. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. cupied by an officer of the company. Itcontains six rooms, is painted white, andfrom the balcony a beautiful view of theharbor, the sea and the great mountains isto be had. This new postoffice was opened for businesslast Friday morning (June 24) at 10 Brewer had landed the day before andrented the building from Frederic Poppe,Cuban military governor of the town andsuperintendent of the iron works, and bydint of hard work had the place in conditionthe following day. At 5 oclock in the a
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. cupied by an officer of the company. Itcontains six rooms, is painted white, andfrom the balcony a beautiful view of theharbor, the sea and the great mountains isto be had. This new postoffice was opened for businesslast Friday morning (June 24) at 10 Brewer had landed the day before andrented the building from Frederic Poppe,Cuban military governor of the town andsuperintendent of the iron works, and bydint of hard work had the place in conditionthe following day. At 5 oclock in the after-noon of the opening day 8,000 letters wereon their way from the army and navy to theUnited States. At 5:30 oclock Sunday morn-ing a second mail of 4,000 letters was sentfrom the dock, and to-morrow morning athird will leave in a government dispatchboat for Key West. This mail is to be car-ried by the ex-liner City of Paris, now theYale, and the vessels orders are to take theYucatan channel and look out for blockaderunners while en route. Arriving at Key THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 141. \ y=-\ FIRST UNITED STATES MILITARY POSTMASTER ON FOREIGN SOIL. West the Yale is to convoy the prizes fromthat port to Hampton Roads and then pro-ceed to New York. She will embark addi-tional troops and bring them and the mailson her return trip to these waters. In its money-order department our newpostoffice did a rushing business yesterday,more than $600 in orders having been A. McDowell of the Red Cross society wasthe first to invest, and he bought an orderfor $1, payable to himself. The next cus-tomer was a private of battery H, 4th ar-tillery, who took $400 worth of orders, paidthe cash and sent them to his family. Thesale of stamps, postal cards, stamped en-velopes and special-delivery stamps has been large and is increasing daily, while the busi-ness of the registry division has been soheavy that the office is already a money-maker instead of an expense to the govern-men
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