Evening star., 1924-07-19
VETERANS SERVICE
NTH us. EXTENDED
hine Past Retirement Age
Retained for Third Time
by War Department.

On the ground hat their continu-
ance in office will be advantageous
10 the public service" Secretary
Weeks has eXt"nded for the third
time the two-year period of employ
ment. authorized by the evil service
rw of 1920 in t e cases of nine en-
pioyes of the War Department who
are above the age of retirement fixed
by the law.
Heading that list in length of serr-
ice TO the Government is John Il. Ran
dolph. assistant chief .lerk of the de-
partment, and attached to the Mail
and Record Division of the Secretary's
Office He enlisted in Company 4. I'd
Battalion. District of Columbia Vol
unteers, April 10. 1861. FOR three
months service. and on its comp,e-
ton was appo 'nted first lieutenant,
5th United States Infantry. H re
manned in the military service until
the close of the Civil Var. In De-
cember. 1866, he was appointed
clerk in the New York Custom Hous'
and remained there until July /. 1871.
when h came. back to this city and
seryed in the Second Auditors Office.
Treasury Department. for little more
than year.
In Octo1er. 1872. he was trans
ferred to the adjutant general office
and has served continuously in the
War Department to date. He has
been attached to the Se"retary's Of
tce since July, 1889. His total gov
eminent service aggregates about
sixty-tWo years, of which forty-seven
Years have been in the war Depart
rent proper. He is now IN MS
cig.' .ieth year and is officially ceru-
hcd as well preserved. active ana
mentally atert
Others Get Extension.
Other veteran employees who re-
tertion beyond the reg retirement
Eeriu mas been >Nt.nLed two Years
!or the third time are T.. r. Conr.iln-
as ;iStan; and chief ERIK of the Of
II Z of public buildings and grounds,
whose ntinuou% emp Cvment in the
War Department. covers period OF
fofty-tive year" and eIGht months:
JACOB tiech. iorner Chief clerk OF
the adjutant generals oihce, whose |
public service covers period of
about ffty-nine year. of which all
hut two years have been IN the war
Dcpal tment.
Nathan Hazen. chief clerk OF The |
Bureau Of Ordnance, who has been in |
the War Department A. years and > !
months in addition to years pre- /
vious service in the Government /
Printing Office; Harvey ~ kohr. chief |
OF division OF the Adjutant Generals /
oInte, V II So TetOTu SHOWS years
and months service in the War De- |
pat,n.en, and nearly one years pre- |
Nious service in Carver Hospital, in |
this city, at the close OF the Civil /
War: Mrs. Sara L. Beckwith, trans !
lator in the Insular Bureau, who be-
gan service under the War Depart !
ment in Cuba in January, 1900; John i
B. Nesbitt. clerk in the -Adjutant |
Generals Office. who served in the |
Army in 1866. was Il messenger and
then an usher at the White House
from March, 1870. to February, 1876.
and has been employed at the War
Department since November. 1878. a
total service of 5S years; Nils Otto
Erickson, who has been skilled me-
chanic in the Adjutant Generals Of
fee since May l, 1890. and Adolph
Meyer, who has been employed as an
electrical instrument NAL ker in the
office of the chief signal officer. War
Department., since 1908.
BY this action of the Secretary OF
War, all the above-named veterans
will remain in active service until |
August 20, 1925.