Show SAVING SHOWMEN how lic the postal money order Is ifred U sad by thrifty Thes thespians plans N Y times Tl ive lost my money order and I want to collect the amount of it how shall I go to work to get it gaida lid a young man to postmaster pi pierson pier erson son the other day who drew the or order der sir pierson inquired I did tho tile young man replied I am tommy INT mason ason the greatest lightning calculator in the world and I have been sending my savings to my own order nt at this office all ail summer that is arother an argument in favor of postal savings banks eaid said sir mr pierson to a reporter as ho directed the tile great U I calculator in the world to ti the money order department th ese travel in A ow men actors and minar minstrels els ha v ing no confidence in savings banks invest their spare money in money and send them to this office where they collect them when the deaso n is is over and they frequently find enough money to their credit to support them during tho winter season when thir shows are laid up go and eee see superintendent su crin and ho lie will teall tell you astory the tito superintendent was filling out a check for the ithe greatest ligi lightning t n calculater while whilo that gentleman waa was looking on with a cheerful countenance counte liance he lie had found no difficulty in obtaining bis money for tor he lie had taken takei the tile precaution to endorse his naino name on the letteron letter lette of advice adv ice sent by the western fotinas ter and a comparison of his scrawling handwriting with the signature ou on the letter of advice convinced mr tah the young man was entitled to the muney money we have about in money orders here for show people a alone said the tile superintendent about five yeara years ago when savings ings banks were bursting burn buri ting aing and poor people trembled for their little stores of money they had laid away abr r a rainy day we ve received six money ordera orders in in one mail from a emall small place in iowa they ranged in value from to the full amount 60 the circumstance taa not immediately noted but as several weeks parsed by and anti the orders wore not called for wo we sent a letter leater to the postmaster of the office at which tho the remittance was made aking for advises advices ad vices it not infra happens that persons buying a money order change their minds j about send sending ng it and draw out their money then if tho the poet master neglects to inform us that belas repaid the order you gee see how easy it would be to defraud the government the purchaser of the mo money order may have sent a letter to ay the person to whom remittance is made if that person were identified here we should pay over the money called for by the order in the absence of advice from the postmaster that ho be had repaid the order and thus the money poney would be ile paid twice on tho same order in this case cage the postmaster wrote back that ho be had not repaid any of the orders and they were filed away to be called for similar instances occurred during the Bum merand when fall faill came wo we had nearly a hundred of 01 these uncalled for orders or ders about the be beginning inking of november applications began to td be made for the ilic money orders and then we found that tho the owners were people they were of all styles and classes of people some of them were d dressed r essed in the pre prevailing Tail fashion while others wore some distinguishing article of dies dro indicate either cither an eccentric or a member of a performing per formin troupe frequently a person would present resent orders calling for several E hundred undred dollars and the question of identity than then came up p where wa wadid did not bare the signature on the letter of advice to compare with of abr the applicant we insisted upon the applicants being identified by some ferwn known to gome some one in in the office most of them saw the wisdom doni of such a course but some efthem of them were indignant atthe at the insinuation that their worm wide reputations as bareback rider clowns or aar leits had not readied reached the new york floe then we instructed them that when they next purchased money orders payable to their own order if they would endorse the letter of retained of whom they received ce the order they would save themselves much trouble in collect mg the money in moat most cases they I did d so the tile number of this class clas of ori de ders rs continued the su Superintendent perin tend ent has steadily increased every year with most of the names we are no now w familiar and we file them away in in boards endo endorsed reed trave traveling ling show men well here mr abor looking pile of orders for the month of an august ua it waa was interesting to follow the track of the chow people the ordera orders were about two weeks ct part and ilyas it was aliw P jio to ascertain tile ax oft b edeson sending A rill k ia tho clown was ava sofol ti tefol MI t f lowed through various towns in iowa wisconsin and minnesota addie austin the rider was evi deatry with the same show her ifer money orders called led for 50 each time showing lier feminine femi 1110 prudence chardio flet cher sent his orders from stations beginning in in california and ending in iowa dinaldo Pi runaldo naldo the tumbler sent his remittances mit from vermont Ir ermont and sol stone the clown was wai traced by his 50 orders through various towns in tex texas one batch of orders from INI A youn young were endorsed in a boyish scrawl there were nearly near of themi all but one of whick which called for sl one of the latest of them showed allowed an increase of salary for it was filled out for 82 ilia address was written paws circus that boy will own a show some day eaid said the superintendent aside from the fact that their money is is absolutely safe in the postoffice post office eaid said mr niley there ia is another consideration which abeso the pe people ople may have discovered the rate of exchange from the places to this city is from I I to per cent while figured down it only costs costa one half of per cent to send money to this city by means of money OCY order then there arc are money order offices in moet moat of the towns which are lar largo enough to make a show and that makes it convenient forthe for the showman t to send his money home as he be can buy liis his order on a any nt pay lily day and avoid the rik of having baving it bt eleu or of spending pending it in an considered ill moment of the money orders come from performers in circuses thomas McDo mcdonald a minstrel nii mi netrel forty ia is the only one from that show how who deposits depo oits liia his money regularly with the new york postoffice post office and the only minstrel depositor so far 03 can be ascertained from ah an examination of the orders in the office offee D P storer a peri performer briner in coups show allow lias has t two wo money orders in in the tile collection calling for they were sent in june before tho the show was dip dissolved alved and the property eold sold one of these theeo days flays said sir mr plin ey it the te government will willes establish postal L akings banks and then these there thrifty people will be 11 able ble to obtain interest for thereof of their money during the season |