The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

The establishment of the permanent
census bureau at Washington will fur
nish regular employment for over 500
clerks, who have been selected from
among some $500 who were engaged in
the work up to July. Among the num-
ber re-appointed on that date was JOS
eph ID. Lewis, of this city, who is at
the head OF one of the most important
departments in the census bureau.
Judge" Lewis, as he Is familiarly
known, entered the service of the gov
ernment in the spring of 1890. He had
as common councilman from the Fif-
teenth ward when the appointment
came to him, and he served continuous
ly through the entire period Of the elev-
enth census in the division of manufac-
lures, editing schedules and reporting
special industries. When the day for
the organization of councils arrived
Joe was in his seat, having come from
Washington to assist the Republicans
in organizing the body. BY reason of
his holding a government position, he
was declared ineligible to the seat, and
was not allowed to vote. He thereupon
resigned, and a special election was
held to fill the vacancy.
A peculiar coincidence is the fact that
Mr.. Lewis brother, William, is now
serving his second term as a represen-
tative in common council from the Fif-
teenth ward, the seat which the former
relinquished ten years prior to the lat
ter's first election.
Mr.. Lewis remained in the Census
ID 1,to t., hot, Of
the last to be dismissed. When ar
rangements We're begun for taking the
twelfth census in the summer of 1899.
he was one of the first men selected by
Director Merriam, and spent the first
six months of his service in Boston,
where he had large force of clerks
under him.
In the interim between the taking Of
the eleventh and twelfth censuses, Mr..
Lewis served as clerk to the commit
tee on states and territories of the
house of representatives.. Since re-en-
tering the census department he has
edited and compiled special reports on
manufactures, recently published. Mr..
Lewis is home for few days and will
return to Washington on Wednesday,.
When II. II. Patterson came here
from Philadelphia, a year or so ago, to
take the position of superintendent OF
the Scranton Railway company, his
youthful appearance and presumed in
experience caused him to be looked
upon with u suspicion that influence
with the directorate was and for Il long
time would be his chief hold on his job.
But Mr.. Patterson has been a pleasant
surprise to those who have watched his
course with the trolley company. In
an incredible short space of time he
had mastered the principles and details
of the business and set about the in
stallation of numerous reforms and i'm
provements in the operation of the road
which evidenced IA head with ideas
He is an indefatigable worker, popu-
lar with the men and regarded by Cen
eral Manager Silliman as an indispens-
able ally. He is the kind of young man
Scranton always has a warm welcome
fora thinker and worker. If Phi'a-
d"'phia has any more of the same stripe
:.-c can send 'em along e. o. d. The
Electric city relies for her future pros
perity on her young men of today and
can not corral too many of the right
kind.
The resignation of DR.. John NJ. Car
nochan, as resident physician at the
Hillside Home, which was rendered
to the poor board, was the
doctors final step in severng his local
He is now located at
Princeton, N. j., where he is acting as
assistant to DR.. Wyckoff, who is ex-
President Grover Cleveand's physician,
and has probably the finest practice in
the little college town.
DIR. CarnOchan was very popular In
this city, among a large circle of ac-
quaintances. He proved himself capa-
BILE and efficient as resident physician
at the home, and previous to his ap-
pontment there served as one of the
house surgeons at the Moses Taylor
hospital. He is a graduate of the aca-
demic department of Princeton. He left
the university in 1885, and then took a
medical course in Philadelphia, at the
end of which he received his appoint
ment to the Moses Taylor.