The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
Female Clerks in the Sixth Auditors
Office Do II.
Discussing CLERK HOLMAN
Is the Victim Of this Species Of AmorOus Per-
ssOutlOn-A Chapter on Promotions With a
Sunday School Preface on Ce-R N. John
son. PapIer MaOhe Chief, etc., etc.

1t is yet fresh in the memory of those
who make notes. of a scene on the street
between dame from that Office and the
wife of a gentleman with whom the
female clerk was surreptiously cores
ponding And it is of still more recent
occurrence that another female clerk
the same department was regretfully
compelled to resigu after the visit OF
genteman's wife 10 whose hands were
some of the amorous epistles of the Sixth
Auditor dame to the lady's husband.
Why don't we give names; What's
the use of skinning dead carrion when
there are live sinners still holding down
positions and working their promotions
with their peculiar "intluence2"
In the Sixth Auditors Office there are
ladies who are everything that virtuous,
Christian women ought to be, aud their
superiors in all the moral attributes do
not exist; but there are few who cannot,
we regret to say, lay claim to these en-
dowments. They are openly coarse and
immoral a scandal and reproach to their
more virtuous sister employees.
Much Of this condition of affairs in the
Sixth Auditors Office is due to the per
sistent advances Of certain male clerks
holding superior positions, which give
them advantages they are not slow or re-
luctant to utilize. Vice is a cunning
animal and is seldom unmasked in his
lair, but the tracks the beast leaves in his
prowlings, seeking whom he may de-
your, indicate infallibly the direction Of
his march. Hence when open manifesto
tions Of unladylke conduct are INDUCED
in in the presence of others, conclusions
are justifably arrived at that there is far
more familiarity in private,
Mr.. B. w. Holman, disbursing officer
Of the Sixth Auditors Office, may be a
sO,W 8Ortue for aught The Globe actu
a.. WRows to the contrary, but he has
an unfortunate way Of showing it.. When |
the widow, Mrs. v 4, a clerk
in the office, will playfully tip and /.
tickle him under the chin in the presence
of others it is anything but a Sunday |
school lesson in morals, refinement or
good example to exhibit before the class !
of male and female clerks. 1t is grossly |
suggestive under the circumstances, |
whereas the act itself may be innocent /
enough under different conditions.
Mr. Holman is the disbursng clerk for /
all the divisions OF the auditor office, !
and every clerk, male and female, in |
A and G, Mr. r. NJ Johnson's divisions,
knows very well that what Holman
saws goes with Johnson Therefore if |
there are promotions to be made Holman
is the man 10 'tickle under the chin,
and not johnson. Why? Simply be.
cause Holman, by virtue of his position
as disbursing clerk, has johnson under
obligations for needed advances. and
reciprocity demands that johnson pro.
mote the friends of Holman-among the
female clerks.
And Holman has several very particu
lar friends among the lady employees Of
Johnson's divisions in fact, sometimes |
there is hair pulling or sharp ex-
change of tongue lashings between jeal
GUS rivals for the favors Of Holman.
IL is known that Mrs. 4 and |
Miss b b were most intimate |
friends. They both work in Mr.. John
sons division. Time and again their
very chumy association has been COM |
mented on, but they have fallen out and |
no longer speak TO each other. Recently |
they met face to face in the corridor and |
those who heard the picturesque dialogue |
of the two will never forget how warm
the battle was while it lasted
Now, strange to say, Mr. Holman is
particular friend of both ladies, and 1t is |
recalled that when one of those ladies |
was transferred to an easy snap her
chum. through the assistance OF Mr.. Hol- |
man, soon Joined her 1t happened in
this way:
It appears there is a system of percent
ages in this particular ROOM showing the |
standing and efficiency Of the clerks.
Every quarter this is made up and action
taken on it some way or another Here
was lady who had the deserved respect
and esteem Of all in this room, and when
the percentage was made up she stood 20.
Now, Mr. Holman's lady friend wanted |
to Join her chum in the room aforesaid, |
so on the flimsy pretense Of the ~ rating |
the honest and hard working but coldly |
respectful female clerk was transferred |
TO disagreeable and laboriously hard |
assignment, and Mr.. Holman's lady friend |
was given her place. Thus the two
chums were together again, and Holman |
was happy; so were the ladies until their |
falling out.
But the most singular part OF this affair |
has to be related. The clerk who stood
% on the rating is male friend Of the |
great Holman and the lesser Johnson.
What 70 do with him was quandary
since 30 was sent down lower for ineffi.
cheney. But Holman and johnson solved
the difficulty. Bnt how, gentle reader,
do you suppose they did it2 Why, by
promoting the male clerk, to be sure
HNo-really now?" the Globe fancies it
hears some unsophis:icated reader ex'
claim. But The Globe is publishing
facts, not surmises, inuendos, or ro-
mances. No. 2s on the list Of percentages
was designated for promotion, and No. 20,
the lady whose place was wanted for
Mr.. Holmaus friend, was reducedi that
is, put at harder work.
This male clerks name is Logan. Not
"alas, poor Logan for nobody need
"mourn for Logan now, " as be has been
twice promoted and for the third time
recommended for another lift, notwith-
standing his percentage of2
But, stranger still, the Mesdames
A. and B are also designated
for promotion over the heads Of their