Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazetts.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1884.

Correspondence Of the Alezandris Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10, 1894.
The large number of women clerks
dismissed outright in the Treasury De-
partment during the past few days has
attracted considerable attention here.
Il is said to mark a new policy in
Treasury appointments in the future.
OF the clerks 70 far discharged fully hve
sixths have been women clerks OF the
high salaried grades. The vacancies
created by the discharge of the women
will he filled by appointing or promot-
ing men to the places. The flood tide
of women clerks in the Treasury has
u.en reached and henceforth, it is said,
that men will usually be appointed to
the higher places. Some divisions are
said to be seriously crippled from the
heavy prepondersnce of women clerks,
and in some rooms, where the ledgers
are very heavy, they have to be lifted
into place and shifted as occasion re-
uuires by the men in the office. AS a
rule, it is said, that the women clerks
are absent on account of sickness much
more than men clerks, which has had
a potent influence in causing the change
of policy as to appointments now being
inaugurated.
With Secretary Carlisle looking down
on him from a panel photograph, Su'
pervising Architect O'Rourke sat at his
desk this morning in the Treasury De-
partment and wrote his resignation.
MIR. O'Rourke says he feels no resent
ment against Secretary Carlisle, as he
is convinced the Secretary's mind has
been influenced by surroundings antag-
onistic to himself. II have a great
admiration for Secretary Carlisle" he
said to-day, "and shall carry his pic
ture to my home in Newark, N. j.,
with me. I prize it high"
All the American consuls In CHINA
have been instructed by the State De-
partment to protect the Japanese at
their respective ports. That such is
the case is the subject of some adverse
comment here among those who think
this government has as much as it can
we'll Go to attend to its own affairs.
Congressman Catchings of Mississippi,
who is now here, says the action of the
Louisiana sugar planters in joining the
republican party is the best thing that
could have happened for the democra-
CIV, as the latter are strong enough to
stand the loss, and as their detection
relieves the democratic party of the
handicap that has heretofore prevented
it from providing for free sugar. "A
New Orleans democrat here to-day says
he hears a great deal more about dem
ocratic detection in his State here than at
home. and that the detection is not
alarming the Louisiana democrats, as
they will get two negro votes for every
white one they may lose.
The body of Robert Reitzel was tax
en- out of the ruins of the Stumph mat
tress factory yesterday. One other is
vet to be found, and a force of twenty
workmen are searching for it. Six
men met death in the building, one
died at the Emergency Hospital, and
another is in a critical condition there.
All the bodies taken to the morgue
| Monday and the one found yesterday
have been identified as follows: Willie
Ash, fifteen years old; Whitney M
| Tennyson, ifty.eight; Philip Reichman,
| fifty; Francis Henry Fowler, thirty,
two, and Robert Reitzel, twenty-one.
The body in the ruins is that of Philip
Alderman, who lived on New York
avenue, and about whom 80 little is
known. James E. Vaughn died at the
Emergency Hospital from injuries re-
ceived by jumping. Fowler is a Ca
madam. He came to Washington fro
Brantford, Ontario, a few years ago.
Harry Bacon, who was injured, came
from the same place. A. j. Haske,
who had both legs broken, was thought
to be dying last night, but he rallied
and is somewhat improved to-day.
Congressman Meredith and Judge
McCabe of Loudoun county left here
| this morning for Stafford G. H., where
Mr.. McCaull will meet them to-day,
and, it is understood, Mr.. Mason also.
Among the callers at democratic
headquarters here to-day was Con-
gresham Turner of Virginia. He says
he will be elected by the usual demo
cratic majority in the district. His re,
publican opponent, thinking that as be
had published his appointments he
would not break them, proposed discus
| sions at different dates, and was greatly
surprised when Mr.. Turner promptly
Cancelled his appointments and accepted
the challenge. A letter received at
headquarters to-day from Judge Morri-
SOD, of the 9th Virginia district, says all
the prospects there are favorable to his
| election. The information at head
| quarters on the subject is, that all ten
OF the Virginia districts will elect DEM
| ocrats in November also that the
democratic majority in the House will
be large enough for all practical pur-
poses.
A Virginian who OWNS a salt mine in Now
York, here to-day, says the removal of the
tariff tax on salt, effected by the German bill,
will reduce his profits somewhat, but will not
hurt him, as salt can be made here as cheaply
as anywhere else on the face of the earth.
THE ANTI-TILLMANITEs.-The anti
Tillman convention adjourned carly
yesterday morning without making any
nominations, the vote being 120 against
and 104 in favor of nominating. Reso-
buttons passed demand of the State
convention, which meets to-day, the
adoption of the Chicago platform and a
declaration of loyal allegiance to the
democratic party; the reputation ofthe
action of the State convention of 1892,
which adopted the Ocala platform as