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SUNDAY MORNING
Work for Vricle Sam
A*" In the city of
Washington, standing at the
M intersection of Pennsylvania
and Now York avenues and
Fifteenth street, any morning ex
cept on legal holidays, between
8:30 and 9 o'clock will observe *
great many thousand people .emerging
from numerous congested trolley cars
and rushing hither and thither into
this and that public building near by.
If he should ask about them' he
would be informed that they are all
government clerks employed: in the
various departments In the vicinity.
They live, many of them, asi far awsy
as Baltimore, others have houses or
One of the Census Girls.
farms scattered through the pictur
esque Maryland hills, while yet others
seek pastoral seclusions beyond
the historic Potomac in the rolling
uplands of Virginia. Chevy Chase,
the suburb that. Cleveland made fa
mous, contributes its generous quota
of government clerks.
The hour of nine Is signaled by
the hoisting of the star Sand stripes,
which are run up over all government
buildings, a token to the Initiated that
the United States government has
begun its dally routine of clerical
duties, and the administration of
official business.
Like nay private enterprise, the
government Is obliged to conduct its
affairs on a systematic basis. It is
not all politic*, nor congressional leg
islation, nor appointments abroad.
The enormous mass of work that Is
done dally consists mainly of the kind
that Is done in tho great commercial
houses.
To do this the government clerk is
appointed, either through influence
or from the civil service eligible list.
Nearly 20,000 clerks aro necessary, it
would seem, to do the clerical work
of the government In the departments
at Washington. The work cannot be
described with accuracy. It compre
hends every system of office work
known to civilised man, and a few
systems known only to barbarians.
The individual clerk Is representa
tive of the class. In a short time
he has learned to keep his mouth
shut upon all topics political, and ho
has little to say about anything af
fecting the service as a whole.
He will brag about the work of his
desk and work himself into a state
of pacific frenzy when promotions are
in order, but apart from this he is a
very lackadaisical follow, noted
chiefly for his languid listlessness
whenever he walks along the street
or Is not rushing to get to his office
in time.
The subject of ‘‘promotion" Is an
endless source of conversation. It
bobs Into every question up for dis
cussion no matter how remotely from
it the main proposition began. Hand
in hand with the topic ‘‘promotion”
goes ttiat. of "influence.”
There was a time, long ago, say in
the seventies or early eighties, when
the word "promotion" was synony
mous with “influence.” The relation
to-day, superficially, is very distant,
hut if investigation could be had, It
would be discovered that the words
are still united in a secret and power
ful alliance.
Under such conditions it is scarce
ly to be wondered that the clerks
resort to all manner of subterfuges
to keep their names on the payrolls
of the United States. Between pay
days they contrive to do their work,
whlift in most Instances Is little
enough, and on the first and fifteenth
Government Clerk in Action.
of every month they lino up outside
the disbursing officer's room and
await their turn at the loot. .
This is the lime when you see the
government clerk with a smile spread
over his dull countenance. At other
times he bemoans his fate—but
would not exchange his position for
the same money in civil life, because
he knows what it means—three hours
more every day. and work twice as
great, without the long summer vaca
tion or the month's sick leave with
pay in case of illness.
The government clerk Is of all
aorts and conditions, just as his pro-
totype in the commercial world, but
after he has been In the service for
a number of years there attaches to
him a peculiar characteristic which
you find nowhere else in men.
His facial expression assumes a
weariness, his clothes, his shoes, his
hats a slouchlness which is unwar
ranted In the light of his occupation.
His whole nature seems blighted, and
as one with some Incurable ailment,
he measures off the years with stoic
indifference, being content to slouch
along if the powers that he will but
permit him to drag his lengthening
chain until the day shall come when
his compatriots in office may gaze at
his vacant desk and suggest that he
worked himself to death ju3t like a
‘government drudge.”
The women clerks, or as they pre
fer to be called, “lady” clerks, dress
well, and in many cases, elaborately.
They are different from the rest of
womankind, and the longer they re
main in the public service tho more
unique they become.
They, that Is the large majority of
them, aro presumptuous, impudent
and supercilious. Forgetting the
causes which gave them their posi
tions, they indignantly wonder why
Washington official society declines to
accept them.
