The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

WILLIAM J. DOW
Chief Clerk of Government Printing
once.
ernment Printing Office in 1895 as a COM
positor. Upon the death of his father in
1905. he resigned from the position of
assistant foreman of the Congressional
Record room to take charge of their
newspaper in Peirce City, Mo. where he
remained until June. 1905, when Public
Printer Leech ordered him to Washington
to become his private secretary.
Since July /. 1909. he has been chief
clerk OF Uncle Sans big printery. In
1910 he took up the law course OF George
Washington University. graduating from
that institution last June with the degree
OF bachelor of laws.
The addition of Mr.. Dow's legal training
To his wide knowledge of the printing
business and his experience in the big
print shop has particularly fitted him for
his present official position. and his many
friends predict that this same experience.
added to his personal qualifications, will
insure for him a successful career in the
legal profession.
Mr. Dow has shown a particular inter
est in the branch Of the law affecting
labor, and that his union principles are on
a firm foundation may be seen from the
fact that at the age OF eighteen he allied
himself with organized labor. having
Joined the Hutchinson CKans), Typo
graphical Union in 1893.
Fred w Cole. electrotype finisher. Is
doing a detail on the night force during
r,e absence of one of the night men.
Tlr LQaV,F F.vF, L., raN, NF I'M
bia Unions corps of mdeicaI practition-
eTs, has been selected by the Public
Printer as the night medical director Of
the G. p. o.
Jerome V. johnson, treasurer of CO.
lumbia Union. and F. c. Roberts, both
of whom have been in SibIey Hospital
undergoing surgical operations, are doing
well and will soon be out.
Regular meeting of Columbia Union at
go o'clock today at the Temple.
Harry II. Trumbby. who for a number
of years was connected with the Gov
ernment Printing ONCE in a clerical ca
pacIty and subsequently became a major
and paymaster IN the army during the
war with Spain. died recently after a
long illness. He was buried at Wood
haven, y. Y. where he resided.
Louis V. Taft. who recently passed
away at the home Of his daughter. Mrs.
William Y. Handy of 1924 W Street
Northwest. was newspaper man in the
Middle West for several years. but later
came to this city to accept a position
IN the Government Printing Office during
Public Printer PaImer's first term. He
was eighty-One years of age.
OF the men selected by Public Printer
Ford for foremen of COMPOSING rooms it
can be said that each is a hrst-class
printer and a good union man.
Stanley Rulings, who succeeds to the
foremanship of the nOnotype section. is
native of Missouri, as a compositor
was one Of the best. and in the other
positions he has filed throughout the
G. P. o. has demonstrated abality of
high order. and there is no more popular
man on the pay roll of the office The
same also is true of Eddie Nevils, who
gets the responsible place of foreman
of the Congressional Record. Nevils
comes from Tennessee, and his popu-
larity with the craft was shown in the
vote he received for delegate from Co.
lumbia Union at the election for dele
gates 10 the Nashville convention.
u.
signed as foreman of the day linotype
section. is a New Yorker. his home be-
ing in Buffalo. For several years he
acceptably has filled the responsible po-
siticn of makerup in the monotype sec |
tion, and he is a man to inspire con-
fidence and respect
Claude Haines, who gets the foreman |
ship of the night monotype section. is
a West Nirginian; has been in the office |
a good many years in different capacities, |
for several years filling the position of |
a reviser in the night proof room. and !
is recognized as one of the best-POsted |
men in the business.
George G. Wilson, who has taken |
charge of the hand section night, is |
perhaps as well known as any printer |
in the G. p. o. He is Georgian. and |
has worked in most every division of |
the Office in the fifteen years he has been |
with it. and his prominence
in the National Guard also has given /
him wide acquaintance.
James H. Brodnax, who has been as
signed to the foremanship of the Library j
branch, is a native of Arkansas. He
has been an employe of the G. p. o. for
about twenty years, mostly as a COM
positor on specifications and in the job /
section. For several years past he has
been a member of the night chapel in
the hand seccon. He has been an active
and useful member Of Columbia Union,
and il is safe to say that his promo
ton is one of the most popular made by
the Public Printer.
The officers of the G. p. o. Council.
National Union. have Jared pretty well
under Public Printer Ford. President Dan
v Chisholm being made superintendent
Of work, Secretary Stanley Ridings be-
ing given the forenanship of the mono i
type section, and Treasurer John J,