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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Rules Governing Parcels Post 
Postmaster General Hitchcock Explains the Workings of 
the New Law which Goes into Effect January 1. 
Regulations to cover the workings 
of the new parcels post system, which 
is to go into operation Jan. 1, have 
been made public by Postmaster Gen- 
eral Hitchcock. 
' The new system will be effective 
throughout the entire postal service at 
the same time and will affect every 
postoffice, city, rural and railway mail 
transportation -route in the country. 
Every precaution will be taken by 
the postoffice department to have the 
mails moved with the usual dispatch, 
and all postmasters, superintendents 
and inspectors have been directed to 
thoroughly familiarize themselves and 
their subordinates with every phase of 
the new system. 
Mr. Hitchcock expressed the hope 
that the public would familiarize it- 
self with the nature of the new serv- 
ice before attempting its use. In- 
formation will be avilable at any post- 
office in the country in a few days. 
The regulations provide that parcels 
merchandise, include farm and fac- 
tory products (but not books and 
printed matter) of almost every de- 
scription up to II pounds in weigt 
and measuring as much as six feet in 
length and girth combined except 
those calculated to do injury to the 
mails in transit, may be mailed at any 
postoffice for delivery to any address 
in the country. 
Delivery will be made to the homes 
of people living on rural and star 
routes as well as those living in cities 
and towns where there is delivery by 
carrier. 
Where there is at present no deliv- 
ery by carrier the parcels will go to 
the postoffice as is the case with ordi- 
nary mail. 
The postage rate for the first zone 
—that is, within distance not exceed- 
ing 50 miles—will be five cents for the 
first pound and three cents for each 
additional pound. ‘The rates increase 
for each successive one of the eight 
zones into which the country is divi- 
ded, the maximum rate being 12 
cents a pound, which will carry a par- 
cel across the continent, or even to 
Alaska and the Philippines. 
For a fee of 10 cents a parcel may 
be insured and if the parcel is lost in 
the mails an indemnity to the amount 
of its value not to exceed $50 will be 
paid. 
The law provides for the use of dis- 
tinctive postage stamps and there is 
now being distributed to postmasters 
for use in the parcels post system a 
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Hub-Mark Rubbers are made in all styles and for all purposes. 
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MEMORIAL TO HAWTHORNE. 
His Genrus Recocnizep In Firrrne 
MANNER. 
The Hawthorne Memorial Associa- 
tion has become incorporated in Sa- 
lem, for the purpose, “of the erection 
or establishment and maintenance of 
a memorial to Nathaniel Hawthorne 
in the city of Salem, Massachusetts.” 
The situation is set forth in a care- 
fully prepared and finely printed cir- 
cular-letter to be sent out to those, 
at home and abroad, who will take 
an appreciative and helpful interest in 
the matter. A fine reproduction of 
one of the best of the Hawthorne por- 
traits and a photograph of a sketch- 
model of the figure for the memorial 
make the circular well worth preser- 
vation. 
The Association has selected as its 
artists, Bela L. Pratt, Sculptor; and 
R. Clipston Sturgis, Architect, both of 
Boston. Mr. Pratt’s design is de- 
scribed in his own words: “In de- | 
signing the portrait figure of Nathan- ~ 
iel Hawthorne I have kept in mind 
the great genius isolated by conditions 
and his own brooding spirit from those 
about him. It was his habit when in 
Salem to walk alone by the sea and | 
to sit for hours looking across the 
water. It is thus that I have chosen 
to portray him, sitting on the rocks by 
the sea. The architectural suround- 
ings will be in harmony with this idea, 
which I shall endeavor to develop fur- 
ther in making the full-size statue.” 
Mr. Pratt has recently produced, in 
the clay, a full-sized development of | 
his idea. ‘The work is of heroic size, - 
full of dignity and of a quiet but — 
intense personality, absorbing in in- 
terest, and satisfying. 
The location of the completed me- - 
morial has not yet been determined. 
The site most favored, if necessary 
assent can be obtained, is upon the 
westerly edge of Salem Covmon, 
facing the Brown Street approach, not 
far from the Mall Street house in 
which Hawthorne wrote, “The Scar- 
let Letter.” The estimated expense 
will not exceed Fifty Thousand Dol- 
lars. 
Those interested may get full in- 
formation and literature by address- 
ing Harlan P. Kelsey, Secretary, The 
Hawthorne Memorial Association, 
Salem, Mass., and contributions should 
be made in the name of the Haw- 
thorne Memorial Association, and 
sent as above. 
set of stamps of 12 denominations. 
Parcels post maps, with accompanying 
guides, are to be sold to the public at 
their cost, 75 cents, through the chief 
clerk of the postoffice department. 
