The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-07

lExaminer An abstract of this ig ae fol- lows: For men, the best opportunities are l offered through the stenography and type writing examinations, which are given l twice a year. For several years all men who have passed in both of these branches
 have been offered appointments. except those who placed the minimum salary | they were willing to accept at so large a figure as to preclude their appointment. About 50 per cent of the men passing the Ibookkeeper examination receive appoint ments For some time past all the eligi- | bles from the examination for aid in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, which ex- | animation requires a fair knowledge of higher mathematics, mathematical as-4 tronomy, and physics. surveying. and some knowledge of modern European Ian | guages, have been offered appointment. Those who have passed the examinations
 for topographic draftsman, assistant to- pographer, and copyist topographic draftsman, for the last three or four years, have usually been offered appoint | ment, the salaries ranging from $S4o to N,500 per annum. Persons passing the | examinations for assistant examiner or patents, civil and electrical, and civil and mechanical engineer. are reasonably | sure of appointment. The entrance sal ary for the position Of assistant asafntl-
 CT of patents is $1.20o, with aSeood chance for promotion. The entrapc4t salary for, the engineer examinations Above mem | toned is about S1 800 per all1um. Other ' examinations for the Departmental Ser | vice which offer good opportunities for appointment to men are that for inspec- | tor of meats, in the Bureau"6f Animal | Industry, and that for junior civil -en- | gineer. In the Railway Mail Service from | TOO to 800 appointments year have been | made for the fast four or five years, at an entrance salary of $500 per annun. | Most of the eligibles from. the different | teacher examinations for the Indian Ser vice are usually appointed, at entrance salaries of from $500 to S900 per annum. | Persons who pass the examinations for l bookbinder prcssman. electrotype hn- isrer electrotype molder. and stereo- l typer. for the Government Printing Off, | fee, have very good opportunities for ap- pointment. The supply of compositor | eligibles, on the other hand. Is usually | considerably in excess of tho demand. Chances for Women.
 | The opportunities for the appointment of women in the classified service as | whole are not fiattering. The chief ex- aminer says:
 | At present but few women arc ordi-
 nariiy appointed to tho general depart l mental and government printing services. | except in the Indian service. the bureau | of engraving and printing. and the posi- | ton of skilled laborer in the government printing office. However. a small num- Der of women clerks and stenographers and typewriters are appointed each year. | The opportunities for women eligible | from the examinations for the different kinds of teachers in the Indian service
 are very good. Quite a number of ap- pointments are also mado in the Indian | service from the trained nurse and matron | examinations"
 Scope and Character of the Exami- + nations.
 | The scope and character of the exami- | nations appear in brief in the Manual of | Examinations published by the Commis-
 sion of which about 5000 copies were l furnished applicants during the year covered by the report. The number of
 applications for examination was 59,bb2, | an average of 1l45 per week. The chief
 examiner states that during the year
 "the examining division, assisted by ex-
 perts detailed from the different depart 1 ments for that purpose. prepared ex- | aminations under $50 distinct tities,' that 2l3 of the examinations included specific
 tests of either professional, scientific,
 technical, or general education, and 37 were registration examinations, which
 have been heretofore described. The | examinations held during the year re- quired the preparation of 365 different sets of tests. The above would seem to justify the statement made by the Com
 missioners that "the examination held to meet the needs of the service
 embrace about 400 different qualifications, | which cover wider range than any
 educational institution in the country"
 
 boards throughout the country, so that, | as a rule no one Is compelled to travel 1 any great distance in order to be exam ined.
 Lack of Facilities. | Attention is called in the report to the fact that although during the past seven or eight years, the number of classified positions has increased from a little over | 90 900 to more than 100, 600 and the num-
 Der of appointments per year from about 1 1000 to about 10000, no additional em- ployes have been provided by Congress to meet this enormous increase. This diff fculty Is only partially met by the detail of employees from other departments for | the chief examiner states:
 With the present limited appropriations 1t has been impossible to conduct the examining work of the Commission in a satisfactory manner, and great delays
 have been unavoidable"
 The Civil Service Act, Rules and
 Regulations.
 Part of the Appendix to the report contains. among other things, the civil service act, rules and regulations. the statutes particularly affecting the ciassi- fled service, and the Philippine civil ser- vice act. This portion of the report is brought substantially down to date, and includes the numerous important changes that have been made in the civil service'l rules during the past year, together with the Executive orders affecting the civil service promulgated during the same pe- riod.
 Other Features of the Report.
 Parts II and III contain. respectively, | the regulations governing the classified | service and history of the administraI ton of the act and rules throughout the l country during the year covered by the | report. In Part III are also extracts from | the reports of government officers cOn- l corning the operation of the act and | rules. Among these is the recommenda- tion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia made to the President, that | the force under their control be placed, l by appropriate legislation, in the elassi- | fled civil service. Included in this division | of the report are also the conclusions and | recommendations of a committee of the | National Civil Service Reform League | upon the subject of superannuation in | the civil service. and paper by Hon. ". | D. Foulke entitled "The Civil Service in | our New Dependencies" In Part " is | published, for the first time. a complete | .G,.