The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-22

evening law course in the National uni
Nersity. encouraged h3nt TO CONTINUES.
Fortune had begun TO smile on the stu
dent messenger. but sSg1Jn q suspicion
says For eighteen months heecontinued
to- carry coal and wood md ice, and
his alert industry won sfO7s him the adj
ditional duties of clearing stationary
Washstands and removing Office litter
Then there was an examinG ton for
position as law clerk ia the bureau.
Messep ger Allies, when the papers We're.
maA<ed, stood at the head Of the list.
in the miscellaneous division of the
secretary's Office Here he set TO work.
TO. master the details of Ffench spon-
alton claims. questions concerning cap-
tured and abandoned propertyf claims
growing out OF the civil war. and the
vital issues in Immigration fairs, In
duly, 1880, there was a $500 vacancy,
/ and Mr.. Allies was promptly selected
TO FIJI it. This degree of success did
not lead him to relax his efforts He
would arrive at the Office long before
the scheduled 3 a. M and would re-
main after hours until mis- old acquafnt-
ances. the. Messengers and earetakers.
came TO clean up
About 5 o'clock in the evening, one
day in the spring of 1881. Secretary
Foster received an important telegram
:
Francisco. A load of Japanese iaborers
had arrived at that port and some per-
picking questions in the inmigra ton
law had prevented them from landing.
instructions, and was awaiting g reply.
The matter was urgent and tmDortant'
and the secretary OF the treasury nur-
ried a messenger upstairs TO the iTnnai-
grafton division to see If there hap-
( pened to be a clerk there az that hour,
{ AZ or
to the secretary's Office, 2
Mr.. Allies was at his desk. Oppor-
tunity had knocked at his door, His
explanation to. Secretary Foster as to
cisco was SC clear that he was request
red to prepare telegraphic instructions
at once.
a few days later Assistant Secretary
Nettleton sent for Air. Allies. coInpN-
mented him for his work and attention
| to duty, and said that the secretary had
decided 70 give himean opportunity 70
+. take an examination for a sb600 Va
cancy-. The o. d. al WAS not an easy one.
but Mr., Allies, in keeping With his
steady progress, again stood, number
one among the aspirants. In this posi-
ton he served until 1893. rq4
Meanwhile he had been graduated as
a y. J., and Ii. NJ from the National
university. and had been admitted to
practice before the supreme court of
]
| requiring varied and accurate knowl--
edge of trea sury operations was open IN
the customs division andF.afr., Allies was
detailed TO I'll it.
When Mr. Scott KVike became. assist
ant secretary he asked the retiring as
sistant secretary Mr.. Haniin. to surg
gest for the office of private secretary
/ the man in the department. having the
( broadcast knowledge of treasury, mat
ters. Mr., f4a3nlin named Mr.. Allies, and
Z the latter was appointed. For four
Z years he served n-thiS capacity.
Secretary CarlisIe's method WIS to
/ give his assistSnt secretaries turn about
as acting secretary For three terms
I of six months each Mr.. Allies served as
/ private secretary to the acting secre-
( tary of the treasury. and mastered the
I details of affairs of national scope. 81 Z
I All this time he was making a thor
Iough study OF the history and philos-
/ ophy of finance. II was. his equipment
( in this line as well as, his Invaluable
I grasp of treasury functions. that caused
Z his selection under the Mckinley adj
] ministration as private secretary 70 the
! assistant secretary of the treasury. and
/ which afterward led Secretary Gage
I 10 retain him as his private secretary.
/ The position of assistant chief OF the
I customs division was rendered Mr.
i Allies. but he declined il. and later,
/ upon the death or John NJ. Comstock,
! he was suggested as his successor, but
j Mr.. Allies had decjdedoto remain in the
! secretary's Office, although the position
( in the customs division would have
/ hi-D1Iybf 2 fal-cpr SALARY $50