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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
Audience With Public Printer.

1t is said at tbs big printery that the public
printer may withdraw his invitation to the
employees to bring to his attention matters
of a personal nature after 1880 IL those with
''ten-penny excuses" as they are termed
do not desiSt from monopollzlng his time
The arrangement has enabled the public
printer to devote his time exclusively to
the interests of the employees after the
evening "curfew," but 1t is feared that so
many are occupying his time with trivial
matters that more strict regulations gov
erning these interviews will have to be
adopted.
The sterotypers and electrotypers at the
big printery are understood TO be taking
great interest in the proposed enforcement
of the new hours of labor by the printers
the list of January. They are affiliated with
the International Typogra phical Union AND
are contributing 30 cents each per week
to the joint defense fund.
The Gazette division is rapidly getting
settled in it's new home on the fifth floor
OF the new building. Not moments time
was lost in making the transfer. Monday
morning the employees reported for duty
and went to work if they had always
been located In the new quarters.
its force at work on the fifth floor, but
until the fourth division is removed the
force will be divided. Thirty operators
are rapidly learning to manipulate the key
boards, and are said to be making good
Roadway with the patent work of the In
terror Department.
Much regret is expressed at the tempo
rary disbandnent Of the seventh floor glee
club Nearly one-half of their members
were drafted for the night forces, and the
club has discontinued its popular concerts
for the winter.
The delivery of the congressional direc-
tory has begun. The Office pushed this vol
ume through with all speed. Copy for the
directory is not available until after the
assembling of Congress.
The fourth division will be removed short
" 70 the old building. occupying the quar-
tiers formerly occupied by the first and
second divisions under the old regime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17

had hovered over her ana tapped away
again. And the woman got home-some-
how-wtth her watch hidden under her
shirtwast and So bill tucked in her glove.
A snowy night, with the flakes sparkling
like diamonds in the electric lights. A
party of young men registering toward the
woman who was plodding, ankle deep, along
the old post office tagging on the e street
side. AS they came up to her one sang out,
hilariously.
Where are you going, my pretty mafd?'
They were so obviously nice boys who
thought themselves men of the world that
the woman had no fear. She even answered
in the same vein:
Home from my work, kind SIR she said.
DAISY work to keep you out this hour!
Must pay you blamed well-look at her
toys, boys.
Poor soull Her business had required her
to go some place where she had to wear a
frilly frock and hat with perky white
feathers 1t was hateful thing for that
youngster to say, and with his words went
a hateful smoker.
"The work is all right, boys. AS to the
pay, 1t barely keeps two-and one Of us is
dying"
And when she had told them Just what
kept her out so late, the boy who had
snickered touched his hat and said:
Honest, miss, we don't mean any harm.
Say, fellows, are we going to see this lady
homer"
"You bet we are going to see this lady
home
And they did.
Another night, sleety and black, with the
old-fashioned street full of terrifying shad-
ows. AS the woman slipped and slid
along through them, there came swagger-
ing toward her three young negro men,
humming a ragtime glee. She turned ley
with fear and put her whistle to her lips,
ready to blow, In case of-of-
But they passed her by. Heaven forever
bless them
Met Philosopher.
A gloriously silver. silent night, and the
woman alone In 1t, as far as she could see
At Market space she found the pavement
under the arc rays swarming with big
electric bugs. Their greenish wings were
folded over their backs, and so excitedly
| did they race up and down that it amused
her to stop and make believe she had got
into a strange. silver-sheen plant, where
the inhabitants were beetles. One unlucky
fellow was on his back. kicking his double
row of legs in q useless effort TO turn over.
| If you have ever known what 1T was TO
| need helping hand it makes you sorry for
| a bug on It's back. The woman stopped,
| turned it with her hatpin-and Strengthened
| up to find herself watched by thin old
single stroke.
'.That is a kind deed, daughter, though
you'd better be In your bed. That insect
will never stop to think who helped 1t. Do
you ever stop to think how often the good
God helps you? Even woman OF the
streets may find salvation IL she has a
kind heart. Take an old mans advice,
daughter Go home and try to lead a bet
ter life"
When the woman had rectifled his mis-
take she learned that the old man was a
night Waterman. and that In earlier years
he had lifted his voice at religious meet
ings In the streets.
A starlight night, cold and beautifully
clear. In front of the woman. on the ave-
-Ix~~ 10
track. coming toward him car. The wo-
man made rush and pulled him back ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17

