Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-06
In Bundy Time Registers and Keys
for Clerks.
ONE MILLION AND A HALF
Being Expended 10 Put These Registers In tho
Post Offices Throughout Tho Country Without
Authority Of Congress, Which Refused an Ap-
preparation for tho Same-Rgld Investigation
Promised Next Winter.

ordered placed in all the postoffice
buildings in the country. These ma.
chimes cost SIS each, and each clerk is
compelled to own a key, for which he
has to pay 81. 1t Is only a simple
question In primary arithmetic to fig
ure out the total expenditure by the
Postoffice Department for these Bundy
Time Registers On a conservative es.
innate, The Sunday Globe places the
total amount at 81, 1896, exclusive of
the keys, for which the clerks are bled
81 each Here is an enormous outlay
from which a rich rake-off is possible
And what Government official, from
Grover Cleveland to Mickey" Lewis
ever neglected a possibility"
But the most astounding feature Of
this extraordinary outlay for Bundy
Time Registers is the fact that Con.
gress made no appropriation for any
such machines. In fact, Congress re.
fused at its last session to make such
appropriation, and a member Of the
committee recently in Warrington was
heard to express not only curiosity as
to where the Postmaster-G General got
his authority and money, but intense
surprise when informed that the ma
chimes were being purchased and
placed In the various postofices
The Globe assumes that the Supply
Division Of the Postofice is furnishing
the machines. This division supplies
everything else used in the United
States postoffices in this country and
the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico.
It is unnecessary 10 inform our read
ers that the head Of this division is
that naturalized man without a ma.
tive country" Mikey Lewis, the friend
Of Manager Klein, Of the Hecht depart.
ment store, whose building adjolns or
butts back to a common alley used by
Mikey and the Supply Division; and
which accounts for the milk in the
cOcoanut of the Damon and Pythias
friendship Of the two. IL is alleged
that on a close survey Of roohess space
utilized by the department store 1t will
be found that Uncle Sam, through the
Supply Division of the Postofiee De,
partment foots the bill.
However this may be-, and coming
back to the Bundy Time Register,
which is now being placed in the post.
office buildings throughout this coun-
try and our island possessions Of the
sea, we rise to inquire of the Postmas-
ter-General by what authority and
where did he get the money to pur,
chase these time registers? Rightly
judging that the Postmaster-Ge General
will only answer this question when
propounded by a committee Of Con-
gress, we pass It and will not pause
| for a reply, but proceed to ask this
high official wherein lies the neces.
sity for these Bundy Time Registers
The Government of the United States
has existed for over 100 years and
been all through the Civil and Spanish
wars without Bundy Time Register.
And got along famously we'll Are the
hireling clerks and employees OF the
POstofiice Department to be still
further reduced to automations and
made pay the penalty of the loss Of all
resemblance to the average human BIZ
ped in exchange for a Job in Mr..
Smiths Department?
Timing ladies and gentlemen in the
toilet rooms Of the Sixth Auditors Of
flee Of the Treasury Department ex-
cited indignation In a partially cal.
lous public when The Sunday Globe an
nounced that fact, but what will the
/
Of a Government clerk when the move
ment has already been inaugurated TO
compel him or her to carry a 81 key
suspended around their necks, In imita-
tiOn Of the collars worn by the Saxons
whom the French bastards from Nor
mandy so cruelty misused because
these heroic CD AnglO-SaXons submit
ted to every indignity rather than
fight, just as their descendants are do
ing in Africa, suffering themselves to
be captured by the Beers when they
might make a single meal Of the hand
ful Of brave Dutch farmers II they only
had the nerve to face them.
These keys, at 81 each, are not a bad
Investment for the Bundy Time Regis
ter Company, and a handsome discount
is possible" in job lots Of one to two
hundred thousand now and again. II
Mikey Lewis has the purchasing and
supplying Of these keys and registers
the Government will be dead certain
not to benefit by the discount, mas
much as Mikey's nights are not de-
voted to speculation on the means and
methods Of increasing the U. S. Treas
ury surplus. Neither are his days. for
that matter. When Congress meets,
The Globe is able to predict, that from
a few desultory conversations with sew
eral Members that there will be a rigid
Investigation into Bundy Time Regis
ters at $75 and keys at 81 each, besides
a general overhauling Of the Supply
Division in particular and the other di-
visions In general OF the Postofice De-
partment. Since the fall OF the house
OF Hanna and the diminution Of Perry
Heath Mikey Lewis will have the hard
est kind Of shedding to keep his scalp
SO will a gentleman named August W.
| Machen.
The Sunday Globe Is reserving its
heaviest mortar fire for the present
and II can afford to await in patience,
being sure Of its game, until Congress
/ ..r,t,, t,Iroa hold Of fho offafro ~ tho