The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-20
THE DEPARTMENT WORKERS
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus.
INTEREST IN COTTON-PICKING MACHINES
No Gathering of the Crop by Monkeys This Year-Popula
Patent Office Employes-Longest Decision on
Record Just Rendered
IT IN COTTON-PICKING MACHINES

Cripple Greek. aud wonderful stories are
told Of the great wealth and extent Of
the go1d-bearing section. Since Klondike
days there has not been such excitement.
and the adyentuFeTS are travelling from
the East over the frozen walls to the
promised land The inexperienced and
TraiI are falling Dy the way, as always
vas the case in rusiies toward the mines
Returning prospectGTs have not let up on
the Toseate pictures Of the promise OF
the Thunder Mountain region
The party here alluded to went down
/ one -aorntainside IN q most novel and ez-
cit= manner. Wrapping pieces Of can
vas bout them, they simply turned loose
and slid down the six-mile incline with
out mishap. Romance has net left this
/ land yet and the stirring scenes about
mining camps and boom towns viii con-
/ tinue to be Of interest.
! Mr. JoI.F- I--ugley. appointment clerk
| in the Census Bureau, recently won
/ wager il a remarkable manner. As feat
! OF memory it is unique and is very
| strong explanation of Mr.. Langley's value
/ as a clerk To name on the bTiefest
notice the apDointees OF a half dozen
! Congressmen when there were several
( thousand appointments, and when there
/ have been many changes and removals,
! is a noteworthy achievement Mr. Lang
/ ley has done this.
a group OF Representatives and Mr..
/ Langley were talking and the clerk as
/ serted he could name the appointees OF
| each Of them without making q mistake
| IN name. His proposition to do so, with
/ a box OF cigars as the prize. was readily
/ taken up. Each Congressman had from
one to four clerks remaining in the
| bureau and these the appointment clerk
named without an error with the excep-
1 ton Of one tTifiing mistake. There are
about twenty Smiths IN the bureau ard
/ IL calling the name Of young lady he
said Miss Ethel V, instead OF Miss Ethel
3, Smith. He got the cigars.
Capt. John s Robinson, commanding
Company B Of the District National Guard,
IS rapidly recruiting his company The
/ company is part OF the First Battalion
and is known as the Printers company,
| nearly all tie members being employees Of
| the Government Printing Office The cap
| tam y q weli-known printer and 4 fine
| military nan.
Land 0afcs reports are regarded as dry
reading but occasionally there is some
thing of passing interest tc Eastern peo-
pie in the returns from the Western Of
fees In a recent report from the Office
/ at Aissoula, Mont, the following state
meHt appears:
'eAnpa J FIaherty fled a timber and
stone sworn statement to 160 acres OF land
in section IS Of township II north. Of
range % west"
Among the names Of the people making
statements are those OF Mrs FIaherty.
/ Maggie Davitt and David D O'Connen.
which would Indicate that out West as
everywhere else. there is nothing too good
for the Irish.
A board of officers viii be convened to
meet at the Marine Hospital Bureau.
Street southeast. Washington. D. c. Mon
day. June 10. 1902. for the purpose Of eI-
aiming candidates for admission to the
grade of assistant sugeon in the United
States Marine Hospital Service. Candi-
dates must be between twenty-one and
thirty years OF age. graduates OF a repu-
table medical college, and must furnish
testimonials from responsible persons as
to character. The following is the usual
! order of the examinations: First, physi-
cal: second. oral; third. written, and
fourth. clinical.
The examinations are chiefly in writing
and begin with short autobiography OF
the candidate. The remainder of the writ
I
the various branches OF medicine, sur
gerry, and hygiene. The oral examination
/ includes subjects of preliminary educa-
ton, history, literature. and natural sci
ences-
Successful candidates VIII be numbered
according TO their attachments on ex-
animation, and Will be commissioned il
the same order as vacancies occur. UpoI
appointment the young officers are. as
rule, first assigned to duty at one OF the
large marine hospitals, as at Boston
New York. New Orleans, Chicago, or SaT
Francisco.
After Eve years service assistant sur
geons are entitled to examination fol
promotion to the grade of passed assist
: ant surgeon Promotion to the grade Of
! surgeon is made according 70 seniority
. and after due examination as vacancie:
l ] occur in that grade Assistant surgeon!
receive $500. passed assistant surgeons
1900, and surgeons 81. 500 a year. WheI
quarters are not provided Communication
at the rate of $50, $50, and $50 a month
according to grade. is allowed.
2 All grades above that of assistant sur
geOn receive longevity pay, 10 per centuu
e IN addition TO the regular salary fol
1 every Eve years service up to 40 PEI
4 certum after twenty years service.
T The tenure Of Office is permanent on
ce-~ travelling under orders are allowed
! 3tual expenses.
( Intending applicants should address tn
e Supervising Surgeon General of the Unit
I ed States Marine Hospital Service.