The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1903, Page 19

HE SAN FRAN C1£CO CALL, UNDAY, JUNE 14, 1903. 19 ARRESTS INIDNS DECLINE POS T0 WD STheE = Cooks and Waiters in| ditions in Wash- Chicago Stand K Alont ington Office. Attempt to Enlist the Team-|[ncom petents Are| . Drawing Large | Salaries. A PON, June sairman | Proctor of the Civil Service Com- | W mission to-day submitted to Post- | master General Payne tbe report made by the commission at the request of the Postmaster General with reference | to the charge of violation of the civil | service regulations in the Washington toflice. The inquiry included the fol- wing point | Whether all of the employes out- | of carriers were regularly d entitled to their posi- whether the civil service rules served in the employment and | i (3) whether | in the yree ignme f laborers there had been a gene observance of | the civil service law and rule the ad- | ion of the Washington postoffice | incumbeney of the present to the report proper and a | In addition transcript of th testimony taken, Proc- ed a summary of the findings. concludes as follows rom the observance of service T x in the | of certain emplc in the| postofive, have | by the depart al- | of efficiency either received by the departmnt. | is that of lady who C s appointed in th Moores- agents v w postoffice, but never left the s € s Thes: postoffice: who owed her ap- were t s pointment to the ¢ cation trapsfer | s methods; was promoted from Septemdber | s t » July 1, 1901, from 3600 to $1600 | r = » m, by direction of the depart-| P for a and is doing the work formerly | . & ot ot by an employe who recelved a com- | hd 5 g f 2 Ic pensation of only $1000 per annum. | st x ONLY A POLITICAL BUREAU. elr s e 7}"‘" he information by in- A - o :eems to warrant the state- t et SANITARIUM WILL I_lIS-E AMONG MUD VOLCANOES | avpolntments to classified po- | Vashington postoffice with- | devious methods mall unclassified of- about to be consoli- transfer, and the b e laborers who nere‘ i separated during the ad- | the present postmaster, | ergence in policy from a | for the public interest and | that the department | gton postoffice for politi- | ] purposes to an extent | authority of the post- and appointments of ttle more than nomiral office, in many res on of a bureau to the depart- in offices Lively Region in Mendocino County to Be Made a Health Resort. a wide rd ns e investigs tion seems to show clear- that most of the irregularities herein forth were directed by the depart- | or requested or suggested by high sartmental officials, and in either case | came to the postmaster with all the force | f a direction. With the exception of the appointment of elght laborers afterward separated, three clerks appointed to offices | about to be classified and one one employe Money for Mothers How boys” clothes can be bought at a saving OUR boy like all boys is hard on his clothes. No matter where you buy his clothes, you find We cannot make clothes that will not wear out, but we that they wear out quicker than you would like. can sell clothes at such a saving that your clothing bill is reduced many a dollar in a year. We manufacture our stock of boys’ and youths’ clothing in our own workshops. In buying of us, the makers, vou save fully a third as juvenile clothing generally passes through the hands of one or two middlemen before it reaches the wearer. Every middleman makes his profi® This brings up the retail price. Our goods are sold at one profit — simply a fair profit over the cost of manufacture. The suit we sell for $4.00 will cost you $6.c0 clsewhere — other dealers buy through middlemen. It wi | require but one purchase to determine the facts in this case. You will save money in buying here. But you can have your money back if you want it. Clothes of every kind for children, boys, youths and men. If you live out of San Francisco write for our new 64 page illustrated catalogue. SNWO00D 5 (0 740 Market Strect | the pe | and fifty-six | that the 2 HEAD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION THE THE RESULT OF POSTOFFICE AN INVESTI IN THE CI WHO HAS REPORTED INTO THE CONDUCT OF WASHINGTON. GATION TY OF appointed in the Good Hope (District of Columbia) Postoffice just wefore its con- solldation, it appears that Postmaster Merritt did not initiate any of these im- proper appointments or assignments, and his responsibiii for them seems to be secondary and dependent upon the exteni to whicu a subordinate is justified in pro- testing against the orders or suggestions of his offictal superiors. PLACES FOR INCOMPETENTS. *.ne investigation indicates that the employes who entered tnme service by transfer and without examinauon are, in general, inferior to those appointed through competition. The inve tlgatlun. by t commission shows that many of ns who entered the service by transfer had failed upon competitive ex- amination were from States which were in excess of the apportionment, or had not passed with sufficiently high grades to be recommended for appointment by the regular methods. i “It is the observation of the commis- sion that where a service or an office re- mains unclassified there is always a ten- dency to increase the number of em- ployes beyond the number actually re- quired for the