St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-01

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position and was going to accept the
position of receiver in land office out
in the newly opened Cherokee strip.
Mr.. Hassler is native ashingtonian,
young man OF brilliant powers. large
ambitions and an army of friends. There
is nothing surprising about it, however.
Mr.. HasSler has learned that there
are no prizes in the department work of
Washington. He is ambitious, able, has
the faculty of making friends. and he
has set his stake to first grow rich and
than come to the senate from the new
state of Oklahoma. Dollenmayer. re-
Gently correspondent of the Tribune, is
a pet and protege of Hassler, and goes
out to the Cherokee strip to do his land
office advertising. Both HasSler and
dolly" are smart enough to achieve
fortunes, and probably will if their luck
holds.
john S. Hassler has at least one
noted ancestor behind him-Ferdinand
Rudolph Hassler, protege of Thomas
Jefferson, and the organizer OF our coast
survey. This man was Switzer by
birth, and came to America with Albert
Gallatin. His talent as a surveyor was
discovered by Jefferson, and he was
placed at the head of the coast survey.
Hon. Henry A. Wise. the Virginia
governor who hanged John Brown.
wrote book called 1.-The Seven Dec
ades." in which he says:
'HaSSler was wonderful study in
himself. An old man when We first
knew him, with head which phrenol-
ogy would have instanced as a marked
one and sculptor would have chiseled
as model; an aquilne nose, thin and
Intellectual, and lips and chin which
gave an expression of sweet manlineSs;
form erect and energetic; of an eX-
IRENE nervousness, which made him
unique and often grotesque; with a
deep-Set eye, sparkling, bright and pen
etrating by glance-his appearance
was attractively game" and it did not
falsify his heart; he was afraid of
nothing; no intellectual puzzle, no
physical obstruction or obstacle. 10 fear
OF man, could make him hesitate in his
pursuit and following straight after the
TRUTH
Washingtonians will never forget
scene between Prof. Hassler and Mr..
Woodbury., secretary of the treasury
during Mr.. Van Buren's administra-
ton. Whilst the most currupt eX-
travagance was INDUCED in for the
patronage of partlsans, the administra-
ton was urgent in recommendations OF
economy and of reduction of appropria-
tiOnS to the most important branches of
the public service. The lighthouses,
for example, 1t was proposed should be
reduced in expenditure. This was met
by the exclamation of the opposition, in
the house of representatives, in behalf
of the storm-distresSed mariner, that it
would be putting ont the eyes of the
ocean," And the coast survey it was
proposed should be reduced. The sal
airy of Mr.. Hassler was $4,000. and that
of his son $1,000 per annum, and this
was thought too much. The old gentle
man kept at the expense of the govern
ment singular sort of ''ShaDdradan"
vehicle, curiously slung on springs i'll
way not allowing of the least jar. This
was thought to be unnecessary, and not
in keeping with allowances to other
branches of service of higher grade. Mr..
Woodbury. sent for him to show cause
why he should be allowed to keep his
coach and pair at public expense: He
replied with eagerness: "Oh, it is
necessary for my babies"
Your babies, Mr.. Hassler?-I did not
know that you had any at your time of
lifer"
Yes; as l get older they increase
rapidly and become more and more
tender and delicate, and require car
rage"
"But, MI. Hassler, if that be so, the
government must not pay for riding out
your babies.''
'Ah, it must not, say you, when they
are the governments babies, too?"
For the first time the secretary began
see that HaSSler was speaking of his
fine instruments, his 1heodolites, ETC..
used on the coast survey.
"1o our Instruments, you mean. But
nanA riHo hor ND
when you go to the field of your work,
you can transport them by the railroad
cars better than in carriage"
mo! mol That Earring conclusion
makes them nervous, puts them out of
order, and units them ror exact use.
They shall now be veXed by the railroad
cars''
well, then, your salary. Mr.. Hassler,
and that of your son, you and he in one
family receive SI1 900. whilst l, the sec
Rotary Of the treasury, get but $4,000 for
experimenting the whole department"
well, tam it, tat is right A presi-
secretary of de treasury, but it took an
Almighty God to make a HasslerP
He was left undiSturbed.
CRoFFUT DROPS INTO VERSE.
w. A. Crotfut, Minnesota editor be-
fore the war, and a literary man of
prominence here IN Washington. wrote
the following before the new infant in
the White house was named. The poem,
therefore, is little late, but exceed
ingly aprOpos considering the financial
situation, and as il has never been
printed, forward it to the GLOBE.
S9 ITO Mrs. Grover Cleveland
Madame, crowned with motherhood,
Whom oil blessings overbrood
And the vivas Of the nation,
Pray accept a gracious part
From your humble neighbours heart
Graduation.
Has the princess yet a namei
Do not-do not let her claim
Josie, Bessie, Frank or Flora
Mid our troubles manifold,
In the country's cry for gold,
Call her d ora.
FRANK j. MEAD