The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-10

he was employed by a copper and
nickel company which was doing bust
ness with the navy department. His
pay from the government was $4,000
and from the contractors $1,000 year.
Lieut.. C. A. Stone had been on leave
for more than two years and during
that time he was in the employ of the
Carnegie company, which was furnish
ing armor plate to the government.
Lieut.. A. V. Wadhams was delivering
lectures on the navy for his private
profit. Lieut.. briggs had been on
leave for five years, looking after tEe
manufacture of gun which he had
invented and which private corpora
ton was manufacturing to sell to the
government Lieut.. Ciason was off on
leave, settling up an estate. Lieut..
Seabury was working for a company
winch was making ordnance. for the
army. Chief Engineer Towne was
working at the Cramps shipyard at
$4,000 year supervising the making OF
machinery whose designs he, in his
official capacity, had approved Lieut.
Wood had been drawing 81, 800 a year
from the navy department for three
and one-half years, and in all that time
he had been managing the affairs of
a projectlle company which did bust
ness with the government. Naval Con-
structor Armistead was representing
the interests of some Boston contrac-
tors against the government while
drawing government pay. Civil En-
gineer Menocal had been on leave for
four years looking after the interests
OF the Nicaragua Canal company. OF
which he was the chief engineer.
And well up on the list of favorites
was Robert e. Peary, to whom the
n ha tod
leave from March l. 1891, to Nov. e
1895, for arctic explorations.
NAVAL INSTRUCTION
Some years ago all the naval con-
structors were appointed from civil life.
There was no course at the naval acad-
envy which would equip the cadets for
this delicate and important work. The
English government permitted two stu
dents from each foreign nation to at
tend the naval school at Greenwich.
The secretary of the navy determined
to send two of our brightest cadets
there for a three years course. In the
following year two were sent to GlaS-
gov, and a year later two to Paris
These students had opportunities they
could not have had under any other
conditions. They came home better
equipped than any Of the civilian
naval constructors, whom they soon
displaced. After a few years the build
ers Of ships, Who were working on
government contracts. learned how
valuable the services of these men
were, and offered them large salaries.
Several of them resigned their COM
missions to accept private employment,
and one is running a shipyard of his
own today.
1t is very pleasant for these bright young
men to better their condition. though it is
difficult for you and me to see where the
ha p0StI
education given to them. However, l hold
them in higher respect than the officers who
accepted service against the government
while they were drawing government pay.
A great many of the who are here
after office now say they want ''si-ne-cu-res.
They want pleasant places in which there
place held by Buchanan Schley, of Maryland.
under Secretary Carlisle would suit them
very well-a place they would not have to
visit more than once a week. or, better still,
would be the place of the auditor just re-
moved by Secretary Gage, who staid at his
home in the South and kept up communica-
ton with the treasury only to the extent of
drawing his pay. Many men want consulates
because they think consuls have little to do.
Perry Carson. the colored representative of
the district at many Republican conventions
says frankly that he wants consulate be-
cause he has asthma and the climate of
Washington does net agree with him.
great many men want consular places
because they think they will have plenty of
eminent has been very kind to writer's. There
are many conspicuous cases of literary men
who have held places in the consular serv-
ice. William Dean Howells did his prentice
work at story writing while holding Italian
consulship. He won his place by political
work-the writing of a life of Abraham Lin
coin for campaign use In the year of How
ellis appointment, John Bigelow was sent to
Paris, and later he made minister to
France. Hinton Rowan Helper was sent to
Buenos Ayres by Lincoln. George Perkins
Marsh was another literary man honored by
Lincoln. He had been in the diplomatic serv-
ice, though, for many years before Lincoln
made him minister to Italy.
LITERATURE AND OFFICE.
Bret Harte was consul at Crefeld Germany.
for two years and at Glasgow for five. He
was appointed by Hayes, and Hayes also sent
Andrew D. White as minister to Germany
the place Mr.. White is going to fill again.
Garfield sent Lew Wallace as minister TO Tur-
key. Sunset Cox was another literary man
who went to Turkey, though Mr.. Cox was
more a politician than a literateur. James
Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley George
Bancroft and Edward Everett were the lit
erary predecessors of John Hay at London.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Donald Grant
Mitchell held consuships the first at Liver
pool and the second at Venice
The list of literary men in the archives
of the state department is long This admin
istration furnishes its full quota. After Mr.
Hay comes General Horace Porter our en-
bassador to France. General Porter told me
recently that he was urged to enter literature
when he left the army, but he saw no promise
of reward in it, so he entered business life
Now that he is wealthy literature is a recre-
alton for him Andrew D. White is another
litterateur whom this administration has hon
ored, and the Swedes Of the Northwest are
urging President Mckinley to name for the
Swedish mission that splendid story-teller
and eloquent lecturer Paul B. Du Chailu.
George Grantham Balm