Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-29

The depravity of some of the female de-
partment clerks and employees is simply in
credible to any one but those who have
either Witnessed or participated in the
orgies INDUCED in. From the witnesses
and not the participants the GLOBE is put
in possession, from time to time, of es-
capades and sexual debauches which dis
counts the most hilarious jamborees of the
Division. But recently a respectable mar
ried lady the mother of children, visited
this office to complain Of the proAigate be-
havior of a mother and two daughters living
in the same apartment house. The mother,
who is an employe of the Mail Bag Repair
shop, went on a drunk with negro barber,
who blacked her eve after protracted de-
bauch The two girls receive men in their
rooms so openly and aagrantly that their
orgies obtrude on the sight of those who do
not desire to see them and who are scandal
lied by the undisguIsed depravity.
Another department female clerk in the
same building visits the room of a coffee
merchant or agent in her night dress and
openly appears at the window of the said
room and lowers the blindl She has been
known to remain in the room all night and
can be seen from window opposite, with
her male companion, in postures and actions
which can not even be suggested in prin
Does the Civil Service Commission .~
sire any further information touching these
cases it can be readily furnished them Per-
haps Mr.. Foulke would be serving the in
terests Of Civil Service Reform by correcting
such outrageous exhibitions of female de.
partment clerical depravity than making
speeches in Boston against any proposed law
giving preference to the veterans of the
Civil and Spanish wars for department APP
pointmerts This radical and recent adj
iunct to the Civil Service Commission
opposes the classification of Census clerks
on the sole grounds that they we're ap.
pointed by congressman The stigma at
tached to Census clerks because they Che or
she) were appointed by their Congressman
is too much for Mr., Foulke, and in his
opinion, Notwithstanding the stringent ex.
aminations they passed and their years of
experience and faithful service, disquali-
hes them from classification And this
man is a Civil Service Commissioner
under President Roosevelt, tool Unless he
and his fellow commissioners have the GER
ti6cation Of the clerks he will no doubt
oppose permanent Census Bureaul This
would be consistent and in keeping with
the intelligence and patriotism of a man
who opposes the preference law for men
who served their country in the field and Of
trained clerks in the present census because
they secured conditional (on passing a
severe examination) appointments on
the recommendation of their respective Con-
gressmen!
No wonder some apartment houses and
some hotels are simply assiguation houses,
and that the civil service veteran and pro-
tected female aud male clerks are their
steady patrons. Hundreds of these clerks
have been foisted on the government as
representing states they never saw-indeed,
many of them are handsome female land
ugly male) foreigners-and owe their ap-
pointments to manipulation by department
chiefs and higher stationary officials here
in Washington. Congresmen have been
more sinned against than SHINING. It is
the custom to blame Congressman for much
of the evil resultant from appointments of
ladies with influence when as a matter
of fact they are unable to land one
to the twenty dropped in by officials and
Others up to the ropes and able to copper
the ace of the civil service commissioners
So much by way Of igression-digressiou
however, which is german to the subject
in hand.
The immortality cited above has not even
the refinemeuts of the ordinary observance
OF time and place to mitigate the gross in
dulgeuce. Wives of officials are sometimes
compelled to visit the departments where
their husbands are employed and enter com
plaint against female clerks who have Sc
duced their worser halls from their al
legiance.
This is of frequent occurrence enough TO
be talked about on the street and even in
the inner sanctum Of Cabinet officers as
Secretary Cage will testify.
Why don't Foulke see Mr.. Gage and OBJ
tain from that discredited Cabinet officer
the names of the lady clerks recently COM
planned Of for seduciug the husbands of
married women9
Wouldn't Foulke be purifying the SER
vice more effectually than shooting off his
capacious mouth about Congressman and
veterans and census clerks1
We have the names right here in the
GLOBE office for Foulke If the Secretary of
the Treasury refuses to give them to him.
Call around Mr. Foulke and we will DEM
onstrate to you in twenty minutes that the
civil service is nothing but a foil for certain
individuals to obtain cheap mistressesl If
you are able to dispute US successfully into
any modification Of this fact we will at
least, establish TO your entire satisfaction
that there is more danger of corruption
from the male and female clerks your COM
mission has landed in the departments than
there Is from the veterans and the reputably
and Congressioualiy appointed clerks you
are trying to keep out.