Show CUPID IN A CANTEEN A dispatch from Rock Island Ill announces that a letter written in 1864 1564 by a romantic Brooklyn girl of 16 has Just been discovered in an old can can- teen A workingman at the Rock flock Island Island Island and arsenal found the letter faded and brown in one of ot a number of canteens canteens canteens can can- teens made In Brooklyn during the civil war and sent to Rock Island to tobe tobe tobe be recovered red The letter reads as follows follows fol fol- fol lows If the soldier who receives this canteen canteen canteen can can- teen should chance to uncover It let him remember the young lady that covered It by addressing a letter to her as she likes to hear from our soldiers and I hope the soldier that receives this will vote for Little Mac for I hope hopewe we we shall have him for our next dent We have had enough for Old Abe The letter was signed by Rosa Corvin Cor- Cor yin vin G Gold street Brooklyn In the years during which this letter of a sentimental sentimental sentimental sen sen- school girl has been molderIng molderIng moldering molder- molder Ing away in the old canteen the character character character char char- acter of the best sections of the big cities has changed and that part of Gold street to-day to is a tenement ter In 1864 it was a good residential district The former school schoolgirl girl Miss Rosa Corvin has since become Mrs M. M A. A Leary and now lives at 1962 Seventh avenue Manhattan She said last night that she was a very young girl girlIn girlIn girlin In 1864 and that she had no recollection recollection recollection tion of having written the letter which was found In the old canteen In fact tact she was so very young at that time that she thought It impossible thai tha she could have written It |