Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-10
A LONG CONFERENCE
Postmaster General and Two
Assistants.
MANIFOLD CONTRACT
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SUB
JECT OF DISCUSSION.
Waiting for Mr.. Bristow's Report Be-
fore Taking Action-A Fraud
Order Issued.

Postmaster General Payne had Fourtr
Assistant Bristow, Third Assistant Mad
den and Assistant Attorney General Robt
in conference with him for more than an
hour this forenoon. Mr.. Madden remained
with the Postmaster General until nearly
o'clock this afternoon.
1t is understood the discussion related To
the contract the department has with the
General Manifolding Company of Franklin
Pa, for supplying carbon paper useo IN
the money order system.
The Postmaster General gave an audience
to the newspaper men at o'clock. He said
there was nothing new of interest to give
out concerning the investigation.
The fact that Superintendent William H.
Landvoigt has son employed by the Cen
eral Manifolding Company has caused con-
siderable comment. 1t is argued by some
that the case of Superintendent Landvoigt
is in this respect similar to that OF Super
intendent Metcalf of the money order d.
vision. Metcalf had son employed by a
New York firm which had for years re-
ceived the contract for printing money Or
der blanks.
Waiting for Bristow's Report.
When Postmaster General Payne was
asked if anything had been done In the
case of Mr.. Landvoigt he replied:
L
Mr.. Bristow on the investigation"
1t is understood that Mr.. Payne Is desir-
Gus of having the report and of taking the
action that may be deemed necessary be-
fore he goes away on his ocean trip.
Mr.. Payne will leave Washington next
Wednesday, and will be absent about ten
days. The contemplated journey is from
Washington to Boston and return by boat.
Although nothing was known regarding the
project until last night, it is now said that
the journey was planned before the visit to
the Catskills.
AS on yesterday Mr.. Payne did not re-
turn to the department after luncheon to-
day. Secretary Whitney took the late mail
to his chiefs apartments in the Arlington,
where Mr. Payne signed 1t. 1t is likely this
custom will be continued while the POST
master General is in Washington and the
weather remains hot
Mr.. John R. Proctor, president of the
civil service commission, with Mr.. Greene,
the newly appointed member of the COM
mission from Duluth, Mimi, was a caller
at the department this forenoon. Mr. Proc
ter introduced his new colleague to the
Postmaster General.
Fraud Order Issued.
Postmaster General Payne this afternoon
issued fraud order against the American
Street Car Transportation Company of
Brooklyn. N. Y. The scheme Of this COM
pany is an old one. and is in reality an
endless chain arrangement
A patron buys book of street car tick
cts good on any electric or elevated street
railroad in the United States for ST. The
book Of tickets contains three coupons-in-
Productions they are called-which the pur-
chaser sells, respectively, to three friends
The three friends each in turn buy similar
books and sell the Introductory coupons to
their friends, each retaining IS cents for his
services.
Assistant Attorney General Robb has
been working on the case for several weeks
It was figured by him that If there were to
be 200 endless chains up to the sixteenth
series there would be about 5000 tickets
Tor every man, woman and child in the
United States The number of persons who
would have bought coupons to the end Of
the sixteenth series Of a single chain would
have been 129,O32,S73. Gen. Robb, in his
opinion. with other things said:
TO the ordinary observer 1t would an
pear this supply would be more than suffi-
cient to meet the demand for rides on
street cars for very considerable period
In 800 cases investigated only seventy-fiye
tntroductions were cashed in.
Postmaster General Payne has approved
the order removing the Grand street sub
station OF the New York post office from
Grand and Suffolk streets to Grand and
Attorney streets. This is in order to give
the service there greater accommod odatiOns