Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-04
Transfer Of Five Clerks to
Waiting List Due to Lack
of Work, He Says.
SPANISH WAR VETERAN
AMONG THOSE AFFECTED
Action Prompted by Ordinary Bust
ness Instinct. District Post
master Declares.

The practical withdrawal of salary
from a Spanish War Veteran employed
at postal station F, on L street near 14th
War Veterans the impression that Post
master Praeger means to deal with their
organization as the G. A. r. men claim
they have been dealt with.
Five employees of the city post office,
two women at station A, In George
town, and three men at station F. have
been reduced from the clerical force TO
seniors on the substitute rolls. One
of the men is Spanish War Veteran.
Postmaster Praeger said today that the
reduction of the three men was due to
the adjustment both of the mailing
division at station F and of the direct
dispatch of mails therefrom to Union
station, effective today.
The use of automobiles instead OF
makes it possible to have all outgoing
mails from station F sent to the MAN !,
office, where they are given nheI
distribution than was possible at lne
way interfering with the schedules for
outgoing mails.
Did Not Dismiss Them.
Ten men were employed in the mall
ing or dispatching division maintained
at station F. The new method OF as
patch, it is explained, enabled the post
master to dispense with their services
there Seven of them were taken INTO
the main office, but there were no
vacancies said Mr.. Praeger, for the
other three. Instead of dismisslns
them. however, he said, he simply trans
<hn
from which they will be chosen first
for any vacancies that may occur.
AS to the two women similarly treated
who were on the rolls of the Georgetown
postal station, Mr.. Praeger referred TO MS
communication to the Postmaster General
with reference to the recent changes M
the city post office. 1t reads as follows:
TT appears to have been long-stand-
ing policy in the government service gen.
erally to be more liberal with the crea-
ton of positions than ordinary business
experience would justify. For instance,
in one station. in the thirteen hours that
the windows are open, there were SOLD
last year daily average OF $luS worth
of stamps For presiding at that window
eight hours a day one employe received
81, 200 a year,
Cites Other Instances.
at another window an average of
eighteen money orders were cashed or
issued in the thirteen-hour period, and
for presiding at that window eight hours
a day, cashing or issuing an average OF
less than two money orders an hour. and
doing a negligible amount of clerical
work on the side. an employe received
81 200 a year. At third window an
average of twelve pieces of registered
mail were handled during the thirteen:
hour period, and for eight hours of this
kind of service, together with a small
amount of clerical work on the side.
clerk received $1,000 year. Ordinary
business instinct. if not proper con-
ception of public duty, would suggest
consolidating those jobs in the hands OF
one efficient, clerk.
That is what I have ordered done.
The Washington Office being already
over supplied with such help. l was COM
PEELED to advise the Post Office Depart
ment that the services Of two of these
clerks are no longer necessary
These two clerks. it was explained to-
day, are the two women who, like the