The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-22
Every Day Stories Of the
Workings and Workers Of the Departments.

and with view to giving him title
which will more nearly indicate what he
does, the Commissioners have included a
recommendation in their estimates to
Congress this year that he be called the
Engineer Of Highways" Ar Hunt is a
graduate Of the Troy Polytechnic School.
He entered the District service about ten
years ago as Engineer of Bridges He is
man small in stature, but possessed Of
tireless energy and a capacity 10 turn Of
Work rapidly The Commissioners have
individually said many times that what
Mr.. Hunt does is done we'll
The most quiet and unpretentIous OF
the employees at the District Building is
William Coleman. a messenger in Secre-
tary TindaiFs Office. William is a dwarf
and has a black skin, and is not quite
as swift Of foot as the tabled Mercury,
but when William is charged with a mes
sage he has a reputation for making
fewer mistakes than many Of larger build
and quicker movements.
A. B. DuvaII, Attorney for the District,
and his assistants are busy preparing the
answer Of the Commissioners in what is
known as the personal tax case" The
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remembered we're cor tn1enced some time
ago by the COMMITTEES Of Eugene Peters,
IN protest against tie levy Of a special
tax on the persona, property Of his es-
tate
Dr.. Smith. Of the Board of Charities,
is now enjoying a three days vacation.
He is one OF the busiest men in the Dis
trict Building, as he not only is il charge
OF permits of admission TO the hospitals,
put IS the dispenser Of an appropriation
OF $4,000 for the transportation from the
| city OF those persons who are without
means and desire to reach their homes or
some other city where they have secured
work.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas H.
Taylor is kept busy explaining the pres
ence of an ugly scar OYER ks right eve.
nj Taylor started out Tor walk The
railway at his residence was dark and
ne walked against the door, which was
aiar-
Everything getting along all right,
things running as smoothly as possible"
says Charles NJ. Irelan. Chief Clerk Of the
Patent Office, when he is asked about his
health or his Office affairs And Mr. Ire
ian not only looks the picture Of health,
out also gives the impression OF capabiI-
| Iiy- He entered the Patent Office twenty
two years ago as temporary clerk from
Maryland, and his rise has been due Il,
merit ana perseFering attention to duty.
The Offices OF the Assistant Secretary OF
me Interior, Thomas Ryan. and his pri-
vate secretary, J F. Tufts. are the raj
lying grounds for Kansas people. Sen
ator Representative. Governor literary
man. or merchant, II he be from the Com
IAon#eaith OF Funston and John Brown. is
sure 10 graYitate 10 Judge Rvan's Office
before he has been ia Washington a DAY.
The Assistant Secretary is one Of the most
popular men IN the State
H Clay Evans, Commissioner Of Pen
sions, is very busy man, but seldom too
busy 10 give visitor a CHEEKY grestfng
he Commissioner loves a good story and
hlnlSeif possesses a seem lngIy exhaustIess
ilnd OF "reminiscences. gave and gay. OF
winch ne IS an interesting -aeonteur.
United States senato.. especially II
| he is constituted like William z Mason
| Of Illinois, sometimes makes the District
/ Commissioners walk a chalk line. II thu
| facts OF history could b. repeated. st
would appear that the staid and diguf5ed
! triumviTate who manage the affairs Of
/ the District have been induced 20 hustle
! at the behest OF a Senator.
| The citizens resident upon Columbia
Road, west OF Fourteenth Street. have
! han occasions many times since July !
/ last to recall the fact that an item Of
| 5000 was included in the last District
! appropriation act for the paving Of that
/ street They have also recalled the fact
I that the appropriation has been available
since July l, and they are confronted
/ with the fact that nothing has been done
TO enable the people interested to enter
| into the fruition Of their hopes
| The other day Senator Mason brought q
| hne-looking automobile to & halt in front
| Of the District Building. The Senator
/ seemed 90 be in a hurry
| He went up III the elevator about half az
/ fast as he wished to go. By the time he
/ was usheTed into the presence Of. one of
/ the Commissioners he was an animated
! interrogation point. Questions emanated
] from him as sparks fly from Tesisted
! current CT electricity It took the sur
/ pTlsed Commissioners some time 10 ex-
! plain to the satisfaction Of Senator Ma
/ son just Why it was that Columbia Road
! had not been paved. especially when the
/ tTlumviT remembered that the item in the
/ appropriation bill was placed there with
/ d view 20 having q good stretch Of paving
/ past Senator 2iason's door when he should
return to Washington
SImmeTed down to a brief statement
! the excuses of the Commissioner were
| that the board had entered into a contract
| with new firm for the present fiscal
/ year n do the paving. This firm. ever
since getting the contract, has been estab-
/ lisnIng plant which is not yet ready
/ for operation.
Senator Mason has been around every
/ DAY since TO see how the paving plant IS
/ getting along, and ne has insin4at led TO tbs
! powers that be that it would be well TO
( have the plant running before the bones
! OF the Thanksgiving turkey are buried.
The work of J. A Frank. the Sanitary
Officer Of the Police Department. has 50
! increased within the past few months that
! Major Sylvester has requested the install
lation Of telephone in his ofice.
John H Dortch, Chief of the Eduea-
tional Division of the Bureau Of Indian
Affairs, is known to the newspaper fra
1 ternity of this city as the reporters
friend" because of his willingness and
ability 10 supply the news gatherers with
any kind of story on short notice.
There is yet to be recalled a time when
Mr. Dortch refuses to smile, fer he al
ways appears to be in q happy frame of
mind. In fact. il is often asserted that
Chief Dortch does not know what It is
| to display his troubles by going about
! with sad expression upon his counte-
I nance His motto IS in accord with the
poem, Laugh and the world laughs with
yOU-WeeD and you weep alone a Ten
nesseezu by birth Mr. Dortch delights tn