The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-23

| partn,ent. They are more infreQuen'
than in any other branch of the govern
| ment.
The following Statement. shows the age:
CT the employees:
Under % years Of age..............1.s0 1
Between % and 30...................2,5 ls
Between 80 and 35...................2,S 4s
Between 35 ana 40...................2,03 ;
| Between 40 and As. ................-1,I6 t
! Between 45 and 50..................1,S9 6
| Between so and 55..................1,97 -
| Between 55 and CO.. ..................1,2 Ss
| Between 80 and 65.................. 142
! Between IS and Observation-Disclosures. 3SS
Between 20 and Observation-Disclosures. 1S2
Between Is and 0................... 81
! Between 80 and 55.................... 81
Between IS and observation-disclosures.
| Between 80 and STANDARDIZATION.
Until recently the Oldest enploye in
| the service Of the government was Will
| lam Plume Moran, who was born In
| Norfolk, Va. in 1911, and was identi-
| fed with the navy a few months less
than seventy years. In 1927, when but
| Is years Of age, he was appointed clerk
| 10 the captain Of the port Of Norfolk
and served as such until August IS
| 1880, when ne went to sea as a captain S
| clerk. and served on one ship or another
| until October %, 1913, when he was ap-
| po'ated to o clerkship in the navy de-
| partment at Washington. Last summer
the old gentleman was forced to resign
| by Score cery Herbert on the ground
| that ne was not able TO properly perform
| the duties Of mis- Office, and as there is
| ians no provision could be made for him.
Al the time OF his entrance to the sarv-
ice there were only thirteen persons in
the navy department.
Uncle Billy" Moran, as he - known
by every officer in the service, is living
quietly with his sors in this city, and
there is now a movement on foot 20 raise
a purse for mis- benefit that will relieve
him from all anxiety during his declin-
ing years.
At the time Of his retirement there was
| not an officer in the United States navy
whose commission did not bear Mr.. Mo-
rams signature. There are many Of
ficers in the service, from ensign to ad-
| miral, whose commissions bear his s'g-
| nature. and Mr.. Moran had such a re-
markable memory that he could call
every officer by name. although their
visits TO Washington We're infrequent.
He could also give offhand the record of
every officer without reference to the
register. and there was no man in the
world more popular than he.
Dr,-ipo mic I,nu life Mr. Aforap {,
witness Of and participant in many ex-
citing events. He was a clerk 20 Cap
tain Beverly Kennon on the frigate Van
dalia in the harbor OF Rio de Janeiro, in
1881. when Dom Pedro l., the first en-
peror of Brazil. was overthrow. and his
son Dom Pedro H.. then years old. was
crowned in mis- stead. Mr. Moran wiz
messed the entire proceeding
For several years after ne entered the
service there was not a steam vessel in
the navy, and he is the onlyiiving man
the People, or Fulton, as il was after
ward known. the first government vessel
TO which steam power was applied.
In 1920 Commodore Barron of the navy
killed Commodore Decatur in a duel At
Bladensburg. 1t was a most sensation
al event Mr.. Moran. then a boy Of 9.
was stationed 10 receive a signal from
the dueling ground as to the result. Dur
ing the war Mr.. Moran was a confidential
clerk of Secretary Welles, and received
and translated h's cipher dispatches.
Since Nj Moy-an's dismissal the Oldest
senior clerk in the executive departments
is Richard White of the District Of Co
lumbia, who was appointed to a clerk
ship in the Office of the auditor OF the
postoffice department December q, 1895,
by President Andrew Jackson This
was five months after the organiza ton
Of the bureau. Mr. White celebrated
MS diamond anniversary December q
last. His health is excellent, he retains
all his mental faculties ard appears at
his desk regularly with the other clerks
every day. When Mr. White first en-
tered the service there We're u.091 post
Offices. the annual revenues We're 49,
40S,323. The annual expenditures were
s5.s4.7 sS. and il cost 81, SIS. o52 for the
transportation OF the mails during the
year. Now there are 7o.3e0 postcfices.
the revenues reach $50. f9o. a0S. the ex-
penditures s9o,s2s 29s. and it costs s47.-
+42.634 annually 20 pay for the transoor-
alton o: the mails
The next eldest clerk in the pos-oftica
department is Matthew a. Turner OF
Pennsylvania, who is employed in the
same Office. He was appointed August
Is. 1919. and mas held the same desx
ever since. He is a Methods; clergy
man. and occasionally supplies The pull
pits OF churches in the District OF CO.
lu-,loia in connection with his official
duties. He has the reputation of having
married more couples than any minister
il the district
According 20 The last department CEN
sus iae length ot service o: clerks vas
a. follows:
sixty years and over -.-. !
Fftty-seveu years NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ]
Fcr;y-eiEl: years ..-.---...----..-.-. 4
Eorsy-Seven years observation-disclosures 4
Fo-'y-Six years NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. !.
Fo--y-five years -.--.--.-----..---- .
For;y-folr years -----.------------.- 5
Fsorty-tdrec years -.-----.-------.--.. II
Forsy-,wo years -..--------..-- 9
FOXY wears .-------------.------
Th.r,--r35e years --------------------- =
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