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The Washington herald., 1913-08-03
Office Boy Now Is Listed
Among Business Problems
Demand for More Wages and More Leave Forces
Average Man to Consider office Girls.

The business men Of Washington may
special emphasis on that may-start a
movement to defeat the present tendency
to race suicide. The problem of the office
boy has taken its place with the servant
problem and the incompatibility Of in
comes Of capital and labor.
Where" mourned the Average Busi-
ness Man as he leaned against one of
the Most Wiped Counters in the World
and inspiration from a highball glass.
"Oh. where Ia my wandering office boy?'
do you know that the cares of furnish
ing the brains for large corporation are
as nothing compared to the effort required
to keep q ten-by-twelve office supplied
with office boys?
"well. since you insist, I'll tell you. The
office boy, unless conditions are changed
by a sudden entrance into power of the
Socialist party, Is an institution Of the
past. Again I ask you: Where is the
ofiice boy of years ago who frightened
the Office with his smoothly plastered hair
and red necktie? I reply: He Is not He
has vanished.
THE office boy Of the present day. al
though he has not broken into print with
the insistence Of the servant and her
accompanying problem, Is Of new oroef.
I'VE used to be able to hire ONCE boys
good ONCE boys-for 81 a week. Oner the
boy Of the present day anything under
"A and he will infiict on you the ancient
Jest In which the boy says to the penu-
rious boss that he doesn't want to weaken
the amount of capital invested IN the
business.
ASK him why he is more valuable than
the boy Of five years ago. and he Will
say that the grandmother joke Ia thing
Of the future: that he cannot extract an
afternoon of and possibly the price OF q
game because Of the boss laughter az
his acumen in perceiving the hoax.
There n truth In his appeal The boss
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I has no chance to laugh now. for the boy
usually will announce tnat he is going to
the game. He pleads, this boy OF the
present, that the price of admission has
been raised. The bleachers. called the
Jury box by fans, l believe. is. 1t must be
admitted. SO far from the batter's station
as to be almost in another county. So
he has to pay 50 cents to get to game.
Nor is this all. The Office boy of the
present day does not wear short trousers,
as they now are called. He attains long
trousers at the ripe and sophisticated age
Of fifteen. He must pay more for clothes.
'The problem has been solved In some
offices by hiring girls. They are the
principally in department stores and tele-
graph Offices. where they have supplanted
boys as errand runners.
Now I have a theory that will end
the office boy problem. You know. hope.
that the only. reason that labor Is hard
to obtain is that there is not enough COM
petition. II the mothers of this country
would call into consultation Prof. Stark
weather. president of the Starkweather
Biogenetic Foundation. and have boys IN
stead Of girls for children. the problem
would be solved for the present genera
ton. AS for future generations. they
should-pardon me. mean theirs should
be the care Of solving for their age the
problems.
Girls are all right as office boys--I
know II, but you can't say ONCE girls.
you know-and they do the work satis-
factorily. But they scent the office with
powder and perfumery. they leave long.
suspicious looking hairs just where they
will attach themselves to ones clothes
when one starts for home. and lastly and
principally, one can't talk 30 seriously,
50 frankly. and 20 freely to q girl ofiics
boy who has spilled ink on ones nsW SIX
nhirt~
The Washington herald., 1913-08-03