Secretary National Association of Letter Carriers
years ago Mr.. Holland said. the gross re-
ceipts OF the postal revenues were about
S25.C00,CCo. while the receipts for the year
1884 We're over sI050.0eo. while in the
same period the number Of carriers had
increased from $500 to over 10000,
Heretofore the association of letter car
riers. like all other similar bodies. has gone
direct to Congress fer aid. but the recent
order of President Roosevelt forbade this
and the letter carriers representatives went
to the Postmaster General.
Officers of the Association.
President Holland returned to his home
In Roston early last week, but will be back
in Washington again within a few days He
is regarded as a fitting representative of
the twenty thousand letter carriers who
are members of the association. He was
born and bred in Charleston, Mass, in the
very shadow of Bunker Hill, where he still
lives He has for fifteen years delivered
the mail in the Penberton Square district,
which includes the court house and the po-
lice headquarters, one of the most important
districts In the city. He Is a graduate of
the Harvard Grammar School, and was for
some time regent of the Blackstone Council,
Royal Arcanum His duties as the presi-
dent of the association are such, however
that they will bring him to Washington for
most of the winter, the headquarters OF the
association Icing located here. and being In
immediate charge of Mr.. Ed. j. CantWell
secretary of the association.
Mr.. Cantwell is also editor of the Postal
Record. monthly magazine, which goes to
every carrier in the United States The
magazine is the official organ of the associa-
ton. and is supported by the carriers Mr..
Cantweil has made a splendid success as
secretary and editor. as Is evidenced by the
fact of his repeated re-election. He was
which met in Toledo. Ohio. In September.
1898, and has been unanimously reelected
at each succeeding convention. He is the
only officer of the association who remains
permanently in Washington. He was given
splendid Endorsement by the recent con-
vention which met in Portland, Ore Mr..
CantweH IS q graduate of the George
Washington University Law SchDoi, and mas
been admitted TO the District bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
Man AFTER MIDNIGHT
Experiences Of a Woman
Whose Work Kept Her Late.
WAS SELDOM TROUBLED
HER FEARS WE'RE MOSTLY OF AN
IMAGINARY SORT.
Compelled to Walk Home in the Wee
Small Hours, She Studied Those
She Met.

woman whose business for six years
compelled her to be in the streets after
midnight has had an opportunity to study
man from viewpoint not granted to her
sheltered sisters.
Conventional man Is q riddle seldom
solved this side the wedding ring, but man
Is not conventional In the small hours. He
Is primeval, and shows up, good or bad. to
the first unprotected woman he comes
across in the black silence of the mystery
called night. So the woman has met him
and so she has judged. This experience. of
course, takes no note of the common or
street variety OF the genius. masher-though
truth to tell, the woman's plainness saved
her from his romantic raids. There are
always exceptions, however, and one will
serve for beginning.
She was going along one mild. moonless
night at an hour so early for her that she
almost dawdled, when cal1ow-voiced
youngster sided up to her in the dark and
asked:
wouldn't you like to have company in
your walk 2"
The woman hurried bit and kept silent
until the situation was too much for her.
Then she laughed.
"What amuses you, my dear?" he In
quired, with the rakish tenderness of the
masher. when very, very young.
II was thinking how awfully disappointed
you are going to be when we get to light
Why. child, I'm old enough to be your
mother
And that fine old word 'skedaddle" is the
only one to convey the precfpitancy with
which he excused himself and fed. Sc
much for Washers. On that first night the
clock had licked its way past midnight
when the woman closed her desk. A nice
man, who would be working at his until
nearly dawn, gave her this COUNSEL
walk In the middle of the street. II YOU
are spoken to don't answer. No man will
bother a woman unless she gives him
cause
It was a good fellows tribute to his kind
and It nerved the half scared to death
woman as she stepped out on the avenue
asphalt to begin the walk of seven squares
that lay between her Office and her horne
Whizzing cars cleayed the darkness will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
A Natural Conclusion.
rom Lippincott's Magazine.

