Evening star., 1909-07-13
REWARD FOR FIDELITY
Secretary NageI Promotes as
We'll as Dismisses.
GOOD WORK RECOGNIZED
No Reason for Faithful Clerk to Be
Apprehensive.
POLITICS IN NO WAY INVOLVED
Object Is to Place the Department
on a Business Basis and Not to
Build Up a Taft Party.
POLITICS IN NO WAY INVOLVED

Secretary Nagel of the Department of
Commerce and Labor has been busy with
his pen as well as with his ak, and a
result considerable number of the en-
ployes of his department have received
substantial promotions since the work of
reorganization has been in progress. The
searchlight on their official records has
disclosed many deserving as we'll as un-
deserving employees and the reward to
the one has come as the consequence of
the penalty to the other.
There is no occasion whatever for any
clerk in the Department of Commerce and
La Dor who is sober, Industrious and is at
tending properly to his official duties to
feel apprehensive about his official ten
uren This is an authoritative statement
emanating from the department today.
1.-The only upheaval that has taken place
or is likely to take place In the near
future is that made imperative by incom-
petence. intemperance and neglect Of
duty" according to further statement
from the same authoritative source.
Politics, II Is declared. has nothing
whatever to do with the removals, the
reductions and the reprimands that
have been made in the department
Every one of them was determined by
the clerk OWL OUlCldl record covering
considerable period Of his service.
They were not all made in a bunch,
but from time to time since the work
of ascertaining the efficiency of the
clerical force was begun May last.
and those that may hereafter occur, it
same reasons following the receipt by
Secretary Nagel of the efficiency reports
from the bureaus which were long ago
called for by the Secretary.
Action Based on Reports.
Since these reports were called for.
said Assistant Secretary McHarg, the
Secretary has found warrant for re-
moving about 100 clerks and en-
ployes in all branches of the depart
ments service including the bureaus
of fisheries. labor. census, manufac-
lures. statistics and coast and geodetic
survey. The work has not yet been COM
pleted so far as concerns the census office
and the field service of the mmigra-
ton bureau, the steamboat inspection
| service. the lighthouse service and the
shipping commissioners offices under
the navigation bureau.
About eight or ten employees were
allowed to resign and about thirty were
reprimanded. These numbers repre-
sent the inefficient or incompetent en-
ployes whose inefficiency and incom-
potency are Enthusiastically shown by
their official record in the department.
Secretary NagePs Object.
Secretary Nagel feels that his object
in placing the department on an Official
business basis has been misrepresented
and his actions considerably magnified
He is rather amused than otherwise at
the claim that he is factor in the up
building OF a Taft party simply because
he is endeavoring to enforce the require
ments of the law and Of sound business
sense in the administration of his depart
ment. He disclaims such an intention
and prefers his claim to being rather a
reformer in the business methods Of the
department under his jurisdiction.
1t was announced at the department to-
day that the efficiency reports received
from Ellis Island. N. Y. disclose that
out OF the 472 employees there 139 are
shown by their records to be below the
standard of efficiency which has been ap-
department. OF these 139 some will
doubtless be dismissed. some reduced and
others reprimanded and warned.
Recent Promotions.
The following promotions have been
made since July /: Frank III. Larned, as
sistant commissioner general, immigration
service, from 5000 to $500: Newton A.
Sturges. Minnesota, from 81 500 to 5000;
Robert NJ. Pindell. jr., Maryland. clerk at
81, 800 to appointment clerk, census bureau,
at $500: J. Henri Wagner. Pennsylvania,
clerk, 81. 600 to $500: James p Greeley.
Minnesota, $1,000 to $1.4OO; Harry r.
Burrill, District Of Columbia, $1,000 to
81, 200; Harvey 8. Wilson, New York, $500
to $1,000 Michael L. Willier, Pennsyl-
vania, 500 to $1,000; Vernon I. Richard,
District of Columbia, $3.50 to S72O; Eddie
w. Libbey, District of Columbia, $1,4OO to
81. 600; William A. Ruff, Indiana, 81, 200 to
81, 400: Louis Domeratzky, New York,
81. 400 to $1,000; Richard ]. Biggs, Porto
Rico, $500 to 81, 200; Jean F. Ingold, New
York. $500 to $1,000; Rome c. Shelse,
Connecticut. $1.60O to $1.sOO; Walter S.
Gilchrist. District Of Columbia, 81. 400 to
81 600; Adrian L. Horner, West Virginia,
81 200 to $l.4OO; Thomas ]. Fitzgerald,
New York, 81 900 to $1.200; Henry A. Cox,
Tennessee, $500 to 81 600.
The following appointments have been
made: Orin Tugman, New York. assist
ant physicist. bureau Of standards. 81, 400;
Daniel r. Harper, Pennsylvania. assist
ant physicist, bureau OF standards. 81. 400;
Edgar HI. Gerber. Missouri, messenger,
bureau Of fisheries, $500: David c. Young.
inspector boilers, steamboat inspection
service, Baltimore, Md. $l.S00; Edward
B. Kan, Oregon. Chinese interpreter.
Helena, Mont, $1,000: Hugh A. Brown.
New Jersey, private secretary director
OF the census, $3.50; William NJ. Poser,