Lieut.. Falvey II q New Yorker. born
June II. 1855 In 1s7 he enlisted In the
navy. On April Is, 1SsS. he Joined the
force. His promotions have been rewards
for hard and faithful service. His last
promotion came July l. 1906. when he
was made q lieutenant
The Tenth precinct runs from Florida
Avenue to the Maryland State line north,
to Rock Creek Northwest, and beyond
the Soldiers Home to the east. This pre-
cinct In developing rapidly AZ a residential
section. It Ii divided into eight day beats
and thirteen night beats. There are four
beats for mounted men. extending over
the roads and outlying villages. which
have within their range q population Of
about 1000.
Capt. Henry B. Elliott is the command
ing oficer He has as his assistant
Lieut.. Thomas Judge.
Capt. Elliott Hard Worker.
For almost quarter of century Capt.
Elliott has been one Of the hardest work.
ing men on the police force. He is q na-
tive Of Indiana, born at Kossuth, August
Is. 1853. At the age of eighteen years he
enlisted in the United States army, be-
ing assigned to Troop F, Of the Sixth
Cavalry. which regiment figured con-
spicuously in Indian fighting. It after
ward became known as the "Gallopirg
Sixth" Capt. Elliott saw service with
his regiment In Arizona, Utah. and Col
orado. When he left the army, in 1856
he vast a sergeant. On April S. 1883. he
Joined the police force, going to the
Sixth precinct for duty. In July, 1889.
he was made q sergeant and transferred
to the Eighth precinct. and later sent
back to the Sixth precinct March ].
1904, he was made lieutenant. and on
July 1. 1906. promoted to the position he
now holds.
Lieut.. Judge Il a native of Ireland.
born at Sligo, October 2. 1864. He came
to America when eighteen years old. In
October. 1866 he enlisted In the United
States Marine Corps. being assigned 20
sea duty. He saw service In Chinese and
South American waters. In October. 1880.
he Joined the police force. September Il,
1925. he was made sergeant, and July 1.
1906, a lieutenant.
The Eleventh precinct is the youngest
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he was transssrred 10 the Fifth pre-
einct. where he has been in command
almost six years.
Fo1Ght Asafsst Isaians.
Lieut.. Sprinsis Ii IN Ohioan. He was
born on . farm near Columbus. July Z.
1854 At the age Of eleven his parents
moved to Des Noi1es. Iowa. where he
learned the harnessmaker's trade. Later
he took up the study Of civil engineer
ing, and assisted in the hrst survey Of
what 10 now the Great Western Rail-
road, from Chicago to Kansas City. He
enlisted In the army when twenty-one
years old. serving fve years In Troop B.
of the Fourth Cavalry. then stationed
at Fort Huachua, Arix He saw service
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years Of 1851 and 1sss. serving ~ senior
first lieutenant and adjutant Of the corps
Of cadets during the latter year. At the
closing exercises In 1sss he was awarded
the orators medal for excellence In de-
clamation and elocution. On January
.. 1883. he graduated with honors from
q business college at Poughkeepsie. N. 7.
Capt. Peek's Good Work.
Six years after joining the police force.
Peck was recommended for duty In the
Central Detective once. because Of his
splendid work in the Fourth precinct.
under Lieut.. Hollinberger. now captain
Of the First precinct July l. 1900. he was
sent to the central ONCE. Gradually he
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1876, coming to America with his parents
when nve years old and locating in
Washington. At the outbreak Of the
civil war he enlisted in Company F, Sixth
Battalion, District Volunteers. Follow
ing the close Of the war he obtained
employment with the Southern Railway,
and a few years afterward Joined the
police force. His promotion has been
steady.
The Eight Precinct. which. with slight
exceptions. is residential. has a popula-
ton Of 5000, and embraces 15s city
squares. 1t is divided into nine day beats
an thirteen night beats, ranging from
twelve to thirty squares each. Capt. r.
E. Doyle commands this section. ably
assisted by Lieut. David T. Dunnigan.
Robert Emmett Doyle is, in point of
service. one OF the youngest officers on
the force. having Joined 1t April ], 1892
as a private in the Third precinct On
July ], 1901. he was made a full sergeant
and sent from the First precinct to the
Eighth. On-&farch .. 1906. he was made
lieutenant, and in the following July
was promoted to be a captain.
Lieut.. David T. Dunnigan recently was
promoted to this position. succeeding the
late Lieut.. Daniel Slattery. Dunnigan
has been a member Of the force for more
in the Second precinct before he was
sent to No. s to fill the vacancy created
by the death of Lieut.. Slattery.
The Ninth precinct, wherein is located
the railroad houses. as well as many
other valuable properties. has a popula-
ton OF about 10000 This territory in
cludes about e6i squares of ground. d.
vided into seven day beats and fourteen
night beats. The day beats vary from
twenty-five to fifty-three squares each,
while the night beats range from seven
to forty-eight blocks. The vast suburban
section of the precinct Is guarded by
three mounted men In the daytime. and
three at night. with miles Of territory
to cover. reaching east and northeast to
the Maryland line.
The "FighttaR Sergeant"
Capt. John C. Daley Is in command Of
this precinct. assisted by Lieut.. H. T.
Falvey. Capt Daley was born in wo-
burn. Mass, December s. 1850. In De-
cember, 1852. Capt. Daley came to WASH
ington. after serving five years in the
United States Army. On July l. 1883, he
Joined the force, and was detailed to
duty in the Sixth precinct. In December,
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Greatest Department IN the United States Hundred
and Fifteen Men Have Hands Full Keeping Watch Over
Snty-Fow Square Miles Of Territory.

