The National tribune., 1906-11-29

vide5 for the transportation of officers
and Government employees from Manila
to San Francisco at the rate of $125|
each. To Denver Sl45, to Chicago Si65.
and to the Atlantic coast for S175. The
Great Northern now quotes a rate of
SI55 from Manila to Tacoma and full
r2ilroad rates east from there.
Mr.. Thomas j. Sullivan. Director of
the Furcau of Printing and Engraving
wants a new building. and he ought to
have it, The present building was
erected in 1880, and as the work Of
that most important Bureau of the
Government has grown additions have
been made to it till it is nothing on
earth but an aggregation of sheds. more
OF less ornam ented. Here herd togeth-
er. day after day and year in and year
out, several hundred employees in a.
manner that would bring the humane
officers down on the institution as a
menace to good health and morals if
the Bureau was located in q city like
Baltimore or Boston. In one ROOM as
an example. there are employed 4T0I
people. and to assist in the work there
are 22i gas stoves, Now. if you know
anything about hygiene at all. you know
that such conditions are simply GRIM
inai, and that health must suffer.
The Bureau of Printing and Engrav-
ing is one of the most important of the
Government Bureaus. 1t is there tina,
all the paper money used in the United
States is made. all the postage stamps
all the notes and securities, the bonds
and all that sort of thing. All the work
is of the highest confidential nature
and has to be protected at every point,
many of the employees being locked in
during the hours of labor and every
facility that will protect health of en-
ployos and the work as well should be
provided Mr.. Sullivan says:
Il have the honor, therefore. to rec
ommend that Congress be urged to pro-
vide an entirely new building for the
Bureau. to be designed and constructed
| for its special needs. 1t is believed
that with the experience of the last 25
years building can now be designed in
every way adapted to the work. having
the rooms for the several divisions
conveniently GROUPED with reference to
the work executed in each and to the
administrative offices. and embOdying
all of the improvements in building
construction and in the operation of
machinery, including electric light,
power and other processes that have
| been developed during that period. The
present building can be readily utilized
for other Governmental purposes
An official report on the arms owned
by the Republic of Cuba shows that
| about $500 rifles of various kinds. 81
shotguns and 140 sabers We're consid-
cred worth saving out of the lot of old
arms in Moro Castle. The balance OF
| about 1880 rifles and $500 bayonets,
| which were gathered by the Americans
in 1898 and 1899, were destroyed last
week as useless. The Cuban Govern
ment has about 10000 mausers, Rem
ington and Springfield rifles, and $685.
900 rounds of ammunition, five field
pieces and four mountain guns.
1
DIR. Stephen S. WISE for the past six
years rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel,
Portland. Ore, Child Labor Commits
sioner of Oregon, and one of the lead
Ing spirits In the progressive move
ments among the Hebrews on the Pa
cific Coast. spoke at the Young Men'sl
Christian Association here one day last