The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
Items, General and Personal,
OF Interest to @. p. O. Workers

Memorandum of appointments, separa-
lions, transfers, &c, in the Government
Printing Office for the week ended Au-
gust q:
Observation-Disclosures r. Preuss.
linotype operator. reinstdted: Miss Ger
trude Prender, skilled laborer, trans
ferred: William II. Watts, jr., temporary
skilled laborer.
Separations-CIarence Lewis. imposer,
resigned: Henry c. Fish, bookbinder. re-
signed; James B. Nicol. skilled laborer'
resigned: Brinton II. Abendschein, tenn
pOrary messenger boy, resigned.
| Transfers, &c.-George ID. Ellis, copy
editor, s. cents per hour, proof section. to
copy editor. $50 per diem, departmental
detail roll; Charles E Tompkins, proof
reader, 80 cents per hour, proof section
might, to compositor, so cents per hour
hand section; Miss Annie NJ. Myers,
press feeder press division, night to day;
| Mrs Esther z. Perry, skilled labOrer.
ss26 per annum, office superintendent of
documents to press feeder, ~ cents
per hour. press division; Mrs. Delphine
Lord, skilled laborer, Library of Con-
gress branch binding section. to ruling
and sewing section: Andrew Mortensen,
messenger boy. Is cents per hour. office
OF superintendent of work. 10 messenger
boy. $40 per annur. purchasing division.
| Maker-up Thomas !. Waterman, OF
the day hand section. owing to the seri-
Gus illness Of an only sister. has been
summoned to his home in Kentucky.
Mrs. Margaret Irvine subsequently
Mrs I.esh). a well known compositor
Iemployed at different times in the old
document room, the old second division,
and the specifications. and for several
years past the proprietor of stationary
land magazine store on Seventh Street
Northwest, near o, since the death oil
her clerk, and continued i'll health, has
ibeen obliged to dispose of her establish
Iment Her many printer friends and ac-
Iquaintances will regret to learn this un-
welcome news.
Max E. Lewis. a former skilled labor
er in the Y. hand section, day. Is To-
Gated at 25I2 Eighth Avenue, New York
City.
The endorsement Of a set Of rules for
the hand division. day, chapel COM
manded the attention Of the members
during the lunch hour on Wednesday
The officers for the present quarter are
wIIfred f. Garlick. chairman, and Wal
llace Brewer, the Oldest compositor IN
continuous years OF service. secretary.
| Sidney ]. Marshall. Imposer IN the
hand section might, has been granted
ten days leave.
Guy E. Partridge. maker-uP in the
hand section. is enjoying lfteen-day
leave at this time.
Logan NJ. Green. skilled laborer on the
Y, hand section. has been granted sew
eral days leave.
During the week the following members
Of the hand section chapel have returned
from their leave: Dan l. SAMSON. Peter
NJ. McCaIlum. E. H. Tabler. Theodore
Kelsey, R. B. Glennan, Thomas NJ
Donn. and George E. Clark.
c. S. Dennison, who has been touring
the East and the Middle West as far as
Anderson. Ind. has been granted an ex-
| tension of leave to attend the baseball
tournament in Pittsburgh, Fa.
Comparatively few annual leaves were
applied for during the week just ended.
The rush" will begin Tuesday, Septem-
Der .
Kane Mahony, a recent detailed COM
positor to the State branch. having been
granted annual leave, will pass the same
in his home city, Troy. N. Y.
Alexander P. Beatty a well-known
compositor on the spess, was enjoying
much-needed rest during the past week.
Fred A. CogsweIl, rule man. in the
hand section, has returned from his ff-
teen days leave.
John F. Lutich, manager of the Wash
ington Union Printers Baseball Cluo,
halls from Galveston, Tex, where he
leorned the printers trade. and also was
prominent as an amateur ball player. He
came to the Government Printing Office
as a compositor about ten years ago and
has been identified with amateur baseball
in the District ever since, managing sew
eral teams with success, his best show
Ing being made with the Aloysius club,
with which he won the District cham
pionship one year. He was the manager
of the printers team which took part
in the first I..eet of the Union Printers
National Baseball League, held in New
York in 1905, and made a good showing
in that contest: and with the team he
has taken to Pittsburgh this year ex-
poets to bring the Hermann trophy back /
to Washington.
Compositor R. Henry Campbell, of the
old spess force, has returned from his |
annual leave
George johnson, jr., of the surgeon |
general catalogue detail in the hand sec
ton, has been granted fifteen days leave. |
Miss Lillian Russell, Of the day proof |
force, will leave Sibley Hospital early i
this week, after a stay of three weeks, |
fully restored to health.
T. c. (spadgel, Parsons will not be able
to get to Pittsburgh with the Printers