The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
THREE INTERVIEWS
Containing Talk on Public Printer
Palmer.
ALSO The STINK FACTORY
Which is Running Property In Its VicInIty-The
Clique at the Government Printing Office
After Old Man PaImers ShOss-A Nice
Scheme Which The GIObe Nlps In The Bud
Other Matters Treated.

"Is there any possibility of suppress
ing that awful nuisance at New Jersey
avenue and X street 5. E.Y said
member of the law firm of Mitchell q
Turner to a Globe man last night.
"Give itup; ask the Commissioners"
"The Commissioners have been Hood
cd with complaints about the place,
500 a day sometimes, but unless the
press takes it up they will not move"
"Wr At is the nuisance?'
"In the first place it is iudescribable.
The smell of anything else under heav'
en- would be as the ottar of roses COM
pared to this stencil. 1t is a combina'
tion smell. in whicu skunk is the pre-
vailing flavor. The place in question
is the shipping point Of the Washing
ton Fertilizing Company Their col
lectiOns Of garbage, dead animals, etc.
are here loaded and sent to their rae
tory down the Potomac, Now, II 1t is
impossible for the fertilizing company
TO ship this stuff without poisoning
the air for blocks in the vicinity Why
in the name of goodness, don't the
commissioners adopt some other meth
cd. or hire somebody who can dispose
of it wllnout sinking out the residents
in the vicinity of New Jersey avenue
and X street. Under the old system
of garbage removal we never had this
nuisance to contend with. Why, sir,
| would not take a house and lot as
a free gift in this neighborhOOd. Prop
erty there is becoming valueless, and
IL is dangerous to health to live within
blocks of the place The idea that
some citizens must be stunk to death
with odors so thick that it would take
a circular saw, making 1000 revolu-
tions a minute, to cut through them in
order that the garbage and offal of
other citizens may be carted away, is
absurd. There is no such nuisance in
any other city, and If this fertilizing
company was made to comply with its
contract and ship Immediately the
stuff they collect, the matter would not
be so bad and people would not COM
plain. But this company enjoying a
monopoly does as it pleases and accu-
mulates the stuff until 1t pleases to
ship in large quantities"
"Too bad; but the Commissioners
don't have to smell the stencil"
mo; l wish they we're compelled to
do 80. In the hot summer days and
nights, I tell you, the stencil is fright
full, overpowering, nauseating, and un-
breathable" and the gentleman blew
his probosis to see if it was in working
order or had been semi -paralyzed by
the odors of the Washington Fertile
ing Companys patent stencil.
"You are missing something, Mr..
Globe, in the Government Printing
Department"
What is it?"
Don't you tumble to old man Pal
mer's condition"
How"
"Why, eight weeks ago Brian, Col
Inns, Ricketts, G. Co. gave it out that
the old man was on his leave"
was he?"
Nav; leave nothing. The old gen.
tleman is a sick man and failing fast.
The past week his son came on here.
Other relatives also arrived, They look
grave, and the worst is feared"
"Wen?"
"Wen, yourself. Can't you see that
the plotters named are concealing the
old mans serious condition, and for a
purpose"
Name it,"
"Why, to dump Brian into his place,
of course, as soon as the breath is out
of his body. Before other candidates
for his shoes can arrive in Washington
or file their application or use their
Senators, Congressman and huence
Crooks, at the White House, will have
Mrned the trick with the President,
and Mr.. Brian will be Public Printer
of the United States"
"Long-headed scheme? | should say
so. Oh! you don't know that clique
and the amount of scheming brains
pro rata they possess, Brian has long
had the ambition to be Public Printer.
He tried to reach it in the Cleveland
turn of the machine, but failed. He
has been practically the Public Printer
for years, and Sc far as qualifications
are concerned and experience, | guess
he Is ahead of the heap"
You're boosting him.
Not I anybody would please me bet
ter than Brian. There would be no
getting along with him by men of my
stamp. | have too much sefrespect
and manhood left to stand his coarse
and domineering temperament It will
be a sad day for the boys If he reaches
the place. The only consolation | will
have will be the sure thing that the
clique will fight among its members,
and either Collins or Ricketts, will be
unhorsed, or, maybe both Of them. BY
the way, | hear Priddy has a job isi
the Pension Office
Yes
well, did you ever OF course you
won't dare write it up?"
"Why not?"
you'll get assassinated, sure, If you
do. They are a powerful faction and
set no value on your life. You are a
thorn i'm their sides. Leave 'em alone
me boy, and enjoy the few brief years
due you by nature"
"EIow about dHtyg
Duty is all very nice, but who's do.
ing it? Are the Star, Post and Times
helping you any to purify the public
service? Not much, nor these papers
won't. either. Too much pap at stake
However, If you don't care about being
killed, keep on. You are at least do.
ing good work, and there is something
in dying a martyr. It's more than Me.
Kinley will do, and he's the President, u
and this cheerful parsonage proceeded
in his leisurely way down the Avenue
having passed us up as an impending
ghost.
There wasa noticeable change in our
place the past week" said an employe
of the Congressional Library to The