Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-24
b ,pn the Ground Refusing TO Get
Tired.
KILL NEEDED IN THIS soRToF THING
her-Worked 0ficials---An Administration
that Burns the Midnight
Gas.
LATEST GOSSIP FROM THE CAPITAL.
Spaeinl 10 hs REGISTER.

khere is to be no cessation in the mad strug-
he for place. There was an idea prevalent
AmOug the cabinet people that the seekers
br place would get tired-out after q while
Ind go home leaving them to run things
Asithont annoyance Of this character. Taey
were right in their first assumption, but
IFrOug in their second. This is nation of
kbout sixty million people, and there seems
4 b be q growing suspicion that most of them
rant office. True to that theory of the
1 Pr sideut and bis advisers the first lot of
leekers for place have tired out and most
hem have gone home or going very soon;
j, alas, their places are being 6led by q
ald even more determined
There were lot of smart fellows who
bid not come with the FIRST rush, who said
0 themselves that they would do better to
Eait until the first ones had spent their
kreDg,h on the new administration and got
en- il pretty well worn out when they
}. uld come on as q sort of reserve
rce ard setting in sfresh would win the
,1rzss for which the first lot of people were
kroptendipg. Some of these were private
rnzens who wanted office. and some were
sCOugressmen who wanted places for some of
Ahsr friends And 1t Is the second installment,
NheIvserye force that Is now operating. Itis
s kssly amusing to the entirely uninterested
Assryer TO see the throng of anxious peo- |
L Eho run after the heads of departments
ID those who have the appointing power.
4 L usI require an immense amount of /.
& trence 10 FIJI one Of these positions. 1t is /
+. be eternal grind of talk about office; one
sonssnt fight or the part Of the appointing /
sosers tor selfprotection. They must be /
rE.icn,ly skillful TO parry every stroke !
Ia to meet every demand with some argu- /
nert o. stsrement Of course the War aud /
ka7y Department people are less disturbed |
'bY these matters Than the others, for, IS |
khey have very few places to give, they are !
|hrie troubled. The Treasury and Post. |
office Departments are most overrun with |
ofCe-seekers. An hour in the room of any |
ef these officials is as good as a circus. |
Gray headed and gray bearded men, who |
ought to know better, are in the scramble |
with the greatest gusto, plying argument |
that would be considered puerile IN their
Weakness in any other sort Of case. They |
sven resort to strstegem tO secure prece- |
ieDce in hearing rather than take their reg
usr turn In which they came into the room. |
TOa man who don want an office the specta- |
ele is not alone an amusing one, it is painful !
And when you think that these struggles !
Ne for places which pay, in most cases, less |
than two thousand dollars q year, in many
cases less than hundred dollars a month,
It becomes more so. 1t seems that there is
to be 10 cessation, however, for the new
Inc Of applicants seems as long and strong
IS that which preceded it.
OyerwOrked OmciaIs.
What ia the matter with Private Secre-
tsry LamontY your correspondent asked Of
gentleman who knew him and his habits
very well.
Simply OyerwOrk," he replied. Only
ths, He has been driven to death with
work the past two years. From the time
Mr. Cleyelsad became GoyernOr-eleCt OF
New York the scramble began, tor local
places at first, to be sure, but 1t was Just as
lad there as here. Then when he was nom
mated the field became more extended, aud
the strain on him and Mr.. Lamont, his Pri
7ste secretary, has been intense. The re-
suit is that Lamont, who is not q strong |
man physically, has broken down. he has
been pulled and hauled about by the poiri' |
cans, worked day and night aud talked
pretty near to death. Nobody outside the
ohuial ciscle knows the amount OF hard
HcIk .kese people are doing now. Why the
C,-.k, 90 The White House are on duty until
1:laiGh', cfen, and at it again BY half.
ISs, t'ght the next morning.
"As9 ia President Cleveland working
hard, too?
YES He is at work every night until
midnight"
Aud what time does he begin in the
nOrDiDgY'
He is called at halfpast seven, break
lasts at eight, and is at his desk at nine
sharp. thus getting in about fifteen hours
8 dsy with the brief intermissions be takes
for eating and q little exercise. de Is
sleeping, as you see from what have Just
told you, only about seven hours per day
PROBABLY less than that, for he is almost al
ways at his desk until midnight, and Is al
ways called at half past seven.
"Wil be be able to stand this sort oil
work.
Not very long. He will have to let up
on il pretty soon, or he will break down
lust as Lamont has done. Ii is only his
powerful physique and strong will poser
that have kept him up thus far.
Milk Diet for ConGressmsn.
Congressman Rankin, of Wisconsin, IS
setting an excellent example for bis fellow
members, and at the same time demon
grating the milk cure for that greatly
dreaded and prevalent malady, BaghEs
disease He was. il will be remembered,
very i'll last winter with this complaint, so
much so that his life VAS degPaired OF. Inc
physicians put him on an exclusive dfet OF
milk. and have permitted him to eat moth
else They sent him South, keeping h,n
from ;he date Of his attack until now, TitE
nothing else 10 sustain life but milk, and ne
has come back from the South looking snd
feeling greatly improved. Instead oil osins
unable 10 walk, as was the case three
months ago when he left for Georgia, ne
now n5ulates about town ana IN inc
Departments. taking his share OF the labor
in the distribution of offices for. his State
and greatly improved in every way; ne
has lost some fifty pounds Of flesh during
the three months. but as he stll weighs %,
he not feeling especially disturbed about about
the loss. He expects TO continue the uIA
diet, be says, for at least nine montns
longer, making up the full year, oy "nlGu
tine be expects to be pretty well again: nas -
improved appearance is great sarpriss s ~
Many who did not believe they would ever
Sc him alive again.