Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01
'MIKEY'' Lewis.
The Superintendent of the Supply
Division and Mysterious Report
ABOUT TO SEE THE LIGHT
BY The Aid Of a Congressional Committee "A
Ho Time Predicted for Mlkey Within tho
Next Calendar Month - The investigating
Committee Report N the Postmaster Gen.
erals Possession and Imprinted

I
Mickey Lewis, the residuary leg
atee Of Perry Heath and superintend
ent OF the supply division Of the post
Office department, will soon be looking
| for another job. Mickey has done well
since his first debut i'm the nations
capital as a laborer in the government
printing office, owing principally to the
facility with which he has changed
| his party ahliatiOn. According to
Mickeys code no change in the poll
tical complexion Of the party in power
can give him the flag. He is up with
| the times and is at the wire as soon
or before the incoming administration,
| Democratic or Republican, can take
hold
Mikey has run the supply division
| Of the postofice as a personal asset,
as may be inferred from the fact that
he has had the juicy ink taken entirely
| out of the competitive bidding for post
Office supplies and purchases the same
| from Perry Heaths connection and
| Mickeys own relative or cOuntryman
/ I'm Cincinnati. Ohio. Mickey from be-
| ing willing to clean the government
| lamps when the shoes he wore had no
| heels on them, has now blossomed
/ forth as one Of the solid inanciers Of
| the capital city. Another score OF years
/ In Off and he will be able to purchase
/ the crown Of Poland from the Car of
all the Russians.
But Mickey is about to come up
against it, when Congress commences
| looking around a bit This is both
rhyme and truth, as Mickey will find
out in the immediate future. So will
| Mr. Smith. who is keeping that report
i'm his inside pocket If our POSTMASTER
| general will take The Globes advice,
he viii throw Mickey to the wolves
and save himself The report IN ques-
has a sinister history which will soon
be exploited through the means Of a
Congresisol inquiry.
The report is the findings or COM
prise the testimony taken i'm an in
vestigation of Mickey Lewis Depart
ment of supplies. A Mrs. Mooney was
the government stenOgrapher employed.
When The Globe discovered that this
report was smothered by the post
master general and that he did not
intend to print it, An application was
made through a friend, to Mrs. Mooney
! for a typwritten copy. It was then dis
| covered that the notes and the copy she
| had made were turned over to the
postmaster general. where they quietly
sleep while Mickey, through the
| (then) pull Of Perry Heath was con-
tinued in his peculiar management
Of the supply division.
This management may he surmised
| as not in the interest Of the taxpayers
| from the fact that Mickey besides
| taking the ink from the list of post
office supplies compelled or ordered
the thousands Of pounds Of ink on hard
| to be dumped in the sewer after his
engineer had refused to burn up any
more OF the stuff in his furnaces. The
cks being cleared for action. Mickey
| he'd him to Cincinnati and purchased
| a generous supply from his and Perry
/ Heath's friend. The ink was supplied
in such large quantities that the post
offices throughout the country sent in
protest after protest to the supply div
! ision against occupying all the avail
| able space at the several postofhces
with the Cincinnati-Hea Mickey Lew
| is ink.
] heretofore Lne super luNNuANhN VI biAN
supply division has detied all criticism
| basking in the influential support OF
Messrs. Hanna, Heath & Co, under the
old regime and it has been an easy
matter for him to coerce the quasi
support Of the p. NJ. G. But when Con-
gress commences grinding next week
Mickey viii hear that awful sick,
deadening thud" described by the old
time hanging reporter. AS an inside
tip to Mickey and his reluctant sup
porter. the p. NJ G., The Globe an
nounces the the report of that investi-
cation will be called for and Mickey
viii have strenuous time Of it when
the Congressional committee charged
with a thorough investigation Of the
supply division gets down to work.
Dumping ink in the furnace and on
the common dump will not be the only
thing which Mickey will have to ex-
plain and answer for. Mickey's scalp
at this writing is as loose on his head
as that fur-lined Raglan is on his
dropping shoulders. The Globe is not
permitted to be more explicit at pres
| ent. but there will be "a hot time" in
the interior Of the supply division be-
fore Won moon Is on her last quarter.
Let Mickey mark the prediction and
make note on it,