The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

Waahinxton,, Dec. 1s.--fSpeciai Cor l--Including few chieIs nf niwlninn, clerks of the various mraaea. copyists, typewriters, messen- gers and taborers there are about SUI Alabama people in the department Tn this city.
 The number is smaller now than it. was two or three years ago because the force was greatly reduced in the census office, This bureau was put under the jurisdiction of the Depart snanf of Commerce and Labor when ft was established several years ago. Tn 1900 when the last census or the United States was taken the main ot- fec in this city alone had $500 em- nloyes. Fifty-feur thousand men, wo- men and boys were aso required In other parts of the country to enum- crate the population, and gather sta flatfcs relating to every branch of in- dnstry. as wall as to collect infornna- xion upon social, charitable, religious and varied subjects. As the woik reached the finished stage a gradual reduction was made in the number of employees. The census office proper now has less than 1000 people en- ployed in Washington. Of course, Alabama, like the rest of the States, had to be reduced. Some of the clerks were transferred to other departments, ana placed a0@ I@S pokAnt@ttgHN heAAs under civil service regulations
 Another census is to be taken in 1910. AA the resources of the United States have developed with wonderful ra- pidity within the past decade the higher officials are of the opinion that three years hence a much greater force will be needed ct the census of face In this city. The chances are that fully A,500 men, women and boys will be at work. Organization will com mence in earnest during the year te0e. for the reason that che taking of a census is a gigantic undertaking and has to be planned in advance Then Alabama will doubtless have an equal show with the other States of like pop ulation in securing clerkships for her men and women. A limited civil ser vice examination will be required of all applicants, and congressional in- dorsement will also have it's effect.
 Persons From Oteer states.
 Maryland and virginia@ have more peopIe in the Washington department than any of the Southern States. That ia due to the policy that prevailed here in the days of the spoils system. The Republican politicians finding that the States from which they hailed could get no more credited to their. states had them put off on Maryland and Virginia. Then again shrewd down East Yankees and sharp Bellows from the cold climates of the North west rented houses in the two States and claimed to live there. or late years the trolley lines have enabled a great many of the department clerks to maintain leEitimately homes out side of the District of Columbia, and they now claim tp be legal residents and vote in both Maryland and Nar-. ginia. E--I
 According to the last register issued Maryland had 1888 people on the roIls' and Virginia LIB. Of the States south of the Potomac River GeoEgia. came next with 529 and Texas, 51s. Tha figures for the other Southern states are: Arkansas, 209; Floridas T95: Kentucky, 357; Louisiana, 215; Efississippi, 2s2; North Carolina, 415; south Carolina. 2se, and Tennessee, 421.
 The Southern States could get a. great many more places in the depart Tnents if the white people would apply for the vacancies. StenOgraphers, clerks and boolIkeepers are badly wanted here. Most of the Southern states are entitled to fill up their re- spective quotas. The civil service commissioners are constantly sending out notices for Southern people to claim what is due them. It is a N-~NS~NN~~@ the negroes in Dixieland are keener after these places than the average white man or woman. Inquiry proves that the South Is booming and that white men and women can find more agreeable and profitable employment In their own section.
 NEulcnhy was a Negro.
 A good joke is told here on a chief clerk in one of the big bureaus. He had been making acquisitions upon the commission for clerks. About every other time that he made Q request dur mg a period of eighteen months he had a negro assigned to his bureau. On calling upon the commission several names of eligibles are sent to him and he is compelled to pick from the list. He does not know the color of the men or women whose names are before him, for that ts concealed. It's very much like buying cats in a bag. Not long ago three names were submitted. One was Adulcahy. "Ah," said the chief clerk; they may palm off a