Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-05

not the OWL Service Brand of that
ArticIe--A Chance that May bo We
Have Libeled Some Public Servants.
In last SUNDAYS GLOBE we referred to
the methods and manner of securing posi-
tions in the departments, through the daily
newspaper route. This morning we will
use, with or without her permission, Miss
Julia Robertson of Sixth Auditor Castles
department as a sample case of how the
Civil Service bugaboo is laid quietly to rest
when an artist handles the reins Now at
the outset we desire to state that the only
reason we use Miss Roberston's name is
that we find her in Castles department.
She is a worthy lady and as competent
probably as she is deserving That she is
duplicated in all the other Government de-
partments by the score goes without saying
Miss Robertson was appointed laborer, and
as a labOrer she is admittedly carried on the
pay rolls, but like her sister laborers and
many Of her brother laborers, she is doing
clerical work
II is against this fraud on the Civil Ser
vice by department officials that we con-
tend. I.aborers, male and female, appointed
as such, should be assigned to laborers
work and not to clerical This evil, which
has grown in the departments into a regular
system, compels the few who do the menial
or laboriOus work of the Offices to not only
perform their own share of the labor but
also of the men and women at the desks
and who are carried on the department rolls
as laborers.
Castles department has long been motor
ious for this whipping the devil around
the stump" and Castle himself is notorious
for favoring female applicants. appointee's
clerks and laborers to the extreme limit.
Witness the three promotions within
the short time since the Sunday
GLOBE was accused and its editor
arrested for libeling Mrs Victorine Alex
ander That lady is now drawing 81, 400 per
annum, whereas when she jumped on the
orphan running this truthful organ Of the
taxpayers she had less than 5000 Our
readers will perceive from this that It is
serious thing to offend public servants and
tax eaters. Nevertheless we will be com
PEELED in the interests of the public and
animated by some hope Of getting on the
inside" of the District jail, so that we can
write of it intelligently and from experience
(of tapping our food without knife fork or
spoou) to show up Castles and the other
departments fraudulently There is a libel
Gus word) beating the Civil Service law.
This - orning therefore we summon
Deputy Auditor Chew to the bar of public
inion and accuse him, without a tooth
on it" of conducting loan association
Deputy Auditor Chew, Of Castles Depart
ment, is uuofieiallv the president OF a loan
association all to himself He is a Roval
Arch ten per center and pays no office rent
or revenue tax of any kind. His employees
draw no wages or salary for such service as
they render his loan association and il thev
should demand or kick for any compensa
tion promotion would be as distant as the
end Of the Filipino war II is a handy
thing to have clerk in each division, see
ton and subsection of Sixth Auditor Castles
department, whose business il is to ascer-
tain the impecunious clerks or those chaps
who are addicted to hypothecating their
semi-monthly salaries to play the races and
have a time with the girls" With a list
of these high rollers and blooded servants
in ones possession, the placing of loans and
their prompt collections at 10 per cent per
month profit is dead easy and snap, COM
pared to being Vice-President of the United
States at an annual compensation of s., 900.
OF course, as stated the clerical agents of
the loan association dare not ask for any
compensation for their services, they only
expect to be remembered when promotions
are being distributed. And they ARE-ac-
cording to the MERIT system of securing
the greater number of we'll laid loans
Of course, again, the literary and letter
writing head of the Sixth Auditors depart
ment knows nothing of what's going on,
as he only communicates with certain
favorite danes Of the department and these
have their mouths closed, except when they
are asleep. Then they snore and, per
force, MUST open 'em Otherwise, these
danes who know the merit system" by
heart, attend strictly to the lectures and
fatherly advice given them by Castle
Close your eyes, shut your mouths; you
can FEEL, but you must not SEE OF HEAR
anythiug-in this department
The loan business, therefore, has been
systematically conducted without attracting
even the notice of a Civil Service commis-
sioner and the hypothecating clerks are the
most humble patient and industrious SER
wants in the public service. They are glad to
be alive and are grateful for their continued
existence without importuning their chiefs
for promotion or other favors. They live
in the disciplinary dread of the mortgage
on their jobs being foreclosed and as each
day rolls over their heads sighs Of relief can
be heard clear across the street on the fourth
floor of Rural Machen's stand and deliver
department in the Star building for which
but modest rent is charged by that legiti-
mate newspaper barely sufficient to erect
similar block in ten years, four months and
sixteen days.
If truth is libellous we realize that there