transaction of business. “Among the employes in the department or in tne postoffice service who were brought into the classifieu service within the last few years by classification, hav- ing been appointed without examination under the rules, were thirty war emer- gency emploves classified by the act of April 28, 1902, twelve made permanent un- der vparagraph 17 of rule 8 and 338 classi- fied in the rural free delivery service on November 27, 191 The total number of employes in these three classes who entered the service upon considerations other than fitness, as ertained by competitive examination, were 280. MANY NEEDLESS EMPLOYES. “Nearly all of the clerks and messen- gers in the rural free de! were converted into the classified service were in positions in Washington, D. C. One hundred and thirty-three of them were appointed prior to July 1, 1901; twen- ty-six were appointed in the four months immediately preceding the classification, were appointed in the twen- ty-six days preceding classification. How many of these were appointed for reasons other than the needs of the service it is, of course, impossible for the commission to determine, but that the service was packed with employes in the interest of the individual is indicated by the fact number of appointments in the month of the classification was more than twlce as great as for the preceding four months. This assumption is strongly sup- ported by the fact that during the eighteen months that this service has been classified there have been seventeen persons selected for appointment to po- sitions within the District of Columbia, as agalnst fifty-six clerks and messen- gers appointed during the twenty-six days preceding the classification. ““There was no necessity for anticipating the needs number of appointments just before clas- sification, for the commission had regis- ters of cligibles at that time which were ample and also appropriate, as Is shown by the fact that all but four of the thirty- seven olytments which have been made to the rural free delivery service in the District of Columbla and outside since November 27, 1%1, were from registers then in existence. ““The appointments made under the cir- cumstances above set forth resulted in a congestion of the service, and when a re- duction is to be made the employes ap- pointed for political or personal consid- erations are cared for, sometimes at the expense of persons appointed upon merit and without influence. In reileving branches of the service thus crowded with employes' transfers are made to other parts of the service, to the injury of eli- gibles in linc for appointment by reason of their ascertained fitnéss. REMEDY ALREADY PROVIDED. “The passing of the war emergency, the amendment on December 31, 191, of the rule referring to transfers and new pro- visions of the revised rules, which became eftective on April 15, 1903, will, it is be-| lieved, prevent the continuance of these abuses in the classified service, and the adoption at the earliest possible date of regulations for the employment of labor- ers in the Washington postoffice, in ac- cordance with the executive order of March 26, 1903, will, there i{s reason to hope, put the employment of laborers on the basis of fitness and the needs of the service.” The investigation was made in response to the following letter, dated May 4, from the Postmaster General to the commis- ston: “I should be pleased if you would have one of your examiners detailed to make an investigation of the Washington City postoffice with a view of ascertaining whether or not tne clvil service law and regulations have been and are being com- plied with in the administration of that office.” Proctor was in’conference with Post- master General Payne for an hour to-day regarding the report. Later Proctor, in g verbal statement to newspaper men, said that In all his experience with the of the service by an excessive | | postoffice Jie had had less trouble since | Payne's incumbency than at any other time. PAYNE MAKES STATEMENT. The Postmaster General gave out the following statement regarding the report: “Attention is called to the fact that since my incumbency of the position of Postmaster General the Civil Service Commission reports that there have been but ten persons transferred to the Wash- ington postoffice by appointment from smaller offices and that these ten were appointed to their respective places six months or more prior to their transfer, which is in compliance with the law, rules and regulations of the civil service as they now exist. “It will be noted that the commission reports that every person occupying com- petitive classified places in the Washing- ton postoffice is there by right of a certifi- cate regularly issued by the Civil Service Commission. “Regarding unskilled laborers, which have not been subject to>classification, it is proper to say that there has been much consideration of the question on the part of the Civil Service Commission and the department and many conferences have been had on this subject. On July 2, 1902, an agreement was reached and regula- tions adopted, which were agreed to by the Civil Service Commission and the de- partment, which will do away with all cause for complaints as to irregularities in the avpointment of this class of em- ployes. The point raised by the report regard- ing the promotion of certain employes in the office which have been directed by the department occurred previous to January 1, 192. No such directions for promotion as are referred to have been authorized by me since I have been Postmaster Gen- eral.” Payne said to-day that he expected to make public by Tuesday or Wednesday abstracts of the reports of Postoffice In- spectors who recently investigated the Washington office, a simiiar report made by the inspectors during former Post- master General Charles Emory Smith's administration and the reply of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to the Tulloch charges. —_———— Striking Painters Enjoined. