Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1913 — Wanted a Government Job; Now Subsisting on Free Lunches. [ARTICLE]

Wanted a Government Job; Now Subsisting on Free Lunches.

Washington, D. C., June 14.—The story of an office-seeker who failed to obtain a desired position and who has 'gone steadily down the ladder from high class hotels to the poorest lodging houses, was told to President Wilson by Senator Kern of Indiana, Thursday. The Indiana man came to Washington against the advice of his senator, who foresaw that it would be difficult to get places for all his constituents. The office-seeker spent inauguration week at Washington’s leading lotel. A fortnight later he started down the path from affluence to’ poverty. Second-class hotels, boardng houses and lodging places followed in quick succession, until now the man is eking out a bare subsistence on free lunch and sleeping wherever he can find a place for the night. The preisdent promised Snator Kern that he would do what he could for the man.