duty only during TIE day. At night the
sbeuths are in command of Lieut. James
Hartley. one Of the most popular men on
the force.
Lieut.. Hartley was born In Warrick
County, Indiana, January 4. 1865 When
twenty-one years old he enlisted In the
United States Army, Battery F, Third
Artillery, with which he saw five years
service. December 2 1881, he Joined the
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and serving fiye years. When twenty
four years old he came to Washington.
and on November s 1854. was appointed
to the force and assigned to duty in the
Fourth precinct. then generally regarded
a. the toughest section In the city. He
remained there for eight years. In 1850
he was made acting sergeant and trans
ferred to the Fifth. After doing duty
there Q short time he was made sergeant
and sent to the Seventh. succeeding Ser
geant Pessau. who was killed while max
Ing ansarrest. His hard work and at
tention to duty resulted in his promotion
to lieutenant. and then to captain.
Another Veteran of Force.
Lieut.. Shilling is another veteran Of
the force. He was born In Germany In
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dea and enters the golden-domed mosques
at Kerbela and Nedjef. Millions have
passed this way in the centuries, bringing
with them the salted and dried bodies or
their dead for burial in the sacred soil
outside the walls of their holy Shia cities,
2oo.000 mummified human bodies have
passed through Bagdad in a single year.
borne by these Shia devotees.
For miles along this strange highway
our '.arabanah," drawn by four galloping
mules, passed these weird death cara
vans, silent and mysterious. The bodies
OF departed relatives were carried in OBJ
long bundles. lashed to the backs of pack
animals. Yelled women rode in queer.
cage-lined boxes, slung one on each side
of a mule or a camel. The man, clad in
the round. hard caps and padded clothes
peculiar to Persians, marched behind.
prodding any tagging donkey or camel
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against the Indians. On one occasion
Sprinkle volunteered to make a trip OF
$50 miles over trackless mountains. in
Tested with hostile Indians. to reach q
supply base. He successfully accom-
plished the trip. and in doing so secured
aid in the way Of provisions which saved
his companions in the field from starva-
ton. For his bravery he was commended
by higher officials. He was honorably
discharged from the army on August 5.
1880. and on the LIST of September fol-
lowing became a member Of the police
force. On August Il. 1885, he was made
a sergeant, and on July !. 1906. was pro-
moted to be a lieutenant.
The sixth precinct has within its limits
the Union Station. Government Printing
Office. Pension Bureau, Census Bureau,
numerous hotels. banking houses. stores.
the courts. and hundreds of private resi-
dences. The day beats therein number
eight. which are distributed SO as to in
clude eighty-seven city squares and seven
government reservations. The night beats
are fifteen in number. 1t Is commanded
by Capt. Michael Byrnes and Lieut.. ]. A.
Duvall.
Capt Byrnes has been In the service
about thirty-nine years. He was born in
Ireland, November IS, 1Sis, and came TO
America with his parents when eight
years old. In 1867 he enlisted in Battery
E, Fourths United States Artillery, and
was honofAbly discharged after three
years service. October IS ISL, he was
appointed to the force. and was assigned
to duty in the Sixth precinct. where he
has served the greater portion Of his
time. His promotion has been steady.
On January IA, 1900 he was made
sergeant. two years later lieutenant,
o,A T,,lxy xvaa onY0intad On n
tain of the Sixth.
Did Duty in ''FogEy Bottom"
Lieut.. Duvah is native of Prince
George County. Md. He is forty-slx years
old. In 1sss he, came to Washington and
entered the employ Of ]. B. Hill, whole
sale grocer on Pennsylvania Avenue. He
left the grocery business to work with
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company, and in May. 1882, became a
member of the force, being assigned to
duty in the Eighth precinct. Later he
was transferred. to the Third precinct.
and for q long time did duty in "Foggy
Bottom" In 1901 he was made q full
sergeant, but prior to this time he had
received several minor promotions. In
1903 he was made lieutenant and as
signed to duty at the Sixth.
The Seventh pricinct comprises that
and northwest Of Rock
Creek, including Georgetown and numer-
Gus villages. There are five day beats.
varying in extent from twenty-five to
squares, and eight night
beats, ranging from fourteen to forty
two squares. The country portion OF the
precincts Is divided into four beats, COW
cred by as many mounted onicers both
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Finding myself not long ago at Bagdad.
says a writer in the Christian Herald, I
decided to see for myself just what Eden
looks like today. and to get acquainted
with the people who now inhabit the Old
traditional homestead OF Adam and Eve.
wanted to see Babylon, too, and the ex-
cavated palace of King Nebuchadnezzar-
where the handwriting appeared on the
wall-and / wanted to get a picture of the
reputed Tower of Babel. which still lffts
its battered head above the fiat. empty
plain Of Mesopotamia-
So crossed the odd pontoon bridge that
spans the yellow Tigris at Bagdad, slipped
through the massive West Gate. passed
the supposed tomb Of Zobedia and min
gled with the pilgrim horde on the great
Shia caravan trail that stretches down
from Turkestan and Persia, crosses Chal-
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1880. he was made acting sergeant and
transferred to the Eighth precinct. On
June II. 1891. he was made acting SER
geant. and two years later transferred
to the Fourth precinct. Southwest WASH
ington. where he earned the title Of the
Fighting Sergeant" On July !, 1883. he
was made lieutenant. In July, 1906.
he was made . captain.
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Lieut. Shilling Is another veteran
the force. He was born In Germany 4
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While Assistant Superintendent and In.
spector Boardman has supreme charge of
the central ONCE detectives. he 10 ON
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The Eleventh precinct is the youngest
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-14
A Tooth to Pick.