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 13.—In the District Court this afternoon a temporary injunction was granted by Judge Scott, restraining sixteen striking members of the Painters’ anu Paperhangers’ Union from interfering with the business of Mc- Cormick & Gilmore, Jacob Sherman and Martin Breither, their former employers. ——— WASHINGTON, June enator Platt of New York was the Preside guest at lunch- eon_to-day. ( | nt's DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. WHEN LIFE'S AT STAKE The most timid man will take any chance of escape. The slender rope dropped down the precipice, the slip- pery log over the abyss, anything that offers a chance of life, is eagerly snatch- ed at. The end the man seeks is safety. He cares nothing for the means to that end. There are thou- sands of men and women whose lives are at stake, who are hindered from accepting the one means of safety by fooiish prejudice. Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has been the means of restoring health to many men and women whose hol- low cough, bleed- ing lungs, ema- ciation and weak- ness seemed to warrant the state- ment of local phy- sicians—" There is 1 possible.” g _Why should prejudice against a put-u; meJidnc hinder you from trying wh has cured thousands of suffering men and women? ve M‘Ck- E bad :eozm:?'nlim 2nd was compelied to give u work. Jt affected my lungs 8o that I all the time, both day and night. My !mhs all thought T had consumption. My wife frad ‘:’;fl.."?.?::é?‘.‘-i inststed on my 'd:q.n ing his " Golden Medical park2 431 aid, I have taken four bottles and am saw 4 man, weighi nds, - Picrce's Golden LB Biscovery. The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to make the little more profit the sale of less meritorious me e gains; you lose. TAL RING MAKES MOCKERY OF CIVIL SERVICE; OF HIGH OFFICIALS ARE IN PROSPECT Crisis Is Near inj the Official In- vestigation. President Says No One Shall Be Spared. Special Dispatch to The Call, ASHINGTON, June 13.—There ap- pears to be a lull in the in-| vestigation of the Postoffice Dé-! partment scandals just at present, but it is only temporary and duej to the fact that evidence is belng} prepared on which to arrest and punish | others of the guilty ring. It can be sald now on the highest authority that the crists of the investigation will come | within a few days, perhaps next week, and that it will be foreshadowed by the, arrest of a former official of the depart- | ment who has for several weeks been un- der surveillance at his home. President Roosevelt is In deadly earnest in*demand- ing that the investigation shall go to the bottom and take in everybody who has ! been guilty of wrongdoing in any branch | of the postal service. He means business | and he has, moreover, given his assur- ance that at the proper time the public | shall be made acquainted with every fact | developed, no matter who the victlm is. | This means, if it means anything, that Postoffice Department officlals of past ad- ministrations, as well as those of the present one shall, if they be found gulity, be brought o the bar of public opinion, tried and, it convicted, punished, if there is power in the Federal Government to | do it. There has been much irresponsible talk | about the alleged maladministration of former First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Perry S. Heath, secretary of the Re- publican National Committee, based on the somewhat intangible charges of Sey- mour W. Tulloch, former cashler of the Washington Postoffice, which Heath, Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster Gen eral Payne and all others directly con- cerned have pronounced to be rulse. There the matter rests at present and | popular opinion seems to be that no at- tempt will be made to learn the truth for fear of stirring up a nasty mess involv- ing big men of the Republican party. Presldent Roosevelt, however, is known to have given assurance that there is no ground for this fear. