The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
Items, General and Personal
OF Interest to G.P O. Workers

binders, OF the joint board of the allied
printing trades, the unions represented
| oeing the printers, the bookbinders, the
pressmen. the electrotypers, and the en-.
gravers He reports a most harmonious
meeting. and is confident of a new
scheme Of affiliation that will be of last.
Ing beneft TO the trades concerned.
A couple of the "swifts', on a Balti.
more newspaper recently set a phenome-
/ nal string each. both something over
ZOO lines in seven hours. and then
William Stubbs. the king Of the lino,''
employed on the same paper, lust TO
snow them what a real operator can do.
topped the highest string by some 500
lines in the same number Of hours.
A son OF Charles W. Burnett, of the
proofroom. has charge Of the machines
on the Petersburg Ua-) Index-Appeal
Horatio B. Stevens, of the engineer
force, was called hastily to his home in
Camden. Me-, on Tuesday last by the
serious illness Of his aged mother.
Frank o. Cole, who has had charge of
the presses At the Congressional Library
branch for several years, has been trans
ferred to the main pressroom.
John ID. Kehoe, a former president of
Columbia Union. has been promoted to
the position of chief of division in the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Kehoe was
for number Of years foreman of the
Treasury branch printing office, and also
a member Of the proofroom force, and
has many friends in the ofiice who. are
pleased at his promotion.
Samuel Morris Briscoe who is operat-
ing linotype on a Baltimore paper, was
in the city on Monday last, his family
still residing in Washington.
The Union Printers Athletic Associa-
ton will hold its regular meeting AT
typographical Temple at o'clock today.
The indications are that the meeting of
the Printers National Baseball League
at Cincinnati next summer will be one
Of the best In the history of the orran-
ization. and II Ii to the interest of the
members Of the local here to be alive 10
the fact that Washington now holds the
Hermann trophy and to see that she is
well represented at the next meet,
Miss Martha Feehan, compositor I'm the
monotype section. is spending ten days
leave at her home In Rochester, N. Y.
Word has been received here that James
L. Weaver will vacate the position of in
structor Of printing at the Lawrence
Rans) Indian School on February
which he left the G. P. o. to accept sorne
four years ago.
Norman c. Sprague, president of WASH
tngton Pressmen's Union, was able TO get
to the Office on Wednesday with the aid
OF crutches, his first appearance since
he had his foot crushed In the Record
press.
Conrad T. Vogel, of the jobroom. In d.
ing good work as treasurer of the Calf
fornia State Association In booming tina
San Francisco Exposition in 1916.
Charles N. O'Connell, of the monotyps
keyboard force. has consented to defer
to the wish OF his many friends and viii
enter the race for delegate from Columbia
Union to the Providence convention.
George NJ. Berry. president Of the Inter-
national Printing Pressmen and Assist.
ants Union, spent several days of the
past week in Washington.
ferred from the pamphlet binding to the
ruling and sewing section Of the bindery.
James Erwin Esterly will be one of thu
headliners of the bookbinders' annual en-
appearing In his blackfaae
specialties.