The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-11
DEPARTMENTAL WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus,
THE NEW BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS
Importance OF Its Work and Care Exercised in Securing
Good Clerks and Officials for It--What Dr.
Wiley Did During His European Trip

/ is reported, and the matter has become /
Ivery. serious. The bureau Of animal in /
dustry has been at work on the mat
ter and has succeeded in getting a cure, !
provided isolation and extinction can be |
enforced Dr. Mother has gone to Ne
braska and South Dakota to conduct ex-
Iperfments
Dr. MohIer is a native Of Pennsylvania,
and was educated in that State for ehe
profession of veterinary surgeon. He
secured a good English education and
afterward attended Temple College He
lis graduate of the veterinary depart
ment of the University Of Pennsylvania.
and has pursued the study of the sub
Iiect in other parts Of the country. He
ipractced for a while in Philadelphia. IN
1887 he was appointed 10 a position in
the bureau, and he has been in the
Government service since in various ca
Ipacities. He was lately promoted 10 the
present position Of director Of expert
tments from the position OF assistant o
Dr. Nogaard.
Some OF Dr.. Mothers best work as
done in the Southwest when he was as
signed to the treatment and prevention
! OF the Texas fever. . disease very disas-.
tTous to the cattle-Taising interests. He
was for few years on the Texas and
Mexican ranges and aided materially in
limiting the noTthward progress of the
disease The quarantine was a strict
and successful one, He was later sent
TO Kansas City on meat inspection bust
! ness in some of the biggest packing
, houses of the West. He took q post
r graduate course in the Milwaukee Medi-
= cal College. He has written and lee
| / turd quite extensively on the subjects
! in which he is interested He IS regard
ed as one of the foremost scientists and
workers and one OF the most promising
e young men in the department
Miss Mary E. Bishop. a clerk ii the
= Bureau of InsuIar Affairs. has returned
: to the city from an extended stay at
? Round Hill, Va She had an attack Of
> nervous prostration several weeks ago.
+ which caused her 10 be absent from the
Office and the city She returned in good
= health. Miss Bishop Is one of the abIest
t and most efficient clerks in the War De-
e partment and was selected for the Blu
= Teau Of Insular Affairs on account Of her
u / eminent fitness.
d One OF the most highly esteemed men
: in the Government Printing Office Is Mr..
Il John Berg. assistant foreman Of the
Record" fore He has dIled the posi-
tons of cOmpOsitoT. cCpy editor. and
L pTOOfreader TO the entire satisfaction OF
= the officials. Mr.. Berg is active u. fra
o teFnal affairs. He has been the treas
:. urer Of Columbia Typographical Union
f for two years
= Mr. j J. vogel who represents the
= United States Civil Service at Philadel-
4 phia, was in the city yesterday He han
G dies all the matter for Philadelphia and
8 vicinity and is an active promoter OF
I the work OF the Commission in many
4 ways
l. Mr. Isaac B. Vail. Waterman at the
C model room Of the Patent Office. says:
Yes, I did once think was a hero.
It was at al age when impressions are
> easily made. and I impressed myself
: with the belief that was the foremost
y. OF the country saving crew. IN 1861 I
was living in Carver, 2Iass., and I be
longed TO the militia. There were times
when I thought the militia belonged to
ne One day one Of the selectmen Of
the town came to me and said ! must
= report 10 the armory, that the troops
were ordered South. That was all. The
=. next minute ! was on run for the
= armory, six miles away. and made the
X distance. six miles and hack, in short
h time I was deeply Impressed with my
y responsibility in this matter and fully
le realized that II I should fail 10 be on
time, the rebellion would not be
ID stamped out, and JEFF Davis would re-
le main in the land of the living II was
iS decreeG by everything that I was going
8 10 capture Davis Nobody else was
Is brave and able enough to do it, / must
re get there. After making the twelve
n miles in good hero time. I Iefa hone and
le struck the road for the railroad station
g nine miles away ! got there in time "a
Of catch the other bOys-and the country
? was safe. We went TO BOstrn. where
q fretted because my JEFF Dav lob was
, being delayed.
/ I've were loaded on a b at in Bos-
! ton Harbor, and I felt bigger and
ST Drawer than ever But ere long I had
st curious feelings. and they got more Gu
D rioUs. Then ! had some more feelings
ie Nobody else seemed 10 have any feel
i ings Of the sympathetic kind. and they
-e walked about on deck just as il The
le captor OF Davis were well and haUp-
y and likely 70 I've Yes, : vas seasfck
T was at first afraid I was going 10 die
q, and later was AFRAID I wouldn't The
n boys brought me Up every morning and
2 pTopped me on deck, Pad after 1 had
gazed and otherwise occupied myself for
awhile they carried me back. I began
=, 10 have doubts. Even i I lived some
ut Dody else might have part Of the honor
IN Of catching Davis
After century or so we reached
Fort Monroe. and ! commenced &c
as brighten up for my job. But another
e foe came 10 the conqueToT, and in a few
? days the measles struck me-the here
destined to capture Davis. Then, worse
than all, came inconsistencies. I had Il
7e as had as any yOungster II either army
D. and thought that JEFF Davis iHb wOulC
lt certainly get lost that time. loon oUl
Z three months had expired and We Wen
g home Like Pats darling coming from
ireland. ! wanted TO travel by land. %
K Mr. Vail re-enlisted and made a good
In soldier Like thousands Of the gooS
~ soldiers Of both sides, he found that the
~ fears entertained al first that the wal
AN no ~ her her