| Show Uncle Sams Clerks = = C Oovsrnment Employes at Washington and Who They Ar j Helatlvas In tho DepartmentsHiHh Sftlarlwl PlaOe ard tho Man Who Fill ThemWomen dorks Efflolaney h IM f IAf W O you want jovefn a Imenljob e menlobl Tin hotrr ar eaty Tht work It Hht The r L Uncle Sum never I Kale hie wept and rott get jour nwwr for Ihe uklnl > everrnfieenday TIlde lilt cutemnrant iKlorlea never hut I ilomi Thi tarllt l and I lhe hard lime do not allrct tl em ami th man who i otkj I t the government can li git at flle I and fnancea Th thoirnan li who ro out ol employment throukh Ih e United Malea ought to look mtu the matter Right line In Waahlngt roll luM I ulon million of dollar are phl I I outcv ry year In Jrfa and there an loll of fit easy platas I hc Ien I loukini over the report which th r 11 r lltee of Congrea IM VI jail le i Iho luljert and I find that the alrun no U I by no mean equally dull d There are more than 17 ooo clerk n Vmh nton but nearly onethird of ihu r mber are reUtd to one another Think of It There are fiftytin hundred I oplc In the dtpartmerla whose Wood llu i more or IcM 1 In the aamcchan nd U and there are more than one Ihouund 1 wlio hay two relative In Uncle Sim1 employ MOlt of lhel government clerk gel nt 1 leatl low air a-ir and at lib avenge tifK ° f < are paid out annuilly to partle related to I each other Think ol the millloni of Untie Si nt nephew and niece KM t lered over Ihli land 1 who cannot Ret near enough the public I crlh to have a until tar themwltei or their lam i lle > and look at Iheao I f iirei There are > 790U In whkh clerki dl hate three oI rel itlvea employeil 11 In 1 the department lure ninety alx In which the number of relallvea are tl ten In which I I they immbrf alt 1 and two In whkh there are nine cterka related to one another In the government tervlce Thara I are Ion of hutband and wlvea einplo > ed In the liepiltmenta ami theie are more thin 000 hrolhtra who work far Uncle Sam 1 he number of ilttirf I not quite 10 larGe but It run elweci l tUantlteven hunlretl l and there are auni and l ilaiih ter fall er and mother uncle I nn I nfplieM an I couflol and aunt galore I In the Interior Derwirtment alone neatly f fl n hundred fI of the clerk have rel atle In the government wrvlce I here and there I are almott Ihlitccil hundred trrMury clerk w ho have blood relalloni In that or ollwr Kovernment depart menta It b a trullllon of the tervlce tint no relative thould be employed In tho dlHaient office ami that there ibouldbeonlyoneoUumlty but Ihlt I onethird of tho tervlce ha gotten In and It b here to IIy I now and tlirn hear the clerk objectIng rrI 5nJJlhf Ittec1 Ing to their hard work Toko a look at the Job and no whit YOIl thln < ol It I The office hour are you Lno from y until I J No one come to the department depart-ment before 9 and from fh time until U you are tuppowl to ut In three hour I of clerical lubor At U jou hate n half hour for lunch and you are n my lood clerk If you Kit to doing h1 I workbefurei I At 4 > ou go out wllh tin rot of the army on to the ttreet and do not bother yourttlf again aUiut work until 90 clock the neit morning One month out of Hie > ear ou luve to yourieir and can go where oupleaie and l do what ou pleae and jour pay goea on U4l Hie aam If > ou re lick yeut wie are not docked and 1 know of clerk who get from thirty to lily 1 10 ftO I A to wage there b no quntlon i about i tin Alary Hut I lied by the government govern-ment and a long a you are In Uncle Sam wnploy It cannot be rabed or kmered by the olliciab juit abate you I very two week > ou no to the pay office ur tho department In I which our ou-r working and your money l < lunded 1 over to ou In crbp new greenback or kometlme in Iold If UII aioayood man your job u pretty ture In l continue and n great number of r theie clerk i bat I e been hi the tertlce for jear i > omv Indeed In-deed lute tpenla lifellmi there onll I there b one old clerk hern who hat been drawing a aatary l for tlxly Jean Irom Uncle Sam