Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-19
APPOINTED TO PLACE
Women Selected for Federal
Employment.
A CIRCULAR LETTER
DATA COMPILED BY THE CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION.
Information Sent Out in Response to
Hundreds of Letters-Statement
to Be Altered Annually.

The question of womanS chances to get
into the government service under present
conditions Is one that has been worrying
the members of Congress whose feminine
constituents desire to obtain employment IN
the departments here, and who call upon
their Representative or senator to intercede
for them. The civil service commission has
received hundreds of letters from members
of Congress requesting information regard
ing this matter, and it was some time be-
fore satisfactory form of reply was
agreed upon. The commission DID not de-
sire to hold out false hopes to the women
of the country, the officials Of that bureau
state, and they desired to tell the plain
truth. They worked for some time over
this matter and finally, through the exer-
lions of the chief examiner and his staff
succeeded in compiling letter which can
be revised from time to time to bring 1t up
to date, but which will last as long IS the
office itself This letter contains statistics
as to the appointment of women during the
year prior to that in which 1t was written
and year preceding. In the letter,
which follows. is found carefully prepared
statement of the positions to which women
have been appointed during the past fiscal
year and the year preceding, and Is copy
of that which has been sent throughout the
country by representative in Congress in
presenting the exact condition of the serv-
Ice to their constituents:
Women in the Departments.
In reply to your request to be informed
of the opportunity for Mrs. - to secure
appoin TIM ent. through examination, your at
tenton is called to the following informa-
ton regarding the appointment of women
through the commissions examinations:
During the past fiscal year the largest
number of appointments from any one par
ticular examination was from the printers
assistant examination for the bureau of en-
craving and printing, from which 1888 were
appointed; during the prior year PA were
appointed from this examination. Eighty
examination, while during the prior year
hfty-seven were SO appointed. Thirteen
were appointed from the departmental clerk
examination, while during the prior year 4
were appointed. During the past year thir-
ty-seven were appointed to the position of
matron in the Indian service, while thirty
were appointed during the preceding yeal
Twenty-one were appointed to the posiuo.
of seamstress last year and twenty-six to
this position the prior year. Twenty-one
were appointed to different positions. at the
m1nts and assay offices, principally as adj
justers, while four were appointed the prior
year. Thlrty-one press feeders were ap-
pointed in the government printing office,
against twenty-five appointments to this
position the preceding year. Four were ap-
pointed from the first grade and four from
the third grade examinati tons in the differ
ent custom houses during the past year,
while the prior year two were appointed
from the first grade and one from the third
grade examination. One hundred and six
ty-ive were appointed in the different clas-
slfed post Gees during the year. while 1913
We're appointed during the prior year.
FROM the registration, or non-educa-
uonal, examinations during the past year
women were appointed as follows: Attend
ant, Government Hospital for the Insane
II; marine hospital service, 8; baker, 3;
trny,
Hospital, 1.
During the prior year the appointments
from this class of examinations were: At
tendant, Government Hospital for the In
sane, 80: housekeeper, / dietician l cook
"a; laundress, IS; mail bag sewer, / sewer
and bobbin winder, l.
Special Skill Required.
"All Of the other examinations from
which appointments Of women were made
during the past two years required some
special or technical skill knowledge, as
shown by the following list:
For the year ended June 80, 1902: Artist, /
/; scientific assistant, 1; assistant micro
scopist, Z; book typewriter, 4; clerk-stenog-
rapher-typewriter, land office, 2; computer
coast and geodetic survey, l; counter gov
eminent paper mill, /; Industrial teacher, /;
kindergarten teacher, 4; Neacher 27; trained
nurse, 3; register and receivers clerk 3;
scientific aid, /; stenographer 2: stenogra-
pher and typewriter, u; typewriter, A. ZOO
logical clerk, l. composltor, 4; public docu-
ment cataloguer, /; internal revenue serv-
Ice, l; Philippine service, stenographer and
typewriter, 4.
Year ended June 80 1901: Assistant eth
nologic librarian, l; book typewriter u;
clerk-stenographerty land Office
3; computer, coast and geodetic survey, .;
computer, naval observatory, 1; counter
government paper mill, g. scientific assist
ant, 3; topographic craftsman l; kinder
garten teacher, u; music teacher, 2;
teacher, %; trained nurse, s; librarian, /;
register and receivers clerk, 4; stenogra-
pher. 2; stenographer and typewriter ID;
superintendent and head nurse, Freedman's
Hospital, /; telephone operator, /; type
writer, 2; cataloguer. government printing
service, / assistant to bookbinder, customs
service !"