The gulf between them and “soci
ety” is the same as that between capi
tal and labor—both have their proper
stations in the community, but the
“lady clerk” forgets that oil will not
mix with water.
Among these clerks there is the
eternal striving after the unattainable,
the continuous effort to produce
impressions that, must vanish as tho
breath from a mirror. This leads to
interminable contests in dress, finery
of all kinds, and prolonged debates
upon the topic, "My influence.”
Women usually get Into office
either by reason of their pretty faces
or engaging manners. There Is a
goodly contingent of widows who have
been given places In the public ser
vice because their husbands nave
met death while engaged in military
or naval operations or duties. Com
paratively a very small percentage of
the women in office have obtained
“Pay Day.”
their places on competitive exatnlna
tion under the civil service.
All in all, these clerks, female and
male, regulars and contemporaries
are accomplished and similar in on
respect—they know how to kill time
during office hours, and that time is
killed not by doing government work.
The Law of Recapitulation.
The baby epitomizes in the four ot
five years before he grows into a
normal child the whole history of the
human race and is therefore an in
teresting object of anthropological
study.
Before ho is born he passes through
a stage in which he is a fish with gill
slits, then through the dog stage,
then through the monkey stage, in
which he has a perfectly apparent
tail. After his birth he represents
man in his rudest stage, speechless
and without a glimmer of intelligence.
Then he passes through the stone
age, through all the phases of the de
velopment of the barbaric man, until
at last he reaches the upper plane .of
civilization. Biologists call this the
law of recapitulation.
How Two Minks Caught a Big Bass.
While standing on the iron bridge
that spans Salmon River below Lees
ville dam, Charles P. Murkett wit
nessed a novel sight Sunday after
noon. Two large minks suddenly
dived down and soon regained the
surface with a good-sized bass they
had caught. One had it by the head,
the other by the tail, and together
they hauled it ashore, where they en
joyed a full meal. It is a well known
fact that mink are deadly enemies of
trout, but it is seldom they are
caught in the act of fishing,—Hart
ford Courant.
A Natural Curiosity.
It is not to be wondered at that
a pearl necklace “collected by a de
ceased nobleman" sold in London for
SIIO,OOO. The thought of a deceased
nobleman wandering about collecting
jewels lends a vivacious interest to
the most ordinary transaction and
completely disposes of the theory that
our period of usefulness ceases with
death. Perhaps we should dispute the
story had we not read it in a Sab
bath newspaper—that vast repository
of useful and diverting knowledge.
Criticised Reed’s Methods.
William M. Evarts once met Thom
as B. Reed in the Capitol at Wash
ington, and said to him: “Mr. Speak
er, 1 half suspect that vftu believe
a deliberate body is like a woman
—if. it deliberates it lost”
A CHILD OF THE WOODS.
He knew the first sweet wood note of
the thrush,
x’he first pale wind-flower hidden In the
(trass;
The little shrines where fireflies saying
mass
Swing low their censers through the
marshland's bush;
The quickened sound before the poignant
hush
Which preludes charges at old earth’s
cuirass—
Illinois Child Laborers
The last report of the Illinois fac
tory inspectors is Instructive rather
than reassuring. It appears that the
number of children at work In Illi
nois is now about 19,000. This means
an increase of 100 per cent over the
figures of five years ago. By a “child”
is understood any person under 1G
years of age. The law protects the
child until he is 14. The factory in
spector's figures are concerned, there
fore, with children between 14 and
IG. The number of such children who
go to work instead of keeping at
school is proved by the report to be
For the Eight-Hour Day
George E. McNeill of Boston, known
from one end of this country to the
other as the father of the eight-hour
movement, has been chosen by Gov.
Crane as the labor representative on
the Massachusetts commission au
thorized by the recent legislature to
urge upon all the other states in the
country the adoption of uniform eight
hour laws The commission is to con
sist of five members and its duties
aro to “examine the subject and pro-
Strikes ir\ the United States.
