The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
HERE is RICHNESS
A Book Protector" and a Deadly
Trunk UnlOaded on Palmer.
RICKETTS,, FERRELL, MAHONEY
Working The Old Man iOr All He is Worth-The
Union Building, Where The Protectors
Are Manufactured and Used, and Likewise
The Elephant Trunk for Killing Cock Reaches.
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The deeper the pick is sunk by The
Globe in the Public Printing Depart
ment the richer becomes the pay dirt,
and if the thing keeps on there will soon
be rich paying dividend for the tax
payer and general public.
When it is taken into consideration
the energy and efforts a capable, edu-
Gated man, a skilled and intelligent me-
chanic, or a broad-shouldered, physi-
cally-perfect and brawny son of toll
puts forth TO earn 81 600 in n full calen-
dar year, it strikes the average citizen
that the Government official in receipt
Of 81, 600 for the same length of time has
his lines cast i'm pleasant places, and
that he certainly is in position TO appre-
ciate the "prosperity" and general bless
edness conferred by the Mckinley Ad-
ministration on 75,OOO,OOO non office
holding subiectsl
But such is not the case. The larger
the salary and the higher the position Of
the average modern Government en-
ploye, the greater his avaricousness and
his Unsuitable desire tor more pork
This morning The Globe lays before
its 10000 patrons, and its probably
100000 readers estimating five readers
to each copy of The Globe, an astound-
ing state of affairs in one of the offices
under the Public Printers department.
In the Union Building there is located
a branch of the Government Printing
Office known as the Public Document
and Distributing Department. 1t IS
under the supervision, we believe, Of an
employe named Ferrell. In this de-
uartment all the public documents are
wrapped up and sent out by mail to
Congressman and their constituents all
over this broad land. Not even WASH
ingtonian has any definite idea OF the
immense number of books, pamphlets,
and printed documents Of all kinds and
descriptions which are wrapped up and
mailed in this branch Of MIR. Palmer's
big establishment.
Now, since the foundation of the Gov
ernment until July last, the same pro-
cess of wrapping up the books in heavy
double brown paper has been adhered
to. aad Il was found quite satisfactory,
as every body who has ever received a
Government publication will lbear wit
ness.
The books and publications have
passed, time immemorial, through the
mails to the recipients without damage
to book or wrapper. A friend recently
called The Globes attention TO a publi-
cation he had received with a new device
attachment This device consisted of
protector for the edges of the book, to
prevent any damage whilegoing through
the mails. Investigating the matter to
ascertain who was the superfiuously in
genious inventor and what there was In
it for him or the-Government, The Globe
ran into the richest streak of pure ore it
has so far struck in the Palmer-Ricketts
establishment
There is gentleman employed in the
Union Building named Mahoney, a
brother-in-law,b by the way, of Mr.. Rick
etts, and this gentleman was discovered
to he the inventor or patentee of the pro-
tector and several other useful inven-
tions. Mr.. Mahoney has naturally
soft berth under his brother-in- law Rick
etts, and this gives him the necessary
time to invent and perfect the devices
he sells the Government. This book
protector is not the only product Of his
brain, as will be seen further along, The
Government, that is to say, Messrs. Pal
mer and Ricketts,, took kindly TO the
protector, and they were manufactured
by the tens of thousands at the Union
Building, where thousands OF them were
used to "protect the Government pub
lications sent broadcast throughout the
country.
The esuper1uousness of the protector"
was what at first claimed our attention,
but the use TO which ii was being put,
the place of its manufacture, and its
solitary consumer fired our Imagination,
for the Government alone-that is 10
again repeat, Messrs. Palmer and Rick
etts have the exclusive use of this pro-
tectOr.
We are unable at this writing to give
the exact sum total of what Mr.. Pal
mer and Mr.. Ricketts, have ordered
paid out of the printing appropriation
for these protectors, but that it is some-
thing handsome goes without saying.
Recently the Public Printer "smelled a
mice" or scented something hostile in
the air, for hurried orders were issued TO
put away the machinery and material
used in the manufacture OF the "pro-
tector," and the stock in hand OF 100000
more or less protectors" are now being
used up as fast as they can be attached
to the books being sent out.
The next invention of Mr.. Mahoney's
brain, in which The Globe is informed
Ferrell and Ricketts, are
interested is an eye shade. This eye
shade is a really useful.and improved de-
vice, and The Globe does not mind the
free advertisement IL is giving the article
in this excerpt, for The Globe wears one
Of the Mahoney- -Ferrell- Ricketts, eye
shades itself, and guarantees its light |
ness and improvement over the clumsy
affair heretofore on the emarket. But un- |
for the firm, the eye shade, !
instead of being like the protector"
confined to the use of the Government, F.
was generally thrown on the market for /
he benefit of the general public, and |
lence the law suit which the firm are |
now engaged in to establish the priority |
If their claim to the invention over the |
outside contestant
The Globe has retained for the last of |
Mr.. Mahoney's series Of inventions the |
pest, most unique, and utterly unde-
icriptive article of the lot. 1t IL a ma
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