Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-05-11
PENSION OFFICE TALK.
Interesting Chat with the Special Exam
iner for the st. Louis District.


inor for the st. Louis District.
There is, perhaps, no department of
the Government that is doing so much
work with the same number of en-
ploycs as the Pension Department in
ST. Louis. There are undoubtedly sin
ocures to be found in many Govern
mental positions, but there are few, if
any, in the local pension service, and
local representatives say it is about tho
same elsewhere. Tho rush of work
that is distributed through the depart
ment in all parts of tine country, is
due to the innumcrablc old pension
cases now being investigated. Dir. S.
II. Bunday, the Special Pension Ex-
aminer for this district, in talking
upon the work, began by jocularly
saying:
Il had concluded that ] would re-
tire from the practice of medicine and
accept this office, where l imagined
that wouldn't have much else to do
than tho onerous and enervating work
of drawing n comfortable salary. But
it was all an idle dream, for il there is
any body on earth that is obcying that
scripturnl iniunction obout tho .swent
of the brow il is the officers of tho
pention department. have eighty cases
on hand mt present for my own indi-
yidunl investigation. and NV two as
sistants have fifty cases each, making
almost two hundred cases for this one
office to be looked up in limited time.
come into my office Mt eioht o'clock
n. M, and work unremittingly until
ten and eleven o'clock n M. every
day. NV two assistants. who take dem
ositions on cases in the countrv are so
crowded with work that tbcv ride in a
buopv oll dnv over all kinds of roodt
and do their WRITING in n countrv Store
or durino noon homr Mt n connt,v no.
tel. and utilize tin,e in this wov in nil
sorts of inconyeniont nloces and tbon
tired and weary they will n,oboblv ret
back Mt the office here Mt nine o'clock
Mt night. and are vet compelled TO
write ont blanks and ovidoncc and in
yestigote cases for two or three hours
lonper tell Won the work is pushing
and there are no rentlemen of eleaant
leisure holdinr soft positions around
this office. While clerks and chiefs of
other denortments ocnorallv leovo their
offices at five n. m. we remain here for
five ond six hours latern
"Whv This npremitting hurry and
nusb of worl, in vour ooicepr ,voa
asked
-,
office in The countrv that il nioccd in
exoctlv tho same condition as tho 81
Jouis ot,ioo - ronliod Exou,;ror RI
,Ioy "Ono rooson fortbo oroo, r,sh 90
work hare is tho manner in which ,ho
volunteers enlisted in St Louis Jur;ng
Tho war Thcro woro oro,t ,n,n1
Germans residing hare and all those
of tbc Union cause sont urg;na Iettors
TO their relatives in Germony osking
tbom to corn, 10 This c;tv and on,;st IN
the army This hrouohi bnndrods and
hundreds of foroicnors boro who an.
listed and noda aond solJ;ors Aftau
Tho war thov reIprnod IN 81 Iou;o
and now tho yitnossos for tho nansion
cosos oris;nr ononn, thoso corr,ans ,o'
side in tbis citv and vicinity and
whenever n nension claim is semi bore
from the Conmissio,or for srnorr;sion
the St Iomis Office is reomirod 70 tato
tho denosition of thnso w;,uossos
Tak;rm into corsidoration tho Ionao
numher of cases hoyo constnnti" % 81 81
band thoro IL n,ounta;, % 90 ' ,na",. In
other Offices thromgbont Tho comrtrr
tho Witnesses for nonsion onnl;oontsa ar,
scattered over many States, and not