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CLERKS IN WASHINGTON
ARB WOMEN OUT OF PLACE IN
GOVERNMENT POSITIONS?
An Ungallant Crusade Against. Them
by a Chief of Division—He Says They
Are Jealous, Spiteful and Cranky—
The Women Lobbyists and Their
Influence.
(Copyrighted 1888.1
Washington, Dec. 29.—“ The girls al
ways treat me with respect, and they are
uniformly pleasant in their intercourse
with the clerks of the opposite sex. But,
Great Scott! you cannot imagine what a
crowd of Kilkenny cats they are when they
get together.”
The speaker was a chief of division in
one of the executive departments in this
city. “I don’t believe,” he continued, “that
women ought to be allowed to hold govern
ment positions. Why? Simply for the reason
that they are women and cannot forget
their sex even for a moment. The men
who sit at desks in the same room cannot do
any better work than the women, and I am
frank to confess that I wish some of them
could do as well as the ladies in my division
when they work. But the men never
waste any time looking over each other’s
work, finding fault, criticising, and saying
spiteful things, merely to be doing some
thing mean. The women do these things,
and it is useless to disguise the fact. They
are envious, jealous and hateful toward
each other.
grow**!'* drawls
Pray do not imagine that lam a woman
hater. 1 like them all, and I believe that
they sincerely like me, for I treat them
well and with all consideration and genteel
courtesy. But every day, and sometimes
every hour, some new story is brought to
me by one woman about another, and not
infrequently they assail the character and
reputation of their fellow-clerks in a most
reckless manner. I tell you, if any man in
this division were to speak concerning any
woman here as the women speak of each
other, that man would be shot down like a
dog for defamation of character, and the
jury would exonerate the big brother or
father who did the deed. It is perfectly ter
rible.
Then again, they are so positive and
cranky. There is a strong robust girl down
in that room who might readily make a
good living over a washtub, and never once
complain of a weak back. She is the pic
ture of health. She says that tobacco
smoke nearly kills her, and she can’t stay in
a room where it is. For years and years
some of my men have been accustomed to
having their pipes in their mouths and
their pens in their hands at the same time.
They need their smoke as much as a toper
needs histipple, or a hungry man his food.
This girl was sent into my division, ar and
she immediately raised a storm about the
tobacco smoke. I cautioned the men to
smoke only one at a time, and thus reduce
the amount of smoke in the room, at least
75 per cent.
That did not satisfy her. Any smoking
done within reach of her nose was sicken
ing. I felt sorry for her, and ordered that
there be no smoking during office hours.
Thereupon, to satisfy that one woman I
made evory man in my division condemn
me for a weakling and a putty woman. The
gentleme i could not work as well, nor as
contentedly without their smoke. It raised
more indignation than you can imagine. I
reasoned with the men that smoking is a
bad habit anyway, and not proper during
office hours; but they answered me that in
their perverted judgments the smoking was
all right, but it is all wrong to have women
in office with them.”
“But there are two men smoking now. I
thought you ordered it to be stopped.
ANOTHER COMPLAINT.
“So I did; but a young gentleman over in
the cancellation division commenced paying
attention to that obnoxious girl of this divi
sion, and she became very sweet on him.
He smokes during office hours in his divi
sion, and one dav I saw her around there
leaning on his desk and talking brightly
and smiling upon him, while he puffed vile
cigarette smoke in her face. She was
most merry and noisily happy while she
remained with him. She returned to her
desk in this room, went to work, and never
showed a sign of deadly illness from the
effects of her lover’s smoke. I ascertained
after office hours from the young man him
self that he frequently smoked two cigars
in her parlors after theater or supper in the
evening, and the told him that she enjoyed
the aroma of tobacco smoke. The next
morning I came into my office smoking a
good cigar, and finished it hern at my desk.
The men caught on, and soon the room was
hazy again with smoke from their pipes.
My precious miss came almost snorting with
rage to enter her protost with me, and I re
plied by informing her that the beet thing
sho couk’ possibly do was either to roeign
or seek al. ansfer to some other division. I
paid no more attention to her, and she has
never complained since. I believe that the
men were right when they protested
against having women in the office with
them, because of their extraordinary ca
prioes.”
