Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
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in his shirt sleeves was not dressed as he
should be, ana the office coat has peeu
the universal rule ever since. Recently.
when there was some talk of Introducing
shirt waists for men as well as women.
IL was agreed among ourselves that If any
man came in the land Office with shirt
waist instead of wearing an office coat he
would get strong hint that he was vIo-
lating the rule of the office. In private
concerns the clerks may, of course, 1ress
as they desire, but when one connects him
self with the great big government he has
II submit TO the customs and rules. Sew
eral years ago when the outing neglge
shirt came in with its leather belt attach
ment it was thought that it settled the
question. but the innovation failed to get
there and the office coat was insisted on.
During Cleveland's first administration the
register of the treasury not only refused
to allow any clerk to appear at work In
his shirt sleeves, but even went farther and
decided that some of the things worn and
thought to be coats were not; that an Of
flee coat. with one sleeve or a half of its
front gone. or otherwise badly damaged.
was not a coat, and that the coat should
be all there to be a coat. The Same step
was taken in the auditors office. Tho Post
Office Department clerks are probably more
careless and old-fashioned than any in the
service of the government and they insist
on a coat, it matters not how trifiins il 49,.
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AT the opening of every presidential
campaign there Is always a big demand for
collections of campaign badges. state and
rational. used in the campaigns of the
past. and to supply the demand collectors
are on the lookout all over the country"
said prominent dealer in campaign ma
terfal to Star reporter. There is a the
DRY existing all over the country that there
Is a quantity Of such material to be found
in Washington. and my trip here is to So
cure what l can. But l think I have been
r,isinformed. for so far I have not been
able to buy anything in that line. There
may be collections enough. but those who
have them do not care to sell. The fact
of the matter is there are but few very
few. complete collections of campaign
badges in existence. Two of them are
owned in New York. one In Chicago, one
in Philadelphia and one in Louisville. There
are quite a number of elections dating
back to Grants first political campaign.
In later years the campaign badge, the dis
tinctive campaign badge, has gone out Of
existence. having been supplanted by the
campaign button. which is much heater
and much less costly. 1t is also more ar
tistic and Photographic as regards accu-
racy. The demand for collections of cam
paign badges cones from proprietors of
museums and the rich political clubs.
Union Leagues and the like. I don't think
1t is generally known. but people in my
business have found 1t out, that there Is
more politics and things connected with
1t. banners, flags. badges. buttons, torches.
in Ohio and Indiana than in any other half
dozen states combined. There are lots of
political clubs in those states which have
full collections of their state campaign
badges from the admission of the states to
the Union down to the present. and as far
as have been able to discover In my deal
ings with them. they the only states
which have. Many of the prominent polit-
ical clubs in the other states own partial
collections of the badges used in national
campaigns, but pay little attention to state
them.
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''1f there is any animal that knows more
than a horse" remarked a member of the
fire department the other day, I'D like to
see 1t. / mean one that knows more than
a smart horse. for there are fool horses as
we'll as fool people. and once in while
We get of these fool horses in the fire
department. But l will say that our horses
a rule are pretty smart and knowing.
remember one we had in this company some
years ago that actually could count George
was his name. if l remember rightly, and
George was one of those horses that never
did any more work than he was obliged to.
Not that he couldn't. but just because like
some people you run across. he was OPP
posed to looking for work. Well, every
company in the fire department has a Ger
tain district 20 cover on first alarms. That
is. every company responds to certain boxes
the first alarm. ard doesn't go to others
except on special or general alarms Well,
sir. we didn't have George many months
before that horse came to know our dis
tr:ct just well any of the men. He
knew the boxes we went out 10 on the first
alarm, and 1t is a fact that that horse got
that he'd wait and count the first round
before he'd bulge out of his stall. If the
box not In district George would
walk ieisurely TO ms place, but If 1t was
one we were due al on tho first alarm, he
would rush down to his place In those
days we had to hitch up on every alarm
that came In. whether it was in our dis
trict or not, and stand hitched for fifteen
or twenty minutes. George knew this, Of
course. and that was why he'd always take
his time going to his place when the box
wasn't in our district. And It's fact that
II he was eating when an outside box came
in. he'd just keep on eating until the fore
man yelled out to bring him down to his
place OF course, row and then George
would miscount the box. and rush to his
place on box not in our district. But
VIXEN he did mako a mistake like that
which was precious seldom, that horse
would get so mad and feel so bad about it
that he wouldn't get over 1t for day or
So"
OF course. hard luck does overtake some
men. but IN will IISuaIIv ba found that thav