The attempt to use idiomatie English
Is fraught with danger to the beginner.
A diplomat nearly paralyzed a debl-
tante at a Washington ball by telling
her that he had a tooth to pick with
her.-New York Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-14
An Acrobafio Pair.

The bride who married the military
hero went up the aisle on her fathers
arm.
The bridegroom was quite as aero
battle. He went up Va a lot OF other
people's Observation-Disclosures American.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-14
Uselesa.

"Dear, oh, dear" sighed Mr.. Sallow-
day, ""I wish I knew some good way
to acquire an appetite"
"Nonsense." exclaimed his wife.
can appetite would only give you more
dyspepsia" -Philadelphia Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-14
Optimism,

"Pa, do you know any optimists|"
"Yes. We have n in our office. Ev'
cry time he draws his pay he thinks he
Is going to have several dollars left at
tbs end Of the week.'-Chicago Record
Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
BIRMINGHAM MAN TALKS
TO JOHN DREW IN NEW YORK

To those who have held Mr.. John Drew
high in favor through his many years
before the footlights, a reference in a uet-
ter yesterday as to his production in New
York would be particularly interesting. A
Birmingham man wrote that he had seen
him one evening last week in the Shake
spearean role which he is so reluctantly
playing-that he saw him because other
houses that evening were sold out, and
that Drew was playing to many vacant
seats, though his play is well produced
and beautifully costumed. drew came on
the stage looking, / thought, angry he
wrote. II had an opportunity of talking
with him after the play when, in response
to my note he invited me to come back
and see him. | told him that had fam
eied he looked mad, and that ! had Won
dered If, perhaps, he was so because in
a man fleeing from a pretty woman, a
role quite different from the past, when
there were always pretty girls in his
company, and he was always the pursuer.
He told me that he looked mad because
he was; that Frohman had, against his
wishes and advice, given him a Shake
spearean role which none knew better
than himself he was untitled to interpret;
that at a vast cost the play has been
staged, and, said Drew ] feel as | come
out nightly and face these empty houses
as though am walking through a grave
yard Next week, fortunately, he Will
open with another and more congeniai
play"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
HEALTH CAMPAIGN
IN TUSCALOOSA
The University and Other
Schools Will Cooperate
With Board