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has been told to make the Investigation thorough, without fear or favor, and he will do It or President Roosevelt will demand the rea- son why. Bristow’s reply to the Tulloch charges will soon be completed and made | public and it will show clearly what | basis there was for the Tulloch charges, | which, however true they may be, are not in themselves very serious as compared with the accusations against Machen, Beavers and the rest of the grafjers. B e e e e ] PORTRAITS MADE i BY ST. MEMIN French Engraver Whose Profiles Were All the Rage a Cen- tury Ago. . ADVERTISEMENTS. PROMINENT CLUB WOMEN Use Pe-ru-na as a Protection Against Summer Colds and Their Disagreeable Consequencas. Prolonged Ill- ness. Her Rapid Re- covery by the Use of Peruna. g e 0PIt PPttt It BRIt POttt ittt it tit ittt sttt sttt ssesss oo | | i Curator 'French Section Ebell Club. Mrs. Sarah E. Page, Buraboo, Wis., Curator of the French Section of the Ebell Club, writes from 423 Fifth ave.: “ Peruna 1s indeed a va.uable remedy for the cure of that most troublesome thing, a summer cold. Last summer | caught a cold but pard no attention to 1t at first, but soon found it developed into a serious catarrh of the throat. | was very much worried as none of the ordinary remedies had any effect on it. | was advised to give Peruna a trial and in a few weeks’ time | was so much better that / could sing without any effort. | thereforz take pleasure recommending Peruna.”---Sarah E. Page. Milwaukee, Wis., treasurer of the Schiller Club, writes: Grand Recorder Daughters of Amerl- can Independence. “I never had any faith in patent medi- Miss Kate Fauser, 11§ Bre st., | cines until T tried Peruna, but my ex- Detroit, Mich., Grand Recorder of| {wrlep'«:e Wlt!_h !!hl; reliable mehdlcine h:: H i pendence, | taught me that there is one that can e L et ey e | trusted and that will not fail in time of need. svere cold o Gyt g “For the past few years I have found ungs and I almost “Last summer I ¢ which settled on my In a little Virginia mountain city there | is a curfous collection of engravings by | an almost forgotten engraver once vastly | popular in New York. The family occu-| pying the house where the collection is | stored is descended from a former Vir-| ginla Congressman, and the pictures are medallion profiles of all or nearly all the | members of an early Congress. The en-| gravings are the work or St. Memin, a| French artist of a century ago. | The engraver’s full name was Charles Balthazer Julien Fevret de St. Memin. | He came, a youth, to New York and lived in a house overlooking the little city of | that day and its harbor. He was so| charmed with the view from his window | that he made a careful drawing of it, and | a friend, knowing .that the family had | been rulned by the French revolution, | suggested that he study engraving and | try to make a living by chat art. St. Memin, then 23 or 24, set about the study of the art and in time acquired | great skill. He chose, however, to make | his work a narrow speclalty, for he used | the implement called the *‘physionotrice,” | which actually traced the profile life size | directly from the face. The picture was reduced by means of another invention | which St. Memin improved. By 1798 he was so expert that he began to work professionally, and within the next twelve vears he had made nearly elght hundred plctures of widely known Americans. He is said to have made the last victure from life of Washington, a small vrofile, much used in mourning rings and breastpins after Washington's death. St. Memin speedily became popular in | New York. There was a sort of rage for | his pictures, and he wd a large nart of | the fashionable world and scores of public men. For $33 he made the copper plate | and furnished a dozen proofs. At first it took him two weeks to execute such an order, but later he could do it in three days. 1 From New York his fame spread to New | England, and he visited the cities of that | region, making pictures of public men ' and local beavties. Then he went South ' to Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and | perhaps other cities. He was succesaful wherever he went, especially in Washing- ton, where Le undertook a great many or- ders. " St. Memin’s work brought him pros- perity, and he might perhaps have kept on making profiles of American men and wo- men throughout his long life, but Napo- | leon’s decree permitting the return of the | emigres too! him back to Paris In 1510 and Americans saw no more of him. He | lived until 1862, L There are comparatively few collectors of St. Memin's pictures, and the pictures themselves do not fetch large prices, but there was an exhibition of his wor.. a few years ago at the Grolier Club in this city, and at the Constitutional Centennial in 1889 attention was again attracted to him. He receives scant notice at the hands of blographers, aud his life is known to only the few who take an in- terest in out of the way matters.—New York Sun. He Did.—"Did your; husband how any public office?”” asked the reporter. 'Yes, sir.” said the inconsolable widow. “He was the Righthand Supporter of the Vice Patriarch of the Anclent and Illus- trious Order of Ballyhoos."—Chicago Tribune. Easterner—"Why don't vou build your courthouse over there (" ‘Westerner—"“Why, If we did we'd have to cut that tree down.” “Well, what of it “Wiat of it? Man alive, that's the only tree in this neighborhood fit to lynch a man on!"—Philadelphla Record. He had recently lost his job in a hair- dressing. establishment, and haq accepted a place as clerk in a furnituré concern. One day a woman approached him and sald: by enn.lll like to look at a hair mat- “Yes'm,” said the clerk, with a vacant sort of look: ““blond or brunette, ma'am?" He's looking for anothefr place.