The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12

only for the honor it reflected and await
ed his promotion to commodore peIore
retiring.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
GOVERNMENT BONDs-A o. g.,
Niles, Call The amount Of bonds issued
under the Mckinley administration was
5000, 000, Goo A circular offering these bonds
was issued by Lyman ]. Gage, Secretary
of the Treasury, June b. 1888, ana IN q
very short time all were subscribed 1or.
TUGBOATs-A. s.. Santa Rosa Cal. If
you desire a position with the tugboat
company named send an application to
the office of the company, giving name,
age, residence and such details as would
enable the company to determine II you
would be a suitable person to enter its
service.
ETIQUETTE-A. F. s.. City. If you
will call at the Free Public Library, City
Hall, reference room, you can there con-
suit "Hill's Book of Forms" THE Ency-
clopaedia of Business and Social Forms"
and number Of books on etiquette
which Will give you such information as
you may desire on the subject Of business
forms and etiquette.
AT HOME CARDs-A. L., City. If a
newly married couple have sent you an
lat home" card upon their return from
their wedding trip etiquette demands that
! you should pay CALL but If for any
|
send letter of regret and at the same
time extend congratulations as you would
| If you called in person. Your personal
card would not be sufficient.
RAIN GAUGE-P., Jamestown, Cal.
There are different kinds of rain gauges
and many Of these are called standard"
Instructions for using accompany each
gauge. Without knowing the name of the
one you have, 1t would be impossible to
tell you how to read it, AN inch of
rain" means if there was a perfect level
enclosed space and no absorption there
would be in that space water to the
height Of one inch.
IN MEXICO-C. NJ, Oakland, Cal. 1t
is a remarkable fact that not a gazet-
teer, book of reference or guide book
gives the territorial area Of the City Of
Mexico. One book says that the city is
square, about three miles each way; that
| would make the area nine square miles
San Francisco includes within its terri
tortal limits the county as well and
its area is given as forty-one and three
quarters square miles. A gentleman who
| but recently returned from Mexico says
! that that city is about as large as what
is generally alluded to as the city of San
Francisco.
In Mexico, the capital of the republic
OF that name, business life, living and
other conditions are not the same as it
is in the large cities of the United States,
but like the conditions in Guatemala and
other large Central and South American
| cities.
An American workingman who went to
the City of Mexico in search Of employ
! ment would find great difficulty in OBJ
tanning such If unable to speak the Span
ish language. He might find work with
some American firm, but he would have
to take his chances.
The population of the City Of Mexico
is about 400 900. The next largest city in
the republic is the City Of Puebla, which
has population Of 5000.
HELEN CAMPBELLs. A. J. spreck-
els, Cal. Helen c. Campbell, author and
editress, was born in Lockport, n. Y,
July 4, 1889. Her ancestry is Scotch on
both sides. Her father, who was a promi-
nent lawyer of New York City. died in
1890. She married at the age of 20 to an
army surgeon named Weeks, and with
him lived in various parts Of the United
states. At the age of % years, under her
married name she began writing for
Our Young Folks" After that she wrots
a number of novels which attracted at
tention, then devoted her talents to works
wrote Problems of the Poor and other
works which dealt with the poorer classes
and attracted the attention of the New
commissioner on the condition of the
women wage-workers of New York, and
the result of her investigations were pub
lished under the title of THE Prisoners Of
Poverty She extended that work TO
London, Paris, through Italy and Ger
1 many, ana what she wrote had much to
do with drawing attention to the con-
dtion of the wage earners of the
countries she visited She has written a
| large number of useful books In 1890
she received a prize from the American
Economical Association for a mono
graph on Women Wage Farmers"
CIVIL SERVICES Subscriber. CITY. I'm
der the provisions of the new charter all
the places of employment in or under the
following named officers and departments
in the city and county of San Francisco
shall be classified by the Commissioners:
The County Clerk, the Assessor. the Tax Col
lector, the Sheriff. the Auditor, the Recorder
| the Coroner. the clerks and stenograp hers OF
I the Justices ana Police courts, the Board Of
| Publlc works, the Police Department, the Fire
Department, the Board of Election Commission
ers, the Board OF Health and all boards or de-
partments controlling public utilities; but the
following deputies, clerks and employees in said
offices and departments shall he exempted
chief deputy and the cashier of the Assessor
the chief deputy and the cashier of the Tax
Collector, the under sheriff and the chief book
I keeper of the Sheriff. the deputy auditor the
chief deputy of the Recorder, the Chief Deputy
Coroner, the City Engineer the secretarv and
architect OF the Board of Public Works. the
sioners the Chief of Police the Char F,7gi7ear
OF the Fire Department and all the physicians
appointed by or on the Board of Health.
All or1eers courts boards and heads Of Dc,
power to appoint deputies, clerks stenoe-aph-
ers or employees in any of the offices or de-
NAASA'NS
this section shall make such appointments in
conformity with the rules and provisions pre-
scrihed By this article. and any appointment
not made shall be void
All applicants for places in the classified civil
service shall be subjected to examination.
which shall be public. competitive and free.
Such examinations shall be practical in their
character and shall relate to those matters
! only which Will fairly test the relative capacity
of the persons examined to discharge the duties
pointed and shall include, when appropriate,
| tests of physical qualifications. health and OF
| manual or professional skill.
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