The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-17
THE DEPARTMENT WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus.
AMI SMITH IS A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA
Superintendent of the Senate Document Room POSSESSES
Vast Store Of Valuable Information-Nr. Beckwith
One of the Younger Scientific Men.
WITH IS A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA

varieties OF grass and forage plants. The
Department gives practical demonstra-
tons Of the value of these crops wherever
possible, and the showing at Charleston
is particularly good. Mr. Bean has had
forty years experience with grasses. etc
in America, England. Scotland and
ireland.
Mr.. William H Drayton. Of the Govern
ment Printing Office. is a popular and
accomplished member Of the craft and has
been in the Office for several years. Nj.
Drayton's former home was Aiken, S. c,
the great fashionable winter resort, and
! his father was distinguished man IN the
Palmetto State
Capt John DoIan, OF the National
Museum Watch. is the efficient head of
model force of watchmen. The system
in force at the Museum Is calculated 10
prevent any vandalism or theft, if any
thing in that line should be attempted
Passes must be obtained for everything
going out, and every parcel going in must
be checked. Employees are not exempt
from the strict rules. Captain Dolan has
been at the Museum for several years.
There is q young cynic in one Of the de-
paFtments on the Mall and he is going at
rate that will secure for him steady
job as an old bachelor He is entirely too
practical and Is worried because none of
the learned men can explain the harmless
and generally fascinating foibIes of the
feminine employees. He has failed TO see
lady clerk take look at the flowers
while wearing her hat. He says their idea
Of riotous good time is TO run around
baTeheaded and then spend the next TWEEN
ty-fouT hours worrying over an impaired
complexion. He cannot get on to that re-
maTkable system Of transportation where
by the dear girls smuggle IN their lunch
IN the morning so that even trained
watchmaH cannot distinguish it And he
cannot understand how q group of girls.
all talking at once, keep On good terms
while, when he experiments along that
I line, they give him the frozen lamp. Il
Is q source Of grief to this earnest Young
man that women never get off a street car
the right way and thu pictures he has
made would cause the subjects to be sad
Special Agent H. Conquest Clarke, the
head OF the location department Of the
rural free mail delivery system. is having
great many new routes laid of in ali
parts Of the country The system becomes
more and more popular On May / 225
/ new routes were put in operation and the
preliminary work Of establishing several
I hundred more in July is now being done.
Inquiries frequently reach Government
/ employees as to the probable chance of Sc
! curing work here on the building Of the
} Greater Washington. Clerks are asked IN
4 their official and private capacity to look
/ out fer chances for their friends and ac-
+ quaintanees- Sinecures are not particu-
/ larry inquired for. but the applications are
I generally from artisans who think the
/ vast improvements talked OF here viii cali
/ for large additions to the workers in va
! rious lines in the Capital City Il is evil
/ IDENTIFY the impression throughout the
: country that the Greater Washington is
sure 10 materiaIize ere long.
Mr. Porter a. McMaster. Of the Census
/ once. is 2 talented young South Caro-
linian, who il IS predicted will make his
mark in the legal profession Mr. Nc
Master is q son OF one of the most dis
/ lingUished families in the Palmetto State.
He is newspaper man of considerable
experience.
Last week the governing board OF the
Bureau Of American Republics confirmed
the action Of the director in recognizing
that institution. So far as effected the
reorganization consists in reducing the
force by discharging three clerks. de-
creasing the salary Of one, and increasing
the salary Of two others, transferring the
I names of two from the temporary to the
permanent roll, and the employment OF a
secretary
This bureau has the reputation Of pay
ing the highest salaries OF any public Of
fee in the District The force now con
! sists Of twenty-five persons The director
receives s., coo annually (s5G9 more than
h IF
the secretary, So, coo; the chief translator,
81 zoe, and the chief clerk, g, SEQ; q total
OF S13 200 for the four.
The total compensation paid 10 en-
! ployes during the last fiscal year was
$50. 1854 The estimate for the present
fiscal year IS $50. 500.
The Bureau Of American Republics de-
Tives its chief support from the United
States Government Congress appropri-
ates S36 goo annually, while tho greater
part OF the printing is done free. Nine
tenths Of the money received from the
sale OF publications Isl, 400 came from
citizens Of this country. while all of the
"a. coo realized from advertisers came
from the same source
The eighteen Latin-American Republics
together contribute less than $4,000 an
/ nRaiiy 1915, 1913 estimated for 1902 to
the support Of the bureau. The repre-
sentative Of each OF these countries is,
however, entitled to as much voice in the
management Of its affairs as is the United
States.
The United States and twelve OF the
American Republics grant the
/ ranking privilege to the publications Of
the bureau Owing to the revolutions and
other internal troubles the receipts from
a number Of these Republics this year
will hardly be as great as anticipated.
! The chief ambition of this bureau at
present is the building up Of q Columbus