The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-15
sy HERBERT COREY


are boom dsys In Washington The
town r. running under fun pressure
fortunes are being made
Every hotel is full and has been
'ull for two months past The club
bedrooms are spoken FOR weeks
ahead Apartment houses which a
ltue while ago We're only apart
mont houses are nov blossoming AZ
hotels Foresighted people who
rented several hats IN anticipation
Of tho rush arc getting rich on the
transient trade Prices have gone
skAllyhootnF The casual finds The
Washington bill o. fare resembles
that " New York. in everything but
variety House rent Is mounting
Taxicab men forget 20 turn on The
meter when YOU Eo taxicabbins
Walters bring the other mans order
70 you. and a third mans BILL. and
do not stop 20 argue They haven't
time.
FSuy thousand moro clerks will
be needed here before the summer
Is over Sounds Ike 40 eNagsera-
ton? All right Go ont and try 20
locate stenoErapher who can take
letter for you in any public place
A biz manufacture typed his own
letter 70 the war department tho
other day. after renting typewrlf-
or on which 20 do g. BE knew
how. FOR he was once private sec
Rotary Others are not 50 fortts
nate They stand and wait until
The goddess % The machine can
/ take their dictation The govern
ment seized upon great part OF
the available supply OF Stenograph
ers when The rush began The
others are contented where they are
or arc entering business FOR them
selves
Three months ago one ~ The gov.
eminent bureaus logged along a. Its
own moderate pace with one clerk
and one stenographer The head OF
/ that bureau did MOI think thai any
thing could ever disturb his pacific
+ routine lie knew there was a war
/ In Europe bur he also knew that
( me United states would never get
( into that MAR Then he found his
people pushed into g. Nowadays he
+ Is tho more or less perturbed man
ager o. force N 20 clerks and 40
stenoEraphers and his family is
I growing. This IL merely an illustra-
lion of what il happening every
where. All the departments ~ the
government arc jammed full and
running over with clerks. They
are pretty nearly holding their
books on their laps for want OF
room. Every man and girl busy.
/ Not 90 busy. ~ course. that they
could not take = holiday on Decora-
tion day. n IL. Of course. q beautl.
ful tribute 70 the heroes OF the last
real war that the government should
NOT ask its clerks 20 work on May
20 So all the departments PIT MP
the shutters and turned The type
writing machines out 10 grave. and
All the clerks went 20 the iheater
So did every one else In Washing
ton. Decoration day here IL the
most risidiy observed holiday one
can End anywhere In the civilized
/ world u really r. OF no importance
that on the other side % the water
holidays have ceased 10 exist.
France knows she Is hghting for
her lIfe. We have not quite realized
II yet. Not even the army officers
with a very few exceptions--were
AZ their desks In the war depart
mont on Decoration day
Rents have jumped 70 The top %
The possible n Il no wonder just
a little while ago The owner OF
Washington real estate hrm. facing
a hot summer would have given a
hargsIn rate on his property Now
Inc government is renting every
+ square foot tho government can.
There is talk 81 the government be
inf forced 10 comma ndeer oflce
space before long. and n IL probs.
ply we'll founded Meanwhile d.
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