The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21
WHAT WE KNOW
Of Commissioner Evans Depart
ment, but not all.
TO Be CONTINUED WEEKLY.
How Attorneys are Provided for Notwth-
standing Commissioner Evans Repu-
tation Against Pension Sharks - The
Middle Division and the Gentlemen Run
ming lt-0eputy Kelley and The Globe.

Middle Division and the Gentlemen Run
ming lt-0eputy Kelley and The Globe.
The Pension Department and its
head have come in for more criticism,
naturally, than any other sub-depart.
ment of the government. We say
naturally" sdvisedly, as IL is both
tradition and history that nobody can
win the belt from an old soldier in
growing" contest.
Admitting this per Sc and further
conceding the fact that Commissioner
Evans is a man OF integrity and all
that the plutocratic press claims he
is-hOnest, conscientious, patriotic,
etc.--we nevertheless know it to be a
fact that the Pension Department is
one Of the worst managed bureaus of
the government that merit is not
taken into account in the matter of
promotions, and that there are more
inefficient chiefs and CLERKS under Com
missioner Evans than under any other
head of a department in the ratio of
employees. Mr.. Evans is not aware
of this state of affairs, because If he
had knowledge of them they would not
eXist,if we are to accept-and we do
accept-the plutocratic estimate of
him, as voiced by the press. We do
not believe that the Commissioner Of
Pensions would be guilty of fragrant
Inconsistency and hence we are sur
prised that this man with a national
reputation for fighting pension shark
attorneys, should have a small division
of HIS department salaried to wait
upon and facilitate the predatory in
cursions Of these attorneys on the
public treasury.
The country does not know, but
The FGlobe herewith informs "all
whom it may concern Including the
tax payers that there is a division Of
the Pension Office under Mr.. Evans
called "the Attorneys Division" and
that it's chief receives an annual COM
pensation of $4,000. The assistant
chief receives $500, one clerk S1,400,
and one messenger 5000, or all told the
annual sum of $1,000. What are the
duties OF this formidable army of sala-
ried clerks? Simply to wait upon the
Washington attorneys who call in the
interest Of clients. Any attorney VINO
is not barred can visit the Pension
Office and examine the papers on file
of any OF his clients, whicl one of these
ObseQuious clerks or messengers will
lay before him on demand.
Attorneys in different parts of the
country must per force communicate
by mail, and the perfunctory replies
they receive fatigue tn Sc over-worzed
clerks, and hence they cut it short or
enclose printed slips, designed to cover
a fnpn1ipfae fhghf affap oil ATrs
Evans is not the terrible watch dog Of
the Treasury against the designs Of
the pension shark attorneys to deplete
the surplus
Will the plutocratic press make a
note of it?
Now "the Middle Division" of Mr.
Evans office can defy any similar di-
vision in any demoralized department
OF the government for the inefficiency
of its chiefs, favoritism and the promo
tiOns and reductions carried out by
caprice, malice and something worse.
As in the Attorneys Division" we
propose to give facts.
A gentleman named Frank A. War
field, is chief at $4,000 per. Now ev-
erybody in the division knows that
Mr.. Warield has no more to do with
dNlill M 0ttlluE Aut DuolutSS VI lNt ul-
vision than the chair woman who dusts
his desk
Mr. Josiah Shaw and Miss McCurdy
together, with Barnes, -perintendent
of the building compose the triumvi-
rate which govern this division. Mr..
Shaw draws Sl,S00 per annum, Mr..
Evans, and his best efforts are devoted
to retarding the work of the office
His is not a lovely parsonage, for be-
sides being coarse to those who have
no political pull he is inetnsely bisoted
i'm matters OF religion. Mr.. Shaw is
obsequious and sycophantic enough to
those above him, or to those whom he
thinks have a political pull and will
pull for him.
His great hobby is the monthly re-
port IL strikes Mr.. Shaw that there
is nothing half so important in the ad-
ministration Of the Federal Govern
ment as his monthly report There are
three full days every month devoted
to this report. No one dare approach
Mr.. Shaw during these three days. OF
course this document no more indi-
Gates the efficiency of the clerks than
a street car does the honesty of Gene
raj Harries Easy cases are given Mr..
Shaw's fayorite, and there has not been
a promotion on merit since Mr.. Evans
became commissioner in this division.
The two assis ant chiefs of this di-
vision can easily be dispensed with IL
economy is any part Of the present ad-
ministration Of the bureau
Why not consolidate the sections Of
Justice and Shaw, Mr. Evans?
Send Mr.. Shaw to the Board Of Re
view, where he will have to make a
pretepse at least, of earning his sala-
ry and Miss McCurdy will find room,
though generous her proportions, in
the Western division. Let Nelin be
assigned to the admitted files and
Stoddard to amy Old place, so that It
is by itself where he wifi have to do
his boasting annent his capacity for
early morning, wine, women and
--- but we will pass Stoddard and
turn him over to the Salvation Army.
Shaw and Melin understand each
other now It wasn't always thus, for
VIXEN the latter was transferred 10 the
Pension Bureau, and Shaw was pros
trating himself be6ore Democratic
chiefs during Cleveland's last admins
tration, he warned his Cronies against
the new conner, and informed them
that "Aelin was a Democratic spy"
etc.
Mr.. Commissioner, The Globe could
and will take up each Of the di visions
in turn, and point out where reforms
could be effected money saved and
better service rendered the govern
ment Ysu are not in a position 10
find this out because you are surround