The evening times., 1902-06-11
DEPARTMENTAL WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus.
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA
Sand Hill Mans Conception of Mountain -Southernes
TO Whom Negroes Are a Rarity-Oid Facts Of
the Pearl Button Industry
IOUS FACTS ABOUT NORTH CAROLYN

Mr. Frank McFaddeu. who has lately
been appointed TO a position in the
Government Printing Ofce. came from
the big hills OF North Carolina He Is
native Of WayResyilIe. one Of the noted
sumner resorts Of western Ncrth caro-
lima. region known 10 the writer's CT
summer hotel advertisements as the
Land OF the Sky During the sumner
the woods are literally full Of people
from the cities farther South and from
some Of the Northern cities. Il is also
the region in which it is proposed 70 Io-
cate the Appalachian park and forest
reserve.
MT. McFadden has also been in the
eastern part c the State. where the
Highlander has constant struggle try
ing to keep cool in telling the natives
what the mountains are like. The sand
hill mans conception of a mountain is
something en- the potato bank order. a
symmetrical, tail. steep hill getting right
UP out Of 4 level place in the read
When in the nat country the hill man
can tell all the time-honored yarns CT
meeting himself coming back on crook
ed road or locking UP the chimney to
sec the cows coming home.
The section from which Mr. McFadden
came has a political distinction L is
one Of the few Southern sections which
has the Republican habit The district
sends a Republican 10 Congress most Of
the time. and is now represented by Maj
J. N. Moody. The reason for this state
of affairs Is the absence OF the negro
Many of the voters have rarely seen d
coIored citizen. The section is also
the home Of the festive mountain trout.
at once the delight and despair Of the
soiourniDg sportsman
A Census once clerk, who has been
working on the statistics OF manulac-
lures, has become highly interested in
the button Industry, and has dug up sev-
eraI new things about the business. In
one OF the recent bulletins OF the di-
visions this explanatory note occurs:
The mos. important branch Of the
button industry IN the United States is
the making Of pearl buttons, the ma
teriaI being obtained from shells gath
cred along the Mississippi River The
industry has practically grown up within
the last ten years, and its introduction
is due entirely to J. F. Boepple, Of Mus
catine. Iowa. a native of Germany. who
had learned the trade abroad He saw
that millions of dollars were going TO
waste in the shells known as niger
heads. Of which tons were piled On the
hanks Of the river Thousands Of peO-
pie are now employed in turning these
shells into buttons, the 1-.tls plants
being found all the way from Mime
sofa to Missouri. Muscatine is still
the great headquarters Of the Industry
L has forty factories The value OF the
shells has risen from 30 cents to $50 a
hundredWeight. And yet American but
toa-making is in its infancy, IL is said
Mr. s 3. Pennebaker. coDyist in the
Pension O1ice. il a native Of Kentucky
He Is a sen Of the late General Penne-
baker. Of NeIsd county. Mr. PeHne-
baker hes an iD-e-'esting career and IS a
well informed nan His first public
service was as page in the Senate.
Mr. Wallace G. Bene. q longtime en-
pIoye Of the Treasury Department. has
been given an increase in salary He
Is one Of the head clerks in the Office
of the treasurer and is an expert hnan-
cial clerk Mr. Bone was appointed from
Illinois.
Since 1871 George D. Graham has been
on the roll OF the Interior Department.
Before that he was on another roll, that
Of the coIored soIdiery Of the nation
re was resilient Of the District OF Co
1umbia. and when the war opened voIun-
teered and spent nearly all OF the four
wears IN active service He was appoint
ed II 1871 10 a position in the army and
navy survivors division. which was dis
continued a few years ago. He was
faithful in the days Of war and has been
faithful since, ard he has the respect Of
au who know him. in and out Of the
Government service.
4 lot Of unused leave Of absence has
been utilized this week in connection
with the Pennsylvania campaign Many
oE The employees OIL the Government who
Old not use up all their annual leave
commencing on July / OF last year are
using IT now. \ strong delegation went
70 Harrisburg Tuesday.
The annual decline in the climbing in
dustry is now noticeable at such places
as the washington Monumcnt and the
Capitol dome. There are people who
persist in climbing these places IL Au-
gust, but they are few. and after June I
most Of the visitors either ride or don't