BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS. (Munitions Building, Nineteenth and B Streets.) Members. Brig. Gen. Harry Taylor, 1931 S Street; Cols. James C. Sanford, 514 Army Building, 39 Whitehall Street, New York City; Charles Keller, 1854 Kalorama Road; William B. Ladue, 815 Witherspoon Building, 1321 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Oakes, 15 Customhouse, Norfolk, Va.; Majs. Max C. Tyler, 2037 Park Road; Clarence S. Ridley, The Brighton. Assistant engineer and secretary.-Alexander H. Weber, 2219 California Street. Consulting engineer on port facilities.-Capt. F. T. Chambers, United States Navy, 1919 Nineteenth Street. Chief statistician.—A. H. Ritter, 1205 Crittenden Street. Chief clerk.-Harry L. Freer, 4912 Forty-first Street. OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT. In charge. Maj. Clarence S. Ridley, The Brighton. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE. (Southern Building. Phone, Main 7142-7143.) In charge.-Maj. Max C. Tyler, 2037 Park Road. Assistant. Maj. Lunsford E. Oliver, 1330 Twenty-first Street. MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION. President. Col. Charles L. Potter. (St. Louis, Mo.) Members.-John A. Ockerson, Charles H. West, Edward A. Glenn, Robert L. Faris, Chief clerk.-R. N. Duffey. CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION. (San Francisco, Calif.) Members.-Cols. Thomas H. Rees, Herbert Deakyne; Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. (Munitions Building.) Chief Maj. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, 1718 H Street. Assistants. Brig. Gens. George W. Burr, The Mendota; William S. Peirce, 1868 Chief clerk.-Nathan Hazen, 2844 Twenty-seventh Street. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. (Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue.) Chief.-Maj. Gen. George O. Squier, The Bachelor. Executive officer.-Lieut. Col. Frank R. Curtis, The Marlborough. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE AIR SERVICE. (Munitions Building, Nineteenth and B Streets.) Chief of the Air Service.-Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, 1820 S Street. Assistant Chief of the Air Service.-Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, 1712 Rhode Island Acting executive officer.-Maj. W. H. Frank, Somerset House. Administrative executive.-Maj. William F. Pearson, 1716 Twenty-first Street. Director of aircraft production.-Lieut. Col. William J. Kendrick, Wardman Park Hotel.. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. (Eighteenth and E Streets.) Chief of bureau.-Maj. Gen. Frank McIntyre, The Gordon. Assistant to chief of bureau.-Col. Charles C. Walcutt, jr., 1869 Wyoming Avenue. Assistant to chief of bureau.-Maj. Campbell B. Hodges, Army and Navy Club. Chief clerk.-L. V. Carmack, The Laclede. PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. (Headquarters, Manila.) Governor General.-Francis Burton Harrison. Vice Governor and secretary of public instruction.-Charles E. Yeater. Secretary of commerce and communications.-Dionisio Secretary of justice.-Quintin Paredes. Secretary of finance.-Alberto Barretto. Jakosalem. Secretary of agriculture and natural resources.—Galicano Apacible. PORTO RICO GOVERNMENT. (Headquarters, San Juan.) Governor.-Arthur Yager. Attorney general.-Salvador Mestre. Treasurer.-José E. Benedicto. Commissioner of the interior.-Guillermo Esteves. Commissioner of agriculture and labor.-Manuel Camuñas. Executive secretary.-Ramón Siaca Pacheco. DOMINICAN CUSTOMS RECEIVERSHIP. (Headquarters, Santo Domingo.) General receiver of customs.-Clarence H. Baxter. HAITIAN CUSTOMS RECEIVERSHIP. (Headquarters, Port-au-Prince.) General receiver of customs.-A. J. Maumus. Deputy general receiver.-W. S. Matthews, jr. MILITIA BUREAU. (1800 E Street.) Chief. Brig. Gen. Jesse McI. Carter, 1726 M Street. Chief Clerk.-W. A. Saunders, First Street. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE. (Room 2001-B, Temporary Building No. 6, Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue. Phone, Main 2520, Branch 1228.) Chief.-Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, 1748 Corcoran Street. INLAND AND COASTWISE WATERWAYS SERVICE. (Headquarters, room 2024, Munitions Building. Phone, Main 2570; Branch 1881.) Chief-Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor, 2224 R Street. Assistant chief.-Col. T. Q. Ashburn, C. A. C., The Northumberland. WAR CREDITS BOARD. (Munitions Building, Nineteenth and B Streets. Phone, Main 2520, Branch 1178.) Governor.-M. W. Thompson, 14 Wall Street, New York City. Members.-A. F. Lafrentz, 100 Broadway, New York City; E. H. Van Fossan, 7221 Blair Road. Executive secretary.