The National tribune., 1909-08-12

President Taft's ideas of conducting
the business of the Government as are
private businesses, in that the expenses
and efficiency shall correspond, is bear
ing fruit. AT the Government Printing
Office Public Printer Donnelly has
saved the Government half million
dollars. The big print shop was oper-
ated for the last fiscal year at cost
of s5,704. 1862, which was reduction
of S234771.90. In the statement sub
mitted by Mr.. Donnelly to Senator
Smoot, Chairman of the Joint Commit
tee on Printing, he shows that there
remains in the United States Treasury
to the credit of the Government Print
ing Office a balance of $780, 600. Over
half of the savings represent a curtail-
ment of the pay roll, which was s11S.-
715.42. MIR. Donnelly became Public
Printer November, 1908, and one of his
first official acts was to reorganize the
force. He commenced a systematic re-
duction, at first furloughing a number
of employees and later reinstating some
of them in order to determine the num-
Der of employees necessary to do the
work. This finally got the force down
to about $500, which is the number he
says that it will take TO operate the
plant on fuH time.
Uncle Sam had a little surprise party
.,
er day. He sent Mr.. Harris Sc interest
checks for $50 each on a $1,000 Gov
ernment bond which was stolen from
that gentlenlan's office at the Masonic
Temple in Cincinnati % years ago. Mr..
Harris had forgotten all about the oc-
currence, and says that at the time the
bond was stolen he was practieing law
in the office of ex-senator Joseph B.
Foraker. Time rolled around, and in
1897 the Government began a search
for him, with the result that he was
located and the money paid over. The
bond was issued in 1877, and was pay
able 80 years after date.
The thousands and thousands of Wis
itors who come to Washington every
year to see the beauties and points of
interest of the Nations City have, as
rule, never visited one of the most
beautiful natural parks in the coun-
try, Rock Creek Park. because of the
lack of accommodations. Many of them
are able to go thru the Geological Park,
which adjoins the city and forms the
southern boundary of Rock Creek Park,
because the street cars run right past
the gate. But to get to Rock Creek
Park they would have either to employ
a private conveyance or walk from the
car lines and along the reads and paths
thru the woods. Now it is proposed to
eSldDliSn d line OF aulOI1ODlle DuSSeS
for the accommodation of these people
and those who live in the city who are
deprived of private conveYances- The
bus-line project made it, appearance
last Wednesday, when a request fer
permit 10 operate was informally made
to the District Commissioners by Sam
uel Gassenheimer, head of one of the
Washington sightseeing automobile
companies. He proposes at first TO run
Sly Snaf;nty from 20 fn
each, from convenient points on car
lines. The route viii be circuitous, and
go thru the very heart of the park. For
this round trip the company proposes
to charge 10 cents, with stop-over priv
ileges at points along the route. While
the request has been informal, there is
no doubt that a permit will be granted,
because line of buses, such as is pro-
posed, is sadly needed. The number of
busses will correspond with the amount
of traffic. If the plan is put in opera
ton with six busSes the carrying Ca
pacity will be $50 passengers at one
time, with a 15-minute service. Mr..
Gassenheimer says he will be prepared
to go to work at half hours notice If
the Commissioners say the word, since
he has cars here already in operation
on the streets of the city.
Scrambled eggs make very nice
dish for breakfast when they are pre-
pared just right and your appetite de-
mands it, but scrambled eggs in mail
bag are not so nice. The Post Office
Department has just been Informed by
the Postmaster at Brattleboro, VT, that
a whole bag of mail has been entirely
ruined by a mess CT eggs. Somebody
in Canada mailed three dozen samples
of high-class hen fruit to some address
IN Brattleboro, VT, and evidently put
In fhp ho-
curely. When the package arrived at
its destination there were no eggs in
the box, but the contents of the shells
had run over the whole bag of mail,
oblrerating the addresses in many in
stances. The whole mess had to be
sent to the Dead-Letter Office for iden-
tifcatioTs, Such things as that could
not happen in the United States, as it
is against the postal rules TO put such
things in the mails.
The Bureau of Education, which has
for 81 years occupied rented building
has at last moved into what is called
the Post ofice Annex. II is said that
this is the first time in its history that
the Bureau of Education has been quar-
tered in a Government building.
An athletic heart is the latest dis
ease. Lieut.. Z. Berkeley Inglehart, u.
s. Army, and Coinmandaat OF the ca
diets OF st. Johns College. Annapolis.
who was stricken with paralysis several
weeks ago, is now in the Army Hospital
for special treatment. Lieut.. IngIe-
hart's case is puzzling the physicians
who are attending him, as paralysis in
so young q man is quite unusual. and
they can find no reason for the disease.
The opinion is expressed that his con
dition is the result of an athletic
heart"
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel is going for immigration officials
because of their ruGeness and oficious-
ness in arresting and deporting aliens.
This business has become so common
as TO attract the attention of the whole
countYy. Immigration officials have
been absolutely cruel in several recent
instances. and Secretary Nagel says
that he has noted a tendency in many
cases to sacrifice quality or work to
quantity. The Secretary says that there
must be no merely superficial inquiry
in any case. The officers must not sub
init q recommendation foE arrest upon
irresponsible, unintestigated accusa-
tions He has issued circular Draw
ing attention to the fact that immigra-
fion officers do not observe, in the han
ding of warrant cases, admonftions
contained in the immigration regula-
tions, which caution officers in the care
to be exercised in conducting an inYes-
tigation into cases of aliens believed TO
law. Officers are especially cautioned
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