The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
ABSENT MINDED
 FOLKS FORGET TO
 ADDRESS LETTERS
And Bridgeport Does Much to Keep Busy the Dead
 Letter Office.

The person who writes a letter, seals it up, stamps it and then drops it into a box without putting one mark of an address upon it is prob ably among the worst type of absent minded people and yet how prevalent this form of absent-mindedness is may be gleaned from the days col lection of mail at the post office.
 During three days of last week some 50 pieces of mail comprising mostly letters and post cards came to the main station with no address of any kind upon them but all carefully stamped. The texture of the paper indicated that the writers were peo- spIe of all classes, for while some were of the poorer kind, there were one or two of the more expensive quality. One thick letter was enclosed in a Hotel StratfieId envelope. There were several smaller notes too. The postcards all bore messages. The let ters will be kept at the general de- livery window for 8 month and then sent to the dead letter office in Wash ington, whence if the writers can be ascertained,, they will be returned to the sender.
 But letters with no addresses are not by any means the only queer pieces of mail which come to the To- cal office. ''Washlady, Gaylord street, Bridgeport was the address of one letter, Shake, Bridgeport, Conn" ," was another and so on through a pile of names of streets which do not ex- ist, and people who have never called and can not be located.
 It may be noted that during the past two months the business at the general delivery window has Jumped from three and four hundred calls a, day to eight and ten hundred. This is due to the large number of new corners to the city who are not yet he feiT- mail come in this way. From about 4:3O until 9:30 in the evening there is steady stream of callers at the window and the clerks find it hard to
 keep the mail sorted and to wait up- on them.
 The mail carriers. have discovered 1 that many boarding and rooming house keepers take in people without ascertaining their names. The mail comes addressed to their houses and they deny that people of such names live there and the mail is taken back
 to the office. The mail keeps com i ing for that address, the carrier keeps | attempting to deliver it and the pro prietor of the house continues to deny l that the person lives at that place
 In the end, after considerable trouble | on the part of the carrier, the person wanted is usually discovered to be l the occupant of some room upstairs
 in the house whose name the mistress l of the place had not found out. | Just such a case happened the last Eweek, the carrier had brought letters three days in succession to a house to 1 a house and had to take them away each time because the person tc whom they were addressed was not
 known. On the fourth day he again had a letter and as he was turning i away a woman called down from the 1 stairs above asking if there was any
 r11aiI for her. Her name was asked lit was the one to whom all the let ters were addressed. The boarding house mistress closed the incident by saying:
 70, I didn't know that that was
 your name.''
 It would be of much help to al 1 concerned if the keepers of these boarding and rooning houses would ask the carrier for cards which h' can provide to be filled out within l the correct names of the inmates O. l their houses.