Show man who owned the first box is present chicago oct 28 the gigantic though delicate task of moving the chicago into the new quarters in the recently completed 6 federal building without delaying or disturbing the handling ot approximately two million pieces of mail matter which the office handles daily began today frederick B coyne the postmaster was authority for the statement that so elaborately have preparations been made involving the minute calculation of innumerable details that the intricate work of tho which collects and delivers mail over a territory of square miles would proceed without a moments delay by sunday all mail including the outgoing but with the exception of certain kinds of second class matter which will be handled from the temporary structure for somer weeks yet will be cared for in the new building the moving began without ceremony although united states senator hopkins and the majority of the chicago congressmen together with representatives from the postmaster generals department were present the only bit of sentiment connected with it waa the presence by special invitation of postmaster coyne of pernando jones ona of the wealthiest citizens of chicago wha not only has the distinction of being one of the few citizens who remembers when the local postoffice post office consisted of one man but who owned the first private box in that jones himself constructed the box out of a bootleg and numbered the box 36 that he might impress his eastern friends with the idea that the hamlet was progressive our installation here today said mr coyne makes a distinct change in methods of handling mall in chicago work that has been done by hand ever since there was a postoffice post office here will be done by machinery I 1 believe we now nave the best equipped office mechanically in the world with pneumatic tubes running from the pos to all the principal railroad stations and with the prospect that within a tev weeks all heavy mat ter will be carried by electric cars to the depots through the tunnels of the illinois tunnel company I 1 believe that the beginning of the new year will find mail bandied faster in chicago than any other place in the world HEROIC ACT OF RESCUE chicago oct 23 A dispatch to the tribune from aurora neb says at the risk of his own life 14 acar old adolph jacobson yesterday forced his bray through a solid wall of flames and with a sheet taken from their bed lowered hla two younger brothers to from ft fire in which hla mother and baby sister perished and which destroyed their home simon Ja cobon the husband and father was severely burned in futile efforts to save his wife to roach and rescue his brothers adolph bad to make his way up one flight at when the house vaa a mas of flames an nt tempt to start tle kitchen stove with kerosene started the alre WHAT IS AN aristocrat chicago oct 28 golt styled american aristocracy received a severe rap last night at the hands of dr ehll G harsch dr preached at israel temple on the relative significance ot origins and outcomes in society and religion wherever yon have aristocracy he said it Is tho beginning that Is of moment it you arc to havo a noble family you must get back to the beginning and if ou havo tho proper number of ancestors you are noble these ancestors however should not be u too carefully or some one who in common parlance was a cutthroat cut throat and thief may be found all the ancestor 1 who cams to were of that class probably tho ancestor who Is 0 o be the object of a fam ilys worship was a man with a big stick who increased hla territory by hilling off his neighbors and annexing their possessions in that way all the states of Europe grew there are some people in america also who are beginning to talk of their social station it it Is the beginning that counts chere would lincoln be lie had no pedigree not in his immediate parents at least though I 1 believe hla mother must have had some nobility in her sort 0 the greatest men hi america have no ancestors but the smallest men to speak of and women aro beginning i their families their anchors probably cama over not in Mayflower the but the steerage ot some immigrant vessel and he that fant won was the best the family probably has deteriorated teri orated into wealthy millionaires and spends most ot its time in europe RUSSIANS DEPART washinton oct 28 admiral train commanding this philippine squadron cabled tho navy department from manila today respecting the release of the interned squadron of admiral en dulst as follows Je mchug left yesterday tor vladivostok aurora and oleg left today for saigon HE WENT INSANE new york act 28 michael pug neto of butte mont a steerage passenger on the trails atlantic steamship went insane on the voyage just ended at this port he attempted to jump overboard last monday and slashed with a knife the doctors orderly and two stewards who endeavored to restrain him he was caught at the ships rail by the stewards as he was about to leap overboard and in the struggle slashed his captors severely in the head and shoulders the orderly was stable n tho neck and seriously wounded |