The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09
Which This Posted Correspondent
Exposes
HAD TO Be BLUE PENCILEO
So SIahlIngI Immoral, Dishonest, and Co..
upt We're The Things He Showed Up.
But Enough Is Printed 10 Encourage Him,
We Hope, 10 Keep On With The Good
Work.
Washington, June 4th,

in the interests Of the larger and re-
spectacle class of Government EN-
| ployees. No person who is doing his
or her duty, in a clean, upright way,
and cry will only be raised by those
who have something to conceal and are
afraid you will be informed what it is.
Your paper Of yesterday, however,
made a mistake in commenting favor
ably upon Commissioner Herman and
Secretary Hitchcock, Both of these Of
ficials have and will smother every
crooked dealing and protect every
crook on all matters arising in that
Department. The Departmental News,
of May 3Oth, says that Hitchcock runs
the machinery smoothly" and that
if nut lOosens or a cog is broken it
is soon repaired" We suppose that
they may call it smooth work when
the Metzger scandal was suppressed.
| This matter became so notorious in the
Department that an investigation was
quietly begun, innumerable proofs were
obtained, and afidavits galore secured.
! He procured the appointment of his
wife in the Patent Office under Duell
| appointing Duells brother as special
agent at 81 200 in return). Metzger
married, and his wife continued to
hold her place in the Patent Office until
a few weeks ago. "A pal" Of Metz.
sent around the office papers for a we'd
ding present for the couple, and near
ly $500 was raised. Those who did not
contribute suffered reductions or other
humiliauons Well, the investigation
developed such rank violation that
Hitchcock did manage to do the half
way decent act, and Metz. was reduced
to $1,S00, which position he still holds,
whereas, if guilty quite a different
punishment is provided by law. Hitch
cock first insisted upon Metz. dismis-
sal, but Herman gave the best efforts
Of his existence and saved the cuss.
Metz. boasted that Duell offered him
position as private secretary, at $780,
but he declined it.
Almost the same kind of a scandal
has been going on in the Patent Bu-
reau, and still Hitchcock remains mac
tive. Since Duell went out Of that Of.
fee in March, one man has been dis.
missed He had charge of documents,
sold them to secondhand dealers, and
then the office would buy them back
when it became necessary to fill out
sets. Another man in the chief clerk S
division, it is said, will soon be dis
missed For two years money has
been lost or rather misappropriated
in that division, but it is well known
] &C. l. l.
man, although he may be made the
scapegoat.
Duell's other partner, Frederic War.
field, was appointed by him as a la
borer at $50 a month He took the
civil service examination as assistant
examiner and failed; took it again and
passed, by ways that were shady Duell
quickly promoted him to 81 200, then to
Sl,4OO, Megrath coaching him in the
examinations, that were a transparent
farce. Then he was again coached,
and would have been promoted to ST.
600, but resigned instead to enter the
firm of Duell, MegTath & Warfield.
Miss Helen Seamons (Duells clerk be-
fore he came to Washington, brought
here by him and made his clerk at ST.
200) could not be left behind, and she,
too, resigned to go with the new firm.
Megraths intimate chum, BlIungs, has
been made his successor in the Patent
Office, and being law clerk, is in posi-
tion to be most useful TO the new firm,
who already are doing a land Office
| business" Another Of his intimates,
n. B. Moore, has been made assistant
| commissioner. A woman here had a
career before the fOOtlights, and in a
spectacular play-The Ravens-was
hissed of the stage in Chicago because
not even clothed with the altogether.
But she now goes under the name of
Miss" and is considered by Hitch
cock as a fit associate with the respect
able clerks in his law department.
| where she draws a salary of 81 400.
/ Do you think Hitchcock runs the ma.
chinery smoothly?
Go up to the Library and read the
| n. Y. Tribune, Of Dec. 25, 1876, and
you will see the scandal published in
! full that led to the dismissal of Duell's
father r, II. Duell, when Commission
er Of Patents under President Grant
The Nottingham referred to therein
now gets people-principal examiners
and laborers-appointed and promoted
in the Patent Office. His son. being
among the number given positions by
! Duell, Jr,
If you make any use of these facts,
/ you will be furnished with further de-
| tails regarding appointments, promo
| tions, and scandals in that small bu
/ reau, formerly looked upon as the most
respectable and we'll conducted of any
| Government branch of the service. See
enclosed: Nelly l.. Moore is Assistant
| Commissioner Moore's niece; Florence
" Merrillat is her chum, and is soon
| to be passed and promoted. OF all
/ frauds perpetrated upon an Office the
bookwriters' fraud is the worst and
| the most transparent, originated and
developed in the fertile Duell brain
Look up the Mosher family: Alex
ander, appointed by Duell at $50 a
month. rapidly promoted to $1,400
over the heads Of older and better
clerks; Mary L., in the Postofiice De-
partment Robert b. in the State De-
lartment, and Theodore in the U. S. A.,
and not one of them contributed
vote or a dollar in support Of the Ad-
ministration that offers the bounteous
crib to their gaping palates.
Now, every statement is true and ex.
act and not oyerdrawn. And yet, the
bottom is by no means reached, or
! sighted.
[Our correspondent must pardon the
liberties we have taken with his COM
munication in blue penciling the real
meat Of 1t, but the revelations were so
astounding that without his name or
the pleasure Of a personal interview
We could not in justice assume the risk
Of authoritative affirmation, that the
facts were true, for the Globe, its en-
emies to the contrary Notwithstanding,
makes no allegations ii can not estab-