Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-13

form and cap for ordinary dress, she made
a jump for that train and reached the
capital last evening at o'clock. At the
Pennsylvania station she told kindly po
iiceman her troubles, and he suggested that
she go with him to police headquarters.
There it was suggested that, Is the Post
Office Department was closed for the day,
she go to hotel and see her man in the
morning. She went to the National, and
early this morning repaired to the depart
ment fight in her eye and determination in
the set of her square jaw.
Mr. Conrad the chief clerk of Mr.. Bris-
tow, received her and told her that the
fourth assistant was too busy to see her,
but that, as the matter had passed beyond
him, she had better see Mr.. Spillman, super
iEtendent of free delivery. To Mr.. Spillman
she went, and to him she poured out her
woes. She said she was a much-abused wo-
man, and that her downfall was due to
the enmity of Postmaster Kandal, who
wanted man where a woman was. The
woman, she told him, had no vote, and
votes were what were wanted in that sec
ton. Mr.. Spillman listened attentively, and
told her that the only recourse she now
had was to prove that in his charges
against her the postmaster had told what
was not true.
Mrs. Linch, realizing that Washington
office holders were callouS lot who cared
not jot for the troubles of a woman from
up in Jersey, concluded to catch the IL 30
train back, and said she was leaving
that the Post Office Department was not
this in the form of a threat, but merely in
timated that she intended to show UP the
postmaster who had caused all her troubles
Mrs. Linch's Story.
To a reporter for The Star she spoke con-
fidngly. She said:
Joseph Mayhem has got the place now
and suppose his appointment will be con-
f1rmed soon. He is a farmer living near
me and is politician. He has been after
the job for a long time, and now he's got
IT, Representative Loudenslager represents
my district, but cannot get him to do any
thing until l can prove that it was a con-
spiracy that caused me to be dismissed l
nave served year all but three weeks,
and during all that time AID. Kendall has
been hghting me. He never wanted a wo-
man carrier there. but he couldn't stop my
appointment because l passed higher than
the rest and received the place by merit
alone.
In the first place, he tried to block my
taking the examination. In that he failed
and then he tried to block my appoint
ment. In that he also failed. But he never
let up, and now he has succeeded in having
me dismissed. Why he came to the town
and told everybody that he was going to
drive me out of the government service
When l took the route there were only 500
pieces of mail delivered on it in a month
In the year l have been there l have in
creased this to 5000 pieces, which deliver
ed in December last.
II have worn out three uniforms since l
took the place, and they cost me 500 apiece
Besides this, 1 paid $50 for horse and
$50 for wagon. All this is gone now and
on my hands. / have three children. My
daughter is at school at the South Jersey
Institute and it was my work that kept her
there. Now she will have to give up her
school, for can't pay for it any longer
One of my boys is working his way through
school and my husband works our farm
He is not fighting man and will not be
MI hut r rnfv,
to do all can to get back my place, and
If / can't get 1t back I'm going to show
what AID. Randall is. My husband is q
strong republican. but Ad. Randall works
for AID. kandal and nobody else.
Only Carrier Who Wore Uniform.
II was the only carrier there who wore
a uniform. and that didn't please Randall
either. The whole thing was caused by his
wish to get man in the place He wouldn't
get me delivery boxes, and I had to get
another man to get them for me- and maid
the freight on them and had them put up
along my route. took pride in the sery-
Ice and the $720 year paid for my daugh-
ter's schooling. When came into the Office
for the first time in my new uniform Kan
dal ragged like bull and put all sorts of
indignities on me. When 1 took letter to
the front of the ONCE that did not belong
in my lot he pushed me back anc told me to
get back where l belonged and not come
into that part of the Office again. / have
known for a long time that 1t was coming
but 1t did not seem to me that lies could get
me removed from place where / have
worked so hard to do my duty and to i'm
prove the service
TN all of his charges against me the other
carriers sustained him because they were
men and did not want woman among
them. He said that refused to listen to
instructions, and that when he was reading
them to the force shuffied my feet and in
other ways tried to make confusion SO that