The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08

day school. There are ABOUT three thou
sand pupils in the Sunday school, and there
are something like three hundred teachers.
The school has magnificent organ, and it
has an orchestra of thirty pieces. Wanna
maker opens it every Sunday, and gives
the children talk. After he has gotten it
into swing he goes across to the Bethany
church, where he has Bible class of 1000
men and women. He talks to these in the
most practical way, and leads the singing.
After the service is over the teachers stay,
and when they are through he stops and
shakes hands and talks to the scholars.
He has his scholars all organized into work
ing bands for charity and mission work,
and immense quantities of coal and pro
visions are distributed to the poor through
them. He gives great deal himself and
understands how to make others give. He
believes that the boys make better Chris
tians in their work, and he has
HIS 'JoHN wEsLEY'' BANDS
and his John Knox bands, and he seems to
keep track of every individual boy and his
work. The mothers of the children coun-
sci with him, and he gives as much good by
his advice as by his money. After the
Sunday school is over Mr.. Wanamaker
spends the remainder of his Sunday with
his family, if they are in Philadelphia. He
comes back to Washington early on Monday
morning, and is often at the postoffice de-
partment before noon.
Postmaster General Wanamaker spends
as many hours at his desk as any post
master general we have had for years. He
rises at about ESQ o'clock, shaves himself
and takes a good, plain breakfast. He
rides down to the department in the De
partment coupe, and he is ready tor work
at S:30-thirty minutes before his force of
clerks have begun to arrive. He has a pri-
vate secretary, Mr.. Marshall Gushing,
whom he pays himself to attend to his per-
sonal matters, and this man is an old news
paper man who takes his directions from
the postmaster general and dictates them to
steGographers. This man looks over the
mail, disposes OF a large part of it, refer
ring matters relating to the store to Mr.
Ogden, those to the Sunday school to the
manager at Philadelphia, and handing over
to the postmaster general such as he can
not answer himself. The postmaster gen
eral gets about
A CARLOAD OF MARKED NEWSPAPERS
every day. Mr. Gushing looks over these,
clips out such matter as he thinks will in
terest Mr.. Wanamaker and throws away
such as he is sure will not The post
master-general spends his first half hour at
the department debating letters himself,
and is well advanced with his mail by the
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had perhaps a counsel with his bureau
chiefs, and at this time is ready to receive
the stream OF Senators and Representa-
! tives of office seekers and others who then
! begin to come. From 9 until II he is
accessible to every one. He hears every
mans tale and gives him ready answer
| This answer IS not always polite one, for
! Mr.. Wanamaker is more Of business man
than politician. He has, his friends saw.
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postmaster general, and he does not want
to be Senator from Pennsylvania, nor is the
! presidential bee buzzing in the thick brown
hair which rises from his broad forehead.
1 He has the faculty of deciding a thing right
off, and the politicians of Washington say
he would make a more efficient postmaster
general if he understood the political par
ties and factions of the various states
better and could divide up the Offices in
order to harmonic them. He is too much
of civil service man to suit many of them
though he does not believe in the civil ser
vice as at present constituted. lie thinks
that every cabinet minister should have the
right to look man in the eye before he ap-
points him, and that clerks should be ex-
amined by men in the department in which
they are TO work rather than by one board
which examines for the whole country
The Senators and Representative keep
THE STMASTER-GENERAL BUSY
until noon, and it is l o'clock before he gets
home to his lunch. He comes back at anC
works away steadily until or 30 in the
evening, doing the best part of his worh
after the rest of his clerks have gone. He
has a number of hobbies in his postoffice
work. and he is always after new ideas A
man who tried to get work of him the othel
day was asked by him whether he had any
new ideas and what he could do for him
and when the man really showed that he
had some originality he was at once given
Job. Postmaster General Wanamaker was
surprised to find, when he first came into
the Office that a number Of the ideas thai
he supposed were his had been formulated
and discussed by other postmaster gener
ais. This was so with the postal telegraph
which he thought was new thing, and the
Postal Savings bank, to the cause of which
he is ardently devoted. The idea in hi:
postal telegraph scheme of having the com
peting telegraph lines do the business anC
having the postoffices merely deliver thu
messages is his own, and his scheme fol
appointing general manager for the post
Office department who shall have term O
Office for ten years at $4,000 a year is alst
his. He has
SEVERAL OTHER HOBBIES
in addition to these, and he works at thes,
steadily, hammering away and hoping t
succeed. He is a good worker, and h
knows better than any other man in tn
, administration how to make other mel
work. He is well liked in the department
and, socially, is a jolly good fellow. Johl
Wanamaker gives away great deal o
money in charity each year. He give
much to Washington, and he has enougl
. applications every day from all parts of tn
, country TO eat up ten times his inco.ne.
/ spent an hour this morning in looking a
, some of the letters which pour into his pri
vate secretary. They are from churches
, Sunday schools and individuals, and the
, ask for everything from a set of false teeti
: to donation of thousands. Many of tn