The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-08-16

| luE, gray WIFI years anu Dtul Will NoIh,
looks quiescent and even phlematic. But
he is the most nervous man in the Cabi-
net. He always walks as he talks. He
does not mean to shake you off; he is un-
afectedly courteous to you, but he must
walk. He walks up and down when he
is debating to his stenographer; he walks
up and down when he eats his luncheon.
He walks over to the Department from
the Arlington and back again when the
weather will let him. Like most million
aires who have made their millions, if not
themselves, he is an early riser, and usu-
ally anticipates his clerks at the office.
He has very few ofiiceseeking callers, and
has been able to learn more about his of
fee than any of his colleagues, except the
Secretary of the Navy.
The Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin
F. Tracy, of Brooklyn, comes next. His
Office is that of his predecessor on the
eastern side of the same floor and directly
in line with Secretary Proctor's. Tracy
uses the little inner room more constantly
than Whitney did, giving up the long
show office with its costly woods and
rugs and frescoes and the oil portraits of
his predecessors to Lieutenant T. B. NJ.
Mason, his naval secretary; Henry W.
/ Raymond, his private secretary, and
their clerks. He is a gray-haired, gray
whiskered man, with a benevolent express
I sion, a clever tongue and a pleasant
laugh. Heis very apt to have his callers
brought in one at a time into his inner
Office, where, on the famous Monitor
desk, he does most of his work. He gets
over to his Office from the Arno a little
after 8, goes back for luncheon at 2 and
gets away finally at 6 o'clock, working
often, however, in the evening at the
rooms. For, like all the rest, he has too
many callers just now TO permit him to do
all his days stint at his office, and, like
all the others, he dislikes to let it 60 over
from day to day.
The Postmaster-General comes next.
To see him we must ride all across the
business part of town to the crowded
small-roomed postoffice department on
/ Seventh street. There is not a good
sized room in this department, nor one
which is handsomely furnished, and the
Postmaster Generals is no exception. In
contrast with the magnificent offices we
have Just left, the newest and finest in
Washington, his rooms seems shabby
But they seem to be the most attractive
rooms in Washington. From the time
the doors are opened in the morning
until the time they are closed in the even
ing his callers are coming and going.
There is little ante-room where his type
writer works off behind a screen the let
tiers he has taken in shorthand from the
Postmaster Generals dictation. It is
small, and usually full Of waiting visitors.
Then there is his formal office, which is
not much larger, and is pretty well filled
by his big desk, two leather covered. sofas,
several leather-covered chairs and 4 cabi-
net. What space is left is also usually
filed. The Postmaster General may be
found here, sitting in fitting chair be-
hind his desk or standing leaning on the
mantel-piece where Benjamin Franklin sits
solemnly surveying his successor. Or he
may be in his inner Office, about the same
size, and Just beyond, where his faithful
private secretary, Mr.. Jones, writes neat
notes all day long. As likely as not that
inner Office is filed, too, although usu-
ally it is not, since he reserves it for con
fidential conferences. Portraits of his
predecessors look down from every wall.
The Postmaster General gets down to
his Office in the official rattle-trap, called
by courtesty a coupe, any time between
7:30 and $50, having already, after
breakfast and prayers, accomplished some
work He does a good deal before 8
'glossS, when the visitor first gets in, usI-
less he has q special engagement with
the Postmaster General, and then Mr..
Wanamaker gets in his work in the in
terstiees of interviews until 4 o'clock,
when the outer doors are closed and nc
office-seekers are admitted. By 5 most Of
them are gone, and between that and z
he can get in two solid hours of work.
After dinner he goes at it again. If he
is not careful he viii break down. A
temperate, methodical man can do Won
ders of work, but there is a limit to
every mans powers. Still, do not think
he wastes work, and perhaps the post
office department and a great business
cannot be successfully run in any other
way. The Postmaster-Gener IS very
agreeable, even if he does look at you
rather peremptor1y through his eye
glasses now and them. He is rapidly
learning Washington ways as well as
Washington men, and will be more pro-
ficient every day. he did a very wise
thing when he bought the Frelinghuysen-
Whitney house. In fact, and by ira
dition, it is one of the most attractive
houses in Washington. The Postmaster
General will not feel fully settled here
until his wife and daughters join him in
the fall. Then he will probably give up
his weekly trip to Bethany, and worship
every Sunday in his pew at the Church Of
the Covenant.
Right across F street north of the Post
office Department stands another Greek
temple known locally as the Patent Of
fee, because the Patent Office is in it. Il
is really the Interior Department, and
contains most of the business of that de.
partment Here in the large room which
has been occupied by all his immediate
predecessors Secretary Noble, next in tht
line, sits at handsome desk when he il
not standing up to greet or dismiss somC
caller or comforting with him in his httlt
office at the side. Noble is a gentle, pc
tent man, but quick enough to decision
and determined enough in his concllt
sions. He has WINDOWS tactful way c
putting a refusal so that it seems almos
like favor 1t is well, for he divides tn
honors of having the largest number o
callers with all the others. Noble work
early and late at nights. His predeces
sors, especially Lamar, have often beeI
obliged to work all night to catch up witt
the enormous current of work. So fa
he has not had to do this, but he ma.
come to it yet, for his hours are all hour
as tits. He takes his exercise in walking
to and fro.
5 The Att ey General closes the list o
possible Presidents, unless we take in ID
/ Secretary of Agriculture, as mean to do
We must go uptown again to see Wilien
, Henry Harrison Miller. He sits upin tt
: fire room which Benjamin Harrison Brew
' ster decorated and furnished so elegant
/ OF the second floor of what is eommonl
. I ooIlad +ba Freadrnenfs hank buildinO lis