Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
GOSSIP OF A BIG TOWN.
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vestigation OF the business methods of the
executive departments" said Government
official the other evening, "is move in the
right direction. Ii the commission proposed
were wholly outside of the House of Repre-
sentatives 1t would be better. For two
years is entirely too short time, when the
necessary legitimate duties of a member of
Congress are considered, to look into this
matter thoroughly and in which to formu-
late remedy The business of the Unit ed
States is perhaps the most clumsily and ex-
lensively mana ed of any other business in
the world. This is mainly because it is q
growth, and because it is being shifted to
new and irresponsible shoulders every now
and then. Obsolete and complicated sys-
TENS OF bookkeeping that were perhaps all
right 80 years a.o are retained, though the
country has doubled and the country's bust
ness tripled.
at has invariably been the policy of Gov
ernment bureaus to ma nifty their own busi-
ness and of every petty chief to increase mis-
own duties This tendency runs all through
the departmental service. and the result has
been to make Chinese puzzle of the entire
service Tne whole thing should be looked
INTO IN thorough manner and new Sys-
tenn devised. 1t should be simplified and
the rules o. modern business life applied to
governmental affairs.
why, don't you know, nobody knows how
the Treasury Department. stands? No two
nnancfal experts can understand the Treas
ury system OF bookkeeping. The monthly
statlsticians. And as for the method of
transacting any kind OF Government busi-
ness, it is so ridiculouSly complicated that
tne only thing that can be said for it is that
III furnishes proportionately to desired re-
suits more places for salaried officials than
any other system ever devised The whole
thing needs revision, but if this is to be ac-
complished in two wears, by men who have
plenty to do without the extra duties of in
ve5tigators, it won't be half done. What is
really needed is q commission outside of
Congressional politics to look into and re-
wise the entire working system of the ex-
ecutlve departments"
A Pretty Woman on Wall Street.
The extraordinary commotion one
woman can cause in 4 crowd and that woman
quiet, self-containeh. lady-lile woman 90
ing about her own business is occasionally
witnessed down in Wall street. or some sim
ilarly crowded neighborhood given over to
males and money getting. 1t is one of the
amusing things OF the metropolitan streets.
Ihere are women in nearly all or the big
office buildings downtown Men grow ac
customed to female clerks, stenOgraphers
and tyDewriter+ and the latter accustomed
to male business society. Ono would nat
urally suppose that this familiar relation
would tend to deaden the shock of sndden
contact with anything in skirts. But 1t
doesn't.
turns down Wall street any business after
noon will be assured of more attention than
she ever before in her lie received. If she
be dressed as l saw one last week 1t will be
an ovation. This young woman wore q red
dress. red wrap red hat, red shoes, red
stockings, red oloves-everythtnS in sight
was red, save only her hair and ewes, and
these were black as ravens wing. She
had a lovely figure, and her springy step
and the sDirited pose of her head proclaimed
the thoroughbred. Men turned around to
look at her and bumped against each other
and turned and got banged this way and
that in the crowd because of this rare vision,
and smiled and apologized, only to run into
somebody else. Her course down Wall from
Broadway was productive of more collisions
than was ever seen since the last financial
panic. The whole stock market fell of and
things looked feverish. just for few brief
minuteS-thcn the Federal building Swal-
lowed her up and Wall street relapsed into
its customary apathy for all external things.
Reading New Yorkers the Riot Act.
There are some things that astound and
startle New Yorker. One of these is the
exhibition on the part of anybody OF any de-
gree of affection for Chicago. day or two
ago met a handsome young married lady
on the Sixth avenue elevafed. She had al
ways lived in the West, where had known
her several years ago, and we naturally dis
cussed her recent change of base. she sat
in one of the cross seats in the middle of the
car and 1 STOOD with others, in the aisle.
81 like Chicago much better than New
York" size began.
The two men reading stock reports in the
seat facing her %lanced at her sharply over
their glasses. The old man next to her
hitched up his coat rervously and looked
sorry for ner
at NAV be that New York will improve on
acquaintance she went on IN schicvously,
seeing the sensation she made. 1--WE only
been here two months and ii it wasn't for
my husbands business I'd 90 right blck to
Chicago. It's awfullv slow here"
l considerately int mated that she'd find
things ast enough in New York when she
0nt n adj l,4in Xvo
q General one-that, in short, New York was
II real nice sort of a town when you got used
to it.
"But like the Western people best" she
sail. The old man next to her looked out of
the window and 9roaned audibly, while the
other apparently regarded her in the light
of curiosity. western people" she con-
tinued, ",tre not so formal and moan what
they say and don't say so much" thought
the old man had been taken with cramps
he looked so miserable
Chicago is the city for shopping. 1 can't
find anything here. and go miles and miles!
They have such lovely stores in Chicago.
This Is such dirty place, said she, shaking
out her sealskin sacque. "And" -
The old man couldn't stand it any longer
He got rigut up and after looking at me as
il he would like To- lick somebody bolted Tor
the Thirty-th rd street platform. The whole
carload now craned neclls to see the hand
some Chicago lady who objected to New
YORK because it was dirty.
"And there are So many foreigners" she
went on. Everybody here seems to copy
the English. l detest such people. Why
can't they be satisfied with their own coun-
try?"
The two gentlemen opposite, intensely
English, skunk diligently behind their
DaDarS A broad smile went 'rOund-and it
was not one OF derision either. Fortunately
the guard called ''Twenty-d til street" at
this moment and the handsome young Chi
ca.O girl moved toward the door with an
air OF conscious superiority, leaving us to
breathe freely once more.
Homely Women and Pretty Photos.
There are certain windows on Broad
way which attract more curious crowds
than other windows and yet the curious
ones rarely go in to buy. These windows
are those wherein are displayed the pho
togr5 phs OF celeDratei women. Most of the
peopl- one sees in front are women. Most of
the pictures one sees in the windows are
portraits of famous, or at least titled Brit
ish women-some OF them said to be beau l.
ful. The Duchess" Lady" "PrincesS"
"Marqu!se" and Madame" are all there and,
as rule, pretty much all IN sight. j don't
know whether our noble female friends
across the water had these portraits taken
tor this puruose, but it would certainly be
very gratifying 10 feminine vanity to know
of these never ending crowds OF Broadway
admirers.
And the most peculiar thing about it 20
NE is ha you will rarely see any good look
ing women studying these professional
beauties. The most ardent lovers of female
beauty are women who are not blessed by
nature with an UversupDly OF comelinesS.
The positively ho1nely girl will never piss Il
photoLraDher'S window without pauSinS 10