The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-08
49,
FEDERAL BLUE BOOK
New Jersey Makes a Poor
Showing in the Several
Departments.
LIST OF THOSE ON THE ROLL.
Only One Jerseyman Employed in
the White House-In the
Departments.

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WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. s, 1S94-There
are between $4,000 and $4,000 places in the
various departments and bureaus OF the
Government at Washington, including such
industrial Establishments as the Navy Yard,
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and
the Printing office; but New Jersey has not
much to show in this vast army, certainly
not a just proportion considering her popu-
lation.
The first volume of the biennial Govern
ment publication known as the Official
Register of the United States, .vulgo the
'Blue Book" has made its appearance, and
the members OF Congress have received the
single-bound o to which they are en-
titled. The book in question covers the
legislative, judicial and executive depart
ments of the Government, with the
exception of the postal service, which
requires a separate volume. Congressman
question the wisdom of this expensive
publication, as it is never up to date. Thus
the volume before me is a census of all the
officers and employees of the Government,
with the exception Of the soldiers, sailors and
| marines in service on the 1st of July, 1898.
1t takes about eight months to get the work
up, and in the meantime, especially when it
is the first year of a new Administration,
numerous and the most important changes
are made in the personnel, but the names of
| the old discharged officials remain in the
Official Register for two whole years before
those of their successors are given. In the
matter of the legislative branch of the Gov
eminent this fact is all the more glazing.
The officials of the present Congress went
| into office a few days after the seventh day
| Of a 11U,1ct 1S92 INIT their names Will NOT an
pear in the Blue Book until January, 1896,
| long after the Congress in which they serve
has gone out of existence, and their
continuance in office is highly prob
lematical. Thus the only real use of
| the Blue Book is to give Office
seekers a chance to know what offices really
| exist n what money there is in them. By
the first of July in a Presidential first year
| the President has generally appointed the
! heads of bureaus and the principle diplo-
matte officers, but only few changes have
been made in the real working force in the
various departments, and but very few in
the customs, internal revenue and postal SER
| vices. Still, as the classified service suffers
but little change from year to year, L have
examined the book with a view of ascertain
ing the approximate representation OF New
Jersey in the public service. Some enter
prising Congressman should draw up a bill
providing for an annual register, taking
| the census at the beginning of each calendar
| and not of each fiscal year, and reducing the
| size of the volume by leaving out the
names of the ''v~erminkillers," and similar
high officials in the National Soldiers
| Homes, receiving about 81 a month, and
! the names of the roustabouts and laborers
| employed by the Mississippi River Commits
| sion and similar bodies, who are in no sense
| Government employees. In complying the
statistics for New Jersey I have SO far as
possible compared them with the Blue Book
| of 1891. For the reasons above given | leave
the 500 or 600 employees of Congress alone.
IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
1t the White House the only Jerseyman is
| Assistant Private Secretary Octavius L..
Pruden. who halls from Dover and has been
in the Executive Mansion since the days of
Grant. In the State Department are three
Jerseymen: Walter R. Mock1idge and Miles
| M. Shand. clerks, and Gilbert F. Randolph,
packer. In the diplomatic and consular SER
vice General Theodore Runyon, as Ambas-
sador to Germany, heads the list, with John
| B.. jackson holding over as assistant secre-
| tary of legation. Dwight j. Particle, who en-
| tered the service from the District of Column
bia. but is a native Jerseyman, was formerly
| Consul at D~resseldorf, Germany, but has now
| succeeded Mr.. Silas C.. Halsey at Sonneberg.
Edmond Johnson, another Jerseyman, dis
graced the service at Kehl, and has been
succeeded by a German from South Dakota.
| James A. Demarest is a new man at Brook
l NllIS Jill, dl1O oNh lltAo o1Sh
| superseded at T~unstall, England. William
| H. Abercrombie still appears as Consul at
| Nagasaki, Japan. Bennington r. Bedle is
| still Consul at Sheffield, and a naturalized
! Austrian named Sigmund c. Braida, Consul
at San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua is
credited to New Jersey. This makes seven
| Jerseymen in the diplomatic and consular
| service since Mr.. Savage, who had been APP
| pointed Consul at Dundee, Scotland, died at
his post.
THE ~EAS DEPARTMENT.
In the Treasury Department, the first
Jerseyman we strike in the new Blue Book
| is Mr.. William B. Howell, a special en-
| ploye in the customs service at So a day for
every day in the year, who is detailed as
one of the private secretaries to the Assls-
tant Secretaries of the Treasul y. The
| next is an old employee, the Government Ac-
year. Uuder the Chief Clerk we find a lieu
tenant of the watch, a Waterman and a
| cabinetmaker hailing from New Jersey. In
the bureaus of the secretary's office are found
Theodore F. Swayze, $1,S00. Charles T. Bun
dick, superintendent of paper room, $1,000;
Smith, $1,000; John Curtis and r.. s.
Palmer, special inspectors of customs, 81
day. Charles L.. d. Washburn, second
comptroller's office, S1,400; Geo. Wheeler,
first auditors, $1,000; Lawrence L. Cannon,
same office, 81, 200; Edgar L. Booraem, sec
OnQ auQlGpf 81 pl,ouO, oOuu AoOh, oohiO
Office, 81, 800; Erastus H.. Taylor and Alex
ander D. Willard, same office, same pay;
William N~ewsmith, same office, s., 400;
Paul Richmond, $1,400; Mrs. A. G.
Hulburd, $1,000, same office; Fred G.
Dalrymple, S. ,400, third auditors; Hugh
Burns, s $1,000, same office; George s..
Newton, $1,000, same office. In the office
of the auditor of the Postofice Depart
ment, or the sixth auditors, the following
are charged to New Jersey:-William I'll.
Walton, 81, 900; Stephen E. Cough. $1,400;
Miss Mary j. Snowden, 81 ,400; Mrs. Lydia
K. White, 81, 600; Mrs. Julia d. Rainhard,
5000: Jacob r. Ballard, $840. In the Treas
urers office are:-Arthur F. Steward, 81
500; Captain James Gillin, $1,000; Miss
Lizzie B.. Smith. 81 200; Mrs. Cynthia M.
Ludlow, $1,000; Miss Belle S.. Tracey, ST.
600: Miss Rebecca F. Clark, 5000. In the
Redemption Agency Abram D. Van Der
yeer enjoys 81, 800. In the Registers office
are:-Paul Havenstein, $1,000; Joseph s.
Van Arsdale, 1000; Mrs, Hannah n.
Mann. 8. 200: Miss Clara V. Thomas, 5000;
Travis GIascoe, $720; Miss Elizabeth Glenn
emf. 81. 200, is one of the Assistant Superin-
tendents of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, also the following plate-printers,
who earn from IS to $40 a day:-John H..
Hawkins, Joseph F. Madden, Joseph Malloy,
Richard Rogers, Thomas S. Rogers, Chris
topher Rourke, Adolph j. Shippert, John L.
Sehmeiser. Asher w. Stockton, Charles F.
Stringer and John G.. Woodwork, also four
female operatives with an average salary of
$500, and three female printers assistants