Evening star., 1900-08-18
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.As was predicted by many in the past
s,x months the weekly pay day in the
Treasury Department has been aooEsheu'
explained treasury official to star re-
porter The abolition did not come a day
too soon, for the system of paying on every
week has not only proven failure out mas
thrown hundreds of clerks, messengers anu
other employees in debt from which many
Will be a long time getting cleared up fof
many years the Treasury Department PAID
of but once a month Some of the other
departments having adopted a system Oh
paying off semi-monthly, number of
clerks pe,itfoned for the seIni-monthly pay
day, and after several years agitation II
was adopted great many found it con-
yeuience at least they thought they did,
though a number of the more solid clerks
refused TO take advantage of 1t for long
time Finally 1t was rather rare thlns
for clerk not to take his pay In the mid
Ole of the month. though there are some
who have never doIre So In couple OF
years an agitation came about for an IN
crease of pay days. 1t was argued that as
two pay days month was an Improvement
one pay day. weekly pay day would be
proportionately Improvement The
weekly pay day found many advocates, and
the question having been left to the en-
ployes to decide for themselves kind OF
q vote taken. Nearly 40 per cent
favored weekly pay day. and the depart
ment adopted 1t, not, however. without
many E!isgivings as to its success Since
then the Treasury Department has paid OFF
every week to all who desired It, Probably
so per cent of the employees took advantage
Of it, 1t was a great mistake. however, as
hundreds have ascertafned to their COM
plete satisfaction. The money. coming in
four parts. often much of it was spent
without paying any of the big bills, and the
result that some of the big bills are
still urpaid. Had the practice of the house
owners and boarding house keepers of the
city been to collect their money weekly, as
It is in many commercial cities. it would
have worked probably all right, but all such
bills presented In this city at the first
of the month in the case of house rent. and
generally in advance, and at the end of the
month in the case of the boarding house
keepers Although the employees enjoyed
four pay days, one of them was large
enough to pay house rent or board. The
failure OF the treasury system will probably
silence the agitation which had begun in
some of the other departments for an in
crease in pay days 1t will also add strength
to the idea of the adoption of the European
system of paying off but four times year.
1t will be a saving of clerical labor. for the
work Of preparing four pay rolls each
month all Of which have to be made out
and signed in duplicate was considerable in
itself. The Tresury Department will prob
ably not engage in any similar expert
ments for sore years
There lives near my home" said resi-
terday. "a man named Edwin Mcintyre
who leads hermit life and has a queer
hobby. One of the prettiest and best-kept
pieces Of road in Maine passes in front of
his lonely retreat. 1t has been built by
MIR. Mcintyre. who for the last twenty-five
years has. when not otherwise engaged. en-
ployed his time picking up rocks and stones
near his home and pounding them into peb-
bie.. which he has put in the highway. In
twenty-five years time he estimates that he
has pounded $50. 200 stones and made them
ready for road use. The town authorities
recognizing the value of the work have for
several years compensated the man by Civ
ing him his road tax. He claims that he
has already placed on the road twenty
cords Of these manufactured stones Other
towns in Maine envy Rockland such a
faithful and sktllful road builder"
Women are so often accused of becoming
careless about their dress and style of hair
dressing after marriage, and the reason for
this is speculated upon. Here is the other
side of the question:
Il found out the other day why all mar
ried men. almost all married men, are
SO slOven regarding their dress" said a
married man to the Star writer recently
mo matter how much of dandy the man
may nave been before marriage. as a rule
he begins to show unrnistakabIe signs
about his personal appearance 1t has been
popularly supposed that the reason for this
Is because man, once he is married thinks
that his mission in life as a good dresser is
ended, and that he can wear soiIed linen
and old clothes to his hearts content or
because the wife does not think to have
clean collars and cuffs laid on hand for
MIN nim- Inis idea Is all wrong, for all women
Hke TO nave their husbands look well, and
al least clean, for they well know it is a
Perfection upon themselves if the husbands
took otherwise. and they too selfish to
want any such notion to gain credence
The real reason, however is jealousy a
friend of mine. when / asked him WHY he
aIways wore the same necktie. told me that
II he changed his clothes or shirt and
often II he shaved himself his wife Thought
II was because he wanted TO look nice for
soine other woman's benefit. and out of
sheer desperation he preferred to go about
looking almost unkempt rather than have
his wife nag at him
The first one dollar store established In
Washington. remarked an old citizen 10 e
Star reporter. created something of a SEN
cation 1t was located on Pennsylvania aye-
nue near AZ street. and for a long time did
rushing business Its proprietor had n
Splendid idea Of the value of advertising
and 1t was not long before he had CUSTOM
ers from all sections of the city His mama
was Bidcle and ne started his store abou+
1850 There was all kinds of stuff In the
Store. though the principal attraction and
the so-calied big bargains were In the 1eveIry
line Cheap jeweiry was rather slow in
coming TO the front. and one had to nav
good price or do without It Such a thing
as imitation 5ewelry had no sale until the
one dollar stores introduced it The Jewell
~ was about the same Is now sold for
from ten to twenty-five cents but as IT was
. novelty 1t was quite the rage for several