The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-06

The list OF sick persons IN the ndno
section the past week included Imposer
William McFarlane and Compositor
Joseph M Thompson. also Clarence E.
Lewis imposer on the specs.
Valentine Ruff. the popular chairman
of the specs section for several terms.
having declined q reelection, Nelson T.
Meyer was the choice. Something I'M
usual in the G. p. o., chairman declin-
ing reelection.
George H. BirdsaIl has been transferred
from the linotype section to the hand
section.
James K. Lacock. hand section (night),
has received a probationary appoint
ment.
From the latest intelligence from Hot
Springs. Ark, Miss Laura B. Gordon is
improving slowly.
James II. Campbell, unskilled laborer
on the specs, has been granted all leave
due.
Louis Neuer of the staff of doorkeepers,
celebrated the fourteenth anniversary OF
his connection with the government Office
on the Sd instant. He has an army of
friends in this building.
Owing to a rush Of work in the job
room, several compositors have been de-
tailed from the other sections to help
OUT Hope the good work will con-
tinue.
George Terwilliger, of the hand section.
is substituting for Imposer Latham in
his absence.
James B. Nicol. skilled laborer in the
hand section, has been granted thirty
days leave without pay.
Edward F. Latham, chief imposer in
the least end of the hand section, has
been granted all leave due, having been
summoned to his home in Northern New
York, owing to the serious illness of his
sister.
On Saturday evening last the music
studio of Bessie N. Wild was the scene
of a very pleasant and enjoyable treat
to large and appreciative audience. the
occasion being the rendering OF a select
programme of vocal and instrumental
music by the pupils OF Mrs. wiid. this
also being the closing of a series OF
studio recitals held during the present
season. Those rendering vocal selections
were Miss Louise Lowrey, Miss Geneva
Davis, Miss Estelle Wild. Miss Thelma
Payne, Miss Mary Willoughby. and Mr..
c. Risdon Allen, and those playing piano
solos, four six, and eight hand numbers,
We're Miss Louise Lowe, Mr.. Archie w.
Wallace, Miss TheIma Payne, Miss Mil
bred F'ultz, Miss Nina Wallace. Miss
Margaret Harrington. Miss Matilda
Senior, Miss Clyone Wallace. and Charles
Proudley. most of the pupils being chill
dren OF employees of the G. p. o.
Michael N Serrano, of the night proof
chapel, G. p. O., who aspires to the
honor of representing Columbia Union
at the convention of the I, T. u. which
will convene in Nashville, Tenn. in
August next. was born in Spain in 1866.
His parents came to the United States
when Mike was fifteen and settled IN
Brooklyn. N. Y. There he attended the
public schools and was graduated from
Pratt's Institute of General Studies. He
learned the printing trade with the
American Bank Note Company and joined
New York Union in 1855. After several
years. experience as a journeyman print
er in New York and a trip abroad he
accepted a position in the foreign de-
partment of the Lockwood Press.
whence he was rendered a position in
the G. p. o., by Public Printer Bene-
dict and came to Washington in 1894. and
has been a compositor and proofreader
in the Office for nearly twenty years,
during which time he has taken active
and useful interest in the work of Co
lumbia Union, and his friends have
placed him in the race as a man worthy
of the highest honor that can be con-
ferred on q union printer.
Timothy M. Ring, who has been one of
the most active and energetic members
of Columbia Union for a quarter of a
century, after a dozen or more years in
various business ventures in and about
Washington. has been given a probation
airy appointment and assigned as a COM
positor to the hand composing section.
The Washington Union Printers Ath.
ietic Association. of which T. C. (Spadge)
Parsons il president, have arranged for
an entertainment and dance at National
Rifles Armory on the evening Of April
% next, the entertainment to be staged
by Phil. Nachmann. of the monotype
keyboard room, who promises the best OF
the all-printer talent of the city The
local association hopes to make good
showing at the meet Of the National