The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-26
WISE JHRSHYMhN
They Have Better Things to
Do Than Hunt for Gov
eminent Positions.
JERSEYS QUOTA RARELY FULL
Only Two Representatives Of the
State in Mr.. Blaine's Depart
ment Different in
Agriculture.
JERSEYS QUOTA RARELY FULL
sreoial to tie jersey ctr Neirs.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., July 25, iS9l.-An
examination for positions in the so-called
classical service, that covers all the
Government departments here, was held
recently at the headquarters of the CIVIL
Service commission and there was pretty
general attendance or applicants from
nearly all the Eastern States and from
the south. New Jersey was not repre-
scented among the several hundred
candidates for appointment, and
when the attention of Colonel Webster,
the Chief Examiner. was called to
this fact, he smiled and said til at appar-
emily New Jersey wasn't in it," thong n
a Jerseyman passing an examination
stood an excellent chance Of speedy APP
poinrment, the quota Of the State being
rarely. if ever, filed.
The remark caused an overhauling OF
the records in the offices of the various
appointment clerks. aud the following Is
the result:-Two ierseymen, MessTs.
Pruden and Fox, hold positions in the
Executive Mansion, and but two en-
ployes of the State Department. are ac-
credited to New Jersey
IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
rhe great Treasury Department., with
it's thousands of employees, has the names
OF only ~ Jerseymen and women upon its
roster, and even of these dozen at least
are not chargeable to New Jersey, though
they obtained their positions through the
influence of New Jersey Congressman IL
appears, however, that there are some DER.
seymen in the various services directly
under the Treasury. For instance. % are en-
ployed in the New York Sub Treasury an d
99in the New York Custom House and u
the New York Assay Office. The Phila-
delphia Custom House employs South
Jerseymen and the mint there about IL.
The Revenue Marine Service has Ii of
ficers appointed from New Jersey, 39 Jer-
seymen are in the service OF bhe Light
house Board, and PSI in the Life Savings
Service, 2 are 10 the Marine Hospital,
in the Steamboat Inspection, and about
dozen are attaches of the various public
buildings in the State under the control
of the Treasury.
IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
Only thirty-one clerks, messengers
or laborers, hail from New Jer-
sey in the various bureaus of
the War Department here, including the
great Record and Pension division of the
Adiutant and Surgeon Generals office,
giving employment alone to nearly a
thousand men and women. OF the Off
GERS OF the army, not graduates Of the
Military Academy, 81 in active service
were appointed from New Jersey and 8
retired officers claim the State as
their home.
The Engineer Department OF the army
at large, controlling all the great river
and harbor improvements aud the Mis-
souri, ana Mississippi River Commits
sIoners employ at times thousands OF
persons, but only nineteen are chargeable
to New Jersey. Owing to the location OF
Government powder depot near Dover,
twenty-one persons voting in New Jersey
are borne upon the pay rolls OF the Bureau
of Ordnance.
MEAGRE REPRESENTATION IN THE NAVY.
Among the personnel Of the Navy De-
par5ment we find but five Jerseymen, and
even the great yard at Brooklyn and the
League Island Navy yards have only
twenty-seven Jersey men upon their pay
rolls. However. of the officers OF the
Navy, line and staff, not sons Of former
officers, thirty-nine of all grades hail from
New JERSEY, and seventeen retired officers
ella i'm the State as their home.
Only fifteen of the employees Of the GEN
eral Postoffice are Jerseymep. and the
number of representatives in the Railway
Mail Service is also small, though the ex-
act statistics are not on hand.
We now come to the great Department
of the Interior which includes the huge
Pension Bureau, the General Land Office,
Indian Bureau, Patent Office, Geological
Survey and half dozen other offices,
and herein we find but 81 persons
credited to the State. some of these even
without good reasons.
The little Department of Justice con-
tains two Jerseynen among it's officers,
and another couple have struck jobs IN
the Nationa, Museum, under the man
agemenI of the Smithsonian Institution
IN AGRICULTURE.
The Department of Agriculture has had
the comparatively large number of 81
Jerseymen on the rolls, but by far the
larger part of these were employees of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry, which is now
doing little.
In the big Government Printing Office
which employs the year round about 500
persons and during the busy Congress-
ional sessions nearly $500, the pay roll
discloses the names of but 80 persons as
coming from the state of New Jersey,
and yet in answer to numerous letters
from applicants, Public Printer Palmer
sends the stereotype answer that the
quota of appointments to which such and
sucn district in New Jersey is entitled is
filed and no vacancies exist.