Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13

OF the Office OF experiment stations. MI
Pickens is the editor-in-chief of the
bureau Of animal industry. and Herbert
A. Smith the editor-in-chief OF the forest
service.
One of the editorial assistants in the
forest service is r.. w. Pullman. an enter
prising newspaper man. whose accounts
of forest fire Investigations are still fresh
In the public mind. Another bureau which
has an editor Is that of plant industry
He is Julius Ensign Rockwell, one of the
most versatile Of all the governments em-
ployes.
He was special agent of the tenth CEN
sus In 1879 and 1880 and then became sec
rotary Of the United States commission to
the international fishery commission at
Berlin in 1880. Then he became a ste
nographer at the bureau of education and
later did similar work In the patent Office.
A period of service as chief clerk OF prom
inent Southern railway officials was fol-
lowed by period In which Mr.. Rockwell
managed shorthand school in Philadel-
phia. Then he became principal of q
secretary of the Southeastern Passenger
Association. He became editor of the
bureau Of plant industry in 1902. He has
published books on shorthand.
Besides its various editors and editorial
assistants in this country, the Agricul-
tural Department has correspondent in
London, Frank r. Rutter, whose duty it
is to keep track Of foreign crops for the
crop reporter.
SO numerous are Agricultural Depart
ment publications that Mr.. Hill publishes
a catalogue of them each month. There
is also general catalogue of all govern
ment publications issued each month by
the superintendent of documents at the
government printing office. The list of
periodical publications Of the government
is greater than the most of persons
imagine. and many of them are merely
catalogues or directories. They are eXcep-
tories for those Immediately concerned.
and they include the monthly official pos
tai guide, the weekly catalogue of copy
rights issued by the Library Of Congress.
yearly. but since the LIST of July. 1903. is
sued monthly; the State Department g
monthly diplomatic list. the weekly notices
of changes in stations and duties of COM
1niSsioned and nOn-commisSiOned officers
OF the public health and marine hospital
service. the War Departments monthly
army list and directory of officers Of the
army and the monthly station list Of Off
GERS issued by the pay department of the
army.
publications. such as the daily Treasury
statement, and many other statements of
financial conditions issued regularly by
the Treasury Department. statements OF
the amounts and value of commerce. in
ternal and foreign. by the Department OF
Commerce and Labor, and such regular
technical publications as the weekly no.
tice to mariners issued by the hydro
graphic Office Of the Navy Department.
the daily movements of vessels, issued by
the bureau Of navigation of the same de-
partment; the naval observatOrys Maui
teal Almanac. and perhaps In this cate
CORY might be included the Patent Of
flee Gazette, a long-established weekly
publication giving a record of patents
granted. of court decisions affecting pat
ents. profusely illustrated and carefully
indexed. It's editor is w. W. Mortimer. q
gentleman who has an accomplishment.
rare In these days, Of being q penman
whose writing resembles copper-pla en-
craving. and who on this account is de-
tailed every winter to assist the White
House corps of clerks
The daily and monthly consular re-
ports. issued by the Department of Com
lnerce and Labor. under the supervision
of George c. Havenner; the quarterly
naval medical bulletin issued by the
medical and surgery bureau of the Navy
Department.: the weekly public health re-
ports issued by the public health and
marine hospital service of the Treasury
Department; the quarterly summary Of
commerce in the Philippine Islands. is
sued by the insular bureau of the War
Department; the monthly report of the
department Of sanitation of the isthmian