From Lippincott's Magazine.
little New York girl whose brief exc
perience of life was confined TO existence
in an apartment house. was visiting IN
Philadelphia not long ago. One afternoon
to amuse the child. her cousin showed her
number of photographs and VIEWS mean
while explaining and answering questions
concerning them. One of them was a pic
ture of Windsor castle, which, SHE was told.
was the residence OF the late Queen Vic
toria. After looking at 1t a moment she
innocently inquired. What floor did She
1--we on ?''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
Handlers Of Country's Mail
Want Recognition.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED
POSTMASTER GENERAL CoRTEL-
YOU ASKED TO INDoRSE 1T.
Argument for Increased Pay and An
nual Sick Leave - Prospects
Regarded as Favorable.

Every letter carrier in this city, as we'll as
the rest of the 10000 who compose the
National Association of Letter Carriers
of the United States, are deeply interested
In the result of the memorial presented to
Postmaster General Cortelyou, asking for
an increase in compensation. and an an
nual sick leave to letter carriers as grant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
the motorman yelled things and the cal
"a shni IL Then tha sid.

the mOtOrman yelled thlngS ana tIe CdI'
flashed by. Then the man said
I've got no money for you-scatP
Only a drunken man woulo suppose o.
body wanted to be paid for SO small favor,
much as 1t meant TO him, But he wasn't
very grateful was he? However, that only
made one ugly man In a record Of six years,
and maybe he's nice when he's sober. The
woman soon learned that the people who
prowl around. for one reason or another,
disappear about midnight, leaving the
streets almost deserted. and corresponding
" safer. If man walked brlskly, car
ried cane or smoked she breathed freely,
If he slouched toward her she held her
whistle to her lips That she never sounded
it once in the whole six years may give you
some Idea TO her opinion of the streets
of Washington after midnight, and of her
faith in those she met there-her brothers
of the night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
The Time for 1t.

From the PhiladeIphia Press
Mrs. Knox-Tve often wondered, John,
why you snore so.
Mr.. Knox-I don't know; you'll have to
ask me.
Mrs Knox-Ask your What do you mean?
Mr. Knox-Ask me some tirns when I'm
snoring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
TO RELIEVE DISTRESS
BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS AMONG
EMPLOYEES AT G. P. o.
News of the Government Printers
Fire Protection System in Old
Building Being overhauled.

A gentleman connected with a charitable
Institution in this city recently remarked
that in all his years of observation of the
patrons of the Central Union Mission and
other like organzatio he had yet to find
one carrying a union card. In view of this
remarkable statement the efforts of the en-
ployes of the Government Printing Office,
who are nearly all members of various
unions to make provision for the care of
incapacitated employees is worthy of note.
The most universal of these relefs takes
the form of sick benefit societies, the pay
ment of 81 per month guaranteeing the re-
ceipt of $40 per month for period of SIX
months in case of sickness, accident or
quarantine. These organizations are en-
tirely benefcent and have nothing in COM
mon with the symposiums, etc. which have
sprung up in the past few years. The Off
GERS serve without pay, unless compelled to
be absent from the duties at the office.
That the idea of self-help is popular Is evil
denced by the number of the organizations
and the large membership some employees
belonging to two different societies
The money remaining at the end OF the
year in these various organizations is d.
vided equally among the members just be-
fore Christmas and is looked upon in the
light OF pick up
Protection From Fire.
In order to maintain the fire protection
system at a high standard the superin-
tendent of the old printing office IS renew
ing the fire hose in the entire old structure.
From 30 to 100 feet of hose, with improved
MOBILES, are placed on each floor and at
tached to the five standpipes provided In
case of fire. A signal box is located beside
each standpipe connection, and but a mo-
ment Is required to notify the engine room
20 turn on the powerful office pumps.
About 115 pounds pressure Is ordinarily
available in case of fire, in addition to the
pressure from the water mains. Eighty
I'VE hand eXtinguishers are also located
al convenient points throughout the old
building, each having capacity of from
three quarts to twelve gallons.
The government printing Office Is enabled
TO effect a considerable saving on the con-
gressional printing by plating the reports
and documents sent in. When committee
OF either OF the two branches of Congress
report on a bill the evidence and findings
of the committee first handling the matter
IS incorporated, and the Office utilizes the
plates instead OF resettng the type. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are saved an
nually, it is said. by utilizing the contents
of the big plate vault, which contains ap-
proximately 100000 different page plates.
Some OF the very old plates of the old
building vault and the Globe vault on Penn
sylvania avenue are occasionally used IN
repriutng matters relating to the land of
fee, civil war and other problems which
were under consideration half a century
ago. The office has about 100000 plates
available for use, including those in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
How He Knew.

