Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

SeOfGe w. MdneT, dSSlSlaut u
the division of special agents thu
s1euths of the customs service-cele
brates the golden jubilee of his service
as a government employe June 80. Al
invalided veteran of the civil war, HI
was appointed by President Lincoln
June 80, 1864, as a special agent. H,
has remained since in that branch O.
the service; was assistant chief ovel
long term; served ten years as chief
to be superseded by John E. Wilkis
and resuming duty as assistant chief.
Mr.. Maher was barely twenty years
old when. as a soldier stationed neal
Long bridge, he was taken i'll with
camp fever. Upon his recovery he re-
ceived his appointment in the Treasury
Department. He is now about seventy
years old.
A visit to his great-grandmother calls
William Norman Thompson. jr., age
seven months. and his mother to the
elder Mrs. Thqmpson's shore home at
Oxford. Md. The boy and his mother
are the son and wife of William Nor
man Thompson, secretary to Assistant
Secretary Charles 5. Hamlin of the
Treasury Department.
E. H Jamison, assistant superintend-
emit of the Treasury building, also
known to his friends by the compli-
his sanitation activities in connection
with his general duties. will go to
Berkeley Springs. W. Va, July IL, to
spend two weeks.
Gen. John Floyd King, assistant regis
ter of the Treasury. has received letter
from the President expressing thanks for
transmissal of resolutions. adopted by the
reunion Of the United Confederate Vet
Grams. indorsing the administrator Mex
r~lf1 "a
veteran. was author of the resolutions
presented before the reunion. May 6-S, at
Jacksonville. Fla. He was designated to
communicate to the President the action
taken.
Such things are enough to hearten any
man. wrote the President. land 1 am
deeply appreciative of the patriotic action
taken
Stephen L, Newnham chief of the re-
ports division under the Office of the con-
troller of the currency. is in Michigan on
ohicial business. He has been sent as
financial expert to aid the counsel for
the government in the prosecution of Off
Gals OF national bank.
Charles S. Hamlin, assistant secretary
of the Treasury and named by the Pres
ident as member of the federal reserve
turning Monday. He has been busy
throughout the week in answering con-
eratulatory letters regarding his selection
to be a member of the board.
Capt. C. E. johnson, commanding the
revenue cutter Seneca of the information
al ice observation and patrol and derelict
patrol. spent several DAYS in Washington
He came from Halifax where the Seneca
mas Just put in. with the ice patrol ended
Tor the year. The Seneca will start on a
month"; journey along the coasts of Lab
rador and Greenland, July ). taking sta
ton about the first of August at Halifax
again to inaugurate the derelict patrol
land bird, one of the fy-catchers.
new on board almost entirely exhaust
ed. was the start of one of the yarns
OF this veteran salt telling of the Ice
patrol OF the Seneca. off the Grand Banks,
from which the vessel has just been re-
heved I'VE were $50 miles from the
nearest land. We gave it food and
water. but 1t died that night"
The season has been hard one for
the fishing feet of the Grand Banks
Capt Johnson learned from the skipper
Fecamp, France. There has been much
rain, wind and fog The Suffern was
anchored in one spot from April "a to
June Is.
AS souvenirs of the first Flag day exer-
cises Of the Treasury Department, held
on the south portico of the Treasury
building June Is. Miss Cora c. Millward
OF the public moneys division. stenogra-
pher of the occasion. prepared exquisite
pamphlets on heavy rough finished
paper. and fastened with dainty Ameri-
can flag ribbon. for Secretary McAdoo
and Assistant Secretary Hamlin of the
Treasury Department. The Secretary
presided and Mr.. Hamlin was the orator
Of the occasion. The pamphlets contain
Miss Millward's report of their speeches.
Mrs. Byron Rufus Newton. with her
son and daughter. wife and children Of
Assistant Secretary Newton of the
Treasury Department, are on their way
to Nebraska. Mrs. John Cattle. mother
Of Mrs. Newton, is to be their host at
her home in Seward. Neb. Mrs. Cattle
other daughters in California. to receive
Mrs Newton. After short stay at
Seward the household and its guests will
be removed to the summer home of Mrs.
Cattle at NIswa, on Pelican Lake. MINI.
II there is any chance to get away
from his desk this summer, Mr.. Newton
will join them at Niswa. His family
otherwise will return to him in Septem-
Der.
Dr. Gabriel Floyd Johnston longtime
employe the division Of bookkeeping
and warrants Of the Treasury Depart
ment and Mrs Johnston have announc-
ed the wedding of their daughter, Miss
Mildred Johnston, and Albert Louis
Kley, June "a. Mr.. Kley is Washing
ton man.
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