The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
A FEW TALKS.
The Usual Saturday Night GriSt on
the Avenue.
AN ALL NIGHTER FULL OF NEWS
NspOtSm and Variety Of Other Matters in His
MuddIed Mind but all Straight as a String.
Ben Schwartz Tale and Suil OF CIothes-An
Officer vndOated who Made an Arrest, and
Castle and Iohnsons Great Efforts,

"Say, you ought to he present and iu
the Sixth Auditor Castles department
some Monday morning after the boys
read The GLOBE ~
"Why?'
ats circus, l tell you Castle
glares, the she male Referee glares,
Johnson tears his hair and glares,
clerks keep their heads down and pre-
tend to be scared, and the whole De-
partment is topsey turvy untilafter the
big men have conference"
"About what?"
"Why to determine what clerk or
clerks furnished you the information
the Sunday previous-See -
eyes, have you any for tomorrow
"On Johnson or Castle, which,"
"Don't care. either or BOTH
"Well, Johnson first. You see he
wanted Senator Fairbanks influence
and the Senator had very black ne
gro in his employ whom he trusted
Implicitly"
Yes
johnson found this out and culti-
waited the negro acquaintance Moth
ing was too good that Johnson had for
his colored friend. He got into the
good graces Of the poor negro so well
that the latter was flatteTed beyond
measure and was never tired Of singing
Mr.. Johnson's praise. He sung hem
to the Senator, of course. And this is
what Johnson wanted But the big
chief went one step too far
How + thaty
"He invited the darkey to dinner at
his house and sat him down at his own
table, where he oyerpowered him with
attentions as host
"Well?"
"Of course, the darkey told every
body of Mr.. Johnson's con sencion,D
and il got to the ears Of the Senator,
too. This was too much. All the good
work gotten in by the trusted cOlored
man was spoiled, as the object was only
too apparent to the Senator of the pre-
vous songs Of praise sung by the darkey
about the great Mr.. Johnson
"Now about Castley"
"Oh, he is raising Hades and does
not know where the next blow is COM
ing from. He suspects everybody. [
am now preparing for your next issue
| facts which will lift him and Johnson
out Of their boots, if not out of their
| positions whether Mrs Senator Davis
pulls for him or not. The department
is demoralized and honeycombed with
| the most outrageous cases of fay OTitism
Of any department of the Government.
| The good of the public service demands
| the removal Of these two men, Castle
and johnson, and | will furnish you
| the facts to warrant the statement when
/ have them properly arranged. Good
night" Read The Globe next Sunday.
! He held us up as We we're rushing to
! go to press, and steadying himself,
: thickly remarked been out all night,
old feller, but I've got plenty Of news.
! Do you want something red hot? Very
well, get your notebook and write"
Humoring this old Government
clerk we took him seriously.
Drive ahead now, and be brief"
And here is what he said
do you know that Crandel, who
was a superintendent under Benedict,
has $1,S00 per annum under Palmer,
and that his daughter has 5000 per an
mum, both of them in the Document
Room, Union Building, G. p. or"
Anybody else?"
Yes; several more. Woods, for in
stance. He has also q son in the PEN
sion Office and one in the Specification
Room"
Good; any more?'
"Well, there is a whole family named
Shugert. William F. is a clerk in the
Patent Office, salary s1400; his wife is
a clerk in the same office at 81 400.
They have been in office, she since 1857,
and he since 1876. and have NO chill
dren."
You are mine. Any
oh | could go on until sunrise, but
must go home and think EN- up.
You might put the query What AuEs
the Treasury Department?
| Yes"
And you might ask when and where
that man Hyde you wrote up last
week, was naturalized, or if his chief
clerk, Thomas B. Harrison, was ever
in the English army and how he came
to leave there,
you don't mean that he des"--
Am making no charges, Mr.. Globe.
Just you ask, see? Also why the tall
and graceful Brigham, Assistant See
| retary Of Agriculture, wears a patch
over his eye'
| Does he?"
ALSO please ask that telegraph op.
orator in the same Department why the
| ladies are indignant, ana If its over
| Wait, listen, I've got something to tell
you-gossip and sweet morsels of seam
dali"
go on"
] Ask the chief of the file room il 1t
| isn't about time he retired and five
| handsomely on Tue salaries the men,
bers Of his family have drawn, and tell
the Appointment Clerk not to wabble."
| Anything else"
| We'll, yes; you might ask II. N.
| Price, the Assistant Secretary's ste
nographer not TO use Government ma
| terial i'm his newspaper correspond
ence, and while you are at IL, ask
| when Assistant Secretary Brigham
| will file that report he was to make
after his three months trip to Eu-
| rope, and the De.ated olu clerk let go
our coat collar and turned up Capital
Hill
While fitting ON a new suit Of clothes
made by that accomplished tailor, Ben
| Schwartz 337 Pa. ave, s. e., the Globe
man noticed a nice diamond ring on
Bens finger and asked:
as that the ring you won at the
Catholic church fair, Ben, and which
you didn't give RebeCca?"
| "Ah that's all tam lie. | drew the
ring here IL is, and never promised
it to Rebecca or anybody else. An en-
| viOus neighbor manufactured that
| whole story"
"Then you didn't misrepresent the
fair peoples"
"Why that thing happened years