Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
cations for Office have you received dur
ing the past year,? the following an
swers were received:

CATIONS LOT ONCE nave you feC6IVeu OuE-
ing the past year? the following an
swers were received:
1. cannot give you the exact number, but
/ am quite sure the number of written appllca-
tions must be at least eight or nine thousand,
to say nothing of the verbal requests.
2. About three hundred, in addition to home
postoffices; FIVE thousand applications for them,
3. About five hundred.
+. About one thousand.
>. Sixty.
6. There are l46 postoffices in my dis strict and
under the rule 1 am expected to recommend a
postmaster for each. think there has been, so
each vacancy, During the first year OF the
present administration was called on to recon-
mend tor office to the appointing power 246 ap-
plcants, exclusive OF applicants for the position
of postmaster. This would make $40 in all.
:. About 2OO0.
S. Not far from 1000.
g. Cannot tell-hundreds, if not thousands.
10. There have been about 1900 applications
for Office received by me during the past year.
want Office for themselves, numerous letters and
petitions received, in nearly every case urg-
ing claims of those who are applicants.
II. About 400.
IL. Impossible to tell; hundreds, perhaps 1000.
-. 1 think 1 can modestly say 1000. Where
there are ten candidates for the office, each man
thinks he is the most entitled to it; and it is
generally quite easy to disappoint nine of them.
Il. Approximately, about 500.
10. The number of applications for office
hundred, as appears on my docket, yet there
are only eleven fourth-class postoffices in the
district and ten presidential offices. The appli-
cations of these have been practically nothing.
The great mass of applications are for positions
in the upclassified service in the custom house,
and every branch of the government service,
and in the navy yard.
l6. About two thousand; not less.
Il. About two thousand.
IS. A bout two hundred.
49, Could not guess; hundreds.
20. Something less than q million.
u. 1t is impossible for me tolsayIhow many ap-
T,lic for OfTipa have we'd he
past twelve months. but they have been almost
innumerable, and it has been impossible for me
to favor a tenth of those who desire positions,
and the most Of the applicants 1 know to be
worthy and deserving men, whom l would be
glad to aid if it were possible for me to do so.
Taking an average of the above
Comitting numbers 8, 10, 90 and Ply +,
the number of applications made was
something over one thousand seven hum
bred to each member.
To the interrogatories "What is the
average amount of correspondence which
each Of these applications requires on
your part, and what amount of time,
either of your own or of your secretary
or clerk, is required, as nearly as you
can Judge. for conducting this CORES
pondence and for attending to appoint
ments?" your committee have received
the following answers:
!. During the past year more than three-quar-
tiers of my time in the day was given to attend
ing to appointments, and late every evening
Except Sunday was given to my correspond
ence, with the valuable assistance of stem
ographer, and even then 1 found it impossible
to answer more than half or two-thirds of my
correspondence.
2. The amount OF time is about one full day in
each week.
3. About half the time of one man.
4. The probable average amount of CORE
spondence is about five letters for each applics-
@1OT7 n ird
of my entire time.
5. The average amount of correspondence is
about SIX letters eachi about two hours time .
6. think that attention to the demands of
those applications consumes one-fourth of
my working time.
I. About half of my time. Perhaps two let
tiers each.
s. Could give no light upon it, but quite bur-
densome correspondence.
9. One-third of time of self and clerk. Sew
eral letters each-some of them fifty or hun
dred.
10. These applications win require, on an av-
erage, two letters each. l should think that at
least two hours day have been required for
conducting this correspondence and attending to
appointments.
II. Nearly two hours a day during last sum-
mer; not so much now, and cannot easily give
sn estimate.
II. The average amount of correspondence
which each OF these applications requires Is
rarely less than two or three, sometimes ten. q
have had cases OF twenty The amount of time
required is more than any branch of my public
duties since November 1858.
-, Probably five letters each. all around. All
the time could get.
Il. Abou four letters to each applicant. About
one-tentb of my time
10. A low estimate of the average amount of
correspondence which each of these applications
requires on my part would be i've in each case,
or between 1000 and 5000 letters in all. II il were
not for the distribution Of these Offices it wou Id
be easy foI me to conduct my official correspon-
dence personally, but as IL is, secretary is re-
CURED, aad the burden of the Office greatly in
creased