The morning times., 1895-07-22
MISS KEi FULL OF HOPE
Her Future Bright with Promises
of Influential Friends.
INCREASING BANK ACCOUNTS
Does Not Think She Was Treated
Fairly in the Pension Bureau-Dls-
Was of the Very Simplest Kind.
Charged with Iuefficiency.

We'll, I'm out. but I'm going to die
game" was the Parthian arrow Mss EHz-
abeth Howard Key shot at the chief OF her
division in the Pension Bureau the day she
was dismissed from office.
Miss Key, OF course. did not die game,
for her cause was taken up by The Times
Her necessities were spread broadcast over
the country and now she is living game.
with $500 to her credit and her bills pad
to date
Miss Key was called on yesterday. when
she related the little incident above and
also expressed her grateful apprec iation
of the efforts of The Times in giving her
hearing before the public.
She has now quite different tone from
that III which she expressed herself when
telling the story of her distress She IS
anxious 10 get back into the government
service as a vinGicaron OF herself
WAS TREATED BADLY
She insists tAat she has been baby treated
during her service, foT she has been Contlau-
ously reduced until at Iast her work consisted
Of putting pension slips together in their
numerical order.
She used To Go recording and briefIng and
a higher class work. ard the strange part
OF dismissal IL that sae was declared IN
efficient when Sse had work to DO that
would not have tested the brain Of a six
year-olG girl.
Whatever 1 nay be-" said Miss Eeys,
commenting on this yesterday 10 TIE Times,
Il am not a fool"
Miss Key showed Tie Times yesterday a
copy of a letterin her behalf which had been
sent 10 Senator German by friend in ore
of the departments as early as June 2s and
after TIE case had been published IG The
Times. Miss Key does not know what re-
ply, If any, Senator Gormau made 10 the
official.
GORMAN PROMISED AID
Subsequently Miss Key wrote 70 Senator
German herself, and received a reply n
which he promised her assistance She
is also in receipt of a letter in which she
isinfurmed that the Key Monument As sOcid-
ton j. actively at work In her behalf
She believes that her dismissal was largely
due 10 the assistant chief in her division,
but she has no idea what were his motives
Miss Key has an abiding faith that sne
will be rein>tated. She is very grateful
90 the Mail and Express, which raised so
large a fund for her. Her finances viii
be largely increased by the proceeds of two
balls to be given, one at Catskin Hotel
and the other on Long Island
Miss Keys case is one for people to moral
iZe on. She is a deserving woman, the
granddaughter OF the author of the star
SpangIed Banner" and whose leaning was
toward the Confederate side in IN civil war.
SUPPORTING HERBLINDO OLD MOTHER.
She vasappOiutcd from Maryland through
the influence of Democratic senator from
Ohio She had been working herpicaHy
to support an aged. partly bIInI mathcr,
and brother who had served n the Con-
federate army. and whom recently she was
obliged to send to the Confederate Home
at Baltimore.
She was in dire distress after her dismissal
The Times came to her rescue, her home
has been frightened, her mother and
brother are again out Of want, and she no
longer feels that She Is going to die game.
Life IS again worth living.