There are other w i ha hivo worked frum forty to I fly jcar and the number who hate been In from one la four year runs well up inio Hie Ig ru thouaand The number who have I betn Juit ten > ean In the irrtlce U I nioro Hun even undred I an 1 there are hundred more who have beon In from twelve to fifteen jearl A great many clerk hate been twenty tear or more In theser tloe and il llie tenure of goternmenl office b by no mean m uncertain ai b generally I upioed I no lurety of ra Tr 11 holding a petition Increases etery > ear and the civil nervice rulen are being ui enltnded Hut unlythe chief will finally be dltmbaed at the clote of an admin btration Ai to aalarlaa In pronorlion I to the or tI amount of work done and it character they are aa high u thnae of any laborer ol Ike world Uncle Sam facloriei are run on a big alr bull and the clmul I lied wrvlce el a i rule from fcuo to tl Hoo n year I he chief I get ji o unl upward and Ihffe are lat placcti ill nearly every department whkh com I nundjooo buoo and 5000 HID IrfJ = f Utpartnient of Juiilce for inMance has three office which bring lieiween fa ooo and 1 f 5 ooa and tho auiMant atlarney ceiwrab each receite a much a n tongreaunan In the l Department of Agriculture t there are a number t good ft am 11 i bee 0 and the goternment of the District linn about twenty olhui which run from fa ooo tojo < II 11 IInlar > ITw official jtho govern SaihliLion city are all ai > pointed by the riiidinit I and the wlarle received are 1101 l The I ot Office Department hi many lilgh lalaried placen ntl I there nre a number ol oft tpol connected I with Iho Whlta lloute whole pomeuors hale nlther crow fert at their eyt nr wrinkle In their belllt The bett poul lion In poll of celt ilnly of tinuri me Hurto romeclid with tl B Mali Va ml Nay partmcnh I In cl rl < t Ji U i rtn nt alhernr t ran Hi n oil I r i I rl h y i i r II I f I ik on or in > Ion II a nil 1 II n H h n ct 111 i hrlv 1111I III y Ir > o time nt to can ul In I 011 Hi uiher 111 ol 1 the world l Ihctr ury Itai numerotn changaa It contalni over 4000 employe and r o thta ifooare otnen And Jut liar I want to ay a word about thete woman clerk of Wain Ington Tlwjr ata the brighten and alileat peopk I J In the tarvlce fhey dIr d-Ir work contlnuouitr and tome of otlin lh mott efficient of Uncle Sam em ployen an ftmala II I hau my way I would gin the women the picierence aa to r ctaae of work which they can I powlbla do rnwrvlng only UK harder placet for the nun AI It N I however there arc two mtn Ifl t every woman In the department ind the number of oomcn all told mounu to Iru I Ibln ooo Theie women are of all age Ir m eighteen to eighty n1 I there la hy I the way one clerk In the Trearury Department who ha nuw reached nmily I yean There are many women j over xty and tel iwret young ma Km of 1nIYllve Their women do nil wrl 11 if work Starting In a I i ui 111I1 ri In lite treasury nbnul a gen rral on O th y luvn mtendrd their n ik t aflwruofclcrkthlp and they n I > xuyo i UMUon of law < > minI lilfim min-I umilat loreign la iguagL and 01 11 evori tl i x nn ler the nun Some of the m1 ell it cou Her ol the government govern-ment are men and laver1 of tile very beit bookkeeper ol Hie tteiiiry wear netuVoaU U omen are fatl mik Ing their way ai tyiicwrilen and ileno grapher and the chief Ironbl t I hi ouliklc employer of labor hen at Waili Ington b that a toon ai he tialn a women thoroughly Into hi work a typewriter or itenngrapher he mho an application to Uncle Sam and eu a pbce at a higher MUry In one o the department I have had Hib expetl Mice happen to me half a doien I men an 11 I nan rome to look uj < on my office here a kind ol a training I I rM for the government iwrvlce In Hie dead letter ollice Hie ooIOl > trambiort of ba I writing are women and It would urprite you to know Ihit the Treawry Derwrtmenl ha n woninn liwyer who I rcparc the hrlill I far Internal revenue nutteri and who could probal ly make more outildt of the I department by practicing law