From he Yonkers Statesman
she-''what makes you think I wonIli say
yes Il you proposed 10 me2"
He Because know YOU always Ike fa
be on the side Of tbs winner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17

President NatlQDSl Association Letter
photo by Harris EwingD
ed TO other employees Of the federal gov
ernment.
The committee presenting the memorial
was headed by AR. jeremiah Holland of
Boston. the newly ected president of the
organization; MIR Ed J. Cantwsll, Sec
rotary and Mr.. NJ. T. Human of Bloom
ington H.. and Mr.. Richard F. Quinn of
Philadelphia, who were appointed on this
special committee at the recent annual
convention Of the association held in Port
land, Ore, in September.
When seen by a Star reporter Mr.. Hol-
land talked enthusiastically Of the outlook
for a recognition of the justice of the me-
mortal presented TO the Postmaster Gen
eral. Tie reception given the committee,
he said was most cordial, and the Post
master General seemed to take a sincere
interest in the men of the service.
Somehow" sad Mr.. Holland, you are
convinced at the very outset of PoStmas-
ter General Cortelyous sincerity. He I'M
presses you as what you might call a de-
pendable man. and when you come away
there is no doubt in your mind as to his
attitude
The Committees Argument.
Mr.. Holland said that in their interview
with the Postmaster General the committee
was impressed 10y his desire to get at the
merits of the case. 1t was pointed out
to him that the present law fixing the COM
pensation of carriers was passed nineteen
years age, when the purchasing power of
a dollar was vastly greater than it is to
day, and that while the returns from all
other forms of industry have increased the
pay of the carriers has remained the same.
The present efficiency Of the service was
referred to as vel as the increased volume
of receipts.
49,
that the free delivery service is unique IN
that it is the only department of the gov
eminent service that is not a burden on
the taxpayers of the country. Nineteen
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-08

Mature never intended that parrots
should be confined In cages" said a
bird fancier. They get equity feet. be
come irritable. are liable 10 fits and
commissions. lose their feathers and
pick themselves till they are a mass Of
mutilated deformity. Confinement and
Improper diet are the causes Of all this.
II a parrot gets an irritation Of the
skin and draws blood while picking
himself be win keep on till he is a hor-
nd spectacle. Once tasted. a thirst for
blood has been created and viii never
cease.
II made a trip to Guinea once, and
when saw the happiness Of tie birds
Ia a state OF freedom I declare my. con
science smote me / saw thousands OF
them. from the lovely uttle grass para
keet 30 TIE king parrot, and nothing
can exceed their grace and delightful
expression In tae open country. ''-1ITy-
waukee Free Press
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-08
pnrt Rernrcitntion.

Ia the days Of the first settlers in the
Chickasaw country. when Davy Crock.
stt still frequented the Big Hatchie
"Old Man Glddlus" was a prosperous
citizen Of the Forked Deer settlement
One day he started on q trip to Ar
kansas. and thencefOrth for several
years Forked Deer knew him no more.
As travel in Arkansas was dangerous
and as nothing was heard Of Giddins,
he was officially declared dead by the
court and his estate divided among his
heirs A year or so later, however, he
turned up and tried To set possession
of his property again. He was prompt
Is seized and taken into court.
"What DO ycV mean by coming
around here a11 trying to take this
property?" roared the court at him.
Its my properly" asserted Giddins.
Everybody knows it's mine"
"Not at al, replied the judge. "rll
admit your case seems a hard one, but
it can't be helped now. This court has
decided that you are extinctus de
functus, which is Batin for dead This
court canEoh err Dead you are. II
You want any property around here
you must take another name and set to
work to earn It. Mr.. Sheriff adjourn
this court, and we will go and see that
wrestling match YOU spoke Of"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-08

