Evening star., 1917-03-05
STARTS NEW TERM
!! WITH TRAINED men
White House Force Which Will
Serve the President Has
Experience of Years.
WARREN S. YOUNG IS DEAN

President Wilson will start his second
term as chief executive Of the land with
q trained force Of employees in the White
House Several OF them have been there
for as long as twenty years, but the dean
OF the corps is Warren S. Young. who has
supervision of the work of the issuance
Of Invitations for all social functions at
the White House Mr.. Young was ap-
pointed a clerk in the White House In
Garfelds administration and has been
there ever since.
Joseph p. Tumulty. secretary to the
President, is the head of the White
House force. and next to him comes
Rudolph Forster. the executive clerk. who
went there from the fish commission the
day after President Mckinley was in
augurated In 1897.
Another one of the fold timers is n. P.
Webster. who succeeded the late Col.
4fr. Webster also went to the White
House in 1897. His predecessor. who died
about two years ago. was appointed dur
ing President Lincoln's administration
and served continuously as a member OF
the White House force until the time Of
his death.
Opens Presidents Mail.
l. R. T Smith, mail clerk, who opens
all the mail which goes into the execu-
tive Offices, was appointed in 1897. and
IN the same year Maurice C. Latta Joined
The force. Mr. Latta formerly was em-
ployed in the Interior Department. Now
he has charge of all presidential appoint
ments and keeps record OF all bills
passed by Congress. For many years
Mr.. Latta had as one of his duties the
delivering of all messages from the
President to Congress. This work is
now done by Joseph NJ Starkey, who
Toned the White House STAFF about
year ago.
E. w. smithers. IN charge of the tele-
graph and telephone room at the White
House. is another veteran" He went
to the White House in 1897 from the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Making up the railroad schedules for
the President is one of his duties. An
other veteran" employe of the tede-
graph room is Jules A. Rodier. tele-
graph and telephone operator. who has
been "on the job" since 1898. Fred
erick Hohbein has been an operator
at the White House since 1901.
&C. c. Wagner, one of the expert staff
0tenographers. went to the White
House from the War Department with
President Taft.
Formerly Newspaper Man.
been a member of the White House
force since about one year prior to
President Wilson's first Inauguration.
Formerly he was a newspaper man.
Charles L. Sven. the Presidents per-
0onal stenographer. has been employed
in that work for four years. and War
rem F. Johnson. personal stenographer
to Secretary Tumulty, has been at the
White House for a like length of time.
C. J. Pusey. who has charge of the
White House clipping bureau, has been
Q member of the staff since 1902. He
prepares for the Presidents reading a
daily newspaper out of newspaper clip
pings. SO that the chief executive may
keep In touch with matters of interest
70 him without having to search
pumber of newspapers for those par
etcular items. 1t is known among the
Journal" although there is nothing
yellow" about II.
Talks With Visitors.
An attache of the White House, who
has been on the job since 1898, is
Clarence l. Dalrymple. who sees and
talks with more White House visitors
Than all the rest put together. Mr.. Dali
Tymple is the policeman on the door
Turing the day. having charge of the
White House day police force by rea-
BON of his long assignment to the posi-
ton.
1t is Policeman Dalrymple's boast
that never since he has occupied his
present position has crank got past
him into the Executive Mansion. His
eye for cranks of all kinds is keen to
the point Of uncanniness, and no man
or woman Of the genus crank has any
chance at all to keep from being spotted
Snd stopped in an approach on the
White House while Dalrymple is at his
post.