Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-01

clerks are asked. An additional force of
thirteen clerks is asked for by the auditor
for the Navy Department. A net Increase
Of five employees in the office of the auditor
for the Interior Department is asked, at an
additional cost of 5000 One additional
examiner at 5000 and two additional clerks
are asked for the auditor of the State and
other departments. The salary Of the law
clerk in the Office of the auditor for the
Post Office Department Is recommended TO
be increased by $780, while ten additional
clerks Of class four are asked for. To the
salary of the deputy assistant treasurer
$500 is recommended to be added. Seven
additional clerks and four counters are
also asked for in this office. Nine addi-
tional clerks in the salaries office of the
treasurer are asked for. An increase of
$3.50 in the salary of the assistant register
of the treasury is asked for, also an addi-
tional laborer. In the Office of the deputy
controller of the currency $500 Is recon-
mended to be added to the salary Of the
deputy controller and the same amount to
the compensation Of the three chiefs OF d.
visions.
An Increase in the salary of the officer
in charge of the bureau of statistics Is rec
commended to be increased to $4,000 from
$500, and one messenger and one 1aDorer
are asked for in addition. In the secret
service division one $1,000 clerk and one
800 clerk are asked for
In the national bureau Of standards In
creases are asked for as follows: Two as
siStant physicists at $500 each; one as
assistants at 81 200 each; three at 81 900 and
four at $500 each; one librarian at $1,40O;
one clerk at 81 400: one clerk al $1,000; one
computer at $1,000: one mechanician at
woodworker at $40; one craftsman at
81 200; one electrician at 800; an additional
Waterman and an additional messenger at
$720 each; two additional laborers at $3.50
each; a janitor at 5000, and a charwoman
at $500. An additional amount of $4,000 is
also asked for grading, construction OF
roads and walks, piping grounds for wa
ter supply, lamps and wiring grounds for
lighting.
The War Department.
The estimates for the regular and tenn
porary force of the office of the Secretary
of War show net saving of 5000 over the
current appropria ton. In the office of the
adjutant general the estimate reduces the
force from 800 employees to 49, making
saving of $50. An increase of $3.50 is
asked in the pay of the chief clerk. The in
spector general asks for a chief clerk at
81, coo and to have four clerks and one mes
senger transferred from the temporary to
the permanent roll. The judge advocate
general asks to have six temporary en-
ployes transferred to the permanent roll.
The chief signal officer asks for the trans
fer of sixteen clerks from the temporary
to the permanent roll and an addition of
two clerks and one assistant messenger.
In the quarterrnaster generals department
the amount asked for is less by $14, O10 than
the present appropriation. The creation of
four chiefs of divisions by increasing the
pay of four clerks of class four is recon-
mended. In the office of the commissary
general an increase of two clerks of class
four is recommended. while the transfer to
the permanent from the temporary roll is
recommended for thirty-two clerks and one
messenger. In the surgeon generals office
a raise of $3.50 Is recommended in the salary
of the chief clerk and the transfer from
tam nv fn ia n
thrty-five clerks, two messengers, one as
sstant messenger and one laborer- No re-
duction Is made in the present force. Thtr-
ty clerks are transferred from the tenn
porary to the permanent roll by the rec
ommendation of the paymaster general
The chief of ordnance recommends that the
salary Of his chief clerk be increased by
$50 and estimates for total of seventy
three employees. two less than are now EN-
ployed. The chief of engineers asks $3.50
additional to the salary Of his chief clerk.
In the bureau of insular affairs law off,
Ger is estimated for at a salary of $500,
also three additional clerks
Under the head of public buildings and
grounds an increase Of 800 per annum In
the pay of the sergeant of park watchmen
in the District of Columbia Is asked, and
an increase of $40 per ann,rrn In the pay
of the park watchmen. The pay of these
watchmen is only $50 per month. The gov
eminent requires the street railway COM
panies to pay their crossing police officers
$75 per month. The lowest grade on the
metropolitan police force receives $50 per
month, and the officers who serve five or
six years faithfully receive $50 per month.
For these reasons the increase In pay asked
Is strongly recommended.
Estimates are submitted for an additional
day Waterman and an additional night
Waterman for Monument Park. An area of
thirty-three acres was added to this park
during the fiscal year 19O1-19O2 by the addi-
ton to it Of the portion Of Potomac Park
west Of the flushing basins and extending
from Virginia avenue, 18th and B streets
northwest to Maryland avenue and 14th
street southwest. An appropriation was
provided by Congress In the sundry civil act
of June, 1902, for the improvement of this
addition.
An additional amount of $1,000 is asked
for the care and Improvement of the mon
ument grounds" for the purpose of caring
for and maintaining, after Improvement
the addition or 'annex" to those grounds
mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
1t being the wish Of Congress that the
public parks should be as open as possible,
all the former high iron fences have been
removed except where absolutely needed
1t has been found by experience that a
simple stone curbing gives pleasing finish
and is sufficient to preserve a neat border
line between park and sidewalk. Lafayette
Square Is an Illustration. Franklin Park,
one Of the prettest and most frequented In
Washington, suffers for the lack of this.
simple but tasteful granite curb can be laid
around 1t for $1,000 or less, and the appro-
OF amount Is respectfully
urged.
Request is made for 50 900 for the care
and maintenance of the conservatory and
greenhouses of the Executive Mansion.
which Is the amount asked for the fiscal
year ending June &c. 1903, but for which
purpose Congress granted only $1,000 The
last-named amount Is declared not sufficient
to provide the force Of gardeners, fremen
and laborers necessary for the proper care
Of the White House greenhouses now being
re-erected at the propagating gardens and
for the purchase of supplies, tools, plants
and seeds, and 1t is recommended that The
Increase of 1900 be granted
The additional sum of $500 is asked for
the item of fuel, lights, supplies and repairs
at the Washington monument, for the pur-
pose of purchasing a new boiler to repIace
an old one that Is almost unserviceabIa
Navy Department.
In the Navy Department the bvdro-
graphic office asks for an eIectrotypfne
plant and an electrotyper. The former TO
cost $500 and the salary of the latter to he
$1,000. The naval observatory asks an adj
ditional amount Of 81, 800 to construct a
fence around the observatory grounds. The
ordnance bureau asks for mechanical
craftsman and ordnance engineer at So. 900
In addition to its regular force.