Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-18

ability and adroitness, as the results thus
far surely attest.
Not Dull This Summer.
Summer in Washington is usually dull in
| comparison with the time when Congress is
in session. Not a few of the newspaper
correspondents from other cities who are
stationed at the capital during the winter
go back to the local staffs of their respec-
tive papers when the congressman depart.
1t was not so this year. The nvestiga-
ton OF the postal scandals begun al
most simultaneously with the adjournment
or the Senate. which was called into special
session by President Roosevelt on March T.
The newspaper correspondents were all re-
tanned in Washington, and many of them
have had no vaca ton.
Throughout these months the big granite
building in Pennsylvania avenue. from
, which is directed the complex and multifa-
rious details Of the postal business of the
government. has been the news center to-
ward which the eyes of the American peo-
pie have been turned.
The Outbreak
1t is doubtful if the public would have
learned as much it has of the investiga-
ton had not Beavers resigned he did.
Beavers believed to be thoroughly we'd
ded to his position. He had made friends
galore among senator's and representatives..
So popular was he that Congress at the
last session voted to increase his salary.
Congress at the same time Increased the
salary Of Macheu, and it has been said.
i, with what degree of truth is unknown. that
movement was on foot to make Beavers
FIRST assistant postmaster general and Gre
ate the position of fifth assistant for Ma
chen.
There had been for IA long time rumors of
irregularities in the division of salaries and
allowance and the division OF free delivery.
! They Were OF such an intangible kind that
newspapers could not print them When
| We ut ton a
these rumOrS- with the result that the an
nouncement of the investigation given
out
Credit Due Wynne.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne was the first official to publicly in
| Sist that conditions in certain of the we'll
| known bureaus were wrong. At first there
| was disposition to pooh-pooh the idea. 1t
| was openly asserted that Wynne the new
| first assistant was jealous OF his authority
and wanted to delegate himself all tic
honor and influence that had been appro-
priatcd by subordinatcS.
| The two great bureaus under his
division of the departmental responsibility.
| He felt that his attitude was a reasonabia
| ore in demanding that he be informed ~
| to Just what was going on in them, and
| just what were the real conditions behind
! eIch recommendation and each letter sent
| to him for his signature.
Wynne * a newspaper man. He has been
| Tor many years familiar figure on news
| paper row. Before h" emba rked a a
| Washington correspondent he was a tele-
| graph operator, and one of the best. For
| several years n" was attached to the bureau
| presided over by Gen. Henry V. Boynton
| Wynne is in reality proteGe of Boynton's.
| When Charles Foster was Secretary of the
! Treasury Wynne served as his private Sec
| rotary.
| Wyrne is easy 10 approach quick of de-
! cis>;Gn and has :. faculty of dspatching bust
| hess easily carefully and with accuracy.
+ He = loyal to his friends ana unrelenting
/ to those who deal unfairly with him. He
i is about fifty years old
Investigators in Chief
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
I Bristow, WHO delegated by President
| Roosevelt to prosecute the investigation of
! the scandals in the Post Office Department.
is 4 newspaper man. too, although his ex-
| perienoe has been of different kind than
that of Wynne's.
B..!stow is Il native of Kentucky. but he
has lived in Kansas for many years. He
owns a daily newspaper at Ottawa and
other at Sllinl. Both are prosperous publ
cations for the size Of the towns in which
,,,ey nuD,:s!:ed-
Br;stow is tai! and angular. The meager
crop of hair that 5idorns his well developed
ft. =; a m;V:G:e of red and auburn IN
color Ills cycs are keen. He has Il ca
; lr.ty f,,r y,Et7 thsb few men in govern
nan+ ,,,;c:t On .t.+sr<s. He seemingly
reyer tires I : : al his desk, and
ii is q 1rk ln. : < his office.
The duties orI,tne : ou.th assistant post
!