than h get by acting a a law clerk I within It There are a number of w mien editor In the temce icre at aihlngton The oflklal record rec-ord of the war > Of the rebellion are to aIn crlaln eilent gotten I p by women 1111 I In the Navy Department find women whoare nuking mapand tracing chart forour hrn In different I part of the > rr3r ll1nlh government printing I office there are women typnetten itllcher prcta feeder AIIII I comp Hltor4 I veryane baa heard of the pretty g ib ol lite Ireauiry but > OIIi1 I beautiful beau-tiful maiden In all uf Iheie government department Hoka Smith direct tho lundlwork of 1300 girl nn1 I Dan I amont ho a company of lit In hil department of war I mtmatter l ene ral ItlMell lt ha wi hundred ot maiden under him and in the goternmeitt printing ofhce Hiere are more Hun n 000 women Many ol lhee come of the i best lo Umlllca of llie country Not a few are the daughter of noted l generali ROvernor ol itate Senalori and Ke ireMiilalite and now an 1hn I yol find n relative ol a I rel hl lent or hncr l net mlnbter The majority of them are women of good education nll1 I wllh hul I few exception they are educated and refined ladle 1 hey receive aalar le ranging from Jjrjo to Suo a ear an I a large number of thorn > ull port i fimllle Many I of them nro widows not a few are old makb and lr thoutamb are iweet marriageable young women who have loo much Mine to change lure living under Uncle Sam la a pro I ectlve one In company w Ith ome good for nothing mill Tha I lint of them are open to engagement and not a few I of the mOil noted 1 marriage of anhingtion In the pat have been In connection with the government clerk Attornny General Hiu t r who III the ugiietl lACe winch ever entereil a guveriunent depirtment Washington got hit wife hOle feat urea were enuslikeln their beauty In a goternment department here She wa thd daughter ol Robeit J Walker a loriuer Secretary of the 1 reaiury And aiiheattat her deik one day in the treuury deiwitinent the future Attorney Attor-ney eneral walked through the room ill hu made lonie renurk nboul hit homeliness I do not know whether llrewilir overl eaid liar not but ha aw her I and with him II uai a cascul lA IIIII II III hirl love at first Mglil He ought an lal In Iroductlon and shortly afterward ollered her hlo hand l and hit wealth and hi iiiiiio for orulf I and l her cl lldren U I = I ald Hut he propoied lo her In words tomethliu like this My dear jouara beautiful ind 1 am hldeoun but If > ou will mirry me it will not be the lirt In until of mating the beau y and the bean and lr I uiiure you that vou u 111 never regret inerl fol ropoililon I l was incepted and Ihe next time > Ir 1 Rrewtler came tu aslilnmon It wai ai the mfv ol the jytorney General of the United SI ite > Stephen 1 A Douglm got his wife m one uf the departments at U 4 > lumton and > ou all rememuir what a talk there wns about Secrelari Bayard 111 I Mls > Markoe during the time that llayard was at the head ol the State department lib a wonder to m that there are 1101 more marriage niiiong the clerks Young men ami yojng women of mar rlagi lUle age wmk aide by die I ufnn th dip irlnienl They I come 11 contact with each other hourly and tomel me full in lute with one nnotlwr but not often In the bureau of engraving and piloting where the i uney I niidc Ihr I 0 m onll 00 WOIIUIII al ev i > riming i rein nnd there U no II F tl migration oltlie t There are I believe more platonlc frlend lilp here imong young men an 1 > oung uoinen than you 111 find anywhere else In the country and caei Imvi been known wherecouplo ha married and kept r Ii loi er Hair miirrl get a A ucret for > earn In order to to nvol 1 the rule that a hut lund ai n d wife iliall not be employed at the unit time In Ihe cill firrvlcc nt anil ngton Many inch caioi Imvi Iwen lh lound out unl lilcl remit Invent gallon of the cuiigrewumal committee NIII probably lead I i > tomo clunge In Ihl retpecL According t < it rqiort there were last lull twenty our bus II J l II