Show x Papa Spinnors Staluo and Signature The vaults of the treasury house a statue of the late F E Spinner Treasurer Treas-urer of thdiUnlted States during the Civil war It was Intended that the monument should be erected In some prominent part of the city and Congress Con-gress was asked l to provide a pedestal for It The statue had been purchased largely l through the efforts and by the contributions women who thus Intended In-tended to perpetuate the memory of the man who first Introduced female clerks Into the Government service The PioJect was going along very well when a question arose as to the prbprletyof raising a statue toa subordinate sub-ordinate ofTlcei of a department of the GOy rrimef1t when it had not been considered con-sidered necessary to erect one to any Secretary of the Treasury or to any other Cabinet officer From some stories of Spinner heard in the treasury It Is safe to conclude that he would not have approved of the proposed statue In his will It Is said Mr Spinner showed that lie was proud of his signature signa-ture that cinder I Bdrbll Which for many years appeared on the paper money of the United States lie directed that it be reproduced upon his monument That request wan regarded There Is I a portrait of Mr Spinner In the room of the Treasurer and those who knew him when he held olflce say that It exaggerates his roughness of txppearance making him look a bit too gruff and miSoh too florid Underneath the portrait Painted on the frame Is thp queer slfjiutlurc l1it appeared on the papeY money Whenthe monument is erected Itls expected that the signature will be upon up-on ha pcdestaL J reproduced In raised letters WhenMr Spinner was Treasurer Treas-urer and visitors dcabcd to carry away = some characteristic souvenir of their call at his offiCe he would give his autograph I au-tograph wrl > lnj Iy In the center of abroad a-broad shOot of thick paper suggesting the preservation brlt in a frame j J Washington Evening Times 4 |