Evening star., 1933-08-13

Thirty-second street, Sacramento,
Calf, will sponsor Q cachet.
All of the above cachets are gratis,
but commemorative stamps should be
used on wrappers in compliment to
sponsors. Standard 6A size envelopes
are specified.
w. Ditzel, 2546 West Lanvale street.
Baltimore, Md, will sponsor q printed
cachet commemorating the Battle Of
Lake Erie, September 10. Covers un-
sealed.
Maryland Line Post Once. Md, will
be discontinued Tuesday. Last-day
cover collectors take note.
Postmasters at the following towns
still are using the old 13-star flag can
cellations: Medford, N. j.; Blue River,
Wis; Lyons, Ga, and Cumberland, Md.
Send self addressed envelopes with
cents wrapped coin for each marking
wanted.
Mail pilots have thrilling experiences
One of the most recent of the heroes
of the airmail service is E. E. Basham,
ace flyer, who was obliged to bail out"
of his disabled plane en- route from
Rochester, N. Y, to Cleveland. He
landed unharmed, but his ship was
smashed to atoms. However, the story
closes, "the mail was saved"
Deli Norona, writing in Hobbies,
says: In 1890, shortly after the open
ing Of the first section Of the Baltimore
Thumb was beaten in a race against
a powerful gray horse. The horse was
owned by Messrs. Stockton and
Stokes, the great stage owners at that
time, who were determined, Of course
to retain their hold on the valuable
mail contracts with the Post Office
Department. However, the horse of
flesh and blood could not long success
fully compete with the horse of iron
and steam, and in a few years the
railroads began to carry the mails and
commence to displace the horse.
The earliest reference I have found
in the files of the department relating
to the railroad as mail carrier is con-
tanned in a bid for the conveyance Of
mails on September 26. 1881.
The earliest known railroad post
mark is Baltimore Railroad used
September 20, 1888"
On January 3, 1893, a Lancaster, Pa,
newspaper reported: THE sale Of the
AiS" NoAuIAipidll pOotdSc StdIlpS WAS Dc
gun at the post Offices yesterday, and
all day long there was an anxious
crowd waiting to get a chance to buy
some OF the issues. Under the instruc-
tions from Washington no stamp could
be sold until January 2. and so anxious
were collectors and others to be sup
piled early that at 10 minutes after
midnight Superintendent Vogel sold
$lOO worth OF stamps to man who had
been after them for some time.
THE first stamps sold after the regu-
lar stamp windows were opened in the
morning were taken by a man who had
come IN from Tioga on the first train,
not knowing that the sub-Stat tions
would begin the sale at the same time.
He took ten 2-cent stamps
The stamp windows had not been
open very long before line was formed
at each, and the clerks were kept busy
supplying the demand A great many
purchasers took complete sets of the
new stamps ranging from cent to IS.
and costing $1626. 1t is very important
to collectors to get stamps of the first
issues when the plates are clear and
distinct. and it Is believed that in a
short time these early issues will be
at premium. The first consignment
to this city included $l51 $50 worth of
the new stamps, and they will be sold
before the end of this week.
"A big profit will result to the Gov
ernment by the issue of the stamps as
all those sold for collections will be
clear profit. 1t is estimated that nearly
every one of the stamps of the denomi-
nations from 81 to IS which are sold
will be clear profit, as it is seldom that