Ir luidiandniveiilriwi It ig lari t fr I im I Untlo t Sam whLiI Hi huhII1 I ml IIC wlo arc out of w k onll 1 Ii I ax no b ut all think it I cK < kdly nnlalr I > i I n In am r ally l > ay K oCII I 11 10 Iw I r torn < of 110 l rnl i talk cul Ih malt r > ju uouU think lie doa not I I I I r p > < il h I I < III HIM the I ittit iol II hvelh olten pit I ei on I t I r whilo the poorly pai I < e k < lo Ille work T 1 r i 0 j tl OOL II orc tat whIch i a r r jn I < i > and l 403 anu i Olnn al c I I s ilolng thorottK 1orkwacli a i r man I half tk her lde Sill tl ooo la a prelty good pay and the chle objection of tnew g > rnment position that the tmployci Inn litllo chance lo rln Tney may t up to f 1400 Ji 600 and perhapi i > o a via ndy tru f = init their chancoi an ami I and ha limit mixed ltis aaldo11 that a Jerk becnm a cabinet ml Mier though cam of r Ihb kin I hty b n kn j m Ta HcpMl llorallo Kln en I into the I toffit Ucpirtinml II II clrk1 ti ii year a 1 1 he acted M Poitmaa itr Genral under lluchanan Then ire a i t unl secret trie in the department depart-ment wbu IlAv a been clerks but the majority of the men who gu Into the real rnllli of UnclL San nr ground between IhO upper and mUier mill none and soon become u far ai energy push and nmbltlou work b concerned inanimate in-animate power You have I all herd I the story of how Salmon P Lliaae oncu camo I hit uncle whj wn Ii I en In the United State Senate and asked lor a govm ment ob lib uncle told him he would give Mm n < ollr to bur an a 1 or a tud but Hut In would not aid him In digging hi t iwn grave In one of Uncle Sam a om lal cemeteries PoiimaKer General It sell told me not long ago Ihathedll l not couider Hie government govern-ment department a good plan lor t t r = young men an I then U no doubt but that in enterprising energetic young lellow had butter keep away from the government tervlce The hour ate norland all th undnciesar to lai net and good for nolhlngnets A man lias lo luv very pa live iUjlllk lu order not lo be turned into a machine n1 I all the tendencies are to extravag andea in living Wathlngton I a city of tie i young men and a place In which nearly every man live up to hia li I come III li a city containing many In ilalhnont house and I know of aocitly women 01 well as government clerk who buy Ihe dreise which they wear at all la h unable reception on Install menu 01 I who have not atway paid l for then by the time they an worn out Hie buiinea house ol Washington expect iieopl to run bill and they have their settlement Just alter the government ay day at the ijth or the last of r the nll = tys Comparalively few ol Ihe government clerk tave money and only Ihe lewet try to make any money out ol that which the do save U aldington I a great place lor people J iO r to go into debt ami there U a imall clan ol the government clerk who are In Ihe habit of borrowing money al lo per cent a month There are about Ihe Lapltol and the different department brokers who ten I money at 1 Ihb rate and I they turn up about pay day In order to catch the url who owe them They know their money b good and they lose hut little Intunce have been known of clerk who have paid fio a month for tin year for the USD of 100 and the 1 majority uf thote H ho borrow at Ihl rate I do not appreciate ol how much interest they are iaylog It uted to be that such broken when they could nut get Ihe money on lime would nuke complali IIII to ro chief I of the depart menu and through them would collect their bills Inls Ins been abollthed of late year and no n ile thater lias now any control over the uUrle of the clerk llroker of this kind were In limes pan connected with Congrew and l I know of a patt lergeant lUirint who mtUa a fortune In tin way II I would lend money at high rale to Con greinnen and deduct Ihe anuunt when he came lo give I them their talane The employe of the Capitol and Con crewmen sometime anilcip He their pay in this way wen now but u i done very quie Iv and no one heart ol ItT It-T TH K ttw |
