The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-16
WASHINGTON WAKING Up.
Continued from Page Nine.)

perusal of that much advertised report
of the Swift naval board for further
ing the efficiency of navy yards. He
Rad further conferences with Admiral
Swift, commandant of the Boston yard,
had inspected the new system of cost
keeping and was in a spirit to make
things hustle around his department for
a while. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Beekman Winthrop ceased to be
acting secretary of the navy, and the
rush of business in his office pertaining
to correspondence and other work which
can not be delayed, fell off about IS
per cent. Mr.. Meyer is one of the.
cabinet officers who has not travelled
much this summer and autumn. His
itineraries have comprised journeyings
between Washington and Hamilton,
Massachusetts.
Hitchcock s Department.
PostmasterG General Hitchcock, one
of the cabinet members who is now
en- route to Washington, has travelled
like veteran. He journeyed three
times to Beverly during the summer,
and since then has been around cir
Gle almost as large as President Taft
has traversed. Mr.. Hitchcock went
even to Seattle and the Pacific Coast,
and then down into California and
back home by the southern route, up
to St Louis and then down the Mis-
sissippi with the President. His first
assistant postmaster-general, Doctor
Granfeld, has also iourneyed even to
the Pacific Coast at the same time,a but
on another route from what Mr.. Hitch
cock was following. Third Assistant
Postmaster-G General Lawshe is in very
| poor health, SO that he has been able
to give little attention to business and
accordingly has resigned. That has
left the supervision of postal affairs
very largely to two assistant postmas-
general. But those tasks are now
to be taken up with vim. Mr.. Hitch
cock has had investigators at work on
| contemplated reforms, such as greater
| efficiency and economy in the admins
| tration of the postoffice department.
| They will make recommendations to
| him, and he is expected to have some
suggestions of note for the improve
ment of the postal service. When the
house committee on postoffices and post
roads gets to work upon the annual
| appropriation bill, it will consider
these recommendations from the post
master-general.
Nagel On the Hike.
! Of course, Secretary Ballinger beat
all the other cabinet officers in the
travelling list, for he has been twice
into the Far West and back again But
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel has been doing pretty well. He
| iourneyed many times between Wash.
| ington and his summer home at Marion
| Massachusetts, not to mention short
| trips out into different sections of the
| country. Now he is speeding back
| from New Orleans and from the trip
down the Mississippi river by boat
with the President. He0was one OF
three cabinet officials who could be in
duced to take that long voyage with
men by the hundreds in the interest
of a fourteen-foot channel through the
valley.
McHarg Quits.
His assistant Secretary, Ormsby Me
Harg, has quit office during Mr. Nagel Z
absence, and it is now up to the secre
taTy to choose a successor. Mr. McHars
has obtained a lot of advertising in the
newspapers because of his struggles tt
break out of Office and get into a Law
practice in New York. The department
seems to have had difficult time find
ing suitable man for his place TIVE
or three names have been under con
sideration, but of late Mr. Nagel ha
had no opportunity to press the ques
ton to a fnality with the President
There is little doubt that a patriot vii
> be found to serve the country as as
sistant secretary of commerce and labo
at $4,000 year.
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