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and Walter MacPeek Of the Boy Scouts
and Mrs. Marguerite z. Baughman
have been admitted to regular mem
bership.
Col William N. McKelvy, president, Is
reported to be making steady progress
toward renewed health. He has left the
hospital and is resting at home.
Announcement has been made that
the annual convention of the society
will be held at Fond du Lac, Wis. Au-
gust 1919.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock at the Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth
street. Henry w. Clark will speak on
stamp collecting from the general COL
lector's point Of view.
Under the new bylaw permitting
women members, Mrs. Catherine L..
Manning, philateiist Of the National
Museum, has joined the cluS. Mrs.
Dorothy Rus and Miss Irene M. Pistor1o
also have applied for cards.
Miss Eleanor Dixon, 3115 Mount
most interesting philatelic discovery
Scent William Penn stamp printed
over double fold, one at the bottom
and one at the top Of the specimen; a
rare. If not unique. variety
The question occasionally Is asked,
who was the first airplane pilot to
carry Uncle Sans mail when the air
mail service was inaugurated in 1912"
The answer is: James c. Edgerton, q
resident Of Washington. He was then
matter Of record that he brought the
first pouch of mail by air from Phila-
delphia to Washington. Later. when
the pilot of the Washington to Phila-
delphia mail plane made a forced land
ing In Maryland Edgerton took over
his pouch and made the return trip
to the Pennsylvania city. His name Is
indelibly written into the romantic
story of the air mail enterprises Of the
Post Once Department.
Stanley King, writing on 1.-THE Ro-
nance of American Postage Stamps" in
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton magazine for April, says: Even
II you do not intend to become a stamp
collector, 1t might be worthwhile to
look around in your attic, or look over
those old papers very carefully before
you burn them, for there may be new
car or a college education among them,
and even II they do not contain any
very valuable postage stamps, they may
be the means Of making some collector
happy. Stamp collections range all the
way In value from q few cents to mil
lions Of dollars. The finest stamp col
lection ever assembled was probably that
nobleman, who lived In Paris and
started collecting around 1860. He was
immensely wealthy and Is said to have
spent around $4,000 a week on his
stamps. He died during the World
War. leaving his collection to Berlin
museum, but the French government
seized it as contraband Of war and sold
1t at auction for over $4,000, 1000"
James A. Decker, Prairie City, H., is
compiling q list of American news
papers having regular stamp depart
ments. He reports q total Of 227 jour-
mails eligible to date.
A request has been made for q COM
memorative stamp recalling the final
event" Of the Revolutionary War-the
departure Of the Red Goats from New
York and the entry Of the American
Army to the city. November Is, 1888.
Gen. Balbo and Gen. Pellegrini of
the Italian Royal Air Force, are plan
ming to fly from Italy to the World
Fair, Chicago. The date Of their flight
originally was announced for mid
June, but it is now reported that they
may start May "a. If present arrange
ments are carried out, 20 planes will
make the trip. Cover collectors should
get in touch with their friends in Italy
Immediately If they wish to be re-
membered.
Add to the list of distinguished phil
atelists: Queen Helena of Italy and
Suzanne Lenglen, the tennis star.
The plate numbers for the Newburgh
stamp are: 2l1l8, 2l12l and 2ll23 and
21124. Plate 2lI22 was damaged in
process and never completed.
The stamp collection Of the late
Arthur Hind will be sold at auction for
the benefit of his estate. The celebrated
New Guinea stamp which he owned may
pass to an agent Of King George. The
British sovereign was a bidder against