Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 79

. ILLUSTRATED FEATURES — - The Sunthy Stae MAGAZINE SECTION FICTION AND HUMOR Part 5—8 Pages ites is an imperish ' memory high adven ture across s of the | . and the stretch n the i the postmaster at : t: n the year 1634, but it was not v il n Franklin was ap- b Postmaster ( eral in a cen 1 r that an or- ' r ndicative of the to being 1. but the e woods and » \ required | 14 up £ innah. Paul Re- Tere wa ited post cour- d stence by vy mall New York- irnpike, the mail tra Roman famous 108 old from tr car i trins we Y € ates, though th in. R ) i Ya et s the 1 sun A d to the « o liter on the contrpl of mail ed the s, and 1self con- the steam their than for honr - nature not deene onvey oar passenss however, to condut perin of startin n ur earlier in the d keeping them out on the 1 as late at 4:30, but it is be. idered solely in the 1 of ind an experime hich he fears the t time, in 1836, railroads in the n compari- otment of ckage. But ime into be- the footsteps 231,981 1miles of 1 Sotien the ivoad t DONY express hard n and the the accepted mail route to|ence, the unquenchable was by steamer to Pan- | brave couriers will never fade. the Isthmus by mule| Riders were wounded on their wd by “packet” to the Golden | routes, but “caried on” to the relay an expedition of 28 days, with | station, where horses anl men were | wind and weather. changed. Kach run averaged about Later on, there was a mail stage miles, and ponies were relieved eut from St. Louis over the Santa Fe | every 10 or 12 miles at service stas @nd into southern California, which | tions along the trail. tock 18 davs, o that the dizzy speed | Jack Keetley is said to have rid- ©f 10-day letters and 8-.day telegrams | gen at one time a distance of 340 ©f the pony express, which was inaug- | ples in 31 hours without rest, and urated in April, 1860, as great @ . piiles from town fell sound asleep etride forward as the t continental but rode in railway mail service nine yvears later. ] \< CORDI to the research partment of the Washington Office, the conguering of "the Tew “had advanced only as far as the Missouri River, in the central sec- tion of the country, in 1860. Beyond, 8¢ states, “lay trackless prairies, rug. ged foothills, barrier mountains and Indtans. Further on, beyond the Rockies, along the Pacific Coast and 4n the Great Basin region, were half £ million Americans, building another section of the United States far re- moved from its parent block. Rail- is eady connected the East with St. Louls and St. Joseph, Mo. The latter city was then the railhead of the ion and the Western outpost ordered civilization of the of United Btates. “Beyond it a few military posts some scattered frontiersmen ex- preciviov among hostile In- . The pro > this together two ‘I'nited States’ into one common en- tity with the powerful thongs of news,” cors flames vasion of the | far | oded hiliy At of the Trips of the ins " among Jdd rush to | de- | ! pri insure PassCnristian M«ss News of that day was wired from Washington or New York to St | Joseph.s transported thence hy pony | express to Placerville and wired fron there to the o« Thus telegrams were two days shorter in time than letter mail. Bllls int | that time were vealization « mail service and 1 for 1 gement, and chief these mpts to introduce speed was the bill offered by enator Willlam Gwin of California |in 1855 for an overland ma Three vears later the Butterfield route was established, nd in Marc 1860, the New York Herald and t | St. Loufs Republican announced that | a private firm, Russell, Major & Wad. | | dell, was about 1o open a o to the ¢ e vews of 10day i Congress at led in spite of the necessity for fast * the urgent need | postal electrified the Nation, and his viders to gallop West from St. Joseph and East from the coast caused a i&reat furove. The cities suspended usiness when the relay riders me in on schedule time. | @he famous “Buffalo Rill" Cody, who | | is said to have heen only 16 at the | start of his service. once did 322 miles | without rest, on his trip as a pony | express rider. This line stretched | from frontler to coast., and neither danger from Indians or desperadoes | nor weather was permitted to d {the servic he mail! The mail’"” was a ery | that echoed across the continent. and though the pony express service is sald to have lost $200,000 to its own- | | ers in spite of the cost of $5 per letter, in the 16 months of its exist- | it of its “in the sadle, safely to the station, still slumbering