The sanitarium was for womez onTS
women dipsOmGniacs "a luxurious
place The rate was S125 a week
This said tie superintendent lis
our museum. Odd, grotesque, eh2"
The museum was a collection Of instru-
ments for secret drinking that had
been taken from female dipsomaniacs.
There was a carriage clock with
false back that would hole a half pint
of whisky; there was a muft with a
round flask Of india rubber in its h0l-
low inside; a mouthpiece like that on
O baby's bottle was hidden under Is -
sette. The owner Of the muff would
press II to her face, q very natural
and common movement, and at the
same time take a stihf drink. There
were a dozen sorts Of bonbOns, candies
os all shapes and lgues, each containing
two or three fingers Of brandy. A fan
lit would not open-had room for a
half pint Go It. A number Of purses
were nothing but whisky TASKS Gov
cred with beadwOrk or leather or sill
yer or gold. There was even a prayer
book with a flask inside. - New York
Press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-08
SHAMEFUL VERDICT
lN WILLIAMS CASE.

u is doubtful if a more outrageous
and inexcusable verdict was ever rem
dered in a murder case in Florida
than that in the Williams case in
Mariana last Saturday which found
the defendant guilty OF murder in the
first degree and recommended him to
mercy.
Not often in any country has foul
er crime been committed than that
which stains the guilty soul Of this
man Williams. who some months ago
in Pensacola shot to death his aged
employer and benefactor, John White,
the honored merchant who was sitting
unsuspecting at his desk; a moment
later killed an unoffending salesman,
E. C. Dansby and then shot his en-
ployer's son, Jim White, who was for
tunately not seriously hurt.
For the murder of Mr.. White VII
liams was found guilty in Escambia
county and recommended 20 mercy
and in the other case change OF
venue was taken to Mariana with
the result above stated. No provoca-
ton for the crime was alleged by the
defendants counsel; his sanity was
not doubted, but because he had
neTved himself with whiskey to com
NIT the double murder, his lawyers
urged. in the defense, that he was
irresponsible and didn't know what he
was doing. Such a plea, Of course
has no validity. and the court SO
charged, but the jury contemptuously
spurned the law and recommended
the tiger-hearted blood-stained as
sassin to mercy. Tt would be as
proper TO recommend a rattlesnak-
to mercy.
Williams is a plain case of a vic
iOus degenerate who had justly for
feited his life, and his escape from
the gaIows is an evil and 0minous
triumph over law and justice, dis
graceful to the weak-minded, chicken
hearted jury that saved him. anC
which canOt fail to bring peculiar sat
isfactiOn to every murderous-hearte,
man VINO hears it, A life sentence
generally means few years in prison
and then o pardon.
Ii would be a blessing beyond prize
if our jury system could be reformed
so that weaklings and scrubs cOulC
/ be eliminated and the administration
( of the law entrusted only to men d
too much character and intelligence
to be swerved from their plain duty
1 by the cheap and stale devices EN-
/ ployed in the Williams case, but there
are no indications of any such reform
/ IT is fair to say that five Of the Jurors
were strongly opposed 10 the recon
/ mendation for mercy, but in order t.
( get a verdict they had to yield to tn,
others.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-08
70 Make EIorIaa an Island

"A canal of great Importance which
requires construction. writes Austin
Borrower in his article. Canals We
Aust DIG. in the Technical World
Magazine for January. sis across the
northern part of the peninsula of
FLORIDA such a canal woulQr save
200 miles between New Orleans and
New York. and about the same dis.
lance between our other Gulf and At
lantic cities. Most vessels between
these ports must now go two davs
ont Of the way; and. when time is SO
important and the cost of sea trans
portatiOn SO great this cannot for.
ever be endured. Florida Is level
and So can De cut without much diR-
Guilty OF expense; and there are some
streams which could be utiIizeq for
part OF the route"