Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-03

THE UPTOWN DEPARTMENT.
Except from the Treasury Department there
has not been any very marked exodus of clerks
for voting purposes this fall as affects those de-
partments on the western end of the line
around the White House. The Treasury has
contributed very generously to the voting popu-
latIon of the country, about 100 of the 5000
clerks and employees having been granted
leave, or % per cent. 1t is possible of course.
that these clerks include number who arc off
on ordinary vacations without any decided
voting intentions.
In the War Department, with its LOO en-
p.cyes, the number OF absentees Is about as
usual, but it is not thought that over per cent
have gone home to vote. very few certif-
Gates have been issued by the Secretary.
There are 22S people on the rolls of the Navy
Department, of whom about thrty-fve are ab-
sent, or about Is per cent of all.
The State Department. is wholly free from
the voting epidemic There are seventy en-
ployes enrolled, of whom but two arc now
away from their desks. One of these is in
Europe and the other is q Washingtonian with
out a vote. The Department of Justice has
about ninety folks to look out for, of whom
or lO per cent are away, all for voting purposes.
Thus in these five uptown" departments there
is an average absence of about II per cent Of the
whole force
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Comparatively few employees Of the Post
Office Department have gone home to vote
OF the total number Of clerks, namely, 6l5. it is
estimated that about 100 are women. large
proportion of the men have either lost their
residences in the states or do not con-
slider that their votes are needed. The
result is that only about fifty have left their
desks in order to 60 to their homes and vote.
At a presidential election, however, when the
issues are supposed to be more important, it is
estimated that about three times that number
deposit their ballots at their homes. The prin-
cipal officials Of the depar tment, however, will
exercise their right of citizenship. Mr..
Wanamaker will vote in Philadelphia, the first
assistant, Col. Whitfield, in Ohio and Gen.
HaZen, the third assistant, in Pennsylvania.
MIR. J. Lowrie Bell, the second assistant, will be
acting postmaster general Mr.. Bell is paired
with democrat and will not 60 home to vote
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..
It is difficult to form an estimate Of the mum.
Der Of employees Of the Interior Department
who will be at their homes tomorrow for the
purpose of voting. The usual number of en-
ployes on the rolls Of the depart
nent is $780, but the census office
is bureau of the department and its force
of employees, numbering now some $500, adds
about two-thIrds to the clerical force. One
thiry of the entire force, ii is estimated by the
acting appointment clerk, Mr.. Clarence &.
Allen, WHO is an expert in statistics, are women.
1t is calculated that about 20 per cent of the
male clerks 60 home to vote. On this basis
the Interior Department will be represented al
the polls tomorrow by nearly 500 clerks. The
Secretary. Gen. Noble, has vote at his home
in ST. Louis, but he will not deposit it this
year. Gen. Bussey, however, will 60 over to
New York and cast his vote. Mr.. Chandler,
the first assistant secretary, who lives in Mis-.
souri,, will keep the Secretary company in
Washington.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
Maj. 8. s. lockwood. chief clerk Of the
Agricultural Department said that it was hard
to tell how many clerks in that department had
gone home to vote. It was impossible, of
course, for all the clerks to take their regular
leaves of absence at the same time during the
hottest part OF the summer, and a number OF
them were Off on their regular leave now.
Whether they had gone home to vote or not he
could not say, nor could he tell how many
clerks are away without sending around to tine
various chiefs OF division. In this way it was
accertained that there were twenty-four absen-
tees who had left for one reason or another.
AT THE pEPoTs.
Any casual visitor at the roailroad station to-
day would have had little trouble in arriving
at the conclusion that something was on hand,
such as a picnic an excursion or an election.
The temporary resident in Washington doesn't
stay here to do his voting. but girds up his
loins and hies himself to some one Of the states,
and he doesn't 60 by himself but takes his
family and his cousins and his aunts.
AL the railroads offer reduced rates to voters
going home and the average voter takes ad-
vantage Of this rate to take his family for a
trip to the old home. The Pennsylvania road,
the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Richmond and Danville have all
had share of the traffic which has been going
on for some days. Today, however, is the
busiest day, as the residents in the nearby
ates-Maryland and Virginia-n nave been get
ting their voting clothes on and moving out
VOTERS, DISTINGUISHED AND OTHERWISE.
Among the voters, eminent and otherwise,
who left this morning for their homes were
tho President and Attorney General Miller,
who got of on the II 80 express from the Penn
sylvania depot, both with neatly folded repub-
lican tickets in their vest pockets.
Probably the banner states, so far as the
number OF voters who have gone from here are
England states, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mary
land, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey. Illinois,
and Iowa. A surprisingly large number Of
voters have this year gone west, while the
Maryland and Virginia people have fallen of
somewhat in their usual quotas. The
MARYLAND detection can be explained by the
passage of the new registration law, which cut
of SO many former voters In that state. One
Maryland club which last year sent over 400
voters into Maryland will this year have hard
work to get ont 100.
Inquiry at the various ticket Offices in this
city disclosed the fact that something very like
5000 voters tickets had been sold in this city.
As has been said, however, this number in
many cases includes the families of voters and
others who are merely taking advantage of the
reduced rate.