“They play the sick game on me too often.
If a man is frequently absent, mid gives the
excuse of sickness, we soorn get tired of
that and tell him to brace up, or look else
where for employment. Hut, what can we
do with a sick woman 1 Of course, in cases
of genuine illness both men and women are
treated leniently anil kindly, but there are
so many shammers. The women come with
pale faces, and hollow eyes, or send notes,
saying they are III; end it is uot In my
provinoe to ask the cause of illness, nor
make any protest. They may have spout
tbs night ilancmg, theater going, or In a
thousand ways unnecessary to mention, but
that is their busiaee> and not nun-. If a
loan excites ttiy suajjicioii of too much
drinking, or other dissipation, It don’t do
for him to claim sickness as bis
excuse for neglecting bis work. Women
beet ms every time, their work is neglected
and others have it to do iu addition w tbetr
regular duties. It is wrong, but women
persist in it, until 1 tell you, 1 am tired of
having them in my division.”
"Aren't you rather severe in vour exclu
sion of all women from official employment?”
“Yes. but I think i am level-headed about
it. If I could select a hundred women, and
all of them were as faithful as little Mrs,
Worker there, or prim Miss Helpful over
there, I’d rather have them than men.
Those two women are worth at least five
average men, for the amount of work they
do in a year is simply wonderful. They,
however, are rare exceptions.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SMOKER.
“I used to employ women in a railroad
office. They were all good workers and
very faithful in their attendanca. There is
plenty of work for them to do which they
can do better than men, but a government
office spoils them. They dont care for their
chief, nor for the secretary himself. They
have congressmen and senators to keep
them in place with their ‘influence.’ and
i hey are spoiled by the touch of politics. That
is the main thing that ruins their efficiency.
I have had women throw down tbeir work,
leave the office and stay awav, without per
mission, days at a time. When they are
reported for dismissal, and deserving dis
missal, up comes a senator or representa
tive and makes excuses and promises in
their behalf, and‘all is forgiven.’ In the
case of men it is different, don’t you see? I
believe that the civil service will some day
be beyond the reach of the influence of con
gressmen. It is gradually coming to that.
When women find that they must depend
upon their work, instead of their ‘influence,’
they will make better clerks than men.
A GOOD PLACE TO AVOID.
There is another kind of working woman
in Washington who exerts an immense in
fluence on legislation. She is a lobbyist
and may be found in the ladies’ reception
room of the House of Representatives,
which has fallen into very bad repute lately.
Women of all degrees, save high degree,
congregate there, and the place is almost
notoriously bad. The room is a large corridor
and was not originally intended to bs used
for any purpose other than a public entrance
from the grand east stairway of the House.
But for the convenience of lady callers
upon members of congress, the place was
fitted up several years ago as a i eception
room. Huge leather-covered sofas and
chairs are placed along the walls and
behind the great marble pillars. A plain
table stands near the inner door, and there
sits a messenger who receives the cards of
the ladies who call.
Women make good lobbyists. They are
cheap laborers, too. A sharp, shrewd ad
venturess is often a \ aluable tool for a great
corporation or private enterprise which
seeks legislation before congre-s. She will
work hard and effectively, for a few suits
of elegant apparel and handsome apart
ments in a hotel, or superior boarding
house. Many an important bill has been
engineered through the House, and many a
bill has been defeated by these women.
They are dangerous, because unscrupulous
and often vile.
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During the present administration, and, I
believe, during a part of the Arthur admin
istration, there lived in the center of this
city, a large, handsome woman, who kept
a fashionable boarding house. She came
here apparently a poor woman, but fougd
the means to furnish a large house, rent
rooms, and give board. She had several
boarders, among whom were five or six
members of congress. Those congressmen
did as they pleased in her house, and no
questions were asked. They ran in debt
for their board, and the landlady did not
press them for a settlement. It was not
long before each of them was in debt to
this accomplished woman, deeply in debt.