“Fools do not strike,” remarks Car
roll D. Wright, national labor commis
sioner, in the North American Re
view. “It is only men who have In
telligence enough to recognize their
condition that make use of this last
resort.” He advocates boards of arbi
tration based on the successful ones
in openation in Great. Britain. Labor
conflicts, in his opinion, grow out of
increased intelligence. The strike per
Meant to Deceive Workingmen
The I-os Angeles, Cal., County Coun
cil of Labor has issued a circular
which says: "Advertisements are be
ing run in hundreds of eastern news
papers for the purpose of inducing
carpenters, bench hands, milimen, ma
chine men, lathers, plasterers, hodcar
riers, and, in fact, mechanics of all
kinds, to come to Los Angeles, where
they are promised steady work at big
pay. In conjunction with these adver-
Houscs for Employes
The Carmichaels Weaving & Spin
ning company of France, with their
central office in Paris, employ some
2,000 people, of which 80 are men, 600
women and 600 children. In order to
provide healthy and economical homes
for their people they have constructed
an industrial colony, comprising nine
ty-three houses. The houses, exclu
sive of the land, cost about S6OO each.
They contain a dining room, throe
Sacredness of Property
We contend for the sacredness of
property and property rights. Prop
erty is, and should be held, sacred.
Property rights are Inherent. But
we must recognize the fact that the
claim of sacredness becomes a per
nicious absurdity unless we restrict
our claims to actual property, id ost.,
real, produced wealth, and unless we
Not a.n Unmixed Evil
The fight against the consolidation
of railroads and other large interests
seems to be about as effectual as an
attempted trip up Niagara falls in a
llatboat would be. The merging of
all similar productive and other ener
gies under one management must
eventually bring about the complete
organization of those engaged therein.
Disproving a. Theory
To those who believe that labor
unions are organized for the sole pur
pose of forcing strikes, the recent de
velopments in Chicago tell an inter
esting story. The strike epidemic,
which seems to have struck that city,
was confined almost entirely to unor
ganized workers, or to those who had
Strike Wins Nine-Hour Day.
The nine-hour day was wen by the
metal polishers, buffers, platers, brass
molders and brass finishers of Cleve
land, O. Eighteen manufacturing con
cerns gave in to the demand. The
settlement made by President E. J.
Lynch was ratified in a meeting which
was attended by 750 members. Some
Stove Mounters Elect Officers.
At the ninth annual convention of
the Stove Mounters' International
Union in Allegheny, Pa., the following
officers were elected: President, J.
F. Tierney. Detroit; first vice-presi
dent. Alan Studholme. Hamilton, Ont.;
second vice-president, Charles Edin-
May Build a. "Home”
The recent convention of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
decided to submit to referendum vote
of the members a proposition for the
payment of a death benefit. It also
appointed a committee on a bookbind
ers’ "home'' patterned after the print-
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
That magic moment when tho seasons
pass
And all live things a newer promise rusn.
He loved the bobolink's familiar call.
The friendly clover nodding to the bees;
The tiger-lilies flaunting, gay and tall.
Their motley coats of spotted harmonies;
And when the night lay on the forest
grim,
He heard the tree-tops croon a song for
him.
—Charlotte Becker, in Outing.
growing larger. That such a tendency
Is desirable no one will now try to
maintain. The boy or girl under 16
has not yet had either the mental or
the physical development which the
stress of modern industrial conditions
demands. Now and then it may be
well for the boy to go to work early.
In most cases, however, as Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley and all other persons who
have given the subject their atten
tion are willing to testify, early work
means reduced vitality and impaired
efficiency. Child labor is a waste as
well as a crime.
mote the object and interests of the
working classes, and endeavor to pro
mote the uniformity of legislation,
maklt-g eight hours a legal day's labor
throughout the United States.” Just
how the eommisslon will accomplish
its objects is not known, but consid
erable literature will undoubtedly be
circulated in other states in an en
deavor to reduce working time to
eight hour3 a day for all classes of
labor.
iod in Industry is one of development,
and “when laborers shall have ac
commodated themselves to the new
conditions and when employers shall
have recognized the Increased intelli
gence of their employes, these mat
ters will be handled in such a way as
to prevent in the future a repetition
of incidents like those which are
chronicled in the statistical history of
the strikes of the last 20 years.”
tisements, circular letters are being
seat broadcast, in the holies of getting
men to come here in order to disrupt
the unions of this city and to break a
strike which is being waged against
several planing mills. The advertise
ments and circulars being sent out by
the Employers' association are full of
lies and misrepresentations. Do not be
deceived by these enemies of the
workingmen.
bed rooms, an attic, a cellar, and, in
the court, water closets and a wood
shed. The houses rent for 35 cents a
week. About 600 persons occupy these
houses, and of this number 400 work
in the factory. The occupiers are
asked to observe the regulations con
cerning cleanliness and hygiene. A
sanitarium receives any family where
a member is sick with a contagious
disease.
have come into possession of it by
natural and just methods that deny to
no other man his just and sacred claim
to the property which he has pro
duced, Mere legality does not always
establish the moral right, and onl;-
the moral right is sacred. —St. Louis
Finance.
