The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
DEPARTMENTAL WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus,
RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
Thrilling Experience OF John L Houston, Messenger
1t the Treasury Buding-~Son OF Mr. Yoder, of DWis-
ion Of Mineral Land Claims, Prize Winner.

at the Office. Nj Wilson is one Of the
oldest men in the division and is a man
OF extensive information and reading
He has been a Proofreader since early
manhood
Mr. ". J. DOW. foreman Of the Rec
ord day force at the Government
Printing Office, is newspaper writer
Of considerable talent. He has contrib
uted several articles OF worth TO the
local newspapers and has written some
clever and Instructive articles for The
trade and union papers. He is 4 very
capable and intelligent young man and
is looked on as one of the most prom
Using in the Office He has been pro
NOTED from the ranks and has filed his
present responsible position since last
winter.
Mr. F E auckland. a proofreadsr at
the specification division of the Govern
ment Printing Office. Is making tour Of
Europe He has only been gone for
few weeks. but has evidently been max
ing good use Of the time. He is now In
England Mr. auckland is q scholarly
and versatile man. and it had long been
his desire to see the world.
Library and Capitol employees report
an epidemic Of bridal parties The June
rush has commenced already Hardly
village in the country fails 20 send rep
Eresentatives of this class TO the Capitol
some time during the year, and some
times dozen from enc State viii be
seen Z q day
Mr. Andrew TurnbuIl. the valued and
4 ~ T-.-
publication division. has had zrievous
trouble with his eyes. He has been at
home FOR several weeks and under the
care Of experts He is slowly improving
Until d few days ago il was thought he
would lose both eyes. but il is now
thought one viii be saved. The entire
corps is concerned for Mr.. TurnbuI. and
/ II - generally hoped he viii soon be
able 10 be out
/ The issue OF patents this week as re
( ported from The specification room is
B 81, exclusive Of trademarks and de
signs This IS an exceptional record
considering The partial demora Iizatiou
. OF the corps Al unusually large NUM-
Der OF employees are sick. and the
breakdown OF the elevators Is serious
drawback. All except the aged and
crippled have TO climb four long fights
OF stairs
What becomes OF the ex-soldiers? is
one OF the current questions but il is not
a troublesome one The ex-soIdier got
10 be q good hand at taking care Of him
self while soldering and his old con-
rade, seIf-reIiance, does not desert .bira
when he comes back home Within the
last few months large numbers Of sol
diers have been discharged from the
regiments IN the Phrippines-severaI
thousand Of them. Their enlistments
had expired
One Of the returned soldiers who had
landed in a Government Office was asked
as TO the ways Of the discharged soldier
He illustrated the matter b. quotation
from his own experience. He said
I was discharged at Manila five
months ago with fourteen others Of ny
company Three re-euIisted and re
turned 10 service. and two more Hxed
their papers so they could visit the
United States and then return to the
army. The other nine had enough
On reaching this country we scat
tered, but when we broke cd al
san Francisco two had ALREADY
made arrangements for return 10 the
Islands TO go into business The other
seven disposed Of themselves as fol
lows One got a job on q ranch in New
Mexico. one went TO the street car lire
in Los Angeles. one returned TO farm
II Georgia. one went into the printing
business up in Pennsylvania. another got
a job on g railroad, another opened
restaurant IN Jersey City and I got here.
( That is the way about all Of them do.
Many Of the boys have saved money and
some are well fixed. There were money
/ lenders Who came ont with s. gt1 OF
$1,000 and gamblers who got more than
( that Some OF US deposited our money
with the paymaster and came out with
nearly all Of three years pay There IS
no telling where the BOYS VIII get to-
they simply drift around a while and fall
into the first thing they like Some viii
20 TO the navy and some TO the army and
( others viii 60 into business a lot Of
them never come home ar all but stay
in the Philippines marry natives and go
+ into business-souc good and some
bad"