—Yon- kers Statesman. | that will cure a cold then would cure all lost my voice and 1 felt most miserable. | that I caught I'“took treatment, but nothing did me|cold _easily. PE-RU-NA any good until I took Peruna. Ope bot- | Whica would tle brought me more relief than all the settle in a most FORTIFIES THE nostrums I had taken, and three bottles | unpleasant ca- s cured me completely.” For tired and farrh of the YSTEM worn out women it is a boon.” ead. > Colds are considered one of the neces- | be ' especlally AGAINST CATCH sary ills of life. One is liable to catch | careful _ about ING COLD. cold both summer and winter. Verybeing out even- often summer colds prove fatal. They |ings and not to get chilled when dressed are always dangerous. thin for parties, but since I have used A cold is the beginning of catarrh. It | Peruna general health is improved, may cause catarrh of any of the internal | 4nd my tem is in such good condi- lungs and organs—the head. throat, A remedy stomach, or pelvic organs. these direct effects of colds. Peruna is such a remedy. We have letters from all over the United States attesting to this fact. The poor and rich alike use and recommend it. A book of testi-| monials in the exact words of the writer sent to any address free of charge by inclement weather it no longer affects life, being in perfect health.”—Mrs. factory results from the use of Peruna, though I am exposed to me. “I have a splendid appetite and "UK F. Henderson. If you'do not derive prompt and satis- write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, | be pleased to give you his vaiuable ad- Ohio. vice gratis. Address. Dr. Hartman, President of Treasurer Schiller Club. The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Mrs. B. F. Henderson, 632 Grand ave., | Ohio. Forger Faints When Arrested. | pass a bogus money order for $30 upon & EUGENE, Or., June 13.—J. C. Coggins, | clothing house of this city. When con- | fronted by the officers Coggins fainted. who is wanted by the Postoffice Depart- ment on a charge of forging money or- ders throughout the country, was arrest- ed here to-day by officers while trying to | Circulars and photographs had been sent | out describing the forger, who was ree- ognized by a local postoffice employe. At | the jail the prisoner confessed. $4 DOWN AND $% PER MONTH the above illustration what a grand ears ago. Pasadena was a sheep pasture. Note b B e aiion has been wrought. It is to-day the finest ail e A Similar change will take place at the Pasadena Viila Tract, which is 3 miles nearer Toa Angeles’ business center. It Is a8 bound to occur as the sun will rise to-morrew. The en- tire region between Pasadena and Los Angeles is bound to build up into a solid eity. \ve are selling quarter-acre Pasadena Villa Tract lots for $4 down and $4 per montl paid for: 1o interest, no taxes. Our lots are unquestionably a good investm: We _are now iing at $70, but the price will soon te raised to §100. The new Pasadena Short Line, the onreeia and Alhambra electric railways now run from our tract to the BUSINESS CENTER OF 1O ANGELES CITY IN ONLY 15 MINUTES. Such rapid transit is bound to make our Quarter-acre villa lots soon sell for over $300. Two more electric lines will soon run through the tract. WE GUARANTEE 25 PER ( INCREASE. For $4 down and $4 per month until paid for we sell a regular PASADENA VILLA TRACT LOT, full size, 30x150 feet, fac- ing on $0-foot avenue, subject to the following guarantee from us: If at the expiration of one year from pu e this $70 lot is noteworth $87 50—or 25 per cent increase—based on the price Y which our corps of salesmen will then be selling eimilar lots, we will refurd ail of the money pald us, with G per cent interest additional If purchaser should die _at 20y time before payments -have _been completed we will give to his heirs 2™ Geed of the lot without further cost. If he should lose employment or be sick, he will mnot for the land. Among our purchasers are the fol- Jowing leading citizens: H. E. tington, vice president of the Southern Pacific R. R. Co. L. T. Garnsey, president of the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Co.: W, H. Carlson, ex- S, Special Commissioner of Rallroads of Cuba; Baird Bros., wholesale commission merchant J. G. Estudillo, ex-State Treasurer of Callfornia; F. H. Dizon, ex-State Harbor Commissioner Dr. Willlam Dodge, Dr. J. E. Cowles and others. References: Hon. M. P. Snyder, Mayor of Lo Angeles; State Bank and Trust Co. of Los Angeles, and our many satisfled customers. Send check or money order, and contract will be sent you by return malil. CARLSON INVESTMENT CO., 114§ Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. VECIAKTIRS -Advertised by Responsible Firms of S.F. WHY NOT RIDE A JOHN. W. RHEUMATISM WOLF-AMERIC HOPEWEL Gout, Neuralgla aad BICYCLE ElagtisShaaking Ciai Trentment with This Season? Supporters, ELECTRIC LIGHT BATHS The N'X' m|u‘ s Are| L‘hemm) ow 5 EDWIN MOHRIG, domin U Hot Alr Massage. Bicycles and Sporth: Near " L, € COX, M. D, 1522 MARKET ST. Tol.Red 232 Geary st. KL o 4] e A POSITIVE CURE FOR KIDNEY . TENTS WEEKLY GALL N:.-.uu-r of how long Obtained. | # 16 Pages & by By e QY Countries. |REXTED AND =OLD. $1.00 Lo ook o8 oo, co,| KINCAID & CO. 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