The morning times., 1895-08-02
N|NETY-0hE we're WOMEN
One Hundred Applicants Exam
ined For the Printing Office.
GETTING AN ELIGIBLE LIST
Civil Service Commission Feared the
Labor of Classifying the Big
workshop, But 1t Has Turned Out
an Easy Task-Practical Questions
Put Those who Are Skilled.

The practical application of the civil
service system to the Government Print
ing Office has followed swift upon the
heels of the Presidents order directing
the extension, and the list OF classified
workers under the government has since
yesterday embraced the employees OF the
biggest printing establishment In the
world.
The first examination of applicants for
appointment under the new rules was
held yesterday, when one hundred persons
who desire minor places passed through
the ordeal Ninety-one OF these were
women. and the class OF work in the
department to which, upon appointment,
they will be assigned is done in large
measure by representatives of that sex.
SKILLED LABOR CLASS
There viii probably be one hundred
and twenty-five applicants before the
commission to-day, which Will complete
the examinations in the skilled labor class,
and will also include from Twelve to
sixteen bookbnders.
The conlposiUors will be examined to-
morrow, and all aothers, including the
electrotypers, stereotypers, machinists,
prOof-readcrs, engineers, embracing half
until the proper questions can be prepared
and the papers printed.
The purpose of these examinations is to
provide an eligible list for the use of the
commission when applied TO later by the
Public Printer for persons TO fill yacan-
CieS.
Anybody coming within the rules of the
service may apply for examination, and
If all average of 20 per cent be made,
the name goes upon the eligible list, a i'll
other branches where the civil service
prevails, and one year is given in which TO
secure certification.
Those examined yesterday did not have
a very difficult set OF questions to answer
nor very severe ordeal to undergo. The
applicants when appointed viii be expected
10 serve as feeders, sewers, folders, count
ers, and in other similar positions, and they
We're required as a test Of fitness TO exhibit
a knowledge OF elementary arithmetic and
orthograpay, and present specimen of
penmanship by an exercise in copying.
LITTLE TO BE WRITTEN.
Qualifications We're in part determined by
requiring a letter to be written, addressed
to the commission, in which the full name,
age, residence, and past experience were
noted, and III addition each applicant was
called upon to answer such questions as
were applicable TO the duties OF the po-
sitiOn sought.
No other examination will be required Of
this class. and IN this they are some what
more fortunate than those OF other grades.
/ Supplementary TO the written examina-
| ton, the electrotypers, stereotypers, book
| binders, cOmpOsitors, ard others viii be
subjected to practical test in the office
work, under the direction Of a board of
/ experts selected to assist the commission.
These experts, who were designated
/ by the Public Printer, made suggHstiors
! for the guidance OF the commission N the
| preparation of the eXamiration questions
Under the law, those row in office are
exempt from examination. and all per
/ Sons who were separated from the .ervice
! without personal delinquency or niScon-
! duct are eligible for reappOintmert with
! out examination within one year from the
! date OF such separation. Honora5ly Cis-
charged soldiers and the widows Of sol
/ Giers are, under the same rule, ertitlHd to
/ a restoration without limit as TO date Of
! dismissal.
! At the same time these preferred per-
sons have the privilege of entering the
competitive list, and, il the examination
| be successfully passed, they have I chance
! for preferment from the eligible list.
Many avail themselves OF this opportunity
II viii pToba Lly be ten days or two weeks
before the marking Of the papers returned
! from the present examination is completed
OFFICERS ARE PLEASED.
For n time we dreaded the task OF class
flying the Government Printing office
said Chief Engineer Webster, yesterday
evening. but we have found it to be one OF
the easiest of the departments, and are
therefore agreeably disappointed.
1T has given US less trouble than has the
| classification of the Internal Revenue
bureau" he added. That service has
involved good deal of work, but the greater
part OF it has naturally fallen upon the
collectors. There are no applicants from
six of the sixty-three districts in the
country, but there is Il list OF applicants
that contains about twelve hundred names
aud we are just now about 10 enter upon
the examinations.
Major Webster spoke with much pleasure
of the success with which the law lad been
made to apply to the Government Printing
Office. He said the civil service system
is being extended quite as rapidly Us the
present force can accomplish the work.
The appropriation provides for force
that cannot be increased except D. author
ity of Congress, and it is not practicable,
he said, to ta ke in any considerable additions
to the classified list without adding Ia
the clerical assistance.