Evening star., 1940-03-10
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopRevew Of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fawcen.

Farley announced on Tuesday that
he has authorized the issuance of
. special commemorative Scent
stamp in connection with the S0th
anniversary of the Inauguration of
the pony express service. TIE new
adhesive will be 84/100 by l-44/1O0
inches in dimensions arranged hori-
zontally. It will be printed in pur-
pie by rotary process and released
in sheets of so. The central design
will show a mounted pony express
rider leaving relay station with
. consignment of mail. In the fore
ground at the right will be the de-
nomination designation in the form
Of large numeral IS" with three
cents" below in dark Roman let
tering, and in each upper corner
will be vertical panel with a dark
background and sketch of a buf-
falo skull and a sheaf of wheat in
white. The stamp will go on sale
at st. Joseph, Mo-, and Sacramento,
Calf, April 3. William A. Roach Is
the designer, Charles A. Brooks en-
graved the vignette and John s.
Ednondson the lettering.
A publicity release from Chicago
says: Hull House, world famous
settlement project founded by the
late Jane Addams, will issue a spe-
cial first-day cover for the first
public sale of the Jane Addams
stamp at Hull House, Chicago, April
&c.
Through Ernest j. Kruetgen,
Chicago postmaster, the first sale
of the Jane Addams stamp, which
is of the l0-cent denomination, will
be made in the little contract postal
station No. 10, which was opened at
Hull House over 42 years ago, with
Miss Addams as its first postmis-
tress. Miss Addams had petitioned
for the branch post Office as means
OF eliminating money order rack
eteers, who were victimizing immi-
grants living in the slums around
Hull House. Before the Hull House
postal station was opened immi-
grants sending money back to- the
"old country" had found too often
that their painfully earned dollars
Disappeared into the pockets of
bogus money transfer agents in
stead Of reaching their proper desig-
nations overseas.
Miss Addams remained post
mistress Of the Hull House station
until her death, May 81, 1885. The
commemorative stamp issued in her
honor is one of the Heroes of Peace
CFamous Americans) series, and
special ceremonies will mark the
f1rst-day sales at Hull House, which
this spring is celebrating its golden
jubilee.
"It is announced that the special
cover and cachet issued by Hull
House will be In three colors and
will include folder giving a brief,
illustrated historical sketch of Jane
Addams' life and Hull Houses first
30 years. The cover will sell for
Is cents, including the 10-cent Jane
Addams stamp. All proceeds of the
sale will 60 to the support of Hull
House settlement work"
The address of Hull House is 800
South Halsted street, Chicago.
Miss Mary Washington Matilda
Stewart, postmaster at Oxford, Md,
for 63 years, soon will retire. She
succeeded her father, Isaac Stewart,
in the position in 1877 and has been
In charge ever since. Last day"
covers probably will be Cancelled If
they are requested. Collectors
should send self-addressed stamped
envelopes with remittance Of cents
for each marking wanted.
The Washington Philatelic So
ciety, meeting at the Mayflower
Hotel Wednesday evening. paid
tribute to T. Russell Hungerford,
veteran stamp collector and
philatelc historian. DR.. Ellis
Haworth was in charge of the pro-
gram, in the course of which he
read an article on Historic Cyprus"
written by Mr.. Hungerford for the
American Philatelist for March.
Stamps illustrating the text were
exhibited and discussed. Those pres
ent included: DR.. Fenton Bradford,
Morton o. Cooper, j. Michael
Brown, Philip Simms Warren, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward B. Martin, Mrs.
Grace L. MacKnight, Alexander
Halperson, B. Jean Raleigh, DR..
Emil F. Ferdinand, DR.. M. G. Skim
ner, Theodore E. Forbes. John L.
Steele, jr.; Miss Dorothy R. Fisk,
Joseph A. Herbert and others.
A poster sheet of 10 views OF
Buffalo, printed in two colors, has
been prepared by the Arrangements
Committee for the annual American
Philatelic Society convention, to be
held at the Hotel Statler In that
city August IL to 16. Collectors
interested to obtain copies should
write to Louis w. Zenger, 222 Pine
street, Buffalo, for particulars.
The seventh annual Heart of
America Philateiic Exhibition, spon-
sored by the Midwest Philatelic So
ciety. Inc, will be held at the
Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City.
Mo-, April 3 to 6. inclusive, and will
feature the centenary of the first
adhesive postage stamp.
Philatelic agency sales for Feb
ruary totaled $119,979.19.
Robert E. Fe1lers, superintendent
OF the Division of Stamps, and Mel
son B. Vented, superintendent Of
the Classification Division, repre-
sented the Post Office Department
at the fourth annual round up"
Of the Capital Precancel Club at
2400 Sixteenth Street NV. last
Sunday. Other guests were Stephen
G. Rich, editor of the Precancel
Bee and secretary of the Society of
Philatelic Americans, Verona, N. j.: