Evening star., 1916-02-13
PRINTING OFFICE.


inston's birthday with a program Oh
music and speaking in the hall on the
sixth floor of the office. On account OF
the office being closed on the "a the
exercises will be held at noon Monday.
February II. The program arranged
for the occasion is as follows: Ihe
Flower of Liberty" Neidinger: All
Hail. Columbia" Chadwick: "The Star
Spangled Banner Key. Mr.. Llnepach
and chorusN America Triumphant
Demarest address, Mr.. John Burke
treasurer of the United states: Amer
lea" Smith. The following constitute
the membership of the chorus: Ben1a-
min \. Lineback. director: Mrs; Del
Kate NJ Ellis. L. Ransdell. NJ; Walsh
E.C. MorelI. NJ. Geisenderfer. +. L. Mil
ler. Bessie Sweet. NJ. f. Regan. +. Don.
neberg. NJ. J. Beach: Emma Green. T.
LOOMS. Mrs j. l.. Thornton, Mrs. {: B.
HoIlinger Messrs. J. r. Purvis: F. Nor
rison, j. l.. Holland. G. W. Bridweii
II f. msas E E & & Ls9s s9ssf' IT. afl Martin
w ri Parker. T. F. Rooney G. A. Long.
q. j. Brantley. {. F. sullivan, H. }.
Redfield. Cyrus Cook; G. W ;..,d Rum, L. -
c. Roeder G. r. Merriam. J. II. Ingram
F. w Kern and W. a. Smith:
In the weekly matches OF the COY
League fsassue' last rltd Monday night Foundry
Won two games from Bindery. Clerks
defeated Documents by two to one.
and Buildings took two from Press
men. High game and high set We're
rolled by Brown of the Clerks team
when he hung up the score OF 1888 IN
his first game and S25 for his set
Murdoch of the Clerks rolled high fiat
game for the league with score of
e5 High individual games for the
Iss: carey. Foundry. ~; Fisher.
Fitzgibbons. Bindery. l0s: Hassett.
Pressmen. 1Os; Mccarthy. Clerks. los;
Pressmen. los. and Hager. Documents,
1"3. The schedule for tomorrow night
Pressmen agt. Foundry and Bindery
a2t Clerks.
Scrgt NJ. 4. 1laloney. compositor in
the document 'hand, section. has been
or the sick list the past week.
John c. Quady of the night mono
tyne keyboard section was called to
Albany. n. V. last Monday by the sud-
den death of his mother-in-law. Mrs.
Krueger. The funeral took place from
her late residence in Albany last Tues
DAY
Office of the timekeeper. has gone to
her former home. Marietta. Ohio. for
months vacation.
George c. Cole. in charge of the il
lustration section of the preSswork
division. who has been quite i'll with
influenza a his home in Alexandria,
has recovered sufficiently to return to
his desk.
Hugh II. Deny. Robert Fl. White
Frank L. Whitted. John Clarke. Rich
ard +. Jordan and George W. Whit
of the watch force the past week.
Magnus T. Young has been absent
from duty in the engineers section
the past week on account of illness in
his family.
The social of the Indiana Society at
the Masonic Temple last night was at
tended by large number of the en-
ployes of the government printing Of
Chief Reviser H. W. Weber of the day
proofroom is treasurer and J. A. Hus-
ton of the night proofroom is fnan-
cfal secretary of the organization.
Chairman w. f. Crime of the night
monotype chapel went to Cumberland.
Md. Tuesday, where he was called
by the death of relative.
The appeal for the benefit of the
sponded to by the members of Column
bia Typographical Union. 1t is est-
mated by Secretary George q. Seibold
that about s7c0 will be the total from
contributors to the fund are many
out-of-town printers who still hold
membership i'll the local union. Thus
the secretary's mail contained one
day the offering of the price of an
hours work from Sidney H. Cluxton,
who is residing in Canada; Charles ].
c. Pucke;te. one of the organizations
oldest members. living at Waco. Tex.
and +. e. Roberts. formerly president
of the union here. now labor commits
sioner of Porto Rico.
Joseph T. Fritts and Thomas German
have been on the sick report of the
engineers section the past week.
John j. Callahan. formerly in charge
OF the intermediate section of the
presswork division. is reported to be
quite i'll.
Dewey Esaias. Temporary messen-
ger In the day document 'hand) sec
ton, has been transferred to the office
OF the purchasing agent and made
prob"tionary-
William 6. o'Connel1 of the mono
type keyboard section returned to
work the first of the week, after an
absence of a week with an attack of
grip
Charles A. Knockey of the forward
ing and finishing section of the bind
ery died February at his home, 11O2
9Th street northeast. Funeral services.
which were attended by large num-
Der of his fellow-craftsmen. were held
tuesday at the Holy Name Church.
~hen requiem high mass was sung
Tor the repose of his soul. Interment
was AT Mount Olivet cemetery.
Al the last regular meeting of the
Government Printing Office Council.
rational Cnfon. arrangements were
made for the annual complimentary
excursion to Marshall Hall. and July
% was the date set for that event.
Following the business meeting a lee
fure on General Preparedness' was
dellVered by the district manager Ar
1hur NJ BuSden. and President H. r.
Chrlstle gave an interesting talk on
CONDITIONS in Europe" A buffet
luncheon was provided by Speaker D.
i Leane at the close OF the meeting,
William A. Roberts, compositor in
the night document fhand) section.
reported for work Tuesday night after
several days absence. due to Illness
Joseph A. Scannell. chief of the ref
erehce section. Office of the superIn-
tendent Of documents. has been absent
IRON ms desk the past week due te
illness
David A. Young was on the sick re-
port of the engineers section during
tie week.
Clarence f.. Williams well kaown
member Of Columbia Union employed i'm
the government printing office proof
room. was the recipient Of unusual hon.
ors Hesoay evening. when he was in
stalled as master Of Federal Lodge
A y. NJ The Installation was con
Quoted BY the Grand Master of the
District in the presence Of large as
semblaGe of friends and felIow-crafts.
men A pleasing feature of the event
was the presentation of a handsome
Horal tribute by his fellow-workers in
the once. the speech accompa nying the
token of esteem being made by James
n Hennessy Of the proofroon
Joe u johnson of the night proof.
room has been confined TO home The
past week with an attack of grin
me various committees OF the
knights of A1ouus