Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-19
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

F. J. F. ThieL, secretary to the Treas
urer of the United States, has had sew
eral days of enforced idleness this week
due to a slight cold.
| Treasurer Burke, while on the oot
every day of this busy time for every
member of his office force. top and pot,
visitation of hay fever. He has been
subject to this trouble for more years
than he can remember
| Miss Clara Greacen of the Office of the
controller of the Treasury returned
from Europe week earlier than she
| anticipated at the last writing IRON
England. Miss Greacen. with the con-
guest, found herself able to take pas
sage on the steamer st. Louis of the
| American line While she did not see
Scandinavia. the objective point. or the
excursion, which was taken WIN ane
| ditions abroad, Miss Greacen is con-
graduating herself that she was nor
marooned in the war zone and Is sa1e
back at her desk without any harrow
! ing experiences.
Miss Helen Gertrude Brown. secretary
to the chief clerk of the office of the
controller of the Treasury, has returned
from a New England vacation. MISS
Brown is native of Boston.
Director Joseph Ralph figures in the
incident related in the following item
clipped from a recent issue OF the
Gary, Ind, Tribunte:
All was quiet last night in the
Twentieth Century Theater. The audi
ence was skipping hither and thithei
about the world with one of the week
ly. news pictures showing current
events in all quarters of the globe
ha inmnp6 from Boston tC
Bavaria and from Karlsbad to keo-
kuk Suddenly it conferred upon the
city of Washington, where the govern
ment is preparing millions of dollars
in new currency ready to meet the
, financial emergencies OF the country.
The audience was deeply interested
and there was not sound as the film
rolled on.
Suddenly. down in the front Of the
house, Harry Lyon, secretary to Chie1
Pontus Heintz, jumped up.
Hello, there, joe" he yelled, waving
his hand.
Then he glanced around. Everybody
was looking at him. He felt as en-
barrassed as a stage struck girl on
Il know that fellow he explained
out loud, and then he scrambled back
into his seat.
"Geen' he said, after the show, I'm
that picture of the bureau of engrav-
ing there was Joe Ralph. Ted Binzen s
brother-in-law. We We're down there
not long ago and he looked SO natural
that l hailed him before I thought
where I was.
Assistant Secretary Malburn finds
himself overwhelmed with work since
his transfer from the desk in char~e
of customs to be in charge of fduciary
affairs in the Treasury Department.
The industrial condition of the United
States, a particular concern of the
Treasury Department to provide reme-
dies and relief in the situation created
by war in Europe, has put great load
on the shoulders of Mr.. Malburn. And,
by contrast. while the fiduciary work
has increased because of war condi-
tons abroad. the labors of the Gus
toms divisions. which Mr.. Malburn
abandoned, have by operation of the
same causes been largely reduced.
Secretary Willis and Assistant Sher-
man Allen of the federal reserve board
have assumed their duties, and are
getting grasp of official detail. Another
week in harness will make them both
valuable assets to the newspaper men
as sources of official information.
Mrs. James L. Williams and her
three children, who have been spending
several months at Zepp, in the noun
tains of West Virginia, have motored
back to Washington. Mrs. Wilmeth
has had several letters from her hus-
band, Chief Clerk Wilmeth, of the
Treasury Department, who is now in
London as disbursing oflcer Of the
great relief fund carried abroad by the