Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25
A POT POURI
OF Important Events in the Lives,
Fortunes, and HOnOrS
OF HIGH-TONED SINNERS
From General Dick 10 a FralI but PrepOsseSsIng
TeIegraph.OperaiOr and Fish Commission
Official Of Prominence oe-EJeuthng is True,
but The Globe Mas Mercy and Discretion,
Hence The Charaoter.Of This Wrlte-Up.

"What are you doing, Cherry, with
that pencil and pad?" said The Globe
man to a negro employe Of Sixth Au-
ditor Castles Department, who was
writing for dear life at A. NJ. one
morning the past week.
81 am taking down the names Of the
employees as they get off the elevator"
what for, pray?" ungrammatically
asked The Globe man.
"Well, 1 dunno; but 1 suspect have
instructions to put the name and the
time down when the clerk gets Off the
elevator"
Further investigation by The Globe
man developed the fact that the clerks
in Castles Department were being sub
iected to this peniteutiary style Of es-
piouage to determine the exact min
ute OF their arrival in the corridor
from off the elevator. This outrageous
insult to white ladies and gentlemen,
the peers and equals Of Castle and
Johnson as servants of the people, and
| their superors in everything that con-
stitutes superiority in breeding, Of sta
tioning a negro with authority to time
their arrival on his pad, is certainly
inviting the desperate resentment Of
the slave! When IL once breaks out
as break out IL win If this oppression
in Office is not modihed-there will be
some work for the coroner and under
taker The Government clerk is a pa
tient and humiliating specimen Of
what discipline can reduce a free-born
American to, in order that he may OBJ
tain some kind Of decent living for
himself and those dependant on him.
Women clerks are more easily nodded
into this species of semtslavery, not
withstanding their superior refinement
and sensibilities, 1t is not expected
that they should manifest the aggres-
siye spirit of the male clerk ana De
partment chiefs of the Castle stripe
soon reduce them to mere autOmatiOns,
unfit for the noble role Providence de-
signed them to an i'm the family.
Hence, perhaps, partial solution of
the thought suggested last week by an
intelligent observer That male clerks
are i'm time reduced to that condition
of servitude which has always been
supposed to belong to menial employ
monte ond spnnped so the illiterate or
Ignorant, lis an evident fact, and 70
contemplate slave-driyers of the
Castle and Johnson type in the Depart
ments is such a condition due. The
Globe predicts a reaction, and when it
comes there will be more trouble than
the civil service law-Which is primar-
lily responsible for both official tyrant
and miserable slaye-can control regu-
late or cure. The abolition Of the law
itself will be the first step towards the
rehabilitation to their original man
hood and womanhood of the Govern
ment clerk
Here is a story brought to the Office
showing how some Of these chiefs and
higher officials run amuck in immoral
ity and licentiOusness and how their
underlings are contaminated by the eX-
ample set them in this as in other par.
ticulars.
There Is a high official of the Fish
Commission taking advantage Of his
wifes absence to learn telegraphy His
instructress is prepossessing young
lady The lessons are frequent and
lady, who is showing decided signs Of
exhaustion
"This will be enough. They will
both take a tumble and perhaps the
girl will save herself from going too
fer on the road to ruin, you know.
People are catching on, and she is get
ting a tough name"
do you talk about her"
mot exactly; 1 only come here to
save her"
"All right, The Globe will save her
from the Fish man and from you, too.
If she is wise in timo' Now all the
parties are known to The Globe, and
it has witnessed enough to admonish
everybody concerned to reform Neg
lect the advice and despise our consid- !
GRAFTON and mercy and there will be |
an explosion. Nun sed."
Gen. Charles Dick, one Of the big |
Ohio THREE-from his point Of view |
stands I'm with Superintendent Machon |
as he does with other Hanna-DiclI |
backed appointees. General Dick grew |
up In the night publicly, like a mush- |
room, and he is making hay in moon |
shine as well as In sunlight There |
isn't a forty-hrst cousin of his any
where I'm Ohio whom he hasn't iolted |
into an Office Of some kind or descrip- |
ton Dick is a believer In the Flanni- /
gan notices. the offices are the party" |
and Dick is for both, especially for the |
Offices.
Some Of these relatives and friends |
Of General Dick are educated and some |
are not. but It is all the same TO the /
General when there Is a position va. .
cant and some relative is next on the |
list OF eligibles kept by the General. |
For instance. Mr.. Machen had a va |
cancy i'm his Department-he always .
has for Dick-and one of the Generals .
sisters wanted the job. It was cleri- |
cal position, for which she was entire. /
ly disqualified through the early disad- /
vantages Of the now patrician family .
Of Dick. The lady insisted on being .
appointed however. and she rs at pres
emit drawing the salary with admirable |
regularity. She was asked recently by
a visitor to this city from Akron, Ohio |
what position she held, to which she
replied with the graces and airs OF the
grand dame she now Is:
well, / am filling a clergical po-
iition in the Free Delivery I am
Iheave In the ClerOicdI force"
The visitor didn't collapse. as the
gentleman knew his M lady and was
lot as surprised by the elegance OF
English as she "a spoke" In use
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