The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
SAMPLE CASE.
How the Women of the Departments
Are MiSlead
AND COMPELLED TO SUBMIT

To a Brutal and LustfuI Chief who Has The
Power Of Dismissal or Promotion Of Ms
Selected Victim Careful whom they Select,
However, for Fear Of ShOtguns and Big
Brothers.
To give the public some idea of the
utter decentralization and immortality
prevailing in the Departments, the fol.
lowing is selected from a mass of sim
liar communications sent the Sunday
Globe. While the present article refers
to well-known and prominent official,
whose name has appeared in these col
umns, the Globe is compelled to state
that he is not alone in the villainous
advantage he takes over some Of the
women who are at his mercy.
We have communications by the
score detailing as revolving offenses as
the following about other officials,
hence, in this instance, we suppress
names, but the employees of the De.
partment where this particular offend.
er lords it over men and women will
easily recognize the individual meant.
The suppression Of the names and
otner data which might identify him to
the general public has this object only.
to save the innocent pain and give an
opportunity to the women involved to
reform. 1t will be as effective, too, in
accomplishing the other object aimed
at by the Globe, viz: the removal from
the public service Of the guilty official,
as, no doubt, the Secretary of the De-
partment will be sent many marked
copies of the Globe, and probably the
name Of the disreputable subordinate
written on the margin. A quiet inyes-
tigation by the Secretary will easily
demonstrate the truth Of the allega.
tions, and If he is the honorable, high
minded public servant his character
and position leads the public to expect
and believe, he will quietly remove
from the Government service this par.
asite, seducer and libertine:
Tuesday Morning
Mr.. EDITOR
am in a muddle. l really do not
know where to begin. Things are so
complicated it would puzzle a Philadel-
phia lawyer.
In the spring of '9S -- sent to
New York (enclosing S1vJ for -
to come to a position that he had Sc
cured for her in the Department Of
- as laborer at $40 per month
She had formerly lived out with some
women on New Jersey avenue as a do
nestle, and served wine at this house,
which -- visited quite often. The
first few days after her arrival in the
city she wOu.4 come down on the car
with - he paying her car fare.
sac had on short dresses. After a
while she got to visiting the
office at noon-time, he telling 1t around
that she was a poor little thing that
he was trying to look out for on ac-
count of her father. Truth, he never
saw her father Che, by the way, had to
skip this country, and at the time was
in South America, and died there in
1900, so his daughter said. Later
- took up with a Miss then
a laborer on the roll. Miss -
nose was out Of joint,so she was trans
ferred to the Division of ---, under
Professor --, who was given to un-
derstand that she was to be taken care
of. From things seen and heard, the
clerks in that office had little to do
with her. In August she began to take
French leave, ana complained Of being
sick. That kept up for over a month,
when she began to get better and came
back to work Her time was reported
to the -- as soon as it was over
Il artrp htat NO 4oI-
they were given to understand that it
would be attended to. Later in the
month her pay was stopped (this dur
ing one of --sprees) so she lost
the pay for some few days, but l am
assured that it never occurred again.
Just about Christmas she stayed away
again, and did not return until about
the second week in May and drew
every cent of her pay, and most of the
time was reported by her chief as be-
ing at her desk.
For month, say, her work was sent
to her clearinghouse on Eighth street,
then all of sudden she went to Balti-
more and remained until her return
in May. Let it be said right here that
the ladies of her division all knew
what was the reason for her staying
away, and yet they felt sorry for her,
and were willing to help her lead a
new life on her return if she had any
good left in her, but it was not to be,
as you will see later on. During the
time she was away, some college stu
dents had joined the force, and on her
return she began to carry on with
those boys in great shape, and kept it
10 vrift 20
of one Ga Scotchman), who was forced
to marry her by those concerned. He,
by the way, was engaged 70 very nice
young lady at Cornell University, and
the wedding invitations were out. He
was allowed to resign, and went to Ari-
zOna. That is - nandiwork to
snllL the blame on some one else, and
he, poor fool, did not know anthing
ABOUT the baby that was born in Balti-
more before he ever met her. From
that time on, the division was called
Botany Bay and every one connected
with it felt ashamed for her, as she
seemed to have no shame for herself
- was as much in the mud as
most any of the others, as he went to
her clearinghouse very very often, so
much so that the landlauy had talk
WI. her, and then, whenever she went
out at night she stayed so late after
midnight Her excuse was, she was
such a sight, her tumOr made her feel
heavy, and she liked to take long
walks Left Washington for Baltimore
early in February. Child born April
25th CDR --- delivered herr. Com
mitted to st. Vincents Asylum April
29th. She was able to go out by 9Th
of Nav and was ont 10 Union Station