The Washington times., 1902-06-09
OUTSIDERS OCCUPY
OUR BEST POSITIONS

Jurisdiction in which they preside.
The Presidential appointments of Dis
triCt officials other than the judges are
the register of wills. now and for many
years filled by a nonresident; the re-
COrder of deeds has been for several ap-
! pointments a place in which to locate a
I politician from one of the States The
office OF District Attorney has been
filled either by 4 District man or one
from Maryland. and of two evils it is
without doubt the wish of the people
that they have the lesser, and they pre-
fer Maryland to other States when legal
officials are considered.
! Notwithstanding the Commissioners
CT the District of Columbia must be resi-
dents of the District. they themselves
/ seem to forget the plan. and have often
made appointments from the States.
The sealer of weights and measures.
with a salary OF S2.500 per year. was
appointed from the Twenty first Con-
gressionai district Marketmaster B.
+. Graham was appointed from Ohio, and
receives monthly wage of 500. One
OF the inspectors of wood. William H.
, OMeara, was appointed from West Vir-
ginia. One of the assistant assessors.
/ W. d. Montague was appointed from the
! Tenth Congressional district of Massa-
! chusetts. and receives 81 500 per annum.
The superintendent of the water depart
ment. Walter A. Mcfarland, is credited
to Alabama, and receives 2.400. The
electrical engineer, with the same sal
airy, was appointed from New York.
! Mr. Warner Stutler. superintendent of
the street and alley cleaning depart
ment. draws a salary of $500. General
H V. Boynton. a voter in Ohio, and res
ident of Cincinnati, is president of the
board of education.
OF course, many more of the District
employees are appointed from the States
than those mentioned: the list has been
made of those receiving considerable
salaries. and does not include any but
heads of departments.
Must Pay Its Share.
The District is compelled to pay one
half of the appropriations for several
OF the charitable institutions of the city,
yet many of the chief officials are APP
pointed from the States.
Washington Asylum is presided over
by w. H. Stoughtenburgh. with the title
OF superintendent and a salary of 81 200.
He was appointed from the Eighteenth
! Congressional district of New York. The
Reform School, for which the appropria-
ton last year was S42, $50, has for it's
superintendent W. H. Shallenberger from
| the Twentyfourth Pennsylvania Con-
gressional district; from the same dis
trict come the assistant superintendent,
with a salary of $500, and the matron
with 4 salary of $500
From the same State two teachers
| in this institution are appointed, so
that it would appear that the Keystone
State, and particularly the Twenty
| fourth Congressional district, is remark
ably well represented. For the Reform
School for Girls the appropriation was
$l6.3S5. and the superintendent, with a
salary of $1,000. was appointed from
Ohio.
OF the medical charitable institutions.
Freedman's Hospital receives an appro-
priation of $4,000; the surgeon in chief
/ is A. NJ Curtis, Of Illinois. and receives
salary of $4,000. DR.. Julian NJ Cabell
! is the medical superintendent of the
Columbia Hospital for Women. and re-
ceived his appointment from the Philip
| pine Islands. His salary is S2100, and
the institution receives appropriations
aggresating S54 GOO. The National Ho-
meopathic hospital receives an appro-
priation of $500, and the resident ply
stefan is from Pennsylvania
keystone State in Favor.
Pennsylvania also has the honor of
being the home State of the superin-
tendent of the Central Dispensary and
Emergency Hospital Miss I. B. Lurig,
in this capacity, receives salary of
$500. The Eastern Dispensary receives
$4,000 per annum, and the resident ply
stefan halls from the Keystone State.
OF the child-caring institutions the
Industrial Home School received last
year s21 900, and E. E McCaslin the
superintendent. is credited to the Sixth
Congressional district of Ohio Penn
sylvania is again favorably treated in
the Office of superintendent of the Ma
tional Association for Dependent Color
ed Women and Children; the appropria-
ton was $4,000, and the executive official
received s720
To New York has been assigned the
Office of superintendent of the new Boys
and Children's Aid Society: the salary
is $3.50. and the appropriation for this
institution is $1,000. New York is also
represented by Lyman B. Cutler. super
intendent of the Municipal Lodging
house, MS salary Is l,2UD, ana the APP
preparation $4,000. The superintendent
of the Young Woman's Christian Home
draws a salary o, $50 per month and
comes from South Carolina; to this in
stitution was given 81 900.
Offices Pay Well.
Miss Kate McKelvy, of Pennsylvania.
is superintendent Of the Hope and Help
Mission. and the institution has appro-
priated for 1t 81 900: the salary of the
superintendent f. 500 rer month. DR. A.
b. Richardson is from Ohio, and is SUI
perintendent Of the Government Hos
pitaI fer the Insane; the salary of the
Office is $4,000; the last appropriation
bill gave to this institution 1865 500. The
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb received $10,500: this institution
is presided over by Edward NJ. Gallaudet
OF the First Congressional district of
Connecticut, and practically all of the
professors and instructors are appointed
from the various States.
Come from Other States.
The heads of institutions of the Dis
trict seem to come in large numbers
from the States; it is to be doubted if
anywhere non-residents are so nicely
taken care of as under our present sys-
TEN. Certain it is. that the District is
not adequately represented in the Off
ciaJS Win shane its dssfinieS