The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-03-22
EUTDS FROI WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.l

The Post Office Department does not
intend 10 draw the color line in the
matter OF white and negro railway
| mail clerks working together on the
same runs. Although an intimation
has been given the superintendent OF
the railway mail service that white
clerks in the Middle West are prepar.
ing 10 request the department TO effect
change so as TO put the negroes on
runs which will not bring them in
proximity 10 the whites, IL was stated
recently that no such discrimination
could or would be made. The partic
uiar objection which 1t is said the
white clerks have 10 association with
negroes on long runs is that they are
obliged TO eat and sleep in the same
car, the regulations OF the depart.
ment permitting clerk on such a
run. when his work is up, TO rest.
New Acquisitions to Society-This
week saw the initiation of Mrs. George
Won l.. Meyer into the coterie which
| makes up the personnel OF the petit
| coat cabinet" at the White House.
| Mrs. Meyer is the only one OF the cab
| met ladies who has a grown-up family.
! She and her daughters are not entire
| strangers in the Capital, and it goes
! without saying that the two young
women will fill to nicely the role
OF cabinet girls TO be maintained sole.
| ly by them. They are handsome and
attractive, and their personal charm
| is enhanced by an exceptional social
| experience, including their court life
J abroad, which has given them poise
| and bearing rather unusual for Ameri.
can girls. All things considered, ii is
| easy to predict that the home in New
| Hampshire avenue, owned and former
| " occupied by the Vanderbilts. which
| Mr.. Meyer has leased for his Wash
! ington home. will be the scene of much
fine hospitality during the season af'
| ter Easter.
Treasury Department Valets-Sec
| retary Cortelyou is smashing several
of the Old, established and time-hon'
ored customs of the Treasury Depart
ment. There are several bright col
| Ored messengers in the department
| The secretary has two or three, and
each assistant secretary has one. These
men make themselves generally useful
TO their respective chiefs. There is
also a messenger who is the official
boOtblack. The bootblack at the uSu
al hour appeared in Secretary Cortet
yous Office with his box and brushes
and settled himself to give the new
| secretary a shine. Hello, what does
this mean?" asked the secretary. IT'S
time foh a shine, Mr.. Secretary said
the bootblack. Not time for me" re
piled Mr. Cortelyou, II pay for my
shines outside. Take that box out OF
here" The official barber of the de.
partment, who was close on the heels
| of the bootblack beat discreet re-
treat. and there are intimations that
the days Of Treasury Department val
cts are over.
May Invite mieraton.-lnforma
ton received the other day renders it
clear that the immigration authorities,
as one result of the several conferenc'
es recently held, i'm which the Presi-
dent. Secretary Straus. Attorney Gen.
eral Bonaparte, Commissioner of I'M
migration Sargent and prominent men
of the south have participated, Will in
terpret the existing. immigration law
as il was interpreted in the South
Carolina case. The attorney general
mas held that the immigrants landed
at Charleston, $. c., last November
are legally in this country. They were
induced to come to America by au'
thoriZed agents of the state of South
Carolina, and the passage money OF
some of them was paid by the state,
and that of others came from contri'
buttons by citizens. Several other
southern states have decided TO seek
immigration along the same lines as
those followed by South Carolina, and
i il is understood they will not be inter
fered with in the carrying out of their
plans, prior 10 July | next. on which
date the act of Feb. 20, 1907, will be
come effective.
Forest Reserve Survey.-Chief For
ester Pinchot is making arrangements
TO carry out the act of congress for q
survey of lands in the White Noun
tains and southern Appalachian range
with a view to establishing forest re
serves in those localities. $4,000 hav
ing been appropriated for the survey
Mr.. Pinchot has not yet selected the
men who will perform the field worl
of the survey. He has discussed the
matter with other officials, however
and IL has been decided 10 begin worl
As soon as the weather conditions per
, init. This will probably be next montl
in the Appalachians and May in th'
White mountains The work in bOtl