The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-02
LILIES STUBBORN IN THEIR DEFENSE
 AGAINST THE VAST GERMAN Ap
RECORD POSTAL
 DEPOSITS MADE
tForeign War Greatly In creases Government Saw ings Business, While Mail Volume Decreases in Pro- portion.

All precedent has been shattered. at
 the local postonce and it's branches during the past month The postal savings bank recorded the largest bus kiness in it's history, while international kmonev orders issued were the smahest [ in years, and a decided decline took place in postal receipts and the amount of mail handled.
 All this, local authorities declare, fs
 directly raveabIe to the present strife in the old country So large is the Rso great is the amount of mail for war1ed daily to European points, that kthe large increase in domestic and fbusiness mail was unable to keep the amount of mail up to the old stan- dard
 In the local postal savings bank. an
 unusually large number of deposits
 were received The majority of those emaking deposits being foreigners, who [ no longer able to send their money khone, deposit 1t here
 A total of 1g4 new deposftors, com pared with 73 accounts closed, shows the wonderful increase in tlB postal bsavings division There was total I of 579 deposits during the month, and but 274 withdrawals. The entire ! ST, ,S52 while the withdrawals for the month were $6,22S. making an increase in deposits of $11.7z5. This is the largest amount ever deposited at the l1ocaI postal savings bank. and Is equal to three months former business tthe bank a total of $71 62S, belonging to a total of Sf0 depositors-
 The total deposits would have been lgreater had the $10o limit for one de- hposit and the limit of $500 for total kdeposits been removed Many foreAgn- . | -a1
 excess of $500 but were prevented be- cause of the present governmental flaw.
 A decided decrease inspostal receipts were also noted for the month This the local authorities declare is a direct result of the present European em- brog1Ho.
 The total postal receipts for the past s1honth were $z5,517.sS, the amount derived from the sale Of stamps wrap Epers. etc. amounted to SPA, ,964.S9. For August of 1913 the revenue derived F217-05. a decrease of Ss. 52-16. What
 aided in the material decrease i'm sforeign mail is, that a large propor- Etion of Bridgeport's population are
 foreagners who have relatives residing in the old country.
 The largest decrease is the amount Of money forwarded to the old coun- | try by means of international money orders A peculiar feature is that the l1oss in international money orders is
 nearly equal the increase found in postal saving bank deposits For August of this year a total of 401 i'm Iternationa1 money orders were issued amounting to $sss5T, compared with I945 orders for $25. 240 issued the same month last year This is a decrease lof $1e,3SS-
 The postal authorities attribute this large decrease to the fact that foreign ters refuse to send their money home, Iand that to most of the countries. lunoney orders exceeding $100 will moi tbe accepted International orders for F9xypt Austria and Belgium are still lbeing refused, and from present pros tpects will be barred for some time. fThere was a slight decrease in domes- ttic orders, but not sufficient to make sany noticeable difference