Evening star., 1907-09-01
RESULT OF "EXPERIMENTS"
Salary List Which Includes Promo
tions to Special Duties.
SEARCHING FOR NEW IDEAS
Biz Pay for Services That May Be
Classed as Spectacular-New
Offices

tho pittanrcs received ny the folder women
at the government printing office. ma
1ority Of whom are supposed TO be without
political pull, the records OF the puoh'
rrntery have been consulted. These rec
ords give the gilt edge list of promoted
and recently created officials. the Dig
salaries they are paid from the public till
and the high sounding titles that have been
applied 10 them under the present expert
mtutal system. The women who toll in
the bindery and folding department cannot
under the most favorable circumstances
earn more than $50 per day. More often
they receive wages varying from 10 cents
10 81 per diem.
Yet, according 10, official. the pubic
printer. under the advice of one of his as
sietants, IL Is said created sweat-shop con-
ditions in the establishment by going down
the list and Topping off 80 per cent of the
earnings of the hardest worked and most
lily paid class of employees in the printery
the women who fold.
The records of the government printing
office show that beginning with Stllings
himself the front office force. the adminis-
trative department, is composed OF men
who draw big pay for services that can be
classed as spectral or experimental. for
the big printing plant Is said to be going
through an experimental evolution, from
the practical to the theoretical The sal
airy of the public printer Is given as $3.50
per annum. His recently created assistant.
or deputy public printer. receives $500.
and his private secretary $3.50
Some New Offices.
Then come some of the new offices born
OF the experimentation now so rampant
at the big print shop: solicitor ct
$3.50; foreman who is making a tour
of the northwestern states and Canada in
search of new ideas at $2.400 and travel
TO-
nation and duties appear to be deep
and dark secret at $1,000 per; another
name which appears to be in the same
category and for whom an official desig-
nation appears to be lacking on the
roster at the same rate of pay: an acting
foreman who appears to be without a
division-or. according to the office ver-
Daeular sectional $1,000 per annum;
chief messenger. recently evolved. at
$1,2eO; an appointment and correspond
ence officer (semething new in the an
nails of the printery) at $4,000 per; file
clerk at $1,000. and his assistant at ST.,
900; then variety of lesser fry clerks,
stenosraphers messengers and What not,
down to messenger boy at $500.
Next comes the newly created door
keepers division" the members of which
be distinguished by their gold -bedecked
uniforms and bel-crowned caps literally
decorated with gold lace and brass buttons.
There is a chief doOrkeeper at 81 100 and
five assistant doorksepers at $1,000. The
plain old fashioned doorkeepers under for
mer public printers wore everyday cloth
Hs ana received Sz.9o per dlenl-
Special Administration"
,.., -,., ;,
are 70 he fonnd NAM freak iohs. snnerin-
tcndent of stables. foreman of stables. mail
carrier in a most gorgeous uniform and with
salary of $1,000; carriage drivers at $3.50
and 800, special messengers, chief wagon
messenger ct al. at varying salaries, but
none of them as low as the wage of the
piece-working folder women, whose sti-
pends have been reduced by recent order.
Further down the list comes the brand
new division Of statistics and accounts"
accountant ro % and chief at s. 500 per annaI ,il
,o -, ,ae 10 20 n,.. =, 81 naa IL i'''''u 'A'
St tbe head Of the Stock keeninp sec-
tion,, is tho .'cbiaf stocl,Lser,ar :, ~ so 900
and otbar s,ocxkeanars s1orekaenars OTTO
AT salaries ranging downward from 81 spa
to sooo 1,ban cnIaes tGa T"rmiiaIi. Hnol5
keeping section with its arrav Of clerks win
ssilries fror, SO douSi' roy Va ''e' No WIN
Passirg aInTr ,%o ..Has,1,oa-,;,,,r soo.io,,r
comes in ,.iew win an ,,cting aseistap,
foreman in charge at 81 coo per: Following
niSor ,,its - S,,,,oi iiem eN"niherS ana
AT fat salaries "''" On
The hook ke,rirr secrfo,-.. hos es i've ,t,aS
''the bookkeepel in charge '' WIN nm array
Of tempGrar, clerks in ,,,ar@e nf t2a in rs
staIlation of the exnansi,,. anal, sTs-an,
Ncxf tn n ON 10 ris1 is tI,a 49,, e - ~
lie documents. with a nurnb.r Of newly ere
az en- - a. t,t,t,"-', q "''', ~ I''"-S ere
cnrr, Sp'ndenee and filing section" with a
SUCK section an innovation.
The stock section" is also something
new Win N.-'s' "stockkeeper" in charge
ana tW"h'N-'3Fe rcw clerks on the roll. Next
Is the "s. HpiuS section, and then the
much-ta h'd-of editorial ction," with an
acting 'h'cf editor in charge; three acting
'ultpTS, 'ataloguer. clerk and messenger
boy. The acting chief editor receives q
stipand of Il s0o nor an,,u,,, ara btc ,,.
ants 81. $50 each