Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-12
ANXIOUS TO FURNISH MAN
REPRESENTATIVE COMES TO THE
RESCUE OF COMMISSIONERS.
Numerous Applicants for Position of
Inspector and Measurer of Wood
The Place Filled.

Since It was made known through the
daily press that the position of inspector
and measurer Of wood for the Anacostia
district had become vacant and that no
one had applied for appointment to the po-
stion the District Commissioners have re-
ceived personally, through the mails and
by telephone and telegraph applications by
the score, if not by the hundred. AS ex-
planned in The Star, the-incumbent is COM
pensated by fees paid him for inspecting
and measuring wood brought into his dis
trict for sale, the compensation amounting
to about $50 a month Dignified senators,
members of the House. prominent citizens
and citizens of no prominence have ap-
piled to the Commissioners in behalf OF
those who would relieve them of the en-
barrassment supposed to have been caused
by the appearance OF appiacants lor
the place. and it is doubtful If they ever
had before them so manX non-beiieverS IN
the theory that the Office should seek the
man. Every application has been duly con-
sidered by Commissioner Macfarland. VINO
has immediate supervision OF the matter
and upon whose nomination the position
will be filled, and it is understood he has
selected the man and that he will be ap-
pointed late today Monday next
Of course all sorts of communications
have BEEN received by the Commissioners
relative to the matter. some Of them ap-
peas and pathetic recitals of families SUI
fering through the failure of their heads
to secure work. and also humorous ones
the best of the latter coming from MEM
Der of the House of Representatives VINO
represents rural district.
II see by today's Washington news
papers, he wrote Commissioner Macfar-
land that there is an office vacant in the
District of Columbia for which no one has
applied. the position being, as l read 1t,
that of inspector OF wood at Anacostia.
This situation should not be allowed 10
OF Tho of Ictri nf
know of this vacancy. 1 assume you want
good man for this place, that the inter-
ests of the government shall not be any
longer neglected by allowing the continu-
ance of this vacancy. ! herewith make ap-
piication for this position for one of my
constituents. l do not know which one,
but | have large and varied assortment
of applicants, any one of whom will gladly
sacrifice his private interests to serve the
government in this position.
Appreciates the Difficulties.
Il want to come to your rescue in this
matter, and, approaching the difficulties
under which you labor in finding a man for
this place, l desire now to offer and to
oblgate myself TO end this vacancy by
shutdown of the day upon which you re-
ceive this letter. if you will Just say to me
to furnish you man. My district has
special facilities for educating men to be
inspectors of wood. We have more wood
IN our district than anything else, except
applicants for office. All of the people Of
my district have at one time or other
chopped wood, burned wood, hid in the
woods, run through the woods and some
of them are still in the woods. I have had
considerable experience in the woods my
self. I almost wish 1 was in the woods
now, as an alternative to standing in the
corridors of the Capitol explaining to APP
plicants for office my inability to get them
places.
Just telephone me on receipt of this let
ter, and you won't have long to wait for
man to fill this responsible, though unre-
munerative position.
''P. S.-Whenever you have a place vacant
and unapplied for: l stand ready to help
you to find a man willing and ready to
accept it. Please bear this in mind in
case such an anomalous situation as the
one hereinabove referred to should again
arise"