Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

''Mikey" Louis and his friend Brown
have not abandoned hope of yet securing
the Busch building, Notwithstanding the
advertisement by the Postmaster General
for suitable additional space for the Supply
Division of the Post-office Department The
persistency ofNikey and his unofficial friend
Brown to secure the Busch building almost
deserves success, even though the public
service should suffer if the deal is consum-
mated Mikey has even resorted to the ex-
pediency Of cutting down the supplies on
hand, in some cases FIVE hundred per cent,
and in other cases with a decided detriment
to the public service, inasmuch as many de-
partments are kept waiting for supplies be-
cause Mikey hasn't got them on hand. All
this, of course, with an object in view. And
that object is to make the supplies on hand
fit the small rooms of the Busch building.
To open the eyes of the Postmaster
General to the scheme Mikey is now operat-
ing the GLOBE furnishes the following sig
nifcant statistics.
Previous to the time when Mikey set his
heart upon acquiring the Busch building,
with the aid of his friend Brown as negotia-
tor Mikey carried on hand at the present
building from thirteen to fifteen thousand
pounds of twine and from forty to fifty
thousand reams Of paper, with other sup
plies in proportion. This he was enabled
to do by stacking the paper 90 high that it
took a twenty foot ladder to reach the top
layers. The building allowed of this pack
ing and stacking although it is cOnfessedly
inadequate to hold all the supplies which
Mikey should or thinks he should have on
hand including the famous ink of Perry
Heath's Cincinnati relatives. This supply
Of from forty to fifty thousand reams of
paper has been reduced to six or ten
thousand reams, and the fifteen thousand
pounds of twine has been reduced to two or
three thousand pounds, with pro rata re-
duction in other supplies.
When Mikey's attention is called to the
fact that the Railway Marine Service or the
Dostmasters throughout the country are out
Of twine or paper, and have sent in pressing
orders for the same, he turns on his Fideles
Achetes Shaw and shifting his chest while
his eyes are in fine frenzy rolling exclaims,
OH d. the R. NJ. service and d.
the postmaster, want new building, you
know, and this is the way to stir up the
Postmaster General" 4"
Now as a matter of exact measurement
there is not a room in the Busch building
which will even hold two thousand pounds
of twine or one-fourth of the paper which
it is necessary to have on hand. A cores
pondent conversant with the facts, writes
us:
IS the Postmaster General playing to
hoodwink the public and accept AIikey
L ouis and Bob Browns scheme whereby
they will become the benefciaries in the
Busch building deal3 The building is totally
unfit. but understand because of contribu.
tions to the Republican campaign fund by
certain parties the taxpayers will be asked
to pay for this unsuitable building. Why
not appropriate the money by Congress for
the Republican campaign fund, It would
be much houester than this whipping the
devil around the stump" style of filching2"
To rent this building at the exorbitant
rent demanded and considering the fact
that il is wholly unsuitable for the purpose
required, much less to purchase it outright
would be malefeasance in Office as plain as
the irruption on Mikey's mits.
The GLOBE does not believe that the Post
master General when the facts are laid be-
fore him, as they are in this excerpt, will
consent to such an open and palpable out
rage upon the tax payers, Mikeys pernci-
Gus activity to the contrary and notwith-
standing.