-B. W. Jones, 16 Wall Street, New York City. Administrative assistant.—First Lieut. P. G. Thompson, 2726 Connecticut Avenue. GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE. (Washington Barracks.) Commandant.-Maj. Gen. James W. McAndrew, Washington Barracks. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. (Vermont Avenue and Fifteenth Street. Phone, Main 196.) A. MITCHELL PALMER, of Stroudsburg, Pa., Attorney General (2132 R Street), was born May 4, 1872; attended the public schools and prepared for college at the Moravian Parochial School, Bethlehem, Pa.; in the fall of 1887 entered Swarthmore College, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the highest honors in his class; member of Phi Beta Kappa society; was appointed official stenographer of the fortythird judicial district of Pennsylvania 1892, and while occupying this position studied law; upon admission to the bar in 1893 formed a partnership with Hon. John B. Storm, which continued until the latter's death in 1901, when Mr. Palmer succeeded to the business of the firm; was delegate at large from Pennsylvania in the Democratic national convention at Baltimore in 1912 and St. Louis in 1916; member of the Democratic national committee for the State of Pennsylvania; chairman of the executive campaign committee of the Democratic national committee; married Roberta Bartlett Dixon, daughter of Hon. Robert B. Dixon, of Easton, Md., in 1898, and has one daughter, Mary Dixon Palmer; was elected to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress; in April, 1915, appointed and commissioned judge of the United States Court of Claims, but declined; in August, 1917, appointed chairman of the fifth district, Pennsylvania board, under the selective-service law; in October, 1917, appointed Alien Property Custodian, which place he resigned March 5, 1919, to assume the duties of Attorney General. Solicitor General.-William L. Frierson, 2230 California Street. Chief clerk and administrative assistant.-Charles E. Stewart, 1316 New Hampshire Disbursing clerk.-John W. Gardner, Wardman Park Hotel. Appointment clerk.-Charles B. Sornborger, 1857 Newton Street. Chief Division of Accounts.-Calvin Satterfield, 1316 New Hampshire Avenue. Librarian.-George Kearney, 1324 Monroe Street. Private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General.— Director Bureau of Investigation.-William J. Flynn, Department of Justice. Assistant Director and Chief Bureau of Investigation.-Lewis J. Baley, Department of Justice. Superintendent of prisons.-Denver S. Dickerson, 1418 Newton Street. Attorney in charge of pardons.-James A. Finch, 3645 Grant Road. Attorney in charge of titles.- Charles S. Lawrence, 203 A Street SE. DEPARTMENTAL SOLICITORS. Solicitor for the Department of State.-Fred K. Nielsen, The Cairo. Chief clerk and chief law clerk.-Robert J. Mawhinney, 38 M Street. Solicitor for the Interior Department.—Charles D. Mahaffie, University Club. Solicitor of the Department of Commerce.-Franklin G. Wixson, 3604 New Hampshire Assistant solicitor.-James J. O'Hara, 107 Maryland Avenue NE. Solicitor of the Department of Labor.-Rowland B. Mahany, 110 B Street NE. 26386°-66-3-2D ED- -19 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. (Pennsylvania Avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. Phone, Main 5360.) ALBERT SIDNEY BURLESON, of Austin, Tex., Postmaster General, (1901 F Street), was born June 7, 1863, at San Marcos, Tex.; was educated at Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Baylor University (of Waco), and University of Texas; was admitted to the bar in 1884; was assistant city attorney of Austin in 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890; was appointed by the governor of Texas attorney of the twenty-sixth judicial district in 1891; was elected to said office 1892, 1894, and 1896; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses; served on the Committees on Agriculture, Census, Foreign Affairs, and Appropriations, respectively, during his tenure in Congress, and was at the time of his appointment as Postmaster General ranking Democratic member of the Committee on Appropriations; he was the author of a large amount of legislation affecting the development and enlargement of agriculture in the United States; appointed Postmaster General March 4, 1913, and confirmed March 5, 1913; reappointed, and took the oath on January 25, 1918. Chief clerk.-Ruskin McArdle, The Cecil. Private secretary to Postmaster General.-R. E. Cowart, Metropolitan Hotel. Appointment clerk. Robert S. Regar, 927 Shepherd Street. Disbursing clerk.