Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-08
WASHINGTON.
The Rush for Office Likely to Con-
tinus Through
The HOTTEST MONTHS OF SUMNER.
The Departments In a Hhri Of
Business - Demand for
Places Abroad.
LATEST GOSSIP AT the CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON. June The indications
are that the mad rush for office will 20
straight on through the hottest weather OF
the summer. The period which usually
finds Washington deserted village prom
ises to see it busy one this season. The
hotels which usually Begins to close up or
large curtail their business about this time
of the year are now full Of people, aud
their lo6bies are about the busiest places IN
the busy city. At the departments there
continues TO be perfect whrl OF BUSINESS
A lady who had occasion to call on Secre-
tary Lamar the other day talking to your
correspondent OF her experience, sand, /
had 10 wait the longest time to get an op-
portunity 10 see him at all. The doors
were closed and there was tremendous
crowd in the corridors waiting 10 see him.
had to take nv place with them and wait
After while the doors we're opened and
the crowd surged in. IL was such a rush
that it lust carried me along with the pack
of men all about me- When got inside l
stood and waited, | should think, nearly an
hour, perhaps more than that. At last be
happened to look in the direction IN which
stood, and he motioned 70 me to come up
10 his desk. ! did so, and handed him a
letter which i had for him. He took 1t
read II, made some memoranda on the back,
threw the envelope under the desk aud
dropped the letter in basket on the desk
in front of him and said: ~ will attend to
this matter, madame" That is all. There
is no telling bow lOHg | might have waited
there if he had not called me up before lis
tening 10 the talk of the others who were
waiting. They all wanted TO talk of Office,
nothing else To some Of them he listened;
some Of them be cut of pretty short. Some
of their papers be looked at; some he didn't.
But II was q terrible crowd | can tell you,
and good place 70 get away from.
There does not seem TO be any particular
diminu'ion of the demand for place. The
few who have been given their pie, were 50
few in proportion TO the large number de-
manding place, that they make little differ
ence in the aggregate, while the fact that
some other fellows have been fed makes
those still united the more rayenous. The
President has indicated disposition to stay
here sll summer and take care Of the hun
CRY as best he may, and Of course if he does
so, the Cabinet will have to stay too. So it
5eems that the mill is run steadily on until
the places are al filed, which Of course will
not be for many months yet.
There IS still great
Demand for Places Abroad.
Of course, the best of them have been
filed, but there are good many left that
are quite satisfying ifyou only know how to
Tk.-a a.N,,I uBhfnh
pay according to the fees collected, and in
some Of these the pay is very satisfactory.
To give the hungry an idea OF the value Of
some Of the these 'unsalaried' consulstes,
the pay which comes to the consul in the
way Of fees in few of them is given below.
Il may be an interesting hint to those who
are still anxious to serve their country in
foreign cEmes. Rheims, France, S2,375;
Brunswick, Germany, $500; Csrdenss,
Cuba, 3, 500; Annaberg Germany, $500;
Horgen, Switzerland, $500; Kehl Ger
many, $l922; Merida, Mexico, Sl,34l;
Barrauuuilla, Colombia, $4,000; Belleyille,
Ontario, 3, ,342; Breslss, Germany, 81, ,402;
Mayaguez, Porto Rico, 1922; Morris
burgh, Ontario, 81, ,396; Port Hope, Ontario,
81, ,967; Port Rowan, Ontario, Sl,276; Port
Stanley, Ontario, S2,5OOi Sagus La
Grade, Cuba, sl,729; Sorel, Que
bee, $l,236; St. Euenne, France
2,4OO; St. Hyaciuthe, Quebec, 22TT; Rouen,
France, LAO; RoubsiN, France, LOIS;
Post Limon, Costa Rica, l,l20; Santos,
Brazil, LIS; Sherbrooke, Quebec, $500;
Stockholm, Sweden, l,4O7; Three Rivers,
Quebec, 2,O36; Trinidad, British West
Indies, 2,4S3; Baracoa, Cuba, $500;
Carthsgena, Colombia, 1896; Catonin,
Italy. 1921; Curacao, Dutch West Indies,
1872; Deuia, Spain, $500; Elber6eld,
Germany, $500; Ghent, Belgium l, l46;
GotteDberg, Sweden, 1929; Guelph,
Ontario, $500; Chatham, Ontario, 1912;
Wallaeeburg, Ontario, 1000; Dunfermline,
Great British, $500; Dusseldorf Germany,
1872: Hull, Great Britain, 1890.