Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-04-02
General Buffers Sncers M Women


Why in the name or decent n spect for the
ieeings OF unaSSalabe women who are earning
bafdy enough for a respectable livelihood in
Cover nmeni departments In Washington should
Gen. Butler, whose own niece. a most esti-
mahe young lady, who resides in his house
mere, Is clerk In the Post ONCE DEPART
ment, got out OF his way TO sheer at women
clerks In the Treasury. which is no lower
IN 'he social grade as place OF employ
heht IMAM the Post Ofice: In endeavoring
70 prove by Simon's letter asking for an ap-
continent for Mrs. Oliver In the Treasury that
spaa liver meant TO marry her, Butler says.
SLeeilngy, THE Treasury Is not a school from
"a MN te senators graduate their wives and add
70 MA. the manageable women there all expect
member q, Stehhators He speaks OF Simon as q
was enonhe aie Saolnet and senator. which he
was, eniphasizing the unlikelibood Of a man
nioSeS ~ p sha having his intended wife en-
remember the Chrisiiancy case q Sc con,,g 70
MN, Gen. Butter remarks that can old q Nd aae
teaa ma man rgnu TAKE blooming young girl"
ow.n Shrewd as he is. this astute LAWYER Az
not seem TO see how the sheer told against his
Gent by emphasizing the antithesis furptshe6
by the conduct OF the two men, Christtancv
married the young girl he admired. the Treasury
and his Sehatorship 10 the contrary notwth-
standing. while Cameron used his influence TO
force the government 10 support the question:
able human plaything OF whom he was weary.
The allusfon 10 ''decrepit Old man" also was to
Can eron'S disadvantage. He recently celebrated
his s0th birthday, and Christiancy, according
TO his brief biography In the last Congressional
Directory, was born March IL, 1919, and so ID
now Only %, ana was three years younger when
he last married.
While IL is not true that all the marriageaole
women In the Treasury expect TO marry Sena-
tors, or 10 marry at all-for / know many vino
are young and attractive who prefer their indie.
pendence 10 selling themselves for home and
Support-it is true that the following men, as
highly placed politically and socially as ever
was Simon Cameron, have married ladies en-
ployed In the Treasury within the past dozen
years In lsG. or 1S6s Baron Won Havre, a geu-
uine German baron, OF wealth and position, then
charge d'ofdires OF the Belgian legation here,
married Miss Camilla Webb, a clerk In the
Office OF the comptroller OF the currency. q
handsome girl, OF superior mind and character,
and belonging to an excellent though pecunia-
member OF Congress- about seven years ago,
married lady employed In the Treasury, who,
when he became Postmaster General IN Grants
Cabibet, was among the cabinet ladies', and re-
ceived every possible attention. Senator Chris
tancy married a clerk OF the Treasury I'm 1876
Chamberiain-found their wives there; Judge
Brewster or Pennsylvania q man OF aristocratic
tastes, one OF the most prominent members Of
the bar OF the state, and, at one time, attorney
general Of Pennsylvania, married a Treasury
employe, whose father, Robert j. Walker, was
once secretary OF the Treasury. There are too
many widows. sisters and daughters OF men,
who once held the most honored no sitions in the
naIon. now tOiling In government departmental
10 ADMIT those who temporarily occupy the
PAGES once theirs, scoffing at them as a clasa
That IL is true that such persons as Agnes JenIa
and the Oliver easily obtain these places while
women or high principles can find no vacancy
/ In the departments when they apply for clerk.
SHIPS, is not so much to the discredit OF the
honorable women In government employ as OF
| the men like Gen. Buffers client, who have the
patronage.-l"Miss Grundy" IN Boston Herald.