Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-23
FREAK MATTER IN THE MAILS
 OF UNCLE SAM
So Great is Its Bulk Officials Are Thinking of Establish
 ing a New Bureau
SANTA CLAUS LETTERS
 TO BE TAKEN CARE OF
Some of Them Would Have Been Sent 10 john D. but Writers Didn't Know
 His Address
lBv Victor Fniott.)

II WASHINGTON, November % On almost every mail train that rolls into Washington there Is a sack F which contains a letter of so peculiar nature that Isicials Of the post Of
 flee department to most any one to whom the letter may be addressed, are seriously considering the creation Of a new post office for the handling Of freak mail matter Letters come addressed to the post master general ' which ask questions. the answers 10 ! whic1 only persons possessed of oc- cult aud suparhuuan powers could | give. Their range is wide and when | the post master generals private sec ] getary opens one Of them he stands aI even chance Of being confronted witE l a request for a receipt for apple but. ! ter. 8 prayer that he find a long lost | elative or a demand that he recom- end a superior brand of needle. Al ] resent the greater part of this mail ater is turned over 70 Jesse l.. utter who disposes of it in such a
 Inner as he thinks most appropriate. santa Clause Letters.
 Then there arc the Santa Claus let
 CTS which are extremely numerous . 4EkAuS tue TWO ulVnAhn IlAtoA kO N<-AA lat-
 as Already they have started to come in. With these epistles. nearly every one of which is appealingly pa
 hetic, different action is taken. Chari- table organizations, newspapers or
 rivate individuals who are philan ghrcpic enough 10 wisa to play the role of Santa Clause may receiye them if they sIye the post office department sufficient evidence ci their good intention. Applications are eceived and if the party involved is believed to be sincere in his or her iesire 10 assist the poor children who appeal, he is given the letter.
 November 8, Postmaster General Frank H. Hitcncock issued the follow, .ng order in regard 10 Santa Claus mail:
 Their Disposition.
 'Postrnasters are authorized to de- iver all letters arriving at their res yective offices between December l6 md January l, inclusive, which are addressed plainly and unmistakably to Santa Claus without any terms Jr expressions identifying the person for whom such letters are intended, 10 responsible institutions or indl- yiduals in the town or city of address who may desire to use them eX- clusiyely for philanthrOpic purposes In the event that these letters are re quested by more than one such insti- tuition the post master shall distri- buts them in such proportion as he may deem proper.
 This practice has been much abused i by newspapers which use this medium 1 70 ad5srtise ths.r publications. A stop was put to this practice a year ! ago by the post offce department. Offer Hidden Treasure. ] The following letter of the freak | character was received a short time | ago:
 Dear Sir"
 T will write you a few lines ask ing you if you have an instrument + that wood go to hidden treasures, gold and silver. If you handel any thing like that let me kno bi retirn male. kno lots of hidden treasures
 but cant lokate them without an in
 strument and wat kind of trial
 coOd you let me have one. As ever yours truly
 The writer was evidently in need of a divining rod Of extraordinary pow CTS.
 Another correspondent writes to cri- ticise the post office department in this wise:
 Mir Hitchcock.
 Dear Sir:-You will see by the en,
 post office cant find Grand Tower,
 IT. VIII you please let them know
 that we rave it in the state and oolige?'
 Hunt For Adopted Father.
 A bereaved young man writes to the department asking assistance m search or his adopted father, who
 has been missing ten years. The
 writer is particularly solicitiOus to
 kncw fl the man in question is dead and v vhether or not he has left a will. Such requests sometimes attain the required result Only a short time ago an aged woman found through the medium of The department, her son who believed her dead. She was rescued from abject poverty to very prosperous circumstances by her son
 V ho had grown wealthy. The Santa Clans letters are par ticulariy interesting One was receiv- ed this week from a woman who wrote ln Italian. She writes from Astoria. Long Island. and is probably an emi- grant who has proceeded but litle distance from the port where she land ed and says:
 santa Clans.
 "A mother of five children asks aid of Santa Claus to make Christmas day joyful to her children. With many thanks in advance,
 Teresa BozOnio.' Little Boys Prayer. From Zanesville. Ohio. comes the following
 Dear Santa Claus,
 'f an a Pore Little Boy 6 years old and my little brother is 4 years old. my papa cant get us any Christ
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