-William M. Mooney, 1433 T Street. Confidential clerk to the Postmaster General.-Edwin B. Smith, 1440 R Street. Senior assistant attorney.—Horace J. Donnelly, 1430 V Street. Assistant attorneys.-Walter E. Kelly, 1418 Webster Street; Edwin A. Niess, 61 Rhode Island Avenue; Calvin W. Hassell, Hyattsville, Md.; William L. Rhoads, 3810 Eighth Street. Purchasing agent.-Robert L. Maddox, The Alabama; chief clerk, Thomas L. Degnan, 1656 Park Road. Chief inspector.-George M. Sutton, 1334 Fairmont Street; chief clerk, Alexander B. Hulse, 315 Fifteenth Street NE. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. First Assistant Postmaster General.-John C. Koons, 2634 Garfield Street. Superintendents of division: Postmasters' appointments.-Charles R. Hodges, 306 Randolph Street NE.; assistants, Simon E. Sullivan, 230 Wooten Avenue, Chevy Chase Station; Lorel N. Morgan, 5618 First Street NE. Post-office service. Goodwin D. Ellsworth, 1248 Girard Street. Assistants.—William S. Ryan, The Ethelhurst; Albert E. Barr, 510 A Street NE.; Edward B. Cranford, 47 Rhode Island Ávenue. Clerk in charge. Dead letters.-Marvin M. McLean, 1551 Newton Street, Brookland. Chief Division of Correspondence. John P. Miller, Lyonhurst, Va. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Second Assistant Postmaster General.-Otto Praeger, 1940 Biltmore Street. Superintendents of division: Railway Mail Service.-General superintendent, William I. Denning, 4416 Seventh Street; assistant, George F. Stone, 3023 Macomb Street. Foreign Mails.-Stewart M. Weber, Mount Rainier, Md.; assistant, Edwin Sands, 1502 North Capitol Street. Railway Adjustments. James B. Corridon, 1733 North Capitol Street; assistant, George H. Grayson, Falkstone Courts. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Third Assistant Postmaster General.-Alexander M. Dockery, The Raleigh. Finance.-William E. Buffington, 1317 Harvard Street. Money orders.-Charles E. Matthews, 1517 Lamont Street. Registered mails.-Leighton V. B. Marschalk, 1321 Longfellow Street. Postal savings Director.-Malcolm Kerlin, 1516 Columbia Road. Chief clerk.-Charles L. Gable, 4426 Ninth Street. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.-James I. Blakslee, 3200 Seventeenth Street. Chief clerk.-Lansing M. Dow, 2047 Park Road. Superintendents of division: Rural mails.-George L. Wood, Clifton Terrace South. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY. (Navy Department Building, Potomac Park, Eighteenth and B Streets. Phone, Main 2790. Secretary Navy also maintains office rooms on second floor, east wing, State, War, and Navy Department Building, Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.) JOSEPHUS DANIELS, of Raleigh, N. C., Secretary of the Navy (1851 Wyoming Avenue), was born in Washington, N. C., May 18, 1862; son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels; journalist by profession; formerly editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer; married Addie W., daughter of Maj. W. H. Bagley, May 2, 1888, and has four sons; State printer for North Carolina 1887-1893; chief clerk Department of the Interior 1893-1895; trustee University of North Carolina; was the North Carolina member of the Democratic national committee for 20 years; nominated, confirmed, and commissioned Secretary of the Navy March 5, 1913; received the degree of LL. D. from Davidson College, the University of North Carolina, and Ohio Wesleyan University, and the degree of Lit. D. from Washington and Lee University. Assistant Secretary.-Gordon Woodbury, Wardman Park Hotel. Assistant to the Assistant Secretary.-L. McH. Howe, 2339 Massachusetts Avenue. Chief clerk.-F. S. Curtis, Chatham Courts. Private secretary to the Secretary of the Navy.-Edward E. Britton, 901 Twentieth Street. Executive assistant.-John B. May, jr., 101 Fourteenth Street NE. Clerk to the Secretary of the Navy.-John J. McCune, 319 C Street NE. Private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.-Thomas H. Madigan, jr., Confidential clerk to Assistant Secretary. Carroll J. Stevenson, The Ethelhurst. Chief of Appointment Division.-William D. Bergman, 2948 Upton Street. NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD. President. Thomas A. Edison. Chairman.-William L. Saunders. Vice chairman.-Benjamin B. Thayer. Secretary.-Thomas Robins, 13 Park Row, New York City. Special duty.-Rear Admiral William Strother Smith, United States Navy, The Wyoming. COMPENSATION BOARD. (Room 2450, New Navy Building.) Senior member.-Rear Admiral W. L. Capps, Construction Corps, United States Navy, 1823 Jefferson Place. Chief clerk.-Burhnard S. Leizear, Silver Spring, Md. |