The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
SEES LONG SERVICE HIGH COST OF KILLING
Woman Has Given FWe-Sixths of
 Life to Uncle Sam.
Miss Emma Brown, Not Yet Sixty Three, Has Been Employee of
 Government for 51 Years.

A unique case in the government service is that of Miss Emma $. Brown, who, not yet sixty-three years old has spent fifty-one of those years in the employ of Uncle Sam.
 A remarkable feature of the case of Miss Brown is that although her work of over half century for the govern ment has been constant and frequently arduous, she has hardly gray hair to tell the tale of q lifetime of labor, or confess the toll of the years. Nature favored her again, inasmueh as she has been spared the necessity of wearing glasses, and she reads and writes, sews and knits without this artificial aid to her vision.
 At her desk in the trimming room of the United States bureau of engraving and printing Miss Brown keeps busy at her task of experimenting the work of the hundred and more employees under her charge, who trim the sheets of all government moneys from one dollar up to thousand made In Uncle Sam's great money factory.
 This work of trimming the federal notes requires precision and care, and 1t is Miss Browns task to see that 1t Is done to the standard required by the government, and that work is planned and allotted so that there is no waste of time or overlapping of work. She Is credited by the officials of the bureau with executive ability, which maintains the work evenly and satisfactorily, and with turning in re- ports which prove that she is possessed of a mind strong and accurate.
 Miss Brown was born in Philadelphia in 1854, the daughter of q contractor in that city. During the Civil war the latter was sent for by the United States government to wire the treasury building to make possible the destruc- tion of the money vaults by an electric spark in the event of the capture of the national capital by the Confederate armies. The nature of the work in- volved good deal of exposure and MT. Brown caught cold that resulted in pneumonia, from which he died in Oc- tober, 1864.
 To make matters worse for the Brown family, the eighteen-year-old son of the contractor, Alonzo T. Brown, had in the meantime enlisted without his parents knowledge and consent, giving his age as twenty-one. In his first engagement he was killed by a shell from the enemy's camp, near Pe- tersburg Va, July 30, 1864.
 The fathers and sons deaths within few months of each other left the wife and mother of two small daugh- ters without means of support, and it was decided that the intelligent and capable child of eleven should become the family breadwinaer. Fortunately for little Emma, S. M Clark, the first director of the bureau of engraving and printing, was friend of her fam fly, and he offered the eager child q position under him.
 Miss Brown has served in almost every branch of the service of the bu- reau and has noted with interest the development and progress or it's meth ods and work. She recalls, as an in- stance, when the numbering of a thou sand sheets consumed one days work of one person operating hand press; now from one press, electrically driven, from 16,OO0 to 10000 sheets are the daily output.