Brick House Goes By Mail

 BRICK HOUSE GOES BY MAIL

Uncle Sam’s Parcels Post Carries Complete Brick House to Chicago – St. Cloud Brick Yard Sent One Brick to be Put in Place in Building

Henry Hess & Son of St. Cloud, Minn., sent by parcel post this morning a brick of their manufacture to be used in building a brick house at the Coliseum, Chicago, during the Clay Products exposition which is to be held February 26 to March 8. This brick will be one of 25,000 sent by parcel post from every brickyard in the United States to be used in the construction of this house, which will be given away and re-erected after the exposition.

The idea was originated to test the merits of the parcel post system and it is certainly a novel one. A record will be kept of each brick from the time the brick is mailed until it is delivered in Chicago in order to see how speedily Uncle Sam can deliver a brick house by mail.

It is probable that Uncle Sam’s mail carriers in Chicago will not be overly enthusiastic for this method of delivery of a brick house. Other mail carriers throughout the country will watch the experiment with interest and fear and trembling.

At any rate St. Cloud will have a brick in the first brick house ever sent by mail. (Unknown St. Cloud newspaper, Thursday, February 27, 1913)