The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
MAN WHO MAKES GOOD
Ex-cAsHrEh rULLocH's CAREER
 IN WASHINGTON.
His Father Before Him was Promi- nent in Business Matters-Ths Son Developed the United Electric Lighting Com
 pany.
Washington Pnst


 Walking with swinging gait up Penn. sylvania Avenue and tarrying at business offices along the way may be seen almost daily plump but not obese figure of a man who seems to attract unusual atten. ton. Bankers turn In their chairs to give him a glad hand when he enters; prom inent local peple stop in the street tc chat with him.
 Well. you have made good now haven't your" But we knew you would" We never doubted for a min. ute that you could back up all you were saying" are characteristic remarks they bestow upon him. and the plump man who wears gold-rimmed spectacles, smiles with apparent delight and proceeds. with q busy air. till he encounters another like salutation. Along about o'clock he has reached the restaurant in the New Willard for lunch, and more business men. so many, in. fact. as to prove that he is very favorabIy known in substan- tial Washington circles. come over to his table to get few inside hints about the Postoffice Department. Early in the af- ternoon he disappears from town and goes out to his country home at Forest Glen.
 We'll Balanced in His Temperament.
 This is Seymour W. Tulloch. ex-cashier of the Washington City postoffice. whose charges of lax administration and graft" have made him the most talked of man in the newspapers of the country during the postal investigation. He has round. ruddy face. which displays a we'll balanced temperament, and carries himself with precision. When he takes off his brown derby his head Is seen to be bald. but everything in his personal appearance is neat. even to the we'll trimmed vandyke beard and mustache. In town he generally wears a black bus mess suit. the coat buttoned over a white vest with a square black figure. His lam guage is clean cut and pointed. He is jolly with his friends and looks like a man we'll able to take care of himself.
 The Tulioch family has been highly re- garded among respectable people in Washington ever since the ex-cashier's s father, the Hon. Thomas L. Tulloch. came here soon after the civil war. They are from Portsmouth. N. H., where the son was born forty years ago, The elder was stern Republican. to whom his political was a matter of religion, and was at one time Secretary of State in New Hampshire and among the most prominent men in that section. At the beginning of the war he was made naval agent at the Portsmouth navy yard. and Is said to have been about the only naval agent to whose name there did not attach some scandal in the disbursement of for the Government.
 He came to Washington at the per sorAl request of former Senator William E. Chandler. and was made Secretary of the Republican Congressional Commit tee, then performing many of the duties that now devolve upon the National Com mittee. The place paid g, 800 and soon after the elder Tuiloch was offered the position of treasurer and auditor of the Northern Pacific Railroad at $25,G00 a year. It was q critical campaign for Grant. General Schenck being then chair man of the Congressional Committee Tuiloch was sufficiently loyal to the Re publican Party to refuse the big offer
 Afterward Secretary Boutwell, wanted him for appointment clerk in the Treas ury. to reorganize some of the methods there, and he accepted. He was also. be- fore his death at Atlantic City in 1882, Collector of Internal Revenue for Wash ington and postmaster of Washington. He became identified with many business interests here. was a director of the old Metropolitan Street Railway. and origi- nator of the Washington Heights Syndi- cate. which bought the little tract at the head of 18th Street and Columbia Road. 1t having developed into one of the choic- est residence sections of the city.
 The son. Seymour W. Tulloch. demon strated the same instincts for business and thorough administration as his fath- CT and was associated with him in the City postof1ce. Graduating at Emerson Institute. this city, in 1873, he went to Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. at Troy. where he received the degree of civil engineer in 1877. In the meantime he had been engaged with the United States Coast Survey, and during vaca- tions had done surveying work in the West. but was finally appointed assist Ant in eivil engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
 Tulloch had not been home for several years, till late in the 70's he came to visit his parents over Christmas. Judge Ed munds. then an old man and a friend If Senator Zach Chandler. was postmas- ter Of Washington. The elder Tulloch was assistant postmaster and in reality performing most of his superior's work The day of his sons arrival the cashier B absconded with check for q large sum. about $25,ooo, money intended for the Christmas salaries of tho clerks and em- ployes. Young Tulloch knew nothing about bookkeeping. but he thought he could help his father out. and went into tHe DBVkSs counted the stamps and other assets, which show ed that the cashier had left everything Straight except the amount of the check he had taken.
 Served in Four Buildings.
 That was the beginning of hts twenty one years service in the Washington postoff1ce, during which 1t had four diff ferent homes. one at the corner of 1th and F Streets. one in the Seaton build ng on Louisiana Avenue, one in the Union Building on G Street. and one in he present department building on the Avenue. He made no application for the place. but remained as cashier at the pootmaster's request, and fully intended to resume his occupation as civil engi- neer at an early date. He was retained through the administrations of Postmas- ters Tulloch (his father). Conger, Ross, Sherwood and Willett. and was sum marily discharged by Postmaster Merritt 4t the instigation of First Assistant Post master General Heath to whom he had become an obstacle for refusing to pass Improper accounts.
 When Mir. Sherwood was appointed Mr. Tulloch could have had the ofice himself. had he desired 1t. But hs was } young man and Mir. Sherwood was ad- vanced in yearA. and the former yielded to him. not caring especially for the honor at that time. It should be said that Mir. Tuloch has always been Re nuhiican mt acfiVA