Evening star., 1939-07-23
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopRevew of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings


1860-May 81, 1885, sociologist and
humanitarian, co-founder of Hull
House, Chicago; co-Winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize, president of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom.
Other heroes of peace" almost
certainly will be added to the gal
lery, the nominations proposed by
Mr.. Eidsness including Francis Scott
Key. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clara
Barton, Will Rogers, Horace Gree
ley, John w. Alexander, George
Bellows, Benjamin West, John S.
Sargent, John La Fargo, Howard
Pyle, Kenyon Cox, j. @. A. Ward,
Cass Gilbert, Robert Mills, Eugene
Field, Edgar Allan Poe, 20. Henry"
John Howard Payne, Henry and
William James, Edward Everett, Joel
Chandler Harris, William Cullen
Bryant, George Bancroft, Horatio
Alger, Stephen Crane, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, Francis Parkman,
Josiah Royce. Lew Wallace, Bayard
Taylor, Melville E. Stone, William
Holmes MacGuffey, Frederick Doug
lass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, John
Burroughs, Charles A. Dana, Bret
Harte, William Dean Howells, James
Gordon Bennett, Lafcadio Hearn,
Ambrose Bierce. William Jennings
Bryan. Peter Cooper. George Pea
body, Harriet Beecher Stowe, An
drew Carnegie, Carl Schurz, Theo-
dore Parker, James Cardinal Glib
bons, Phillips Brooks, Henry Wat
terson. Elijah Lovejoy, Herman
Melville. Julia Ward Howe, Emily
Dickinson, Maria Mitchell, Alice
Freeman Palmer, Charlotte Cush-
man and Minnie Maddern Fiske.
A 3-cent stamp to mark the ter
centenary of the introduction of
printing in the territory now in
cluded within the United States will
be released on September Is. 1t will
commemorate Stephen Day 1884
1863, an English locksmith who
came to New England in 1888 under
contract to work for two years for the
Rev. Josse Glover, clergyman who
had planned to set up a press, but
who unfortunately died before reach
ing America. Mrs. Glover settled in
Cambridge and purchased a house
for Day and his wife. There the
first imprint, a single sheet repro
ducing the Freeman's Oath, was
issued in 1889. Still preserved in the
museum at Harvard University, the
original press may be the central
motif of the stamp design. August
Dietz of Richmond, art printer, au-
thority on the postal emissions of
the Confederate States and editor
and publisher of the Stamp and
Cover Collectors Quarterly, was the
sponsor of the plan which Mr.. Far
ley on Thursday announced he has
approved.
Herman Bocorselski and William
A. Verhas exhibited stamps of the
Saar complete at meeting of the
Washington Philatelic Society. Hotel
Mayfiower, Wednesday evening. DR..
Ellis Haworth explained the display
and led the general discussion fol-
lowing its showing. Guests attend
ing included R. B. and Colburn Low
EFT, Miss Julia Williamson. Mrs
Anne Gurin and Joseph C. Rogers,
jr., of Philadelphia.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
This evening at 5:45-Washing-
ton Stamp Club of the Air. Station
VOL. Albert F. Kunze will present
stamp romance and comment on
philatelic news.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Club. residence of DR.. j.
G. Mearns, 1874 Twentieth street
south. Arlington, Va. Program and
bourse.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram. exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Mayfower
Hotel. Connecticut avenue at De
Sales street NV. Precancel pro-
gram. Ralph E. Smith presiding.
Wilson P. Smith. Roylston Lyon,
Roy w. Johns and others will dis
cuss their specialties, and there will
be an exhibition of selected speci-
mems.
Friday evening at 8-Viking's
Crew Hobby Club, IS Rhode Island
avenue NV. Program and election
of officers.