from utter exhaustion, All such’ rides were due to neces- sity, through fliness or the death of the relief courier, though, on one oc- casion “Ras” Egan did a turn of 330 miles over a deuble route so that his successor might stop off at Salt Lake City to see his sweetheart, accord- iniz to the archives of the Union Pa- cific Rallroad. : * ok K k. HUS the pony express left behind it a trall of unsurpassed ad- venture, and it seems strange that not one cent was advanced for its develop- ment by the Government, though mil- lions were said to have been expended in featuring less successful routes. The only time the Government entered the transaetion seems to have been | when it reduced the cost of letters on | ! such trips from §5 to $1, and in 1861 | fur s sold to Ben Holladay, | who made a marked success of the venture. This _service later grew into the Johw andi Mayy,who dieliver Mail at | for WASHIN NGTON, D. St DAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1926. the World War, was American Railway Ixpress. The trafl of the pony express is almost exactly that of the steel rallway route of to day, and was kncwn officially as “The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Cc” When the famous silver spike was driven on October 24, 1861, at Promontory, Utah, the need for the courier service was over, but its memory is part of the trail over which the fast mail planes sweep by day and by night. Mrs. Willlara Boyer of Wilmington, Del., recently sent a letter by mall service over the identical route tra- versed by her grandfather, Willlam tussell, who was the first man (o carry mail across the continent from New York to St. Joseph, a trip of 14 days, according to a newspaper account. At present, 87 hours from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific Coast is considered the last word, with the aid of the transcontinental day and night air- plane mail . . a far cry from the good old era when it took a month. But, though the stealthy Indian is no longer a danger, and there are fewer keen-eyed trappers or scouts along the trail than of yore, the postal service still has its hazards, which are by no means confined to the treacheries of the fog and snow the air pilot. The carrier on the star route in Oregon hetween Newport and Otter Rock, on the [ fic Coast itself, compelled to travel down the beach at low tide, but if the waves are high he must either abandon his Stage Coach Mail Delwary. bsorbed into the | S OF THERMERICAN, mum " RND “m: SITYOF ST.J0SEPH. MARKS THE PUACE WWERE THE FENT “OwNEY" The, Postal do TARIED ONAPTR OGED Q' Marking spot where Bt pOYlAj Express b, high pieces by On the Rocky route the carriers travel in the Wiz ter on snowshoes, packing 50 pounc Wells Fargo, and still later, during | team and:the-mails -and climb the .of mall, and. mL dalreguently ar K} cliffs, or else he dashed the fury of the tide. Bar-Atlanta, Idahc to | swept away by snowslides, the c: a year ago in January, when Loca » lost his life and his body -as not found until some six months rter. WERYY mwm BF 1ghest Beacon Lt it 1o tlme WorioL for Adix M.ul at, Sherman Kill Wionuiv vE Story of This Branch of Government Service Is One Which Deals With High Adventure Under Most Dangerous Condi- tions—How the Pony Express of Former Days Aided Government in Saving Time for the People of the Country—Always (| in Advance of the Lines of Settlers Making Their Way to the Far-Off ‘Regions of the Land—Development of the Inter- mediate Step of Fast Mail Trains Crossing the Continent—Rapid Progress Made in Modern Air Mail. KL LS 2 8045 R ERLLLILIATERLLILLR Warysder, g VE neninzs. B T e o conened Wil 1 e e sases g a3 FARE Tllfl}l'. DOLLARN... CUSTOMARY ,/,u«”u,nu",,nn, S l‘mfidm M 0, 1821, ous routes in the Federal service lies between Ellison Bay and Detroit Har- bor. Wis., and Sandusky, Ohio, to the neighboring islands, when mail must be carried over the ice in the Winter and Fall months. The Hitchcock brothers had one of the most hazardous experiences in! the records of the Post Office De- partment a few vears ago when they were caught in a storm on Lake Erie and carried down the lake by the force of the ice drift in which their boat was lodged. The excited island- ers finally rescued the two men after repeated efforts and found them half frozen in their ice-covered garments. The star route from Ellison Bay, the most northern post office in the Door country peninsula, to Detroit Harbor, Wi one covered entirely by water by the carrier, who thus crosses the famous “Death’s