New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-20
CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY.
RECORDS TO BE PROBED
Investigation of Reform association
Charges to Continue.

The State Civil Service Commission after con-
tnuing fits investigation of the charges made
against the Municipal Civil Service Board by
the Civil Service Reform Association yesterday,
adjourned the hearings until June % the score
tary and chief examiner OF the State board in
tbe mean time TO examine the records Of the
local board and other city Offices
AT the beginning OF the hearing yesterday
George Eberle. payroll and record clerk of the
Municipal Commission was asked about the
ratification Of the payrolls in transfer cases.
He explained that the transfers were made by
the previous commission. Commissioner Tally.
n the local board. told Chairman Milliken of
,bs State board. that under an opinion of the
corporation Counsel the local board had no
mower TO hold Up payrolls at the request Of third
parties,
Chief Examiner Ireland was asked about the
assignment Of Emanuel E. Keyser as a monitor
Eeyser was twenty-sixth on the eligible list
The assignment of Keyser was by order of Mr..
Conway. the assistant chief examiner, MI Ire
land said.
Keyser was paid for nineteen days in Feb
mary and fifteen in March
Keyser was appointed in March, 1904. with
me one hundred and fifty or two hundred
others
one hundred and fifty janitors had been used
a one day in one examination.
There were L6O0 candidates at that examina-
ion.
monitors received So a day while employed
Under the rules the commission was not COM
-elled 10 employ any particular monitor.
Assistant Chief Examiner Conway told Chair
.,.n Nilliken that he had told Mr.. Ireland to
ssign Keyser as monitor by order Of Bird s.
~o,er while he was president of the Municipal
Commission
Assistant Secretary Roode, of the Civil Service
Reform Association, told Of alterations IN the
-scor5 Of the eligible list for 1904. He said the
names Of Eve persons appointed had been writ
sen INTO the book between his first and second
examinations Of one page He also said that in
,bs examination of the books he has been him
dered by President Baker. Secretary Elliott H
Goodwin, Of the association. gave similar testi-
rnony. He said that in the case Of a man named
Apnel appointed in June. 1904. names the
eligible list were skipped. In an appeal for
denomination by doctors Appel described him
self as a hard and trusted worker for Tom
Foley.
Secretary Bernger said that while Appel was
under appointment as monitor he had never
cen employed paid by the local board.
Aiessrs Ireland and Conway explained that
temporary appointments were continued over
the legal limit Of sixty days because the candi-
dates at examinations were so numerous that
it was impossible to figure ont the ratings for
the eligible list in that time.
The list Of temporary appointments which, it
charged. was continued beyond the legal
limit was filed by Mr.. NlcCook before he took UP
alleged violations Of the labor rules, which, he
said, were 10 get particular candidates.
John W. Gilligan. foreman Of gang of brick
layers IN the Sewer Department, was examined
concerning the labor rules. He said there
just one bricklayer in his gang
Jeremiah +. Logan, foreman of road construc-
Department a Mr.
ACCook there was another foreman in the gang
OF eight men The second forenans duties were
supervisory Witness took his orders from him
The second foreman got 81 a day
James J. Daily. q cabinetmaker told the com
.i.lssIon mat while he was repairing desks in
The engine room Of the Brooklyn Bridge he was
working as a cabinetmaker and when he was
putting IN timbers on the bridge he was car
penter
James Redding. of No. 40S West 22d-st.. said
that on June Is, 1904, he applied for a place
as 'laborer and land sounder," but failed to
get IL The record showed that Redding had
6een appointed and assigned to Commissioner
Oakieys department Redding identified the
Application papers, but denied that he had ever
worked for the city He said that he was the
only James Redding living at No 4OS West
Z-d-st Search was ordered made for Readings
double If ne is found he VIII be taken before
the commission.
Frank S. Spencer. labor clerk, stated that the
city employed about twenty-five Thousand Ia
boTers. The list Of those seeking ennIovr,en+
numbered twenty-foUr thousand. In addition
n these the local commission carried on its
DOCKS the names OF fifty thousand ex-employes
Ihose employed and seeking work aggregated
one hundred thousand.
Was there ever an application for twenty
I'VE laborers possessing q knowledge Of tree
climbng?' he asked.
Yes, under the Low administration"
Was previous experience of tree cI,robir,
reuUired?'
Yes"
Was there an application for lawn roovve~
IN me month of January from the Park Depart
nent, Manhattan2'
Yes. and Colonel Ogden filed the requisition
der SNOW" ~
Secretary Berlinger explained his method Of
keeping the efficiency record for pror7o+ioT
Those punctual and efficient were marked az
aAd those not prompt and efficient b. and 20 -
secretary Goodwin complained that the eff
cheney records Of the Board of Education the
commissioners Of Accounts and Bellevue and
AIMED Hospitals were not kept as the law re-
CURED He found, he said, an employe graded
A who had been sick for tweaty-three DAYS