The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-12-13
SEND MONEY HOME
Many Foreigners Sending PostaI
Orders for Money to Their
Friends in Other Lands
OFFICIALS HAVE A BUSY TIME

This is the busiest time of the year
! for the clerks in the money order
branch of the postoffice. The first
two weeks of December always are.
1t is now that the foreigners who have
found this country a good place to
live in, but who perhaps left their
family or other near and dear relatives
at home in the old country, are send
ing good American money to them so
that it will reach their fresides in
time for the Christmas holidays. 1t
takes time for mail to go half around
the globe and into parts that are but
| sparsely inhabited, and therefore it is
necessary to get letter containing
Christmas cheer into the postofice in
time.
Monday and Tuesday there was
constant stream of people, mostly of
foreign birth, before the foreign
| money order window, holding tight to
money and waiting their opportunity
to shove it under the wicket and get
receipt from Uncle Sam for it. Men
of every nationality were in line, but
Italians and Russians predominated.
Each one had the order blank neatly
| filled out, and most of them knew to
cent what the tariff would be to send
their savings to the desired destina-
ton, and thus saved the clerk making
change.
| AT this time of the year there are
many Italians returning to their ma
tive land, because our winters are just
a little Bit too rigorous for them.
Having read, and having mayhap
had personal experience with
money sharks encountered on long
travels, these men take the wise pre-
caution of coming to the postofice
and converting their funds into a
money ordermade out to themselves for
al1the coin they may have earned dur
ing their sojourn in this land, send it
ahead or carry it with them, and then
prepare to go home to sunny Italy. It
is very safe method of insuring
the safety OF ones money, for even if
the order should become lost, there is
the receipt for it, and if both receipt
and order go astray there is a dupli-
cate on file here which will, if proof
is established, bring the return of the
money placed with the postoffice for
safekeeping. The same method is
adopted by foreigners when coming
to this country, though perhaps the
sum is not quite as large as when
they go home.
Uncle Sans money order depart
ment of the postofice is also a first
rate bank, although he refuses to pay
interest on moneys left with him for
deposit. Nevertheless it may be left
in his charge for an indefinite length
of time, and then when the owner is
ready to take personal charge of his
funds again all he has to do is to go
to the postofice, shove his check be-
fore the clerk, and if Identification is
sufficient the money will be forthc ON
ing Immediately.
This method has frequently been
followed by persons who desired to
place their funds where 40 one can
possibly find out anything regarding
them, or where the sheriff or the
bankruptcy judge can't touch them.
Uncle Sam recognizes no one but the
person named as the payee, after
proper Identification has been es-
tabiished. Instances have been known
where swindlers have resorted to this
scheme Of insuring the safety of some
of the funds they managed to get hold
Of and desired to preserve until their
path, which the law perhaps made
rough, had again become smooth.
J.E. Whitehill and son are spend
ing few DAYS with Mr.. and Mrs. HI, |