The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-05

/ fed to discharge the duties connected with
! the Office Mr- Taylor IS COMA ara fveIy
a young man, but ne has been IN TIE PCS
tai service al-saest ten years
a B. DuvaH. Attorney for the Commits
si0neTs. and his force Of assistants are
busy preparing opinions en- several mat
terS referred 70 MINI IN this connect lion
IL may be sated that it has been s,,z-
gested that thc ONCE OF the Attorney for
/ the Commissioners be removed TO The
District building 50 that Mr. DuvaH viii
be nearer TO the Commissioners At pres
CIT the Office IS located IN the Columbian
Building.
A genial man moves about the eorri-
doris of the District Building every day
cordially greeted By his fellow workers.
and pausing frequently to converse with a
friend. He is S. T. G. MorselI. member Of
the Excise Beard. ard one of the veter-
ans in the District service who is widely
esteemed Mr. MoFseu sometimes says
that in the multitude of Eis duties he
torgets the initials Of his name How
ever, by recalling the old Latin proverb.
sic transit gloria. he is always able
TO set himself right as to the somewhat
his name Mr Morseu has served long
apprenticeship in The District service
dating back TO the beginning OF the pres
ent form Of Government He is one OF
the most widely known men of the NUM-
cipai contingent.
One of the side accompIisbrzerts-
Clifford Howard, Assistant Secretary 10
the Commissioners, is an expert knowI-
edge nc f7rr-r-s~
estiy lays claim to the ability to read
ones character from his chfrograDhy. So
certain Of this is the capable assistant
secretary, that ne has written one or two
articles on the subject for the magazines
and has in hand a more ambitious work
winch IS to be published in book form Mr..
howard declares that the traits Of char
dclef are revealed in the handwriting
and that person who is ccnversant with
the pecuiIaTitIes Of different persons
writing can decipheT with great certainty
sueh TRAITS as decision. fTankness arts
TIC tendency. and the opposite vices Of
me degenerate Strange to say Mr. How
ara personal chiTography is about %
oiIneuIt to decipbeF as q specimen page
q the IischendOrf manuscript OF the New
Testament
One Of the capable and useful men in
the Engineer Department Of the District
is Daniel Gsrges. Assistant Secretary n
the Engineer Commissioner. Mr.. Garges
looks after the correspondence of his
Oh .ei, transcTi6cs the orders of the de-
paEtnent- and IS legal adviser. NJ
GafEes IS graduate Of the Columbian -
Law School. and IS well versed IN me
laws and ordinances Of the District mar
t'cuiariy those relating TO his department
Dr. John E Walsh IS one CT the active
men in the District Health Department.
He is Sanitary Medical Inspector and g
BacteTioIogIst- He has direct s1Irarvi-
SIGN over the section Of scarlet .cver ard
uiphtnefia, and has charge Of the f7s0e~-
lots OF THIS section who report 10 him
daily Outside OF his official duties T]r
Walsh enjoys the benefits Of q large prac-
tice On Capitol Hill
Milton E Allies. Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury. recently signed seventy-sfx
u arrants- aggregatfEg SO, 500, being the
proceeds from sale Of land belonging to
the PuyGliUp Indians The money is 10
be divided among seventy-six claimants.
Fifteen large oil paintings bearing the
portraits OF as many Secretaries of the
Treasury, which had been on exhibition
at the P2n-American Exposition al Bslf-
Laio. nave been returned 20 the Treasury
and were again hung up in the
various Offices Of the department
LGcian s. Breckenridge has received an
appointment as second lieutenant in the 8
Seventy-fourth Coast Artillery and Is now s
stationed with his company al Fort Wiz
Hams. near Portland. Ne
lie Grand Powers. Chief Statistieian or
Agriculture for the Census Bureau is
N Chicago attending the convention
OF the National Live Stock Association
Mr. Powers read a paper before the as
soclatlon- He viii return Saturday.
John Butler. Of the Census Office who Is
at his home suffering with a severe attack
OF facial neuralgia, is reported to De
slightly improved.
Detective Pratt is somewhere down in
Maryland On hunting trip Pratt left
The city several days age Detective E9tl-
Hewlett guards the Pennsylvania dspot
while Detective Pratt IS away
McFonso- the racehorse is now the
OF Lieutenant Daley. CT the
Ninth precinct station When the race
season closed IN this city last week tha
Ter CT AcFcnsO said to Lieutenant
l'sIey. you take the horse. You alone
must ride him