The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09
TREASURY NOTES.
ISs ID by The Sunday Globe to
Government Clerks.
BEARING INTEREST LATER
The Crooked People Of Both Sexes Whom Mr.
Lyman is Asked 10 Look Atter-SOme Irlb-
utes 10 The Captain and Wall Flowers Deco
rating The Treasury BuIIdIng-An Interesting
Chaptsr Of Sunday Reading for Mr.. Gage,

of the highest character, personally
and officially. 1t is generally believed
that he Is sincere in his advocacy of
the civil service reform idea in his
Department Granting that Mr.. Gage
is all that his admirers state, 1t must
he accepted that he is Ignorant OF the
officials by whom he is surrounded; IN
other words, he is imbued with his IL
nancial study to such great extent
that the personnel Of the Department
is not known to him. The Globe mas
published-and the statement has
never been contrOverted-tha Charles
LYMAN. the appointment clerk OF the
Denartment was dismissed from the
Volunteer Army during the civil war
There have been recitals in the news
columns of the Globe Of m adeeds-not
to use a stronger word-of disreput-
able male and female employees OF the
Treasury Department, actions which,
IL LYMAN Is not cognizant of, he should
be dismissed from the civil service
for incompetency, also.
II is entirely with Mr.. Gage to de-
eide whether Lyman is a proper man
for the position he holds. His record
in the military branch of the army Is
easily obtainable from the Secretary
of War. and his official capacity, or IN
capacity, as civil-service commissioner,
is of record in the investigation helu
by a Congressional committee, Wheh
an alleged theft Of questions from the
files of the commission was lnVesu-
gated
Several communications have reach
ed this office relative to the Treasury
Department watch force; that is, the
herd of indolent men who loaf about
the main entrance of the Treasury
building. There are from three to
half-dozen Of these public servants VINO
hover about the main entrance IKE
flies at the bung-hOle Of barrel OF
molasses. The Globe has not been aDle
10 ascertain the utility of this formld-
able array of yeomanry, unles 1t is 70
give prestige to that political whip
ner.snapper Captain" Cobaugh, OH
cially designated Captain Of the
Watch
Cobaugh has been a political and Of
fetal hanger-on these many years he
is alleged to be a politician, according
10 his own averments, of some conse-
ouence. i'm the State of Pennsylvania
He has a private Office to the left Of the
door as YOU enter the building, which
is furnished in keeping with the ldol-
ized notions Of Cobaugh's estimate OF
himself. He has a telephone, too, and
If is not an unusual sight to note the
amazement which fiickers Ger the
conntenance of the antiquated Govern
ment employees as Captain Cobaugn
recites his intimate acquaintance with
the great men of the nation and the
private information he possesses as TO
the next political move in the Grand
Old Party, of which he is no inslg'
nihcant factor.
The Globe has not the same elevated
notion of the greatness Of Captain
Cobaugh. He is simply a political
waif. aged by years of ofiiceholding,
who has been waited to a little harbor
of rest through the courtesy Of Mat
thew Stanley Quay, because there may
come a time when the Captain might
be a little useful to Mr. Quay in run
ming messages about town.
Captain" Cobaugh's great sin is the
idea that he is a prominent official and
a statesman. He might have worse
vices, so the Globe hesitates to agree
with some communications which sta.2
that he is of no more avail than a
bump on log
Regarding the employees of The
Treasury Department, it is pleasure
to the Globe to know that the exposes
of the disreputable element who bring
scorn on the good women of the De
partment, has met with appreciation of
the respectable employees, The list in
possession Of the paper is by no means
exhausted, as is shown by the follow
ing, picked haphazard from the blue
book of the Department:
"The history of the twice-made
grass widow in the Office just vacated
by Mr. Youngblood Is not mystery To
the clerks of the office. She is directly
under the pervision-probably to his
great satisfactiOn-of the rubberneck
chief who gained his Chiefship for as
siduous service to Assistant Secretary
Vanderlip as a 'lSnocker' of worthy
men and women, and who was nearly
decapitated, officially, because Of a no
torious liason with a grass widow;
hut that's another story. This woman
is sylph-like in form, which is robed In
the ultra efforts of the LADIES tailor
Several years ago she was notrious as
the consOrt of a prominent oihclal OF
the Department She lives in style at
an hotel, and until recently was the co
tenant with another lady of influence
in a sumptuous fat which was vacat
ed for reasons known to the two which
il is unnecessary to state. She, like
other adventuresses, has found tnat
the came graft can be worked by two
In her instance, she was looking for
something easy to make llfe-partner
ship. She found II at hotel in the
person of well-appearing plausible
fellow somewhat her senior She coop
ed him. Holy horrors, he was after
the same lay himself and she found
after a partnership of short duration
he was intent upon her supporting
him. It would have been case not
for record here had she been an inno
cent woman, the victim Of the wiles of
an adventuIer. but she was simply out
played at her game. She was separated
by decree, but during the whole period
worked i'm the Department under the
name Of her former husband, mis-
grass widow on being detailed tc
work on the bond issue, fatty told the
authorities she would not work over
time. and didn't She gave them to un
derstand her backing was stronger
than the Auditors, flowing from the
pull Of a New York Senator Car
Brother Lyman honestly say that this
woman should draw salary from me
Treasury Department, without first
taking a course in his bible class ol
some other purifying agency
Rumor comes to the Treasury De
partment that the official caught sew
eral months since in n compromising
position with young woman, both EN-
ployees Of the Architects Ofiice, Is "a
he reinstated as soon as the affair
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