Evening star., 1915-05-30

keyboard section. A younger son. j
company and carried the flag after it
was presented by Assistant Secretary
of War Breckenridge.
B. Yancey Martin of the office of the
superintendent of buildings has been
granted leave of absence to prepare
for the examinations in the National
Law School. This is Mr.. Martins third
year in the school and he will graduate
in 1916.
Joseph E. Cotton of the editorial sec
tion has curiosity in the shape of
the Bark of Pensacola. Fla, dated
March 10. 1888. w. B. Rochester, presi-
dents James Catlin. cashier. The note
was engraved by Rawden, Wright,
can Indian with drawn bow is the
central figure of the engraving. The
Seminole Indian war was in progress
at the time.
James W. Carter of the linotype sec
tion is at his desk again after a five
day vacation.
at the close of the recent session of
Congress on account of lack of work
nave been reinStated
Georee v. armstrong ana John b.
Dieste of the presswork division were
excused from duty the past week to
take the cruise with the Naval Bat
TALON, National Guard of the District
of Columbia
An incident not on the program of
the memorial exercises of the Govern
ment printing office chorus. held yes
terday at noon on the sixth floor, was
the presentation of bouquet of flow
Spanish war veterans to the orator of
the occasion. James L. cCorporal'')
Tanner, past commander chief of the
e. A. r.. Capt. w. F. DAILY of the map
section of the bindery made the pres
entatlon speech and Mr.. Tanner re-
sponded in terms of appreciation for
the tribute of the veterans.
II. NJ Allen of the plate vault. docu-
ment section. and Mrs. Allen left yes
teroay for New York to attend the
graduating exercises at Columbia Uni
versity, where their son, Harold F.,
graduates as one of the three honor
students in the class in mechanical en-
Samuel Hinwood, who is employed in
the government printing plant in Porto
Rico. arrived in this city the first of
the week on two months leave of alb
sence- Mr.. Hinwood was formerly en-
ployed in the government printing of
flee and is well known among newspa-
per chapeIs.
The annual election of officers and
delegates of Columbia Typographical
Union was held Wednesday, after an
energetic campaign covering more
than two months. The officers and dele
gates elect will be installed at the
June meeting of the union, when the
oath of office will be administered to
n fp no oy1,a6 ct
dent. Edward w. Morcock;j vice presi-
dent, Charles D. Deming; secretary,
George q. Seibold; treasurer, Jerome v.
Johnson; sergeant-at-arms, William c.
Fechtis; doorkeeper, Mullen c. Stoops;
trustee, William H. Cornish; auditors,
Ernest J. Elwood. Charles w. Radley
Louis c. Vogt; executive committee
(book and job). Marsh A. Bodenhamer,
Percy !. Lowd. Emmert NJ Miller, Will
liam s. Sill. Arthur F. Tucker and
tee (newspaper). George w. Brandt,
Edgar T Brown. Royal E. Corwin and
Percy P. Sutton: executive committee
(machinisD. Wilson H. Cook; dele
gates to the International Topographic
cal Union (offces under the govern
menD. Flournoy c. Roberts, Thomas
G. Parsons, John W. Sherman: alter
mates, Charles F. Bauers, John O. Cole
August +. Laufer; delegate to the I.
T. L. (oftices not under the govern
Z,
George L. Malcolm.
John Dolphin. former employe of the
government printing office, now of the
National Soldiers Home, Hampton, Va.
spent the week in Washington visiting
friends.
Appointments. separations. transfers,
etc. for the week ending Wednesday
were announced, as follows:
Appointments-Georg R. Merriam,
compositor. reinstatement; Thomas J.
McDonough. temporary. steamitter;
Howard j. Gaylor, compositor, REIN
statement
Separations-Harvey L. Southard, un-
skilled laborer.
Transfers. etc.-Ernest Scott, un-
skilled laborer. from the buildings di-
vision to the machine shop section
Melvin Taylor. unskilled laborer from
the sanitary section to the engineers
section: William Hawkins, unskilled
laborer, from the engineer section to
the sanitary section; William J. Selma
bel. book binder, from the forwarding
and finishing section to the pamphlet
binding section.