Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-13
COMMERCE AND LABOR
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE NEW
DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Cortelyou and Commissioned
Garfield Will Occupy Their Offices
There Next Week.

Ine new Offices OF the Department OF
commerce and Labor, which, until the new
fiscal year. are to be locate in the Builders
Exchange, 719 and 721 18th street north
west, are being put in shape. and Secretary
Cortelyou will move into them the early
part of next week.
Accommoda tons have been arranged for a
private office for the Secretary and another
for Mr.. Garfield. the chief of the bureau OF
corporations, and for about forty or fifty
clerks.
Entrance to New Department
Entrance to the new department will be
from the second floor, through the recep-
ton room, which is separated from the
rest of the offices by an eight-foot parti-
ton, pigeon-holed with grated windows
where formerly were stationed the tellers
cashiers and note clerks of the banking
company which occupied the offices prior to
thelr acquisition by the government. At
present it is not intended that these win
COWS shall be used, unless for shortcut
communication between the clerks on the
opposite sides of the room.
Secretary Cortelyou's office will be in the
rear, on the right, and will be partitioned
on TO size of twenty-three by twenty-five
1eet. Mr.. Garfield's office will correspond
In size with that of Mr. CorteIyou and will
occupy the other half of the rear of the
room entrance being made to the left A
series or desks and tables have been ar
ranged at every convenient point along the
two sides of the room, and will accommo-
date forty or fifty clerks.
Commission Appointed.
Secretary Cortelyous department may
take in number of additional bureaus and
divisions other than those specifically mem
toned in the law creating it.
President Roosevelt yesterday appofnted
commission composed of Mr. Charles d.
Walcott, director of the geological survey;
Brig. Gen. William Crozier, chief of the
bureau of ordnance of the War Depart-
ment; Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles
chief naval constructor; Mr.. Clifford Pinchot
of the Agricultural Department. and Mr.
James r. Garfield of the Department of
Commerce and Labor to recommend any
of1ces in any of the departments for trans
Ter to the Department of Commerce and
Labor which should properly belong to that
department.
This action by the President was in ac-
cordance with the following provision of
the law:
Provision of the Law.
THAT the President be, and he is hereby.
authorized by order in writing, to transfer
at any time the whole or any part of any
office, bureau, division or other branch or
the public service engaged in statistical or
scientific work, from the Department OF
State, the Department of the Treasury. the
Department of War, the Department or
Justice, the Post Office Department the De-
partment of the Navy or the Department of
the Interior to the Department of Com
merce and Labor. and in every such case
the duties and authority performed by and
conferred by law upon such office bureau,
division, or other branch of the public SER
vice, or the part thereof so transferred,
shall be thereby transferred with such Of
flee, bureau, division, or other branch OF
the public service any part thereof which
Is so transferred"