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will be sweeter music to our ears"
Another pilgrim reports: las I
reached the thirty-fifth floor of the
f. c.. A. Building to purchase stamps
and paid a 25-cent admission fee to
enter a United States post Office, a
Police Reception Committee herded
me into line with 1000 others who
had already arrived. Almost an hour
we stood there while, on the floor be-
low, Postmaster General Farley, Mayor
La Guardia and other officials went
through the formal opening cere-
monies. The line increased minute
by minute as new arrivals paid their
entrance fee. Finally the real business
Of the day got started, and collectors
were permitted to make the purchases
for which they had come. Sales
reached $4,000 by closing time.
I hope that our Federal officials will
not again submit themselves to such
extensive and severe criticism as has
arisen from the privilege granted
private promoter to charge an admis-
sion fee at a United States post Of
fee"
Covers postmarked at Havana,
Paris and Vienna during recent dis
turbances should be valuable.
The Associated Press says: Fur
ther indication of the growing use of
the airmail comes from the far-off
Belgian colony of Congo in the au-
nouncement of new airpost set con-
tanning nine stamps and ranging from
one-half to so francs in value
only one other airpost set has
been issued by Congo, the first in 1920
having four values, with the addition
of two more values in 1880.
THE design consists of huge
modern airplane flying over the plains
of Congo, with mountains in the dis
tance"
A second dispatch via Associated
Press reports: New stamps for reg
ular postage as well as airmail are
announced by the republic of Haiti
The airmails, two-thirds longer than
the regular postage stamps. are for
so centimes and l gourde. The reg
ular postage pictures President Vim
cent on the 6 centimes and various
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The Associated Press also says: New
surcharges on four values each of
Italy and Tripolitania airmails we're
issued for the first flight direct from
Rome to Buenos Aires, which ended
in a crack-up.
THE surcharge in black, on the
regular airmails. consists, in addition
to a revaluation of an airplane in
flight and brief description of the
purpose of the stamps. Values on
the two sets are identical, ranging
from 2 to 10 lire"
Germany has a new series of air.
mail stamps. There are nine values
showing the globe, the swastika and
an eagle in flight, and two showing
portraits of Otto Lilienthal and Count
Zeppelin, respectively The complete
list is: 5pf, emerald green: 1opf, car
mine; l5pf, ultramarine; 20pf, indigo;
26pf, yellow brown; 40pf, red lilac:
5opf, dark gray green; 80pf, orange
buff; 100 pf. black; and 2rm, ultra
marine and black
Danzig announces three values of
the current series overprinted in black
in two lines "5-W. H. W." for char
ity purposes.
August Dietz, jr, care Virginia Ga
zette, Williamsburg, is sponsoring a
cachet for February "a, when the
General Assembly will meet at the
reconstructed capital of the Old
Dominion.
The Daytona Beach Stamp Club.
care Chamber of Commerce. Daytona
Beach, Fla, will be responsible for a
cachet for the fifth anniversary of
CAM 25, March l. AirmaiI only. un-
sealed and unstuffed.
John F. Waldron, l16 Seventh street
southeast, will have a cachet for the
anniversary of President Roosevelt's
Inauguration, March 4.
The Collectors Magazine, official
organ Of the Canadian Philatelic So
ciety. announces a series of cachets
for the 400th anniversary of the ex-
pedition Of Jacques Cartier. Particu-
lars on application to the editor, $50
First avenue, Quebec.
R. A. Barry writing in the New
York Herald Tribune, says: THE fall
OF Fort Sumter on April 10, 1861,
threw Washington into an uproar,
and by the 18th rioting had assumed
such serious proportions that Presi-
dent Lincoln issued a call for $4,000
militia to protect the city
New York's 7th Regiment was
among the first to respond and on the
10Th made its famous march down
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