The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-12
DONTApPLYTo MR.KlLBRETH
HE HAS hosts or PETITIONS AND NO
OFFICE TO GIYR.

The Civil Service Board Taxes Care of the
| Good ThiaRs-Sorry PIeht OF the wreteh
Who Intru-ts Hi-seif 10 lts Msreies.
"A mischlevous statement was made the
other day." said Collector Kilbreth yesterday
to the effect that | now have $50 places at
my disposal and that was to give them out
As a result, thronRs OF applicants for Office
| have turned up at the Custom House. and
bushels OF letters have been received from
others who live In distant parts and who
wished TO remind me Of their applications put
In months ago. The statement Is Incorrect
| as have no places to give out"
| The Collector has changed all OF his Deputy
| Collectors except one. Gen. n. q. Williams,
who seems to he a fixture. Nobody In the
| Custom House has the remotest notion Just
why Cen. Williams succeeds In escaping de-
| capitatlon under q Democrats Administra-
tion. He 10 q Republican OF pronounced and
sometimes bitter sentiments Besides, Gen
Williams has his relatives also in the customs
service. But neither Collector MaRone nor
Collector htlbreth has found II convenient to
remove him. and II ls the opinion that VIII.
llams has powerful support at Washington.
All OF the chief clerks are in the civil service
class. and most Of them are Democrats who
passed unharmed through the Harrison Adj
miuistratlon. As they are all capable and In
dustrious men, Harrison's Collectors. Erhardt
Fassett and Hendricks. could not remove
them. These three Republican Collectors
VIII always be remembered as strong rarti-
sans, but too honorable to trump up charges
against Democrats for the purpose OF getting
Collector Kilbreth as a Democrat 10 OF the |
same calibre All Of the clerks and weighers |
In the civil service class. and while a number |
Sl eha ing have been made, the removals
and negligence Collector Kilbreth has re- |
moved all Of the seventy-nve Republican mes |
efS ar ae not IN sss civil ip sssyss
AZ OF the other non-civll service places have |
Organization men have got a SIN small psrcen,ass
Of these places. but the majority OF them have
gone to followers OF the Gntl-snappers. Col
Washington the peddler OF these small places,
IA has It Is declared. secured 800 Of them, and
IN this. as the Dem9erstic leaders Of the regu.
In fact they have made few. II any. requests
The trouble is not with Collector Kilbrstb.
but with the Chinese Civil Service laws These
Avs are on the statute books aud they cannot
the subject can appreciate the system. T an,
~ aS. dSSTnshs cruelty which Is Irsc
New York custom House The s0' pses S
genius Of this bureau, is Theodore. Bsbcocf.
Witch has Do With the ss,xiSi
sarvsy iSfss % the SGle sbs Uce
Mr. Babeoek has been well provided for for Z
number OF years. He is 10 the civil service
from g which appontms1ts are made. These
e on tSs paI 81 sS0T study and
Tor G pisee. 10 is sv sss
sands Of applicants for civil service papers
who l fall by the wayside. and are never graft
but they may be- far HAPPIER than s tSoss Who fS
\ ass me examinations aud are filled with hol
As a matter Of fact. there are 500 sliSibis:
he applicant still hopeful. takes another e%
fnd ~: Or nsI asd l ISs
M, IN day; these pcOple do NOT see behind the
House Civil Service Bureau. Many Of the eiia- J
ha hs' F sass DC oss,
sRit hoM srs sSoq aSs pdc. aS Su .Sss
y death or resignation. Those in the service. :
les in order to escape removal. They know
nat once out they cannot hope for reinstate-
atlons and the appointing powers Therefore. 4
% matter what their incll atoms may be- are Y
'eh!Rless to aid even their best friends. :
ector was mportuned by a mother to appoint !
er son to civil service place. All places out L
,orthless. The salary in no instance IL over
Madam" replied. Mr. Erhardt. do you I
lre cannot break the law aud give him i'm t
ne place you ask 1t H. protected by the Civil
ct one OF these places. and II You love him as as
"a bs can give Is that you Rpt him n barrel
iver He'll be far happier in the end" :.