Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-09
GENERAL PAYNE BACK FINANCE AND TRADE
Satisfied With Progress Of the Stocks Opened Firm but
Investigation. Soon Sagged
lis ANXIOUS FOR END SOME SHARP DECLINES
so FOURTH ASSISTANT NEW
BRISToW. YEARS
l. Schmes Noted
Satisfied With Progress Of the
q Investigation.
Is ANXIOUS FOR END
so Is FOURTH ASSISTANT POST
MASTER GENERAL BRISTow.
He Has Worked Very Hard Since In
quiry Observation-Disclosures to
Stop Get-Rich- Quick Schmes.

Postmaster General Payne was at hts
desk this morning after an absence OF
nearly a week.
He arrived last evening from New York,
where he stopped over on his way from the
Catskills to confer with a number of prom
inent republicans who had paid visit to
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
The Postmaster Generals face Is bronzed
considerably and there is every outward
indication that the rest did him great good
He reached the department about 9:4o
this forenoon, and was confronted with an
accumulation of mail that needed his per-
sonal attention.
His mail out of the way he sent for First
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne. who
had been acting postmaster general during
his chiefs absence. and the two officials
went over the question of awarding num-
Der of contracts and closed some post oHice
leases in New York state.
Later in the forenoon Fourth Assistant
Bristow went to the Postmaster General
private Office, and they were IN conferences
for more than an hour. While Mr.. Bristow
was comforting with Mr.. Payne ASslstaiit
Attorney General Robb was called in.
Mr.. Bristow reported briefly the progress
of the investigation during the postmaster
Generals absence.
Mr.. Payne is more than ever determined
that the abuse of the malls by persons with
.'get-rich-quick" schemes shall pc thor
ouehly and completely eradicated. OF late
quite a number of fraud orders nave Deen
issued and others are under consideration.
Anxious to Complete Investigation.
Mr.. Bristow's force Of inspectors Is busy
at work. While no immediate arrests are
contemplated, conditions may arise at any
minute that may necesstate such action.
The Postmaster General is satisfied with
the progress of the Investigation ana II
anxious that it shall be completed.
Fourth Assistant Bristow Is also anxious
to bring the investigation to close as
rapidly as possible, consistently with eff
fectiye results and Is Logging for the fish
Ing fields in Maine.
He has worked necessarily and vigorously
on the investigation and is looking IorWafu
to the day when he can say that the Work
is brought to the stage that Will permit MIN
to get away.
since the investigation began months ago
he has known no holidays and every Gay,
except July 4. has found him at his desk
directing thousand and one things in con-
nection with the probing Of postal affairs
as well as the multiplicity OF details that
constitute the regular routine work OF his
own Office.
He reaches the department early. and 1t
is often after dark when he quits his office
for his home A number OF those work
ing with him have done likewise.
Mr. NJ c. Fosnes. his chief assistant In
the investigation and Mr.. Machen's sue
cessor as head of the free delivery service
is one Of the earliest arrivals at the depart
ment and one of the last to leave.
Charles A. Conrad the chief clerk OF the
office of the fourth assistant. is also one Of
those who spend a great deal OF overtime at
| their desks.
The transfer of the rural free delivery
! service, even ordinarily one of the biggest
bureaus in the government service. has
brought vast amount of extra duties and
a multiplicity of detail to that bureau, and.
| with the investigation in progress, Mr.. Con-
| rard has found his duties very materially
enlarged. He will take a vacation as soon
as the investigation closes.
Mr.. Bristow expects to spend a part OF
his vacation in the Maine woods, playing
the role Of = disciple Of Isaak Walton. Like
his old friend, Senator Long of Kansas, he
is an enthusiastic fisherman, and for several
summers has spent most of his vacation in
that form of recrea ton.
He will make his headquarters at Debs-
| coneag. far up in the wilderness Of the pine
tree state. Mr.. Bristow's fancy turns to
| brook trout. He is fond of catching pickerel
and some Of the other fish that are album
dant in the streams in that section.
Rodenberg is Enthusiastic.
Representative William A. Rodenberg of
the East ST. Louis. ILL.,, district, formerly a
member of the civil service commission,
was q caller at the Post Office Department
this afternoon, looking after some postal
affairs for his district Mr. RodenberR
called upon Postmaster General Payne and
Fourth Assistant Bristow
I'VE in the central west are all for
Roosevelt's renomination,' he said to an
Evening Star reporter.
1.-THE President has always been strong
among our people, but as the next national
convention draws near they realize that of
all other persons In the party he is the
strongest and most available candidate tn
lead the party to victory.
my district is to great extent a manu-
featuring district. The President is par
ticularly strong with the laboring men of
our part of the country. By that do not
mean skilled laborers alone, but the rank
and file Of men who have to work for a
hving-men who work for small wages.
Roosevelt's Strength.
''They all look upon Mr.. Roosevelt as the
soul Of honor and integrity. They are con-
WINGED that their interests will be better
conserved by his continuance In Office an
other term.
MY district is the one that was repre-
sented for sixteen years by that old demo-
cratic wheel horse, William R. Morrison. I
carried 1t last fall by 400 plurality. IF
President Roosevelt 10 on the ticket nexf
year know that am safe in predicting
that the district will go republican by not
less than 5000 plurality. That may be con-
sldered by some as an exaggeration OF the
conditions that exist there but am snre
that my prophecy will be verified by ths
record"
Mr.. Rodenberg will leave tomorrow for
his home in East st. Louis