared to be wholly ignorant. There will be a rare collection of stamps. including ancient Cuban, Porto Rican. Filipino. Columbian, etc. Of mo-
 can stamps. Several hundred thousand dollars worth of these are already de- | posted in a safe to be exhibited at St
 Louis. They are of all denominations ana are of attractive artistic and appro-
 priate design The new special delivery
 stamp is suggestive of the boy and his | bicycle. Others bear the medallions of | George Washington and Martha Wash | ington. There is a fine medallion Of | Thomas Jefferson, who, by the way, Presi | dent Roosevelt scarcely credits with hay ing anything to do with the Louisiana purchase transaction, which neverthe-
 less cannoc fail to be extremely popular
 at the St. Louis fair.
 Mrs. Emma Reber Bailey.
 As foreshadowed in this correspondence | Mrs. Emma Reber Bailey, the Georgia ! Alabama woman law student of Colum- l bian University has been graduated and | awarded her sheepskin as a D. c. L.,
 notwithstanding the objections of the | male members of her class In the gen | rela land office. where Mrs. Bailey is a l clerk. her fellow worker gave her an in- | formal reception and congra tu!ated Ter | upon her triumph. She responded with a l little speech in which she had a great | deal to say of herself and her tribula- | tons. including the information that she | was born in Alabama of distinguished, but
 wealthy parents.
 Mrs. Bailey said "Emanating from l lawyers. l naturally thought of the pro- fession as means of securing prefer | ment here or of pursuing 1t in the west Thus with and by my husbands consent
 l entered on the course of law"
 | Mrs. Bailey describes her work at the
 university and her successful struggles | for other degrees and how. although her
 husband Edward Bailey of South | s--- ------------------------