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

beginning January i, 1910, was
awarded Tuesday by Postmaster Cen
o1ei Hitchcock to the government
printing Office, which Submitted the
lowest bid, $934,717.95. BY selecting
stock Of lighter but frmer quality,
the Postot1ice Department expects to
provide for the public better card
at less expense to the government.
The saving will be effected in the re-
duced "traveling expenses OF the
postal card. because Of lighter wei mt
on the various journeys it makes from
the time it leaves the manufacturer
until it reaches the "ultimate COLI
sumer."
The Postmaster General in all prob.
ability will change the tint Of the
card as well rs the color Of the ink
used in printing, i'll order to make the
card more artistic. This, however
has not yet been determined.
The Maryland Steel Company OF
Sparrow's Point submitted the lowest
bid at the Navy Department for con.
structing the naval collier authorized
by the last Congress at Il cost not ia
exceed 100000. The company sub.
lIltted two bids. the lower being
S8s9,6c0, 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 reparation in the cases involv-
ing the maltrcatment of American
naval officers and seamen at the
hands Of the police Of that republic.
OF this amount $4,000 is indemnity in
what is known as the cruiser Colum-
bia incident, when several officers in
uniform were arrested, locked up and
roughly handled in Colon on june l,
1906. The assault, it is declared, was
entirely unprovokcd
One hundred dollars in bills, en-.
closed between two pieces of paste.
board, was found in an unclaimed
letter opened Saturday in the dead
letter division of the PostoiIice De-
partment. The envelope contained
no message or writing of any kind
that would disclose the name or ad-
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 be found.
Roosetcrs in the District Of Col
umbia have little to crow over. The
frlcassee is threatening them. The
local authorities have started a
campaign to put into effect a strin-
gent regulation having in view the
Punishment Of this peace disturber
and sleep destroyer. This regula-
ton requires that person desiring
to include IL rooster as all adjunct
to his hennery must first get a per-
NIT, Which is granted only on the
condition that the owner present a
petition bearing the consent and sig
nature Of majority Of the neigh
bors in the same square. The keep
ing Of all sorts Of poultry, except
pigeons, has likewise been partially
restricted.
Slams natives rs students Of the
Bible are beginning to attract at
tention, as is indicated by the state
ment of Vice-C Consul General Hansen,
of Bankok, that $4,000 copies of diff
fercnt> parts Of the Bible in the
Slamese language were sold last
year. Mr.. Hansen is especially i'm
pressed with the fact that the i'll
llabitants of Siam, as 4 general rule,
are eager to see and learn and are
very good students.
The Postol1ice Department will
place al additional boat in the ocean
mail transfer service in New York
l'arbor, because of the great increase
in foreign mail. The steamer John
Lennox will assist the steamer Post
master General in making the mail
transfers. All South American liners
as we'll as steamers from European
ports will he met at quarantine and
relieved of their mail.
State Department officials and
members Of the diplomatic corps in
Washington are kcenly interested in
the revolution which has developed
in Greece. Newspaper reports of
confirmed official advices received at
the State Department from George
Moses, the new Minister to Greece.
The census department needs three
thousand clerks, stenographcrs 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 % as the
day or holding the examinations for
the 5000 positions.
More than 100000 will be added
to Uncle Sans annual income by the
collection Of the tariff OH foreign
built yachts, which became effective
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