Door Pass: Drifting ice fields are shifted by “the gales and currents during the Winter One of -the most noted-and danger- wonths, nd occasionally. the helpless Ilus I ime ( arill commence rmmm,t: ot lln 16th inst., j‘rmn l‘nlruh"u i Sinithetd wnd Lbyide. heiee o ol Vis : Providence Toesdays and Fridays, al arvisex in Worcester same Fvenings. W ednesdays and Saturdays, and nnhcfi iu Provideuce the Revav, New.Thumpihire. My Cuehes, epsiv Woreaater ox Wednrsdnss Hookx kept af Wesson's, Providence, R. 1. at Farnham’s, hmmyhhl Noeraiti, and ut Thowe aad WWhite's, Worcester, Mass. OioL-txme,Anmun&men New Stagelines. ‘clock, A, M. and JRNING....Leaves RET SRR (R B WEIGHT OF BAGGAGE ALLOWED. A. IVESSON & SONS. JOB N. TUTTLE. of carrier sleigh and mail far when the break-up occurs. The proximity of the United S is with his horse, out on the ice caught tes Coast Guard at Plum Island is a god- send to many a carrier who has been thus threatened by disaster, as was the case not long ago when one post- man found himself isolated on a cake of fce hardly large enough to hold up the horse and sleigh. Fortunately, the Coast Guard had seen his danger, and finally succeeded in getting out a line to the unfortu- nate man, who was able to tie it to the ice floe and was later able to walk out on the solid portion to the mainland. The Nenana-lditarod route is one of the most picturesque and danger lous in the service and has for years been covered by a dog team each * The pay is over a_thousand and 800 pounds of mai, in addition to the 100 pounds of food and equipment, are carried by the Romantic Pioneer Spirit of U. S. Mail Reaches Climax in Air omance of the mails of the {huskies. A mail plane the distance of %0 mil banks to McGrath in thr it flles In a straight li huskies then continue Iditarod. Both methods | probably {in Alaska | though_the cess of the planes be u of transpor be used to carr for ture 1 prese ed excl HE old-time slogan of the beckor ing West v “California or * but this anslated in th ice to “Fly « gn'" dy pilots peril lacross the lof the succeeded 1 ! heacons highwas | In order ! possible night as the dark fas pict | mkb | Pilot ‘Dog’ Coilins « | fuct, that he had so much ber that it made him | dere It mail w | Wilson, with i 1t of the it took | Potor Par | dents b fof the 1. Towev | mail ser cord of « fewer accide in the air ser | Office. Depic discussed in t throughout the Mail planes have in sav portat all ki Reserve to give o be nsportin nother in oa Women's gow sticks, heen e canceled stamps testi t in b ired weary d: rention of the post ould be complete w t e 1o Owney. | betoves | beloved by | to coast the enu Alban < nely inte to of ing men adopted him Subsequently > e traveled to near ity e country, and be many medals and baggage tags attached to hi Jar that a harness was pu <ed in order to distribute the weig Some of the tags and bear tayed in f the eviden Mt ently as ment | the of the | svmbol. with his na of his tags were shows that he took ings. on one of w . “Bench Show ¢ il 1866, Medal to Globe Trott Nov. §11.°" Innumerahle hotels were ceive so famous the Bos s Company offered a rewar for his return if lost. His sured by two companies, pro view of his trip abroad to Jap: elsewhere, from which hg retur high state, to receive a the Atlanta Constitution Tribune of Cheyenne, Wyo He died ahout 18 z loaned to the it the Sesquicer at Philadelphia hy 1 Institution, which b nd mounted as 4 memorial pier dog day the rail traing, to which he always brov the best of good fortune. be hibit tion ni. s on Uncovering the Sphinx. HE feet of the Sphinx exhibition for the first time in 40 The Egyptian government ha undertaken the hercul k of some of the mountair are now on vea ean clearing away of sand that drifted around the famous mystery of the Nile, filling in some vather alar with specially prepared ceme: Clearing away the sand around the Sphinx takes such an immense amount of labor that it was done only three times in the nineteenth century the last time being in 1886 A 1 ng sand by the basketful to a place enough away so that it will not once blow back and make their work useless: It is recorded by medieval travelers of long ago that sometimes only the head of inx has been visible over the shifting desert i Queer Operation. PATIENT at a Leipz recently swallowed i he 1 open safety pita pin, which lodged in the esophagus on | @ level with the first rib, the nt o the pin upward. The pin was e tracted easily by way of the stomach after an operation under guidance of Rospiges ez