Such a condition will give stability to
wages and permit the workers to
know about how much a day’s work
will purchase. Wages will become
uniform as the wage-earners wiil in
seJMefense be compelled to organize
as solidly as the trusts and act in har
mony and unity on wages and condi
tions affecting themselves.
but recently formed unions and had
little or no experience in union affairs.
Gas workers, rubber workers, glove
makers, iron workers and others who
struck had practically no organization,
while the strong unions that forced
recognition from the employers arc
working along harmoniously.
of these concerns are the largest
plumbing supply houses in the United
States, and the president thinks it now
an easy matter to establish' the nine
hour work day in all similar plants
throughout the country as a conse
quence of great victory in the
Ohio city.
ger. Dover. N. J.; third vice-president,
H. J. Ragon. Atlanta. Ga.; fourth vice
president. Louis Volkert, St. Louis;
secretary-traesurer. J. H. Kaefer, De
troit. The next convention will be
held at Indianapolis, Ind.. beginning
the second Tuesday in July, 1903.
ers’ home at Colorado Springs. Al
ready $20,000 has been subscribed for
the project. It is likely the institution
will be situated at Colorado Springs.
E. W. Tatum was re-elected interna
tional president. The order is in s
j flourishing condition.
Newport in Summer
_ NEWPORT has put on her gar
ments of gladness for her
D summer of roses and wine.
There is an exhilaration about
Newport in summer which is
found nowhere else. Besides the
brightness of the sparkling ever
flashing sea, the blueness of the sky
3hot with sunlight, “like a great vault
of lapis lazuli flecked with gold,” and
the air mingled with the breaths of
ocean and green fields, to inhale which
13 like drinking a very dry cham
pagne. there is the greater exhilara
tion of thousands of people all bent
on having a good time and doing it
on a grand and generous scale, regard
less of expense.
The only Newport society the great
world knows is the rich society of the
summer. It is a most difficult one to
“arrive” in. Many folk, after spend
ing any amount of money, have given
up the attempt after a few seasons
and gone elsewhere to spend their
summers. The favorite entrance into
its inner circles for those who are
not born there is by way of London,
but even that path is not so sure of
leading to the goal as it used to be.
The coiony is divided into strata. En
trance into the higher one depends
for one thing upon how long a family
has made Newport its summer home.
Newport ceased to exist as a great
commercial port with tae revolution
ary war. Then, in the ‘4o‘s, the
wealthy southerns discovered it and
each summer saw them assembled
there in force with their best of every
thing in clothing and slaves. horse3
and carriages. A great deal of dig
nity and not a little magnificence In
its way attached to the “afo’ de wah”
society of the south which used to
assemble in Newport. The predom
inating society of the place always has
been given to doing things on a grand
scale—there is something in the air
and his guests ate heartily and drank
— z-
Goclet Palace at Newport.
heavily, after the manner of those
times, while the burning house was
the torch which lighted their revels.
Such tales as this and stories of the
French occupation during the war of
the revolution are dear to the hearts
of the eldest old society of Newport.
They like to tell of tho Quaker maiden
who fell in love at first sight with
Rochambeau and threw a rose at his
feet as he passed down over the hill
riding with Washington. The ghost
of the maideu. dust and ashes so
and the sunshine “tangled in the
fringes of the sea” which miflvcs one
want to glow and glitter as much as
he can.
Even that old colonial society, the
laded remnants of which are now so
lusterless and prim, was gaudy and
brilliant in its day. Could any feast
of the old slave-holding aristocracy,
or of their successors, the "captains
of industry,” exceed in the free mag
nificence of its setting forth the din
ner given by old Col. GeofTrey Mai
tione at his neat of Maibone Hail?
