Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-17
WOMEN DOOMED.
10 the Various Government Depart
ments at Washington.
NEW CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS
Fatal to Their empIoyment-Their Bicker.
ines and Jealousies the Source of
fexatious Trouble to Their
Friends and Officials.

in the Government Offices here. The i'm
preston has somehow gained ground
among them that the new civil service reg
ulations will be retroactive, and that the
Republican party wishes to unload this
woman feature Of the service before an in
vestigating Congress gets hold Of it.
In such cases q woman does not reason
from her fears, and the several girls Of the
Treasury Department that have talked
with betray the general feeling, which is
that the employment Of
Women In the Government Service In
Doomed.
Sometimes their womanly instincts are
unerring, ae most of us have had occasion
to know at times, and it is just possible
that they have seized upon fact that ISM t
quite plain to anybody else.
There are great many estimable and
modest women in the department here.
Nobody can or does deny il. But the em.
ployment of women, looked at merely as q
system, has developed whole catalogue OF
minor iniquities and abuses which are un.
known and unsuspected in industrial CEN
tres, where politics and favoritism have no
association with female employment, and
the Republican party, or at least the wise
heads of it, would not regret it if
women were rigidly excluded from the
possibility Of Obtaining government posi-
tions.
A Frail Tenure.
Then there is another trouble, which 1t
was thought would disappear with time and
as the employees got sifted out, but which
has steadily grown worse and worse. And
this trouble has grown out Of the unfor-
tunate fact hat the women all owe their
positions TO favoritsm and to the power OF
political influence.
They have shown very steadily that
they believe that the power which gained
their appointment can keep il secure in
spite Of their conduct. Although this is
only true in a sense, it is very generally
acted upon.
There is not factory or workshop in the
world where the
Female Operatives
cause such an endless series OF little troub.
les as do the women in these departments.
They are excessively jealous Of each other
and there is scarcely one in twenty that
has not some private grievance. Each oue
is eaten up with the fear that her neighbor
has got more influence than she has-that
is to say, has more powerful friend at
i u,a,lsparterS. Each one is oppressed with
the belief that she uas W dOrnore than any.
body else, and the complaints, gossip md
scandal that grow out of this condition OF
affairs are simply dreadful.
Pretty Girls.
The girls who are good looking are con.
stantly taunted with it. They watch eacn
other tirelessly.
Some of the members who were unfor.
tunate enough to obtain places for appli.
cants suffer for il when they come TO Wash.
ington. They have to pay the double price
of suspicion and annoyance. The girls
poster them with complaints, follow them
to the hotels and to the Capitol and write
them notes. To espouse their trouble is
simply to make fool of ones self, and in
cot assisted n uwhep the raaRRRoliisaRRts Rfs
upon another 1:.rs ohsra0tsr she charged
her patron with that kind o. biIue and
disappointment that happen TO know was
| most unjust.
Had these women been selected with ref.
e.ence only to
Character and Fitness
| by competent board of examiners who
did not care to know or even see them
personally, the result would have been diff.
iereI. AS il is, there are scores Of women
| in tie departments who owe their ap.
poinrnents to their good looks, and they
I are MT ashamed to have it known.
Tka'the civil service reform will strike
squareY at this branch Of the evil in
Washington there can be no doubt. Wo.
men VII be appointed independent OF
their PERSONAL attractions and influence,
and if tie reform should erectually sepa-
rate the female employees from politics,
one OF thai ost subtle and pernicious OF
the manyevils OF tho Republican misrule
| in the caplal will be abOli he'd.
The Presidents Departure.
WAsHTNoTH, July 1.-THE date Of the
| Presidents rsparture from Washington on
! the trip to te yellow Stone Park is not
| yet fixed. 1t seems settled, however, that
| he will leave sere August !. and will At
tend the open1g of the Louisville exposi
ton before goig further West.
No Change /, UnifOrms nj Present.
WASHINGTON. yuly l6.-Rear Admiral
| Nichols, Acting Scretary of the Navy, has
| issued ipstructo& that the regulations for
| a change in the Uiiforms of naval officers
will noe COIN Hfect until the depart
ment so orders
Secretary LincCA returned 10 Washing
| ton this morning..