Show Letter Fourteen Years on Road New York Thomas F Davis a roofing contractor upon receiving a letter at his home In Brooklyn made a hurried trip to Manhattan turning over in his mind the prospects of fat profits from a very promising bid for work made In tho letter When he arrived ar-rived at an office in a downtown building he asked if he could seo the bidder whose name was signed to the letter Ho has been dead fourteen years a clerk replied Inspection of the envelope showed that the letter had been mailed August 6 1894 |