Morever, they were all candidates for re
nomination and re-election, and their land
lady began to employ that very effective
weapon known as blackmaiL They were
completely at her mercy,ar.d were forced not
only to speak and vote for certain Pleasures,
but they were obliged to work like inter
rested parties, urging their fellow members
to permit the bills to pass.
The woman referred to is an exper
ienced lobbyist, and she never fails to get a
grip of steel upon several members of each
new congress, and when they are once in her
power, she uses them with rigorous, un
relenting will. She is a sample of the kind
of woman to be daily found in the ladies’
reception room of the house. There are
several like her and their moral skirts are
never too clean.
“What can Ido about it?” said a mes
senger who frequently receives cards at
that post and sends pages in to call out the
congressmen. “Of course, I know these
women. They come here so often and so
regularly that I know them, their habits,
their little gamee and all their plans. 1
know which men belong to them, and
which men scorn them. But what can I do?
None of them are boisterous, nor in any
manner unladylike; at least not to such a
degree as would warrant me in turning
them out, or ordering them to stay away. In
deed, 1 do not know hut that if I were to
object to them or act rudely or uncivilly
toward them, some fine morning I migbt
find myself out of a job, and another man
appointed in my place.”
“Do you suppose that those women can
influence apjiointments in that way ?” I in
quired.
“Well, I don’t know about that. Ido
know that I’d rather have their good will
than their bad will. They go in gangs, and
anyone who strikes one of them will bring
the whole crowd down on him. They don’t
make any threats, and are always smiiling
nnd polite; but they have claws beneath
their soft gloves. I’ve seen them purring
and cooing to members, when I knew, anil
the memlter knew, that one word of dlseent
would bring out their claws. Oh no, I
guess I’ll leave some man of more influence
than myself to fight this moral evil ami
purify the reoeptlon room. I can’t quarrel
with the bread and butter of my family;
not much.”
Not all ladies who visit the reception
room are bail. On the contrary, the wives
of senators anil rep snoutatives are occa
sionally seen there; but they belong to the
families of new members, and are soon
warned concerning the olaoe Then there
are real (alias residing here who call and
nonupy seats in the room for a tune, but
they seem as ignorant of their surrounding*
a* strangers would. There are many la
dies here who know as little of the uapitol
as though they had never been In Washing
lott Ui/oi*. They are eu in the reception
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1888.
room once in a while, but. if they become
frequent visitors, It does not take them long
to ascertain their surroundings, and they
avoid the place as though it were a pesti
lence. Smith D. Fry.
A ROMANCE IN AN ASYLUM.
How Two Lovers were Separated and
at Last United in Marriage.
From the Neu> York World.
There were no white slippers thrown to
hit the solemn old coachman, nor rice
sprinkled down the high collar of the
groom, but all the same it was a happy
wedding that carried off dark-eyed Rosa
Altman from the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, on Ninth avenue and
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street,
and made her Mrs. Cyrus Manser.
It had been a case of boy-and-girl love and
it was something remarkable under the cir
cumstances that the love of a 12-y ear
boy and an 12-year old girl should have
found enough to f6ed upon in stolen glances
now and then, and an occosioual letter that
ran every risk of being confiscated.
But love is a queer old faster and it throve
and grew fat on all the bad treatment.
Cyrus Manser was brought to the orphan
asylum when he was about 10 years old.
The boys’ asylum was then on Seveuty
seventh street, while the girls’ department
was several blocks further uptown. On
Saturdays and on holidavs the girls came
down to the headquarters of the boys and,
sitting in the chapel, boys and girls used to
shoot shy glances at one another, and now
and again got a chance for a
shy attempt at getting acquainted.
Then all of a sudden the superintend
ent, the Rev. Herman Barr, came
across a love letter, a passionate, 14-year
old girl love letter —all about how “If you
love me as I love you, no knife can cut our
love in two.” Naturally he was very much
disturbed, even, as he frankly confesses
now, angry. He brought up the culprit
lover and made him promise he would
never do so any more. Cyrus promised
fast enough, and took the very first oppor
tunity of getting word to Rosa how the
land lay, and she returned word to him that
it was “too bad, indeed it was!”
