The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-16
THE DEPARTMENT WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus.
DR.. D. E. SALMON on BOVINE TUBERCUL OSIS
Head Of the Bureau of Animal Industry to Read Paper
Before the Iowa Medical Association Mr. Roby,
Lieutenant of the Land Office Watch

Dr. D. z. Salmon. head of the Bureau
Of Animal Industry. is going West next
week. At the annual meeting OF the State
Medical Association Of Iowa he will read
a paper On Bovine tuberculosis and the
Public Health The Taper is an exhaus-
tive one and deals with all phases Of q
vital subject In regard TO bovine tuBer-
euIosis there are two distinct schools Of
thought. one holding that the disease Is
transmissibIe to human beings, and one
holding the contrary view The contro-
versy on this point has. spread from the
scientists TO the people at large. and the
question OF infected animals has .ecome
one Of the most important problems be
fore the Agricultural Department.
DR.. Salmon is inclined to believe that
tuberculosis IN COWS can be transmitted
10 people. and that il does o. ur more
frequently than is generally known. There
have been elaborate experiments on the
subject at the department. but it remains
debatable proposition
United States Indian Inspector Arthur
J. Tinker is IN Washington. Nj. Tinker
has recently concluded z tour of the
reservations and says he found Indian
affairs in good condition everywhere He
spent considerable time in the Southwest
Mr. William Gassaway, lieutenant Of
the watch at the Interior Department, is
acting captain for a few days, while Cap
tain HaIIeck is spending while in New
York State. Mr.. Gassaway has been IN
the Department nearly all the time since
the war between the States and is re-
gaIded as one Of the best informed and
Yigiiant men in the city. He is native
of SteubenYille Ohio, and was il the civil
war
g The project advocated by ex-Postnaster
General Wanamaker of adding two stories
to the old Postofice Department Building,
now used as the General Land Office.
is rot dead Another effort is to be made
soon to secure an appropriation to make
the addition according to the plans Mr.
Wanamaker caused 10 be drawn. These
plans show q very much improved build
ing, one showing to fine advantage and
anOTding nearly double the present avail
able space The building considered the
best IN the city, dc IS not get proper ap-
probation On account of its lack of height
and its proximity TO the business district.
Mr.. G. n. Pickens. Of the Office of the
DuA EGA VI =1AiA44d4 AA4S5LA4s most
pleasant ard talented young gentleman
He IS an active Christian Eudeavor work
er and is generally regarded as one OF
men IN Washington Mr. Pickeas IS q
member Of the Pickens family of Ala
bama-
Mr.. T. Roby, lieutenant of the Land
Office watch, is civil war veteran whose
experiences were many and varied. He
was q member of the Fifty-sixth Illinois
Regiment and was in active service for
four years He was in the second division
OF the Fifth Corps OF Sherman's Army ard
was in General Logan's noted force. Nj.
Roby remembers wildly the memorable
march around the Confederacy- The
march began at Atlanta in November and
wound up in the grand review in Wash
ington on May "a Of the next year
Christmas was sFent at Savannah and the
army was entertained by few encounters
with some enterprising citizens OF that
place Few men were encountered. how
ever. as nearly all Southern men were in
the army.
At PocataIigo, 8 C. Mr. Roby and his
comrades had a rough experience. In
January there were tremendous rains anu
a large part Of the army was water
bound at that place where only negroes
lived Rations gave out and things were
getting bad when connection was made
with large stores Of Goldfish. OF which the
men lived for ten days. Mr. Roby was
orderly sergeant Of his company and was
always a target for the complaints Of the
men. it being weII-known fact that in
army life the first sergeant is to be
blamed for everything.
craft to keep itself IN touch all around
When a corps WAS on the march l. made
marks On the trees tG indicate the route
and incidentally TO tell the other fellows
10 90 on another route where there WAS
more 10 eat. Each corps had different
way Of SHINING trees to show that it
had been there. Some Of those trees are
said TO be still standing with the rarks
showing plainly.
Poc=.2Iigo is name that has puzzled
many people, including the eighty thou
sand men OF Sherman's army. It is said
The Africans named il. The locality has
always been a re 1dezTCus for turtles and
terrapins. and when the Africans we're
brought over and traded for tobacco they
found infinite fun in playing with the
creature. They found cut that live coal
or 4 few p0iIes with sharp stick would
make a shelled eritter take up the fastest
gait known IN the Incompatible Guliah
dialect the formula for teTTapin speed was
Poke e tail, e go" Such is the philolO-
" Of PocataIigo. There are about two
hundred negroes TO every white man IN
the vicinity
The Interior Department Beneficial As
ISOLATION. Of which Mr.. 3 W Williams is
secretary. is a model Of its kind and has
been doing good work for many years. The
death benefits are about S200 There is in
the Patent Office another association OF
the same kind. and the maiorlLH OF en-