Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
For Car Fare-Minister De LONE
and His Work For Spain.
Especial Correspondence


there is a clerk in one of the depart.
! ,ments who holds the record. He lives
| in Baltimore and has travelled those sc
miles back and forth every weekday
for over 20 years. He has travelled there
:ore nearly II, 900 miles. He rides over
a mile to reach the depot when he leaves
the department, and when he gets to
Baltimore he has three miles more to
ride in Q street car to reach his home.
This eight miles q day on the street cars
amounts i'll 20 years to 1,7OO miles,
which makes his total mileage 10, 700
miles, or the distance chat would be
travelled in two trips across the ocean,
added to four trips across our CONT
nent. In the 20 years he has never been
over half hour late except during a
couple Of billiards. The same days,
however, there were clerks late who on
~ had mile or so to travel from their
homes to the departments. He has spent
some of the time on the cars in the
mastery Of foreign languages, and now
is able to speak and translate German,
Spanish, French and Italian
4HOOS3uQS Ii O1f rare.
He has spent One-sixth of the hours
he has beef awake, over 8 hours each
day, or in al: over p years, on the cars.
AS far as money goes his expenditure
has been very large, though of course
he has Travelled all this time ON com1nu-
tation tickets. His daily trip to and
from Baltimore has cost him in 20
years nearly 81, 900, for the lowest COM
mutation fO' three months has never
been less THAI it is now-$45. Add to
this his street car fare to and from the
depot in BaltimOre-10 cents each day
and his street car fare to and from
the depot in this city-10 cents per day
which makes nearly $1,000 in 20
years. And yet he recently told a Star
reporter that living in Baltimore has
cost him less than if he lived in Wash
ingtOn.
De Lone AID American Prisoners.
Senior De LONE, the Spanish minister,
is in luck. He now has things in his
own hands. For long time De. LONE
had to make all his communications
with Cuba through Madrid. By recent
change of policy he is given direct au-
thority, and what he says is respected
by Weyler. Spain's new policy of re-
leasing American prisoners in Cuba was
instituted at De Lome's instance and
was designed to hold public sentiment
in this country and the Mckinley ad-
ministration in check. De LONE is a
very successful minister and has accom-
plished wonders, considering the odds
he has had to fight against.
TO
the Spanish minister that whereas the
Cuban junta in this country was for
merly getting $4,000 a month from the
Florida cigar makers tho receipts are
now only Sc, 900 month.
Tricks Of the Senators.
The tricks by which senators avoid
the crush Of Office seekers are not al
ways in vain, although they may be
peculiar.
For instance, a senator from an east
ern state, who has about so callers at
his hotel every morning, gathers the
cards in a bunch and sends down a re-
quest to the applicants that they wait
until he is through breakfast. So they
wait. Meanwhile the senator slips
through a side door of the hotel cafe
and is on his way to the White House
before the crowd is aware Of his de-
parture.
Mrs. Westinghouse, wife of the Pitts
burg millionaire, who lives in the
Blaine mansion in Dupont circle, has
hit upon new scheme to aid "a deserv-
ing local charity. She recently gave the
use of her house for one day to 200 peo-
pie who played progressive euchre for
prizes. Tickets were 81 each, and the
prizes were donated. The charity got all
the money.
Government Clerks and Baseball.
''The departments gain great deal
by the baseball fever observed de-
partment clerk, 'sand though some
clerks waste considerable time during
the office hours in talking baseball and
the probable outcome of the season as
to how the various clubs in the League
will stand when frost comes again they
more than make it up by hurrying dur
ing the afternoon hours to get their
desks clean SO that they will have no
in quitting work the moment
the clock strikes and be off for the
game. I don't know how it will be
later on In the season, for expect, and
so do all other baseball cranks, that this
will be a baseball administration from
the president all the way down to the
clerks, but [ am confident that |
the departments will gain more by the
extra amount Of work done than they
will lose by the time spent in the morn
ing hours talking of the game. The
treasury department. is probably more
1aft on ball than any other department.
1t is not confined to young men, as some |
might imagine, for some of the most |
rooters are men who are |
past what is known as middle age
The Retirement of Justice Field