The two lovers were interesting children
and great pains were taken with their edu
cation. For a while they were together in
the one big asylum, and they flattered
themselves, if nobody else knew it, that
they were engaged. Then they were
separated. The young man went to Cleve
land as tutor in an asylum there, and the
girl was put into the Mount Kinai Training
School for Nurses, where she became the
most proficient nurse they had.
For a little while the lovers lost sight of
each other. Then they met again and be
came openly engaged. Their prospects im
proved more and more, until finally a posi
tion was offered to Cyrus and Rosa as
superintendent and matron of an orphan
asylum in San Francisco. That meant a
weddiug at last, and the offer was joyfully
accepted. A white wedding gown was
made, the directors and the patrons and all
the 560 little orphans were invited to the
chapel, and after service the ceremony was
performed.
Carl Schurz, when he was told that
pretty Rosa, who had been so successful as
trained nurse in his house, was married,
said be did not know the lucky man, but
that “if he were as good as his bride, mar
riage could not prove a failure.” This
week Mr. and Mrs. Manser are speediug
across the continent to California, and on
Jan. 1 they enter upon their new duties.
Moreover, 560 little orphaned hearts are
still thrilling at the romance which is the
first they ever knew.
DIMETHYLOXYQUIMZINI.
It Is Said to be Getting a Strong Hold
Upon Many Women of America.
From the Buffalo Courier.
If one-half of what the doctors are saying
all over the country is true, there may soon
bea greater need of a temperance reform
among the women than there ever has been
among the men. Strong drink, however, is
not the monster by which the women may
be enslaved, but a strong and poisonous
drug equally baneful in its effect.
This drug is antipyrine. The chemical
name for it is “dimothyloxyquimzini,” but
as it is rather long and might not be easily
pronounced by ladies who are not ortho
graphical experts, it has been called simply
antipyrine, and appears as such in the medi
cal books.
It is a white powder, slightly bitter, and
soluble in water. Until about a year ago
it was prescribed for fevers only, but a
French medical college recommended it for
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many thoughtless and nervous women.
In Chicago and many other places it is
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It produces different results under differ
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same time a loss of reflex action and death.
In moderate or tonic doses it often produces
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MUSIC andMAGAZINES,
IN Mawsi-F- PLAIN OR GILT EDGES.
Morning News Steam Printing Boose
Printing;, Lithographing and Binding,
HAVANNAH. - - CxA.
Corporations, (ifficiala, Merchants, and bus!
Dess men generally who require the very best
quality of work are invited to favor us with
(heir patronage. Our Account Books have Iwsn
used by the leading bouse* In the South for Ihe
poet twenty years, and have stood the test for
STHXKU IH, DUKAHI MTV AND WOOXSANSHIP. New
concern* can lie fitted out promptly at reason
able prices.with whatever supplies .they require
In oar Hue.
nr ALL ORDERS EXECUTED ON OUR
OWN PREMISES. _
THE BOOK FOR ■OOKKBBPERS.
II Will Open Out Perfectly Flat Prom Firs
to Last Page.
The Morxiko News Printing House la the
licensed manufacturer of
BRONSON H FLAT OPENING BLANK BOOKS.
(Adopted by the United Staten GovernmAit.)
There is no book made of equal strength. It
will open at any page and ramam perfectly flat.
There m no danger of the leave* becoming loose.
It la the only elastic binding designed to open
fiat that has anoeived tbs unqualified Indorse
ment of hoortrepsni as well as bookbinders.
Books ruled to any pattern, inode to any sins
and bound in any styl
We are making books for s number of firms
In this city and elHewbere, and will take pleas
ure In showing them to those interested.
THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING
HOUSE,
8 VS maker direct Harannah.
l. a. McCarthy,
-A-A lIAKNAKD STREET.
(Seder Knight* of PylMas’ Kalb.
| PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
[ VTEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY.
A. R. ALTMAYER A CO. '
ALTiYER’S
New Year's Greeting.
