Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06

ed four negro pcstmasters. Monroe B. Nor
TOM at Athens. Ca. will receive g. 40O a
Rocky Mount. N. C.. and Darien. Ga. viii
pay the new incumbents 81 600, 81, 100 and
| $1,000 respectively. The highest office in
| respect to salary held by a negro under
the Post ONCE Department is that lately
given to- John p Green of Ohio. who will
| realize $500 year for his duties as post
age stamp agent. He was formerly a ne
gro lawyer in Cleveland where, il was
said, he had built up practice worth from
$S,VoO to $4,000 year. He spent fifteen
years in public Office in Ohio as justice of
the peace and as member of the state sem
ate. Altogether fourteen colored people
nave received appointments under the Post
ONCE Department since March 4.
Lucrative Positions.
A number of lucrative positions under
the Interior Department have lately been
given to colored men. Altogether eighteen
have received appointments there since in
auguration. John c. Leftwich. recently
appointed receiver of the land Office at
Montgomery, Ala- will receive $500 year in
regular salary and about $500 more a year
in fees. James Hill and Hershel V. Cashin,
who have been made register of the land
cmce at jackson, Miss, and receiver of
public moneys at Huntsville, Ga. will get
Vow and S2.iOJ, respectively, out of their
salaries and fees. J. William Cole, who is
special examiner in the pension office
respected colored man who has been con-
nected with the Interior Department since
1871, when he entered the service as q
messenger. He was born of free parents
and reared in Philadelphia. He was edu-
Gated in the Quaker schools of that city,
and has since pronted by their highly re-
hEed influence. lie is a light mulatto with
very intellectual face and now performs
the duties OF an assistant chief of division.
Another Afro-American who has worked
himself up through the ranks of the In
terror Department is Henry E. Baker of
Mississippi. assistant examiner in the divi-
sion which Easses upon instruments of
precision. acoustics, etc. He has been
connected with the department since 1876.
aLd Is eligible, through examination, for
promotion to the grade of principal ex-
aminer, with a salary of $500 a year, al
though ne now receives but S1,2OG.
Few responsible positions are held by
negroes In the departments of Justice and
Agriculture, whose employees of any
standing are devotees either of the law or
the sciences. The only colored man worthy
of special mention in the former depart
ment is Albert K. Brodie of North Caro-
Ina, a Sl,GuO clerk, who has been detailed
as acting chief clerk on one or two occa-
SONS. Over fifty cclored men and women
have received appointments under the
present administra ton in the government
printing Office, where they are employed
usually as folders, binders or in similar
occupations.
At the White House.
Five coiored people are employed al the
White House. Presidents OF the United
States have always preferred negroes to
wait upon them. VIM. Z. Sinclair. who
was steward of the Executive Mansion I'M
der Cleveland, was retained by President
Mckinley, were practically all of the
previous employees of his official house
hold. Sinclair was brought to the White
House by Mr.. Cleveland, for whom he had
served during many years, d personal
servant and confidential messenger. In his
capacity as steward of the White House
he Is custodian of GheS costly furniture. sill
Yer plate and tbEna Where installed for
the Use of Presidents, and is under bond
of $4,000 for it's safe keeping. His
salary is Sl,SUO Il year Arthur Simmons
another former employe of the Executive
Mansion, who was retained by President
Mckinley, receives $1.2O0 a year for his
duties as messenger to Secretary Porter
at whose door he keeps faithful watch
during the hours when that patient lieuten-
ant of the chief executive is at his desk.
Colored men are employed attendants
in many of the libraries connected with
the government. Several of these in the
law library of Congress have rhe-
nomenal memories of the titles and loca-
tions of the books there installed. Daniel
Murray, attendant in the national library,
is an unusually intellectual Afro-Ameriean
He receives 81, 400 "a year. Librarian
Young about week ago conferred a SIM
liar position upon Paul l.. Dunbar of Ohio
the celebrated negro poet.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr.