Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04

minus some OF the 00lecLlon3oie traits oIten
found In the average good fellow. He is a
model IN department, temperate in habits,
and quite domestic, living, I believe. with
mis- mother, to whom he IS devoted. The
affairs OF his Office are always in ship-shape,
owing to his perfect knowledge of every
detail and unremitting attention to BUSH
ness. He is now in his third term, and has
worked in the comptroller's Office contin-
uously since 1871. When he became comp
troller in 1857. outstanding delinquent taxes
amounted to $3.50. 600 In the first year of
his administration, they were cut down to
$4,000, in the next TO $4,000. in
the third TO $1,000, and in the
fourth they were entirely wiped out.
He has in his department thirty-seyeu
clerks, and the pay roll for two years
amounts TO SOS, 40. The first two years he
was IN office the pay roll exceeded this by
about 900. This department disbursed
last year about 100000.
sEPHEN II. DARDEN,
his chief clerk, was comptroller from 1874
TO 1881. During the war he was state SEN
ator, but joined the Confederate army. and
while he was in the field Governor Lub-
beck ordered an election 10 I'LL this vacancy.
He was afterwards Z member of the Con-
federate congress. he IS about sixty years
old and thoroughly posted in the details Of
the office.
W. n. wIeGrSs, CHIEF BooKKEEPER,
is a young man, trife boyish in appear
ance, but fully up to the requirements of
his station. He recently married an Ala
bama lady, who, by the way, is his second
wife. A number of clerks in this depart
ment are old stand-bys, having spent many
years therein. Hardin Walsh, chief of the
tax department and brother of Capt Walsh,
ex-commisSioner, is one, as is also A. @.
Gross, son of former commissioner; r.
Mahorner, warrant clerk; McHenry Win
burn and Wallace Badger.
There are five female clerks in this de-
partment, whose work the comptroller is
very proud of.
SUPERINTENDENT j. NJ. CARLISLE
Of the educational department is well
known in Fort Worth, where he made a
record as a school teacher. He succeeded
Superintendent Pritchett some months ago,
the latter gentleman having been chosen
president of the Sam Houston normal
Isle was very quick in mastering the de-
tails of his department, and is making an
excellent record. His chief clerk, Mr.. A. S.
Thweatt has occupied that position in the
department nine years and is very compe-
tent, as is also Mai. E. B. Carruth, statisti-
cal clerk and bookkeeper. There are be-
sides three or four other clerks in this de-
partment, whose business has grown very
much in late years. The Office discussed
last year So. 712 Ell of school money obtained
from the state tax. This is of course ex-
elusive of the local school taxes, with which
the department has no concern.
Professor Carlisle is in the prime of life,
and holds commanding rank among the
educators OF the state. He is modern in his
ideas, and energetic in the building up of
the public free schools. Speaking about the
sum spent on the public schools he con-
trasted Texas with New York state where
the total amount raised for this purpose by
both state and local taxation was above
twenty millions annually, while in this state
it is only about four millions"
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT,
which includes insurance, history and sta
tlstics, is presided over by MIR J. E. Hol-
lingSworth, formerly chief clerk for three
years under his predecessor, Commissioner
Foster, now one Of the railroad commits
sioners. There are five clerks in this de-
partment, Mr.. Phillip T. Allen of johnson
county being CHIEF ark.
Commissioner h1-ingsworth is forty
three years old, and is relative by mar
riage of Representa- We James w. Swayne
of Fort Worth-a brother-in-law, I think.
He was chief postofice inspector for Texas
under the Cleveland administration, being
one of the twelve inspectors in the Union.
When Harrison was inaugurated he was
quickly bounced, and the headquarters Of
this district removed from Austin
to New Orleans, where it was
hoped the political effect would
be more advantageous to the g. o.
p. than it could possibly be in Texas. Texas
is no longer a department or district to it
self, as it was under the Cleveland rule.
The department of geology is an annex of
the agricultural department, and is pre-
sided over by
EFT. DUMBLR, STATE GHoLoeIsT,
who has some twenty biologists and chem
lists under his control. MIR. Dumble is a
young man not yet out of the thirties, iudg-
ing by his appearance, and is quite enthusi-
astic in investigating the natural resources
of the state. The geological museum is
well stocked with specimens Of the mineral
and other natural resources of the state.
His forthcoming report of the summers
work in the field is about ready for the
printer, and will be, he says, full of interest
for the public
ATToRNEY-GENERALo G. A. oULBERsoE
is a young man. as are his Office assistants,
r. L. Henry, Frank Andrews and -
Smith. They are all kids, and lively ones
at that, and are making a fine record. None
of them can be as much as forty, and Frank
Andrews is hardly thirty. All are married,
Mr.. Andrews being the last to take part
ner, and is scarcely yet out of the honey
moon. They are genial jolly set of officials,
and good lawyers withal.
W. B. WORKMAN,
who succeeded Gov. Lubbock, handles the
peoples money and is custodian of the pub
lie treasury. He is thoroughly at home in
the treasurer's Office over which ne pre-
sides and whose affairs ne directs with all
the ease and grace OF q lord chancellor. He
too, is young man of thirty-eight and has
been connected with the treasury for four
teen years. He enjoys, to an unusual de-
gree, the esteem and confidence of the pub
lie and deserves it all He is a tall bru-
nette of cordial manners and lively disposi-
ton. His chief clerk, Mr.. Randolph Law
renee, young man also, and formerly con-
nected with the land Office, is q thorough
man of business who is never absent from
his post OF duty Eighteen clerks are re-
quired to do the work in this department
The only member OF the governors official
family who is not kid in years, whatever
he may be in feelings, is
Col. M'GAUGHEY.
commissioner of the general taud office.
the colonel who IS bluff, hearty and genial
in manner is somewhere IN the ffties, but
as active and well-preserved as man of
forty. He looks like man VINO loves good
cheer, and is disposed to look on the bright
side of things. He has a larger working
force under him than any other head of de-
partment-numbering all told about fifty.
One of the singular things about this Office
is that while the business OF It has been
growing, the revenue has been declining.
This circumstance is due to the fact that
land patents are not being issued in such
large numbers as in the years between 1880
and 1889 when the railroads were crowding
the Office for patents in land The cousti-
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