The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-07-01

the titles Of routes, the book Of Law AMI
Negotiations Of 1873 and you probably
have one corner Of what will be required
of you. The train / run cas- on does no
work Georgia, Florida, North Carolina o.
South Carolina OF present, but is liable e
at any change Of time tables and youmlst
know how TO do the work when the ordel
comes. You must learn the focal" o.
the line You are on, not few Of the ptin.
ciple offices but the 81 postotices and
their .dis," or I should more clearly ex-
press It the dis OF each. Then learn
them another way for examination. From
Baltimore to st. Dennis, from st. Dennis
TO Washington Junction. from Washing
ton Junction to Harper's Ferry from
st. Dennisto Washington, u. 10, from Wash
ington, d. O., to Washington Junction,
from Harper's Ferry to Shenandoah June.
ton, from shenando ah Junctionto Martins
burg, &C., &C., TO the end Of the route and
then learn the other routes. You must
know the moment you see piece for
Waterlick,. Va, that 1t Is in Warren
county, and must 80 the! Alex. and stras.
Railway Postottice between Riyerton and
Strasbnrg. The learning Of the local Ia
not considered anything by any except q
new man. It Is the work far away from
home that takes the unceasing study Of
years 10 overcome, and, during these
years you will all the time be aware that
numerous people are trying hard to get
your place. That each election sends men
10 Congress who must secure places for
their fieAds. That your name has fire.
quently been urged upon the department
as the one who ought to be removed TO
make room and your having been always
faithful and never found wanting Is the
one thing only that saves you. A man
starts in this service at eight hundred per
annum. After year or go, II successful
and his examinations show q per
centage above 9S or 90 correct,
that Is not more than ten or
twelve errors in every hundred Offices ex-
amined on, de may II deemed deserving
secure promotion to 500 per annum.
Some years later, II his examination con-
tinues good and he works faithfully he may
secure another promotion to thousand q
year. Each promotion is hard to get re-.
member that, and remember that promo
tons arc slow. The nature OF things make
itso. II cannot be otherwise. You can
see that yourself, as promotions are only
made when vacancies occur. The depart
ment cannot cripple itself to remove q
man whose efficiency has pushed him up,
10 please any one man who wants promo
ton then, to Offset his Ill feeling, are the
feelings OF the man who would DO re-
moved. Then the civil service law would
protect the removed man and add trouble.
The department is daily pressed by hun.
dreds Of people who want promotion and
places, aud daily pressed yearin and year
out, so the additional application OF
Mr.. Homsher or Mr.. anybody else,
does not affect the men whose
duty 1t is to receive and file the applica-
tons, and pass on them while the country
Is demanding from the same administra-
tiona prompt forwarding OF the mails.
Therefore, after mae, one man, is on
probation, he, the. one man, does not affect
The country and the country need not aud
does not care If he, the one man, this
small atom, this drop in the ocean as IL
were, Is promoted or not. This one man,
this speck Of humanity, who has begged
and begged and begged people to write
letters for him, who has intruded on &C.
quaintances, who has put himself under
obligations to his friends. who now holds
this Office, hard labor at sixty.six dollars
and sixty.six cents q month, is now an
object Of envy, and from some Of these
same friends from whom he begged
letters, he can now get only o
cold shoulder while he pleads with
them to aid him in securing pro-
motion TO one vacancy when thirty.four
other men feel that each one should have
1t, and, each one. Is busy as bee work.
Ing up his own case. Therefore, you see
promotions go slow. And again, when
once you secure government Office you
are no longer ablc to assist your political
friends during canvass, further than by
your vote, under the penalty Of some. of
tice-hungry man preieiring charges against
you, in the hope that he may. secure your
position Of 500 GO O month and work from
2 o'clock In the afternoon until 0 the next
morning. Remember the new man goes
on the night line and remember inen in
this service have to work hard and faith
iul, no sleep on duty. / would suggest
that you sit up few nights and see trains
Nos. 9 and II go by your station. You
can see Il 1.-THE men arc asleep, or at work.
These new 500 &C men cannot distribute
mail. They would roll up error1 against
the man who is responsible aud he, in
self defense. would ask that the new man
be put with some other crew. That
would be- a hard blow to the new man.
Then II errors accumulated against the
crew the now man was transferred to, the
doom OF the new man would be sealed,
no matter how good his examinations
were, as the department knows full well
that many school boys, as well as men,
can study and pass good examinations,
but have no executive ability whatever,
and only make trouble in their efforts to
do the work. Therefore, the new man
must do the other work. He must take
In the mail, no must pile 1t up-from 5 to
II tons; he must pull IL down from the
piles and drag It in to the table; he must
close up the bags as the distributors fiji
them, lie them up, drag them out and
pile them up again; he must learn how
to pile eacn bag, SO none are "missent."
The average weight Of bag Is one hun
bred pounds. he must drag these bags in
and lift them on the table, unite and
empty them and as much as possible "set
EN- up $50 they'll read" that is, face
them towards the distributor, and, at any
time he can possibly hurry his work up SO
he can have q minutes time, he must
sweep out the car, clean things up, &C., in
case visitors drop In, for all hands would
feel badly and trouble might follow II any
Sin authority" should drop in and the car
was in disorder. From 2 y. NJ. until the
next day he Is in constant strain both
mentally and physically. Should the
new man pull through and secure
permanent appointment, which a
certain percentage do, he will 60
through this for two, three or four
years until he reaches salary Of from S75
to SS4 q month, and will then say to him.
sell when arrayed in his sack cloth and
ashes, ali these years Of hard labor and
only q poor living while doing IL; one-hali
the study at anything else and ] would
now be Independent. Why was ] SO fool,
ise? Why did I run after this will o. the
wisp after I was warned2 Why did not