Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-11
THE BELLIGERENT MISS SWEET
sketch Of the Chicago Pension Agent
How she Holds on 10 Her once he
Fight Made Cnder Hayes.

How she Holds on 10 Her q nice-Ihe
Fight Made Cnder HAYES.
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AsHINGTON, April mss Ada
Sweet. who is starting out 10 make a tight
with tba Commissie7ar If Pensiors he.
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Una most prominent gu the women olIce-
holders OF the country. She IS the only
woman who mas ever held so important
an s7.;a1 rosi-5o, Sba has bad cbarga
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go --1 t-sl'" @ASro' q iOf27o io' over
ten years, and Is about one-quarter
way through another term OF
four Years. Women have never risen 70
biz her grade 10 the CE5cial service than
I'd t0f postm4~te-s. n ss sweet obtained
ha- place through ar accidental comhi-
nation % circumstances. The salary Of
the pos fiou is "a u1r a yea. Her father
was "a -allan' officer during the war. He
died about 1873. Al he time Of his death
he had clar-e OF the pension Office az
Chicago. His daughter, Miss Ada
sweet. was his chic clerk Her father
hal tanrht her an Of the routine N the
office. Trere was a large family depend
cut upon the General a 5 he had no pri-
Xatp means. His death was sudden and
unexpa ID. The daughter. Who was then
about - years OF age. made the bold de-
termination 20 amply for her fathers pO-
sition. She understood fully All the de-
tails of the ofii .e and during the frequent
absences of her father she had alone d.
rected the affairs Of the Office. The friends
of Gen. Sweet rallied about her and
through their Influence President Grant
mad her Pension Agent.
Miss Sweet is a tall. straight, 1.-THE
figured blonde. she has a clear-cu-. in
tel4crual face. Her forehead is narrow
and high. Her eyes are a clear gray
blue. Her nose is straight. Her mouth
is fun and firm. Her hair is a reddish
brown brushed over back so as to show
the ou' line OF her head and terminating
in a graceful coil at the uape Of her neck.
Her position and eXD rieuce have given
her an air of resolution and detarmina-
ton which are not common to women in
private life She is thoroughly refined
and ladv-likn. however, and has
mover assumed the airs or manners
Of sO-oailed str0ng-minded woman. She
dresses always plainl. and simply but in
accordance with prevailing fashion. She
is "A woman graceful and handsome
enough TO have made brilliant mar
ri8ge. But she has devoted herself TO the
family of chjldr left upon her hands by
the death Of her father. Her mother a
few years after the death of her father
became an invalid. During the last ten
years she has educated her brothers and
F sisters to the number Of four or five. Her
mother was killed a few years ago hv
being struck bv a train on the crossing of
the c. b and @. Road on the south side
/ of CHicapo.
Miss Sweet is we'll known in Washing.
ton. for when her first term expired near
+ ~ an of the politicians Of the State tried
TO get possession of the office. She came
/ here and made fight before President
HAYES. and triumphed over all of the
politicians with the exception Of Gen.
I John A. LOean. who was for her.
She showed that her management OF
the office was equal to that OF anv
other pension office i'm the country. She
asked no special favor on account of her
being a woman. She stood upon the
record Of her office. and on thar a lone was
reappointpd. She was continued bv Prasi-
d Mt Arthur. She has been summoned to
4 Washington once or twice when am.
bilious rivals have preferred charges
against her MANAGEMENT. But each time
she has disnospd Of them without any
trouble. The precedent Of Iadv's
having occupied this place being
established otbar Ia6ias have tripd