The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
RICKETTS, AGAIN !
Why the Librarian of the Printing
Office was Fired.
AN OLD TYPOS" GROWL.
He Tells Of Many Inside Shenaulgans and Cites
Few Facts with Hair on Them-An Old
Soldier Reduced for Bruther-In-aw Mahoney.
The Rich Graft Lying Around Loose for
Government Pap Suckers.

"Say, Globe you only scratched the
surface little in your write up of the
Government Printing Office. could tell
YOU lots more sensational stuff than you
had in your first issue
"Well, it isu't too late, The Globe, you
know, has come to stay"
''In the first place, you only accounted
fora few of the Collins family. There
are { bakers dozen of them feeding at the
public crib. The one you mention as
being in the Census was fred from the
library of the printing office for name
less offense,"
"Can yov whisper itS'
Eyes, and tell it right out in meeting
too. He and young lady were both
fred at the same time, and | believe she
is also in the Census Office. "
"Never mind the lady-how about the
mani"
ooh he was caught dead to rights
where he had no business to be. 1t was
a great scandal but Ricketts, hushed II
up"
ut depends on the point of view you
look at him. He is all right for his rela-
tives and friends, but anybody else has
hard rowing. Ricketts,, however, has an
UNIQUE system in ascertaining the comps
with pull
"How is that2'
"Why, when it is necessary to drop a
few printers, he discharges whole lot
Then he sits back and awaits the result
The comps with pull who have been
discharged, hustle round and get their
influence to raise howl, and If the in
fluence amounts to the standard set by
Ricketts,, the cOmpostoTs are again put
TO work and are never afterwards touched,
as Ricketts, makes memorandum of the
names of the men behind them. Those
who fail to secure good showing IN
influence are not, Of course, reinstated. y
"That's not a bad idea.'
mo, but it is unjust, for, however
efficient man may be, if he hasn't the
standard backing he is left out in the
cold and an inferior mechanic reinstated
who has the pull.
Anything else2'
.Yes plenty more. For instance, ask
Ricketts, why he reduced an old soldier
to make place for his brother inlaw in
the Union Building, where the Bureau OF
Government Publications is located
whats the brother.in-laws name-be
specific"
g. His name is Mahoney; good enough
fellow, l guess, but the men who work
with him growl considerably at his as
sumptions, because the boss OF the big
printing office is his brother-in-law
Ricketts, has a snap and is the absolute
4 II. .N...la ii
him 10 t. V. when you dubbed him
'Mkado' Why don't the president put
in a Public Printer who will attend to
sinecure and calling for no supervision by
the bonded and responsible head of the
institution.
Don't ask questons-keep on un-
bosoming yourself
Well, I've pretty nearly told you all
am going to say now, but / could tell
a whole lot about the rake offs" which
man up in his business could put in
his pocket and Palmer never be the
wiser | guess Palmer can stand it,
however, as he has enough now to last
him for the next thirty years, and as he
is over seventy don't suppose he will
live over thirty years more The mer
chants of Washington are great friends
of Ricketts,, and they ought to be- They
cultivate his acquaintance and patronage
as they know that Palmer lets every
thing in his hands. If l had Ricketts,
Job for one year | would never have
need to set another stick of type. And
do you know this sets me thinking what
an extraordinary rich government we
have, when it isn't bankrupt considering
all the CRAFTS being worked by its
faithful and patriotic officials from Rath
burn to chief of division--in the Phil.
ippines ~
The Globe left the "typo" philoso.
phizing as he stood in front Of building
which Benedict leased when public printer
at $5, 900 per annum rent, when its land.
lord or proprietor couldn't rent it for $l0O
per month, and the lease hasn't expired
yet, nor wont for several years.