The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29
NeW ColnmcnloretIyc

While details are still lacking tt Is reliably reported that new com memorative stamp will be- Issued this summer in honor of Daniel Webster. According to the meagre kreports coming into tliig city it will be issued August 24, at Franklin, N. H. No doubt. fitting cachet will be provided by some source for this event as the Daniel Webster house at Franklin is to-day one of it's show places. Denomination, colors, etc, were not available at press hour. If this proves true banner year for commemoratives in the United States. The twelve Washington :bfcentenniai, winter Olympic. and two summer Olympic stamps made plenty of business for Uncle sam ana also made plenty of new phiiateiists, And there is no telling if the Webster stamp will | be the end. The occasion of the Webster stamp is the, 150th anni- versary of his birth which occurred in .1782,at. Franklin.
 DooIlttIe,s Flight
 The flight ef Major James H. Dooiittle over the routes that George Washington followed al- most two centuries ago was cer- tain1y an epic, It coincided with the 157th anniyersary. of the found ing of our postal service. National Post sOffice day was observed. on Tuesday. July 26, with Major Doo- little making his. epoch dawn-to- dusk flight the day previous. New Haven was one of the cities over which the flyer passed and where he dropped mail cofnmem orating the event. Tn all the flyer, ac- companied by. Miss Anne Madison Washington, great-great-great- grandniece of General Washington, flew 2.90Os miles and passed over fourteen states and the District of Columbia. Incidentally Benja- min Franklin should have been given bit moro publicity in con- nection with National Post Office day.. He was the first head of our postal service under appoiatment. by George Washington.
 Fun for FiIatelIsts
 Those of the profession who go in for cover collecting will short ly sing the praises of Postmaster John J. Kieliy of New York city, and the Washington Bicentennial commission of the same hamlet. They have been granted permis- sion by Postmaster General Brown to cachet covers on 12 historic dates linked with the life of George Washington and his activities in first cachet will be applied on Aug tfof g1A E to at A n NAunV hnV 25. All mail intended for the cachet will pass through a special postal station to be established in Federal Hall, Bryant park. This will go into operation August and will have its own specially r.e- pared cancellation dies, Follvv- ing Is a complete list of the an- niversaries and the dates on which the cachets will be applied:--
 August 2, .17s9-The anniversary of the signing by President Wash- ington of the act creating the war department.
 < August 12. 179o-Final session of congress held in Federal Hall. New York. M
 August 27, 17ss-The. Battle of Long Island.
 September 2. 17s0-washington. signed an act creating the treas ury department.
 September 16. 1776-Battle of Harlem Heights.
 September IT. 1790-Constitution day.
 september 22, 17s9--'Washington signed an act for the temporary establishment of q postofiice dc- 
 September 24. .17S9- Washington signed an act creating the federal courts.
 October IS, 7ss-Washington left New York city for 30-day tour of the New England and East ern States.
 November 16. 177e- Battle of Fort Washington.
 November 2b. 1,7S3--W Washington New York city as the