When the tables were spread and the
guests assembled the house was dis
covered to be on fire. The doughty
old colonel ordered the tables to be
removed to the lawn, and there he
many years, still haunts one of the
Newport houses. Bret llarte makes
her spirit come back as a "faint sweet
odiSr of mignonette"; but the older
story is that of a rose.
Harte wrote his "Newport Legend”
The Lorillard Residence.
in the Bonaparte house, over toward
the fort, a house he occupied for a
time and a house filled with many
fancies. Here used to come some
times Betsy Patterson, wife of Jerome,
king of Westphalia, a poor, shriveled
old woman in her latter years, but
with eyes from which upon occasions
would flash out a glance of that spirit
with which, in the pride of her ma
jestic beauty, she played at the game
of empire with kings and emperors.
Every year the summer Newport
becomes more artistic as regards its
houses and its grounds. The archi
tectural monstrosities which were
perpetrated for rich men in the ‘6o‘s
and ’7o‘s in all parts of the country
have their representatives at New
port, but the millionaire of to-day
knows a thing or two about art and
architecture and is able to pick out a
competent architect to construct his
villa.
Of late the Newport colony ha3
been going in for landscape gardening,
Italian gardens and such adjunct to
their villas. And this is a good sign,
and excellent sign, a sign of the ap
preciation of the beautiful. Some of
these! Italian gardens are elaborate
affair.s, costing so much money that
an ordinary family would consider it-
Malbone Hall.
self rich if it possessed it. The gar
den of Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss —a
beautiful thing of the kind —cost $60,-
000, and there are others scattered
i about among the villas which prob
ably cost as much.
Certain it is with luxurious mag
: nifieence which recalls the days when
; the wealthy Romans tad their villas
I along the shores ef tho bay of Naples
; that many of these rich people live
here in the season in which they
i make the place their home. Great
j rooms, glorious with all that the dec-
I orator’s art can the artist’s
! brush accomplish and tho architect's
i brain plan, form the interior of houses
many of which have not their equal
in the country. The “Newport cot
tage" of other days has evolved into
the palace by the sea and the owner
has embellished it in many cases at
the expense of his city house.
Newport has a charm about it which
wooes one and makes him feel at
home —even in a palace. Though the
average member of the summer col
ony does not arrive before the first of
•Tilly and takes his departure the let
ter end of September, still he likes
to think of himself as a resident of
Newport going for his annual visit to
the “springs” of Virginia, the “season”
in town and the annual trip to Eu
rope; to return “home” again to the
shores of the Narragansett when
these “functions” are over.
HE REFUSED TO ENTER.
Good Example of the Colored Man’s
Fondness for Long Words.
A good story teller had been in
town for a few days, though few of
the thousands of people who saw him
had the privilege of talking with him.
Lew Sells, whose circus last week de
lighted Brooklynites, has been travel
ing ovor the United States for thirty
years, and more, with occasional side
trips to Australia, down into iitxico
and through various parts of Canada.
Mr. Sells is a keen observer and has
a wonderful memory. He had stored
up many of the queer and amusing
sayings and situations that have fallen
to his lot, and those of his friends
who have heard some of them know
how amusing they are when Mr. Sells
relates them.
Mr. Sell’s greatest pleasure comes
from the South. He finds an unfail
ing source of amusemeftt in the real
southern negro, and as soon as the
circus gets into the southern country
he prepares to lay up anew store of
stories. At Albany, Ga., one day a
;ro peeked around the corner en
trance and said;
"How much to get in, boss?”
"Two*dollars,” said Mr. Sells, with
out hesitation.
The negro looked at the ground for
a moment. “1 refuse to enter on
such terms,” he said, and disap
peared.—Broqjtlyn Eagle.
Reindeer as Food.
It is stated that an attempt is be
ing made by some enterprising Nor
wegians to popularize reindeer flesh
as an article of diet in Europe. The
experiment of raising the animals in
large numbers for slaughtering pur
poses will be fairly tried. They ex
pect to find profitable markets in
France and Belgium, and will even
endeavor to induce beef-eating Britons
to purchase the article.
Birthplace of Cecil Rhodes.
A slab has been fixed to the front
of the house where Cecil Rhodes was
born at Bishop's Stortford, bearing
the inscription: “The Right Honora
ble Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rho
desia. was born in the room within,
July 5, 1853.”
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