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Show END OF TREASURY CUSTOM. No More Consolidation at Luncheon Between Secretary and Assistants. Secretary Cortclyou has broken up n custom that has existed for ten years In tho treasury. It Is that of tho head or tho treasury und his assistants as-sistants lunching together. Tho custom was started by Lymnn J. Gage vv!!"'i ho ennio Into tho treasury treas-ury as secf'tary March I, 1837. Mr. Gago had been u bank president and hu round tlmo too precious to waste going awny riom his bank Tor luncheon. lunch-eon. Coiisc.uently hu had luncheon served tor hlmsolf and his principal assistants In one of tho rooms of the hank. While they ate tho bank officials had a sort of cabinet meeting. In which they swapped vlovvs ns to tho ntfnlrs of tho hank. Mr. Gnge lnnu-gurnted lnnu-gurnted the snine custom In tho tr-asi ury. Kvery day shortly after one o'clock the s(cretary's messengers would set a tablo In his room nnd It would bo well tilled with good things arriving from tho lunch room In tho treasury. As they nto, tho secrotnry and his three assistants ,tnlked over tho work of tho department. When Secretary Gago went vttt flvo years ago ho turned over the department to L. M. Shaw, who followed tho custom. cus-tom. Secretary Cortclyou gees to luncheon lunch-eon when ho can spare tho tlmo. When ho cannot ho goes across the street from tho treasury nnd gets a sandwich, pleco of pie nnd n mug of milk from nn estnbllshment ho pat-ionized pat-ionized for years when ho was n clerk In tho White Houso. |