Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-10
re, Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eraI is Here Going Over
The Situation.
DISCUSSES NEEDS OF WEST.
Learns More on His Trip Than
Ne Would Through Piles
OF Communications.
c,cslfions Particularly in Nevada and
Montana Call for Higher Wages
For Postal Clerks.

r,sr The Knutsford register today
..,.sr The entry: IF. H. Hitchcock
v,,,sr Mass" The town Is where
a, saf assistant, postmaster genera
r-.i bsfore being called into public
a. by George b. Cortelyou.
Gen. Hitchcock ls a guest Of Salt
TAX, today. He arrived this morn
mo carly from Butte. and will leave
mis- evening for Nevada. Today ne
/, being entertained by Postmaster
- L, Thomas, and Col Kessler. as
1 Instant postmaster. Among other
4 hlngs. he Is inspecting the postoffice
-i,b view OF forming a judgment OF
Il ts adaptahility 20 the work IL Is per-
fvmuc This, however, Is merely
/ In Incidental item Of his trip. The
ohactive Of IL was Montana and Ne
rsia points. where the postOttice ser
yice has nartly disintegrated on ac-
count Of the higher salaries prevail
ne in other classes Of labor.
TO CONVERT CONGRESS.
In the remote future is a speech
100 WHICH zen AAANNlAN'Ah - ~ f"AA
nr himself Ii is not one Of the flor
"a kind az rhetorical efforts that
/ alaze the way Of men in publcl lie
d great public honOrs. II Is Just n
aulei little talk with the postofice
committee Of the house and the post
! efice committee Of the senate as the
only auditors.
What General Hitchcock hopes to
90 in that talk is to win these COM
nittees over TO making an amendment
10 the prevailing pOstotiice laws. This
amendment will give the department
uthority to meet peculiar and alb
FORMAL situations In its own way. In
5ihsr words. when the salary OF be-
emner Ia the classified service is $500
scar, 4 postmaster at Ely, Nevada,
where living comes TO over $1,000, may
hire postal clerks At higher rates OF
raees than the standard, By advancing
,osr, In the classified service without
hsdng the years OF apprenticeship.
WESTERN TROUBLE.
Its the only way out Of the
trouble" declared General Hitchcock
when he was interviewed this morn
ing He spoke with deep earnestness'
ior be- 10 one OF those kind Of men who
seem 10 sing at their work. so happy
| and enthused does he appear over II.
| hard 10 convert 10 anything seeming
% confer high or abnormal salaries
| on any special individuals but ! hope
20 gei their approval for this plan. Out
ID Nevada We can no more get clerks
0r 5000 a year than We can ny. we
must either pay more or go without.
because our clerks find ready employ
ment an around them. at larger sal
aries We must meet the prevailing
IL H.
| towns there Is the same difficulty.
! The department can't work smooth.
Snarls occur and In the end IL is more
expensive to furnish the poor service
nan good would be at little bigger
Initial cost"
A YOUNG MAN.
General Hitchcock Is not the conven-
noual general" who used TO sit in
. the hich places OF Washington Official
he. Instead he is a young man, tall.
iull Of life and vigor, and demanding a
chance 10 do the straight from the
shoulder kind Of work. instead OF to sit
On high carriage seat and dispense
election cigars. lie walked from the
knulsiord down TO the postofflce lie
mel we reporter with a smile when
ne stopped him on the street. and
alAed buslress from the start. There
was 20 trouble in getting on a talk
ing BASIS Tor the simple reason that
Hh 9heial high horse" isn't In the
's'o.nee mans baggage. His retinue
| one Cerk
IN this particular he resembles all
y, oiler Roosevelt men who have
~ mere this summer. except Secy.
aus' VINO was allied with years. and
'a'u more venerable than vigorous.
I VINO leads the army, is the same
sla OK man, and Garfield, secretary Of
Aie nor IS not particularly differ
~, Pc 40 young he almost sug-
s college days, and a mention OF
.id 20 hir recalls quickly SYM
f'V'lin response.
'oRTELNOUs FRIEND.
hs j. NOT Of the Roosevelt Harvard
] aiI.h. however. and did not come
to public life az Rooscvoit's personal
or qid TAFT and others on his
Aeslaie family. Cortelyou brought
Do Tor that kind OF team work
-N,n ono large man demands of a
h0 can trust, and thar always
las men forWard In government ser-
% pairs or trios.
: enf.vou was once an tnknovp
in the postofflce department.
heei nrst elias man FOR stenor-
and private secretary" said
aAd 90 his cabinet one day.
-lt kpi 1ust the men you want"
$3.50 me postmaster-general. ana
t,t9ou found himself shifted over
' executive mansion. He worked
~ lor years, knowing much OF the
nut never appearing on the OUT
oi bubble life
~ President McKinleys western
~ Nas abruptly interfered with in
n. "a lah 'lHoo by the sudden and seri-
o,...- infaa ~ HIS wife. 30 was Geo. q.
b you VINO stood IN the outer par
49, 'Ne private home where she was
49, lei me Newspaper men. and
i b, tenne officials who called. and nut
i au0a. OF lhe patenis cone
~. vent enst with Mckinley. a ma
] 81 n "sule. ana with the best wishes
/ os,,t apaper fraternity on the
NOS Hno fe.t much indebted 10 him
otr6-,. roosevelt cortelyou found an
~ uN liY io step into the limsllght.
asr..N ffe seemed SUDDEN IN its bril-
M ~ those who had not known
. IN Nla n private work a. public
/ frr,t me young secretary had per-
THE FIRST APPOINTMENT
la. .ele't Het Corlelyou about he
1 M branding me department 81
CO. ana labor Corielyou wanted
IN lAinn io help him in The lnilm-
Ha. of tho work To sent for
49,. nf Harvard and MnsHa
uf probably ldnasaohusettr