The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-01-12

Another of the Russian specimens
vas sent in reply no doubt to a letter
whose postscript, written near the
signature, asked concerning business
in the old country, or such would ap-
pear from the envelope which bears:
Mr.. Burdenssky: How is bissnes IN
Russia?
A letter tracing from Germany
shows the following:
Herr Senatour Clarke,
New York,
America.
The Senatour is dimiciling
adjacent to Carnegie.
Still another, to Mr.. Carnegie,
reads:
The Highness Of Andrew Carnegie, -.
My Lord Banker and Generous Merchant,
Skibo Castle. Oxford,
New York or New Orleans,
u. S. A.
Indian mails apparently bear many
letters to the wealthy men of the
United States, for another page in the
collection shows the address:
His High Majesty,
The Baron j. Pierpont,
The Trustee Of the Ocean.
America.
Opposite another page Of the little
album, whereon the address Of ar
Italian letter is reproduced, the don
or of the book has written: Some
where in the world there dwells a
Petroleum King, whose name and
generosity the writer knows, and
judging from this address that's
about all he does know"
From an Italian letter:
al Signor Saverino Mansarino,
ice coal and wood best red ash coal by
the Bush Pail ice for family by "a week
5S7 E. 1853 St. Bet by neal Sd ave. 100 lbs.
ice by pail. Please give a good measure,
New York.
Also a Dutch letter, addressed evil
IDENTIFY from a business head:
On Hevn S. Kanned, Ame-ise..
Bought of Dealer in Deliliatessen Ana
Fancy Groceries Fouchts and Vegetables
In Season. % G lOsth street,
New York.
A German address reads:
L.. Berman,
Dealer in all Kinds of
New and Misft
Clothing Pants.
America. New York.
With the same regularity as that
demanded by the officers of the, ship,
the sea post clerks must observe the
regulations governing the crew of the
ship, because of the fear on the part
Of the steamship companies that, be-
ing in uniform, they will be mistaken
for officers of the vessel, and should
they be seen lettering around the
companionways or drinking in the
smoking rooms passengers might
gain the impression that the rules for
the safety of the ship were not being
fully lived up to.
The control Of the sea postofice
shifts from the clerks of one coun.
try to another, in accordance with the
direction in which the vessel is head
ed.
The sacks of mail despatched to
the United States from foreign coun.
tries by steamships carrying the sea
postal clerks average about n thou.
sand to the month. except in Deem.
Der, when the Christmas mail swells
the number almost 500 per cent.
In illustrating the average of work
done on n voyage from Europe by
a see postofice Edwin Sands of the
Foreign Mail Division said:
"On a voyage to the United States
the average extent Of work done on
mail pieces handled is illustrated by
making extracts from the trip report
of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
which arrived in New York on Feb
ruary 25, 1909, from Bremen. with
1926 sacks Of mail The sea post
force consisted of two German clerks
two United States clerks and three
German subalterns, who may be de-.
scribed as employees holding a place
similar to that of porter in our postal
service. On the voyage 7S5 sacks of
mail were opened, 455,500 ordinary
letters assorted, 34S1 registered let
tiers and parcels asserted, 34S1 reg
istered letters and parcels papers dis
tributed.
ITO bring this about all had to
work in the office eleven hours a day
In the pouching Of the mails 7S0
sacks were made up to carry away
the letters, newspapers, letter pack
ages and closed mails assorted. On
the trip to New York the ordinary
mail for that postofice is assorted in.
to sacks for each of its forty-seveD
stations. The mail for the rest Of
the United States is assorted in &C,
cordance with a scheme Of distriba-
ton having 1913 divisions"
Strange Resemblance.
A statue in Wells cathedral, Eng.
land raDrecantinr "The Fruit Steal