The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-19
Every Day Stories Of the
Workings and Workers Of the Departments.

the Patent Office since February 1, 1877,
nearly twenty-five years. The classes
handled by him and his assistant examin-
ers are some of the most difficult in the
Patent Office, as their titles alone declare
Division is a veritabIe laboratory. and
Dr. LittIewood is one of the most skilled
men not only in practical chemistry, but
in the literature of chemicals His divis-
ion passes upon the merits OF appliea-
lions for patents on medicines, which
makes il a very busy lace. His office
is a place of novelty and mystery. Many
strange and many weird subjects repose
in the files OF this division, TO say moth
ing of drawings of startling design. The
class Of explosives is perfect mine OF
wonders itseIf-and it is well that tae
practice OF using working models" US
discontinued years ago, else Dr. Lite
wood and his staff might have been rough
~ handled by a few Of the combustible
destroyers which were erstwhila can
didates for letters patent It is AL Sc
rious work, and highly important work,
that comes before division s, an3 Dr.
LittIewood is ranked with the most scien-
tifc of the men who compose the Patent
Office force
Richard Cullen, eighth in rank OF the
class 3 men Of the Adjutant Generals
Office War Department was one of the
first appointees under the Civil Service
act, entering the department on October
80. 1888. He had proud army record"
to precede his coming TO the Adjutant
Generals Office, and was no stranger to
many there when called to the main fold
He ran away from Georgetown College
when but g trifie over seventeen to Join
the army walked 10 Lockport y. Y, and
enlisted in Company C, Fifty-second New
York Volunteers, September :, 1864
WoundEd at Dinwiddie Court House, Va,
March /. 1855: mustered out in May;
Joined the Forty-thfrd Infantry and served
until made chief clerk. headquarters De
partment Of the Lakes, Detroit, Mich, in
1868. under Gen John Pope. WHO later
took him TO LeaYenworth Kan. where
Mr.. Cullen was on duty az headquarters,
Department of the Missouri. till 1889, and
appcinted 10 a cisrkship in the Adjutant
Generals Office His father. who had
taken out the First Michigan CaEairy as
captain. thought his son safely landed in
college here until he ran into a bog on
picket duty near Washington then
there was surprise party Mr. Cullen's
long service in the handling Of army mat
ters has made him a man 10 be relied
upon. In other days his duty was 10
write the commissions of newly made AID
promoted officers. and his wonderful stub
pen hand. which had been noted in the
army. added gregs ~ to the beauty Of the
coveted sheepski1s. His work is now en-
tfrely Of an executive character, which
brings him close to the head men and Of
feers of the War Department, by whom
he is regarded as one of the most able
men in the Adjutant Generals office
". H. Landvoight. Superintendent OF
the Registry System of the Postofice De-
| vartment. IS District boy" He has
/ been in The Government employ since
August 6. 1915. most, if not all, Of the
/ time in the postofiee service He has
/ climbed I'D the ladder, step by step. grade
! DIV grade. until he is now 8 chief Of d.
vision. This cousummation has been the
result of tireless energy and faithful
j less in the performance OF his allotted
tasks. coupled with characteristic e.
! t+-,siasrn in regard to his work HIS first
davs in the department were spent IS
! stenographer and typewriter-now be IA:
a CORPS Of them doing his bidding. an'
I = more generous and considerable chic
/ * not TO b., found upon the rolls of ii!
! 5enartment. BIr. LandvOight lived To-
years on Capitol Hill, where he was al
/ exceedingly liked and popular man so
cfalIy and personally, and no man Ia
reached the higher Botches in the publ
service with more weil-wi5ilsrs or he
! levers in his worthiness-
William Cyril Keech is one Of the faith
full. Iong-service men Of ttlc TTeaSar
Department For many yeas the ornaT
granite walls OF the cash room OF In
Treasures Office have been his donja
| keep. He has become so aceUssoI2e
to the spectacle OF millions o. dollar
OF real money banked up aToEn
his own and the desks Of hi
! compatriots in the cash room c
the chief banking house OF the nayioE
that the handling of genuine green sOoG
long since ceased TO be . no7eity- I'll
Keeeh is an expert accountant and boob
keeper. 4 yer.tabIe shark at deteeiil
spurious currency, and also one OF III
fectest money counters IN the Treas
ury. His skill and accuracy in this In
often causes him to do duty IS one Z
: the tellers. Mr. Keech has ms:
charming home. aud two grow
daughters just finishing their schooiiE
/, and OF whom he is pardonably proud
l Major ". P. Huxford is as well know
il the Senate wing of the Capitol as sen
: of its veterans The combination Of Sci
+ ator Hawley. the Committee on Milital
2 Affairs. and Major Huxford az its clerk
: one that IS very familiar, and is ov
. fifteen years old. These men know mil
tarv affairs and the nation profits By the
? long continued alliance with this COMM
! tee. It means good service Major HUI
: ford was an army officer with splend
e | record before hanging up his sword upt
& being retired for disability with the raj
e of major. 50 that his title is not an emp
; one. For many years he has been recer
" ing secretary of the Loyal Legion of t,
United States, the duties of which are
e | sinecure He IS very busy man and
n easily ranked among the first and best
It the able men who have the privilege
T the floor. but do not answer the roll-c;
of~the Senate.
Holm r. MohIer. Y. NJ D., Is the naI