The morning times., 1896-04-08
CIyiI Pensinn Iis1

Civil Pension List.
Editor Times: In your issue of Saturday y
last appeared a communication with rel
crence TO the pensIonlnS OF government
clerks, which | think shows the PROPOSED
billin an unfair light. Your correspondent
makes the bold assertion that the Large
ma JOTity OF clerks are bitterly opposed
to 1t. Perhaps lie has made an iHd..
yidual canvass or the deparIme nts. and IL
so Is, OF course, emitted 10 speak with
assurance OH that point.
There is, 1t Is true, hundreds of men
supporting large families OH 81 900 per
annuin, but from what l know of The
battle or life, l think those same men
would Just as willingly have accepted the
same positions hau the salary attached
been $500 or $500, instt al or 81 900,
ana lr they cannot atIord to save SO per
ahnum, IL would be an excellent thing. III
view OF the possibility OF their some ia =
being discharged from the service, If tht.
government snouid iegIslate in tneir IL
terest as 1t dots iii some other Instances
Tor people who have been unable or un-
Wiling TO look At the inevitable future.
How many, or how few, benefit by the
bill is n matter OF 10 consequence: as those
who never receive pensions will be III no
way injured by It's passage, a s they Will
receive with interest all tne money they
have paid iu. Your correspondent ma kes
Il point OF what he consiGers the liz
justice OF one man being penSioned al
81 800 and another at S675, where:-
II might with equal sense be asked, is
the justice or one man receiving a s..lary
or $500, while another receives $7,2UU
Tor doing the same work. Such Cond.-
tions are inScparabie from government
employ, or, in TACT. from any emp oymeni
Ill when Il large force of men is engaged.
Such paints bear the ear marks OF an
tquity; we may read OF them III the Bilie.
Now, suppose man puts by SO per
year for tnirtS-five years, he accumu!ates
500. Would this amount suffice for
period at which he becomes useless to
the government, and is consequently dis
charged. to the period of his death? I'm
doubleday not, IN the same manner thai
the bill, il passed, would DO.
The passage OF this bill would open UP
avenues TO promotion, hitherto c.oSed,
besides giving outsiders Il chance 10 OF
tain positions and would more over render
less necessary that reduction of force,
which is somewhat OF nightmare 10 not
n few OF Uncle Sans workers. 1t should
not be overlooked, either, that tile IL
crease of salary consequent on promotion
would in one year cover the per cent
assessment for many years. i am or the
opinion that many clerks have been scared
into opposition to this bill by the mere
mention OF the word ''assessment,' not
having stopped 10 consider calmly the pos
sible benefits which may lie behind
AS to the stability OF the scheme, it Is
to be presumed, from the fact OF Its pre-
sentati0n before Congress, that statistics
measure. WAX.
Editor Times: Having read a great deal
lately about the seating capacity OF the
blea Chers being infringed on by Mr.. Wag-
ner in extending the so cent seats. and see
ing several conflicting statements in your
paper recently regarding 1t, the writer
visited the park yesterday AFTERNOON tC
| make little observation hinselT Mr.
| Wagner. In an interview. made the remark
able statement that a nan at theateT
could not get as good Il seat FOR 20 cents
| as he could for 81 so
Right. But the man who buys twenty
five-Cent ticket ut IL theater sees full
perfo rmance, ana not only one act A
| sign in large letters on Mr. Wagner's bal
park reads, NO rain checks after third
| inning" Everyone knows ii takes five
| full innings to make game, aud when
| rain .stops the play, even at the end ol
| the fourth inning that il is no game, but
| your money is gone. The writer has FIRE
ouently gotten wet at u ball game, but
! has no recollection OF ever being hall
drO wned at Il theater.
Again, MT Wagner says the increasing
! demand for more fifty-cent seats mac. ii
imperatiye to increase the space for this
| class OF patronage. The writer has seer
| every championship game but five played
| here the last two years, and. with the ex
/ ceptiOn Of holidays, has never seen tht
| left field fifty-cent seats filled yet, whilt
1 hundreds were standing up TO see the game
| from the bleachers. One who did moi
! know the average patron of the open seats
| Judging from the way the newspaper mel
| sneak OF him, would imagine he was q
| hybrid, a mixture OF mule and maniac
| He is nothing OF the kind; only a. man who
| pays to see Il good, clean game or base
| bah, and Is willing 10 sit in the hot sur
| TO do so.
| The correspondent twhodefended Mr.. Wag
ncr's poiicy in your paper the other day
| sa wing only about sixty feet or the twenty
] five cent seats had Eeen disturbed, mus
| have measured with rule unknown &c
| us all, for at least 40 feet have beer
| cut off Mr. Wagner seems very desirou'
| TO cater to the ladies and offers them every
| inducement TO visit the park very SoOu
| Rnt do they pay like the bleache rite, who
| sits in the sun and has to pay TWENTY-FIVE
cents for the privilege? Nit. If Mr.. Wag
! ner would cover the right field seats anC
| charge TWENTY-FIVE cents he would attract
| 10 the park hundreds OF people who VIII
! not sit in the sun, and who believe, like
the writer that baseball is worth twenty
! five cents and no more, and will neyel
| pay fifty cents. H. w.