Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-13

geged daily now in folding, placing in en-
.eiopes, sealing and delivering the fhe,.S=
TO the express companies. Each envelope
Is required to be- sealed with five wax
seals. When the work is done the seaIers
Will have put the treasury impress IN wax
ON not less than 100000 of these seals.
Delivering the Bonds.
The interest checks, too, are required to
be inclosed with the bonds. Every day now
there are delivered to the express COM
panies 5000 of the bonds. Later on (. may
be possible to increase the number deliv-
cred daily, but Just now the delivery
amounts to the fun responsibility which
the express companies care to undertake,
as well as the capacity of the department
lor handling the bonds. Ii really makes
no diherence to persons who have been
successful whether they receive the bonds
now or not If they have subscribed for
amounts ranging from $500 TO 81, 100 the
treasury Department recognizes an assign
nent OF the allotment which enables the
successful subscriber to enter the market
and dispose of his bonds at a premium,
now about s per cent. AS the bonds carry
thelr own interest from August l there is
no loss TO subscribers in that respect, and
as the security of the government is of
the best there can be little cause for COM
paint II the department shall not be able
TO complete these deliveries for month or
more.
II the government should ever again
undertake a popular loan the experience
gained durirg the present one will be valu-
able The temporary force was recruited
OUTSIDE the classified civil service, and
mainly OF the citizens of Washington. For
the most part the clerks are bright young
people many being graduates Of the
schools of Washington last spring.
From the District Public ShcooIs.
In shifting the work from division to
DIVISION Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has
endeavored to advance those who had de-
n'onstrated their ability, and in comment
ing upon this feature of the work he saws
that AS an evidence of the advantages of
the public schools you will find that at the
very head of the work there are two young
ladies' who have advanced from the opan-
ing division to responsible positions in the
DIVISION where the allotments are made
These young ladies are graduates of the
Washington Normal School,
me force has been enthusiastic If ts
work. Inc assistant secretary has been
an example for the clerks under him, Hld
parted to them something of the untiring
energy and enthusiasm which he himself
has put into the task
During part of the time the force has
lot ohiy worked from 8 to 3 during the
DAY, but again in the evening from to
io:oo making an additional alf-day's pay
AT times. too, an extra force has been put
on at night.
When will the work end?' is an alb
soroing topic with the clerks of the tempo
laiy force mat cannot be answered def
mteiy. The department has completed the
force and no more appointments are being
made, but there are new problems arising
every day-neW work to be done-anG it
may be that most of the present force will
pc continued for two months, probably on
into October.
Colonel Joseph Noble has had direct
charge of the large force of clerks at the
post office building. His work has been ar
duous and important and has been per-
formed to the satisfaction of the Treasury
Department.
Two other men holding positions of great
Importance are w. l.. Rohrer and c. III.
Merwin, who has been in the treasury for
thirty years. These two men are engaged
In the work of asserting and sending out
the bonds to the subscribers Mr. ROhrer
Is young man Of the best business at
tainments. He was prominent in Califor-
MA politics as We'll in business. He
mad not been in the employ of the govern
inent before Mr.. Vanderlp first selected
him as chief of a division in the bond work
Mr.. Rohrer was next selected to become
the head of the small but important force
engaged IN sealing and shipping the bonds
to every part of the country. In this posi-
ton MIR. Rohrer is the last man to handle
each bond before it is turned over to the
express company to be sent to It's destina-
for every bond. Millions of dollars in bonds
have already passed through his hands His
work has been SO efficiently done as to
frequently receive the commentator Of
both Mr.. Vanderlip and Secretary Gage.
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Love of Home Among the Sick Poor
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, speaking
of her work among the cancerous poor,
M to,t1a Wv {ba or
and the desire to keep their families to-
gether that she found among the poor wo-
men of the tenements. So greatly do they
dread the breaking up of their pitifully
poor homes that they prefer to stay there,
in many cases even when they would be in
finltely more comfortable in a hospital
One poor old woman, she instancad, had d
miserable little room, but she had worked
for years to keep it and have all her poor
belongings about her. Urged to go 10 the
hospital where she could be well cared for,
she refused, and at last the reason came
out. A brother whom Mrs. Lathrop had
often noticed about the tenement, had spin
al disease, and was dependent for both care
and support on his sister. If she left the
little home her husband would not accept
the burden; so the woman, forgetting her
own misery, chung to the home IN order to
keep the care of her brother. Other women
with little children, or useless, drunken
husbands, sacrifice themselves for the sake
of those they love. Mrs. Lathrop declares
cancer to be much more prevalent than
even consumption, though it is more fire.
quently concealed. Its ravages among the
poor washerwoman and charwomen are
horrifying. 1t is estimated, says Mrs.
Lathrop that while among 1000 women In
fortunate circumstances you will find eight
ases of cancer among the same number
of poor women forced to live in unnygienic
surroundings, and doing hard work there
will be found at least 300 afflicted ones. In
this connection, Mrs. Lathrop made an elo-
quent appeal for consecrated women to
take up the work of caring for these in
durable cases.
The Worm Has Turned.
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
new craze that is spreading in elite cir
cles both in London and New York is the
cooking school for men. Last summer quite
q number were established at the resorts