Montgomery, September 23.-(Special)
The University of Alabama and other
educational institutions of Tuscaloosa
county will cooperate with the state
board of health in the sanitary and health
campaign which will begin in that coun-
ty October l. according to an announce
ment made Tuesday by DIR. w. w. Dins-
more. director of the state department
of field sanitation and commission for
the eradication of hoolSworm disease.
DR.. J. Fraser Orr, assistant director
of the department, will have supervision
over the campaign in Tuscaloosa county
and it is expected to make the campaign
one of the most thorough which the de-
partment has Yet made.
According to DR.. Dinsmore. the work
in Tuscaloosa county will be aided ma
terially by the cooperation of the Uni
versity of Alabama and other schools
of the county; and the campaign will pos
sess many educational features.
Simultaneous with the beginning of the
campaign in Tuscaloosa county, the board
of health will inaugurate a campaign in
Mobile county, under the supervision OF
DIR. E. V. Caldwell and DR.. c. A. Grote
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
COMMISSION FIXES
. DATES FOR HEARING
Number of Assessment
Cases in South Alabama
Come Up This Fall

Montgomery, September 23.-(Special.)
Judge A. A. Evans and John 3. Powell,
associate members of the state tax com
mission, and Murray White, secretary to
the commission, have returned from south
Alabama, where they fixed dates for hear
ing a number of assessment cases in
Conecuh, Escambia, Baldwin and Mo-
bile counties.
The commission made a preliminary in
vestigation of six Gases in Coneeuh coun-
ty, and fixed the date for the hearing
of these cases for November 8. All OF
the cases have to do with raises in the
assessments on turpentine leases
Raises on timber lands in Escambia
county, in which there are four cases
under protest, will be argued before the
commission on November 4.
The Baldwin county cases under pro
test, which will be heard November 5
have to do with assessments on the hote
property at Point Clear, the Fairhope Sin
company. The assessments on these three
properties have been. increased by the
commission. and the cases will be heard
following the Escambia hearings
In Mobile county there are A cases
under protest and the commission will
spend two days in that county hearing
the complaints of the numerous property
woners who are protesting against raises
The Mobile hearings have been set fol-
November and Z.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
Needs a Dress Form

i am not able 10 hire my sewing done,
so try to do the best l can. l am Won
dering IL some reader would have an
adjustable dress form she no longer wants.
One would help me SO much. l will pay
express charges. MRS. w. p
The growing desire all over the land 70
ahate In one direction the high cost of liv-
ing by home dressmaking is proved by
the number of requests for dress forms
rained in upon US It is not practicable
to fiji all the orders thus received.
Cooperation in tho great work laid u
the busy brains and deft fingers Of our
house mothers In this age of stress ana
strain is urgently demanded. As move
in the right direction, who win lend or
give dress form 10 this one woman?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
Wants a Sewing Machine

II am a young married woman and my
husband earns a small salary. | should
like to know of any reader who has q
sewing machine she no longer has any
use for. / should like to do plain sewing
at home to earn little side money TO
help out. Could you tell me where I
could get such work to do? l have been
working out. but my health won't per-
NIT it any more, l know 1t is a lot to
ask for, but I hope some day to help
some other poor soul IF. A. NJ
1t is not an easy thing to get sewing
machine, as | have had repeated occa-
sions to observe. Yet | am casting the
net into waters that have yielded ricn
returns to us in days past. As to getting
plain sewing, can only advise you to
make your own rlSet by privately ad-
vertising your willingness to do all man
ner of white work. etc. Have cards
printed and distribute them to friends
end neighbors making a speciality OF
mending mems clothes. Many bachelors
would be glad to have their wardrobes
kept in order at moderate rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24
her TROUBLES
BEGAN EARLY
Young Lady Relates Her Expe-
rience, and Tells How She
Overcame Troubles Which
Started at Fifteen

Paulina. La-"When I was only fiji
teen years old" says Miss Lizzie St
Pierre of this town. II began suffering
from womanly troubles 1 had all kinds
of pains, felt nervous, dizzy and weak
had headache. backache and with all
that had fever.
commenced taking Cardui, the
woman's tonic, and it made me perfect
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Mama got so she couldn't sleep, and
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If you think the publication of this
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i certainly feel thankful for what
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