The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1909-09-11
WASHINGTON NOTES

Inc contract Tor supplying 3,497,-
ooO,O00 postal cards to ll,e Postollicc
department during the four years
beginning january l, 1910. was
ewarded Tuesday by Postmaster Gen
@ol hitchcock to the government
printing office, which submitted the
lowest bid, $94,717.9 BY selecting
q, stock Of lighter but firmer quality.
the l'ostollicc Department expects to
provide for the public q better card
at less expense to the government.
Ihc saving will be effected in the re-
duced "traveling expenses" OF .he
postal card, because Of lighter weight
on the various journeys it makes from
the time it leaves the manufacturer
until it reaches the "ultimatc con.
Sumer.'
The Postmaster General in all prob.
ability will change the tint of the
card as well rs the cc!or Of the ink
used III printing, in order TO make the
card more artistic. This, however
has not yet been determined.
The Maryland Steel Comnanv OF
Sparrow Point submitted the lowest
DID at the Navy Department for con-
structmg the naval collier authorized
by the last Congress at Il cost not 10
exceed 100000. The company sub.
Elitted two bids. The lower bcins
Sss9,6c0, the higher bid being 94O,,
200.
Through the State Department,
Acting Secretary Of the Navy Win.
throp has received $4,000 from the
Panama government, paid by it as
money rcparation in the eases involv-
ing the maltrcatnlcnt of American
naval officers and seamcn at the
hands of the police Of that republic.
or this amount $4,000 is indemnity in
what is known as the cruiser Colum-
bla incident, when several officers in
uniform were arrested. locked up and
roughly handled in Colon on June l,
19OG. The assault, it is declared, was
entirely mprovokcd.
One hundred dollars in bills, en-.
closed between Two pieces of paste.
board, was found in an unclaimed
letter opened Saturday in tic dead
letter division of the Postoilcc De-
Fartmrnt. The envelope contained
no message or writing Of any kind
that would disclose the name or adj
dress of the sender. The envelope
was mailed in Boston to an address
i'll New York, but The person TO whom
it was addressed could not he found.
Roosctcrs in the District of Col
umbia have little to crow over. The
frlcasscc is threatening them. The
local autloli tiles have started a
campaign to put into effect strin-
gent. regulation having in view the
banlshmcnt Of this peace disturbcr
and sleep destroyer This regula-
ton requires that person desiring
to include Il rooster as an adjunct
to his hcnncry must first get per
NIT, Which is granted only OH the
condition that the owner present
petition bearing the consent and sig
nature of 4 majority of the nci GIL
bors in the same square. The keep
ing OF all sorts of poultry, except
pigeons, has likewise been partially
restricted.
Siam 5 natives rs students of the
Hlblc ere beginning to attract at
tention. as is indicated by the state
ment Of Vice e-Consul-Gcncral Hansen,
Of Banllok, that $4,000 copies of diff
fcrent parts of The Bible in the
Siamesc language were sold last
year. Mr.. Hansen is especially im-
pressed with the fact that the in
lIabitants Of Siam, as Il general rule.
are eager to see and learn and are
very good students.
The Post Office Department will
place an additional boat in the ocean
mail transfer service in New York
harhor, because Of the great increase
III foreign mail. The steamer john
LcmoX will assist the steamer Post
masterGencraI in maxim" the mail
transfers. All South American liners
as we'll as steamers from European
ports will he met ut quarantine and
relieved Of their mail.
State Department officials and
members Of the diplomatic corps in
Washington are kccnly interested in
the revolution which has developed
i'll Greece. Newspaper reports Of
confirmed official Adviccs received at
the State Department from George
Moses, the new Minister to Greece.
The census department needs three
thousand clerks, stcnographcrs and
typewriters to handle The Washing
ton end of the new census. AS the
result Of the passage of the new
census law civil service examinations
for these positions must be held in
the various States. The census bu-
reau designated October 90 as the
day or holding the examinations for
the 5000 positions.