Evening star., 1939-08-27

cred in front of the locked Treasury
among the sensation-seekers. This
was what might have been expect
ed from defying the laws of nature
and letting women work on jobs in
tended for men. 1t was nearly mid
night before the doors were unlocked
and the abashed maids allowed to go
home. The next morning the money
was found on rack in the drying
room, and the integrity of the girls
was vindicated.
During the next few months there
were many events, both important
and scandalous, to distract the at
tention of the reading public from
the Treasury girls. The Suez Canal
was opened. War between France
and Prussia was in the offlng. The
United States Army was plunged
into another war, which never gets
into the history books, although it
was a considerable campaign-the
suppression of the second Whisky
Rebellion. A thousand United
States troops were thrown against
the cheap, unlicensed saloons of
Brooklyn's 'Irishtown." They went
in with fixed bayonets; they were
met with bricks. Two colonels were
wounded, both in the back.
Indiana had no divorce law. A
county jurist, after a profound
study, found a way out of the diff
Guilty. The marriage ceremony
Joined couple together until death
do us part" So, when a couple ap-
pearing before him sought to have
the bonds broken he instructed
them to hold cat over cnopping
block-the wife holding the tail and
the husband the head. Then the
judge proceeded to chop the cat in
two with an axe. That, he insisted,
met all the requirements, and the
two were free to marry again. They
had been parted by death" Emil
nent jurists debated whether the
method really was valid.
Prince Arthur of England, Vic
toria's son, visited the United
States, and all the girls went crazy
over his good looks, appropriate raj
ment and modesty. 1t was too bad,
the papers commented, that such
a nice fellow should have been born
prince. Then there was a brief
lull in scandals, and the hungry
Days Doings once more turned it's
attention to those girl clerks in
Washington. It's busy correspon-
dent uncovered a STORY and pic
ture' about them which brought
them back into the public eye sem
sationally enough to atone for all
the neglect they had received.
Correspondents Tale.
But let the Washington CORE
spondent tell his own story, as he
did under the headline, Among the
Angels" or THE Pleasures of the
Treasury Clerks"
THE Government of the United
States Of America presents many
curious phases, but none more curl.
Gus than those that relate to its
employment of women, many OF
them young and pretty, in the Treas.
ury Department at Washington
Every season the fair female Treas
ury clerks enjoy themselves hugely
picnicking and camping out on ar
island in the Potomac called Camp
Halcyon. Your correspondent re-
Gently paid visit to this rural and
watery paradise. employed trusty
charioteer. who couldn't tell me
much about the whereabouts of the
camp, although he was sure that it
was a days ride from Wizards, and
was confident that it lay somewhere
near the Great Falls, that it was
on an island in the Potomac, that 1t
was uninhabited during the winter
months, but during the days when
the dog star RACES the abode of the
liveliest, jolliest and loveliest people
on earth.
"At last we reached a lock where
the canal is supplied with water
from the Potomac. Here we were
greeted by Dick, the coachman of
Gen. F. E. Skinner, Treasurer of the
United States, who, whenever the
occasion presents, carries one. two
three or more of his clerks from
the Treasury Department to their
respective homes or the camp, as the
case may be. These clerks are al
ways of the gentler sex There are
400 of them When the season in
camp is good, there are always 80 OF
more on the island, taking turns
until fully half the force has taken
part in the festivities.
Dick, where can we find the
campo we asked.
Don't know, sirs, less'n you-all
hires a guide
Finds Galaxy.
"A young Marylander stepped for
ward and offered his services. He
led us across the feeder and through
a dense underground of weeds, short
and tall. After a mile OF wild and
tiresome tramping, my guide
brought me to the foot of q hill up