The Washington times., 1913-07-11
PR|N TING OFFICIALS
HAVE BIG FAMILIES
Worker Who Has Not at Least
Four Lacks Prestige Among
His Co-Workers.

Some day next month Cornelius Ford
Public Printer, will take a day off and
so house hunting. If Secretary Tumu:ty
Is In the city Mr.. Ford will seek his aid,
because Mr.. Tumulty has already gene
through the same experience and solved
I to his satisfaction. Moreover, Mr..
Tumulty can understand, IN a degree,
the peculiar problem confronting Mr..
Ford.
Mr.. Tumulty. as all the world knows,
has six handsome children. Mr. Ford
has eight As both men are New Jer-
seyans and friends. they did moi
need this bond of fatherhood &c
cement friendship. but, nevertheless,
4 Common experience like this--or an
Uncommon one-helps somewhat to make
that reciprocal sympathy and interest
on which friendship blossoms into its
choicest flower
Some Of Mr.. Ford's subordinates in
the Government Printing Office also
know the joys and sorrows of father
hood In what might be called the
wholesale way. Printers are not par
ticularly given to having large families.
Taking them by and large, their fam
ilies will average the same size as men
In other lines of work. But at the
Government Printing Office large fam
ilies are the rule. There are any num-
Der OF printers IN the office who have
Eve children.
Lacks Prestige.
A printer who has not at least four
lacks prestige in the biggest industrial
Plant in Washington. Yet none of them
has anything on the boss. No printer
vas discovered there in a careful census
today who can come within more than
two of MIR. Ford. who, therefore, has all
che prestige which a boss should have
n order properly to maintain his dignity
and authority. George w. Nairn, of
Capitol Heights. is the printer who
comes closest to rivaling Mr. Ford.
Mr. Nairn is the father of six children.
The number who have five is legion.
and some of them may as the years go
by rival him, or even eclipse him.
Mr.. Ford's eight children range IN
age from twenty-five to six years. their
ages as stated by him being as follows:
HIM, Let me see. The eldest is
Martha, twenty-five. Then Ann who is
nineteen, and Virginia, who is seven
teen. Charley, who is here in Washing
ton with me now, is fifteen. and Thomas
is thirteen Cornelius, jr.. is eleven.
s.nd Aary-iet's see. Mary is-well. I
think Mary is nine, and Arthur. the
baby Of the family. is six. That makes
eight doesn't it?"
&r. Ford would not have had to 20
70 The command Of the Government
Printing Onice to find large families,
Particularly since the new Administra-
tcn came in. Secretary Tumulty
brought stx children here and Secretary
Of labor Wilson has nine who have
nSt yet come to Washington. except the
eldest daughter. The other Wilson
chf1dren come here this fall.
one empioye of the Postoffice Depart
roent holds the record in the Govern
meat service This man has eleven
Miss Much Joy.
Men who do not have large families
miss q good deal of the best ioy in
life" said Mr.. Ford. of course the
responsibilities increase with each ar
rival but SO do the compensations In
The pleasure Of seeing ones progeny
grow up"
Mr.. Ford is a real printer. He mas
been a printer for thirty-one years.
making his start in Hoboken, n. J..
IfOuu tO"H ne CdIUC 10 NdSn-
ington. Mr.. Ford had twenty-five
men under him as foreman when nc
was only twenty-one years old, and
now that he has many hundreds he
probably will get along as we'll Few
youths of twenty-one have any one
10 direct and command much less
twenty-five.
Mr.. Ford is an active member cf
organized labor and mis- four sons will
be affiliated With the 4. F. of l.. when
they come of sufficient age The New
Jersey assembly knows Mr.. Ford as
4 born diplomat He will have lis ;
troubles at the Printing Office probably F!
because the Office is so big that IL can
not always run smoothly but he J
Creases and wrinkles will be ironed out ,
his friends predict, with considerable
both of method and of /
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