Evening star., 1915-05-16

reader and began his duties Monday.
{ George A. Edwards, pressman in the
| presswork division, is reported as be-
ing patient in local hospital, where
he was taken for an operation.
| Benjamin F. Mann. for many years a
reader on specifications. whose health
broke down last July, has returned to
the city after an absence of several
! months, spent in Virginia and Penn
sylvania recuperating. His condition is
now so favorable that complete re-
| covery is but matter of short time.
and his fellow-craftsmen hope to see
him on duty in the near future.
! Three of Columbia Unions veteran
printers were recently granted the old
age pension by the International Typo
| graphical Union officers. They are l..
H. Patterson. F. A. Cogswell and Frank
| O. Hart.
| The Washington Union Printers Ath-
| letic Association is perfecting a plan
to help raise funds to send the base
ball team to Philadelphia in August to
participate in the tournament to be
held by the Union Printers National
Base Ball League. which will be pre-
sented to the friends of the associa-
tion In the near future. Secretary
Brockwell announces that membership
cards cost 81 per year, which, besides
other privileges, entities the holder to
a trip on the excursion to Marshall
Hall.
| Maurice Spencer, assistant foreman
! in the document (hand) section. is
| visiting friends in Virginia. He is
accompanied by Mrs. Spencer.
! Mrs. W. A. Rowzee of the stamping
and casemaking section of the bfndery.
has benn absent the past week on ac-
| count of illness.
Charles s Young. who has been on
vacation the past week, will report
| for duty tomorrow in the editorial sec
tion of the proofroom
The Educational Directory for 1914
Is a valuable list in demand in former
years. has just been completed as Bu-
reau of Education Bulletin No. 43, 1914.
and large edition is on file in the Of
| fee of the superintendent OF docu-
of university and college presidents.
| school superintendents, principals 'of
normal and high schools. directors of
| private schools and other educational
officials in the United States, as wei as
chief officers of education in foreign
| countries.
Public Printer Ford and Superintend-
ent of Work Chisholm left last Sunday
for San Francisco, where the govern
ment printing Office is represented by a
complete exhibit of the various classes
of its production at the Panama-Paci-
f1c exposition.
J..C. Cardwell of the stamping and
casemaking section of the bindery has
been on vacation the past week.
Mrs. A. NJ. Zook. Mrs. Della Huseman
Miss Emma G. Smith. Miss Katherine
Neuer and Miss Lillian E. Wibert have
been on the sick report of the press
work division the past week.
B. W. ellis, who died in New York
city recently, will be remembered by
many members of Columbia Typograph-
ical Union when he was proofreader
in the government printing office, and
later became a reader on the New York
Times. Mr.. ellis, who was about
eighty years old at the time of his
death. was a native of Ridgway. Pa.
r NJ Calhoun. George Q. Burke and
A. B. OMeara have been on the sick
report of the watch section during the
week.
j. S. Burnside, chief maker-up in the
document (hand) section, was absent
from the office during the week on ac-
count of illness in his family.
Ralph A. Boernstein. son of Henry N
Boernstein of the proofroom, has gone
TO Lake PlaclQ, n. T., Wnere ne mas OD-
tanned position for the summer.
Mrs C. H. Simms of the stamping and
casemaking section has been ill at her
home the past week
Jesse NJ Clark of the monotype key
board section, who has been compelled
to use crutches and later cane for
nearly seven months on account of
broken leg. has completely recovered
from the effects of the fracture.
Appointments, separations transfers.
etc, in the government printing Office
for the week ended Wednesday, have
been announced as follows:
Appointments-Patri r. McCor-
mack. emergency plasterer; Frank A.
Williams, emergency boilermaker, and
Henry A. Windsor, probationary mes
senger boy.
Separations-Mrs. Caroline J. Bryan,
skilled laborer; Joseph r. Gross. skilled
laborer, resigned: Frederick W. Henke.
electrician: Henry W. Hobbs, book
binder; John Holmes, skilled laborer.
resigned: william H. Murphey, com
positor Joseph W. Pospisiel, skilled
| laborer, resigned. and William f.
Strauss. skilled laborer, resigned.
Transfers - William A. Marschalk.
| proofreader. co cents AN hour proof
| section, to compositor. 80 cents an hour,
hand section; ]. Fred Orth, compositor,
cents an hour, and Samuel Shapiro,
| messenger boy. Office of the superin-
T, tendent of documents, from 1915 per