Show TIM SIGNAL sruvici From tho day of this death of General Ijors who originated it the Signal Her Iice Cotes has been a stench In Ism pub lie nostril and a laughingstock nt homo ndabroid During flyers life he kept Ihn service up to an cfllcicnt standard mad hid he lived ho would l double itive perfected the system so that it i votild be beneficial to the country al barge and not as it now Is u source oC profanity and anger to tho deluded citl zen who governs his work by its unrelia blo predictions Had as was the case at ho death of Myers il was made infamously infam-ously worse by the appointment oho o-ho military martinet Hazen who thereby obtained a clear field without cstraint from superior authority to put In operation his many cherished lobbies and Inflict on his subordinate I bo misery of being in the service yet without the appeal for redress of greiv anccs afforded to all members of Ohio army To signalize his advent into the corps Ilaren detailed Lieutenant Din woody to enter into correspondence will tho general people and obtain all the oli tlmo saws and Riings on tho weal her nnd publish them in book form which ho lid but omitted to send them around < to any great extent so that thin wonderfu compilation costing thousands of dollars is now jealously guarded from public ievv in the office cf the bureau Wash inglon A HI lOci men of the contents oC the book is the opening couplet When thin Asa begins to bra r lhhnST Wo shall kayo rain tint day From first to last the book is filled willi such stuff and this was heralded by Iliuen as being a lop notch in tho march of improvement of the service Follow ing up this stylo of administering the alTairs of the department he very soon ran foul of Secretary Lincoln who was forced to check his overweening vanity and still ho persisted until now tho Signal Sig-nal Service Corps Is a chaos and rips for abolishment A joint commission has been inspecting this happy outfit in con i junction with other Government service I and Ohio board sij B of them I Ohio signal service moil urn soldiers only in name and n mere uniformed police to watch the weather and wntcli each other Tills Is not tbo only evil of thin organization Frequent complaints liavo been made lIy enlisted men of rude personal insults i hp offUl 1i il their officers of undue and illegal and bars h punishments inmoted contrary to the colon and articles of war of dcuitiU of the right to petition their officers for redress of per soon grievances of refusals to coartmartia non commissioned omoors for offenses they 00 m 8ef rri g si l hud committed toward this men of insa flcient supplies of edible food of fnvoritis In tho assignment of men to signal station and in promotions and of efforts to Induce or faros the men to make representations to Congress favoring the continuance of Olin military features of the signal service and to sccuro nn increase of rank in tho ofllci stall of the corps This state of affairs is found after II careful examination in detail of every iivcnup of action reached by the bureau and is reported by men who have no motive for misrepresentation Tho fact that thin bureau fails to fill this needs it was established for should compass its i speedy extermination but when it is considered that its worthless predictions cost the Government last year the sum of t9259i and the appropriation for 188 is 8G4OSOand the estimates for 1887 lilacs thofiguroal 1130833 it seems utter and reckless waste of tho peoples money to continue such abortive work rile weather service Great Hritain is conducted at an annual cost of 48150 Hussia 3809 and Austria 11000 all three combine not being equal to thin sum squandered on Macon and his let i officers Hero iR one great leak in the public treasury that could kind should bo stopped once and the men who now eat the bread of Idle ness In Washington bo made to go to Ihe frontier and lisa their weather lore In pre dieting this downfall of Ocronlmo and his fellow bucks |