May trouble die with the old year,
And joys he born with the new,
May care and pain be banished.
And a blessing born to you.
TRIE TO OCR PROMISE.
On January 2d, 1888, we
inaugurated the system of
giving to our patrons weekly
bargains and sensational
drives from the many differ
ent departments which this
large house contains. Wo
stated on our mercantile honor
that during the year each
department in its turn would’
have a week of unparalleled
bargains. We have been true
to our promise, and our
patrons have been shrewd
enough to take advantage of
our offers. We cannot im
prove on this system other
than to cut the prices, if pos
sible, still lower, so will con
tinue it during the entire
year of 188!). Asa starter for
this week we offer unexcep
tional values from several of
our most important depart
ments.
A writer may aim at a description of the fol
lowing beautiful bargains, but hia word* will
fall (hurt of the mark. It la impossible to do
them justice by pen picture*. They must bo
seen to be appreciated. See them.
SILKS 99c.
Black Oros Grain Bilks, always sold by us for
fl 50; others sell the same gooila at $8 25; our
price* this week iK)c.
SILK PLUSHES 55c.
Another large invoice of beaut iful Silk Plushes
In all the very newest shades, price 55c. Quality
still better than last lot.
FANCY "VELVETS.
Our entire stock of Fancy Silk Velvet*, worth
from t- to $7, down to 80c. to 92 50. This Is tha
greatest cut iu Velvets w have ever known of.
DRESS LENGTH&
See our display of Combination Robes ia
Broughton street window. Note the prioes.
Some have been reduced from S2B 80. Now Is
the supreme opportunity for you to purchase a
Kobe at about half price.
REMNANTS
DRESS GOODS.
Center counter, main aJsle, replete with rem
nants of Dress Goods, In all colors, all quail tie*,
all price*. Don't miss this Remnant Sale.
MISSES’"SUITS 97a
Here we offer another of those rich oppor
tunities fur bargain-seeking customers In the
shape of 800 Miners’ and Children's Ready-
Made Tricot Suits, beautifully trimmed with
white braid, price U 70.; would tie cheap at 92.
Altmayer & Cos. know no
dull season. Their low prices
are “taking” from January
until December.
MILLINERY.
Great Scott! How the prices have bean
slaughtered here. Don't fail to pay this depart
ment a visit. Take elevator to second floor and
grasp a bonanza bargain in millinery.
BOYS’ CLOTHING
200 Boys’ Knee Pants, Corckscrew Suits,
broken sizes, regular price $2 80 down this
week to |l 28.
100 Boys" Knee Pant* Suita, In fancy mix*d
tweeds and solid*, siz-s 4 to 14, a regular 9$
suit, reduced this week to $3 50.
cloaksT 1
JACKETS, Etc.
Our f7 80 All-Wool Tailor-Made Jersey Jack
et* reduced this week to 95.
1 lot Ladies' Black Diagonal Short Wrap*,
astra-han trimmed, all size*, reduced for tola
week from $8 80 to 98.
A general cut in the prices throughout the
entire department this week.
BLANKETS.
Test the superb excel I-nee of these Blankets
by purchasing them while the prices ore “sway
down.”
1 case 10-4 White Blankets, strictly firsts, 85c.;
cheap at 91 25.
1 case 10-4 White Wool Blankets down to
$1 50; positively worth $2 50.
1 case II 1 White All-Wool Blankets, the
regular $6 kind, this week down to $4 50.
Fmr Great $8 Beil Comfort reduced, this week
only, to $2.
SHOES.
ladles' French Kid Hand Sewed Button Shoes,
a regular $5 shoe, down to $2 99.
1 Julies' French Kid. Machine-Sewed Button
Mhoes. a regular $4 shoe, down to $2 49.
Nothing equals these stylish and popular
shoes. We base long been trying to get them
down to “live and let live” rates, which our
wide awake customers require, ana now for Uw
first time thee- bright trade rnaksm ars offered
at popular progressive rates. We ars the
leasts. Regulators and Controllers of Lew
Puces lit t me Whoa* of all grades.
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ALTiYER’S
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