Evening star., 1915-03-07

may be obtained from the superin
| tendent Of documents.
I Edward ]. Hall of the day proofroom
| who has been absent for about fou
weeks suffering from a severe attacl
| of erysipelas. is reported as improving
| The following were on the sick lis
! of the press division during the week
| Richard Fl. Brooks. John W. kolal
John J. Lycette, John II. Robb. Georg
w Wynant, Miss Della Huseman, Mis-
katherine Nolan, Arthur F. Boston an,
| Charles G. Greenleaf
AloysiCs +. Smith and Frank G. Col
Vile of the electrical section have beer
| on the sick list the past week.
Ralph A. Murdock of the day proof
room has been absent from work fo
several days, having undergone al
operation for throat trouble.
William Hawkins and Edward II
Downing have been absent from dut,
In the engineers section during TIL,
week, due to illness
Louis +. Lippincott. assistant fore
man of the monotype section. has re.
ceived n copy of the Monotype Journal
publication devoted to composing
room efficiency, which contains an in
is doing in composing rooms, by L. T.
("Tom') Billings. foreman of the com
posing rooms of the Macon (Ga.) Tele-
graph. Mr.. Billings will be remem-
bered by many printers in this city
having been former employe in the
government printing office.
rations, transfers, etc, in the govern
ment printing office for week ending
Wednesday have been announced as
follows:
Separations - Charles e. Allison
steam filter; Samuel Jenifer. temporary
copy editor; John Pidgeon. bookbinder
Transfers-Robert Williams. tempo
rary unskil1ed laborer. buildings dlVl'
sion. to engineers section.
Miss Ruby Stanford. violinist, and Miss
Ritchie Mclean, vocalist, will give musi-
cal numbers at the benefit for the Ladies,
Auxiliary of Columbia Typographical
Union and the Washington Union Pr1n-
ter's Athletic Association to be given at
Pythian Temple Tuesday evening, March
9, when Rev Charles E. Fultz will de-
liver his lecture, Travels in the Holy
Land" Miss Stanford is the daughter OF
Wilmer W. Stanford of the specification
division Of the government printing OF.
flee, and Miss Mclean is the daughter OF
A.
room of The Evening Star.
John B. Dickman, Milton l.. Letter and
Jefferson D. Newton of the day proofroom
were on detail at the Capitol during the
week, facilitating the rush work incident
to the adjournment of Congress.
John A. Huston. John r. Purvis. George
H. Stull, Howard D. Lowd and George
A. Carney have been on the sick list of
the day proofroom the past week.
Frank A Schwing of the monotype
keyboard section has received $4,000 by
the will of his uncle, William Schwing,
who died recently The will was pro-
bated Wednesday.
The general deficiency bill, which was
passed by Congress Wednesday, contains
an appropriation to enable the public
printer to comply with the provisions of
the law granting thirty days of annual
leave to the employees of the government
printing office. The amount was increas-
ed from s1s.656.30 to $66.656.30 in order
rc cover the thirty working days instead
of twenty-six working days which the
public printer may grant according to a
decision recently given by Controller
Downey of the Treasury Department.
The provision is in the interest Of the
per diem employees.
Charles NJ. Robinson of the day proof
room. who has been absent for about a
month on account of illness. is reported
as rapidly improving and expects to re-
port for duty soon.
Nelson p Meyer, maker-up in the hand
(specification) section, who has been on
the sick list. reported for work Tuesday.