Items of Interest September 10, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

Because of the great increase in the appropriations for rural delivery, post-office officials say that the idea of one-cent letter postage in the United States must be put aside for many years. According to figures which have just been prepared by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, the rural free delivery in operation on June 30, 1905, will cost approximately $20,000,000 a year. The department has also plans for the extension next year which will increase the cost $6,000,000. The entire scheme of free rural delivery is to increase the system gradually each year until the entire country is covered. It is believed that such a complete service will cost at least $40,000,000.

Twenty-five thousand gold pieces of the denomination of $1, intended as souvenirs of the Lewis and Clarke Exposition, have been completed at the Philadelphia Mint. The Exposition Company expects to sell the coins to collectors and others at a premium of $1 each. The new gold piece has a profile of Lewis on one side and of Clarke on the other. It is probably the first coin issued in this country having a portrait on both sides.

Chicago has now 680,692 persons under twenty-one years of age, as against 627,262 in 1902.

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