| Show HAS STOVE IN HIS MAIL d CART ART howa mall mail Collector ln chicago defiles alts the northern blasts chicago there are ara hundreds of mall mail collectors carts in chicago but james e s 11 adams a collector out of S mall mail collector and his heated cart the ravenswood nivens Ravens wood postal stati station ort claims to have the innovation ot of the whole lot in chicago or as far as ho fco knows of 0 the letter carrying wa wagons ons of the nation in all kinds of winter weather adams keeps hla his body warm by hauling a hot stove around with him ills his cart Is especially built to accommodate a heater and there Is a solid wooden door in the rear that closes tight the collector stands on a step just inside the door when he steps out to abstract the contents of a mall mail box he carefully closes the door so that when he follows hla his nose back inside his box the little two by four post office Is as warm as toast mams adams has been working in the chicago postal service for nearly a quarter of a century lie he began in 1881 as aa a carrier but politics laid him off for two or three years lie has liaa served 16 years as a collector and for that period has kept himself warm by the same stove which consumes a quarter af 0 aton of hard ard coal each season superintendent bilogan of the ril ha station keeps his clock reig reg ull ulsted ted by this colle collectors clorIa punctuality and by the well fired 11 up P heater beater the latter Is able to light oft rheumatism and kindred ailments all |
