Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-20
CIVIL SERVICE
The Census Bureau Has Just Issued an Important
 Document.

Washington, D. C., April 2O.-An Interesting bulletin has been issued by the census bureau which shows in concrete form the number of civil ser vice employees of the government and all facts relating to them. The in quiry made by the bureau of the cen- sus has been in progress for several months. Notwithstanding the fact that it might be supposed the gOvern-' ment. through the civil service com mission, would have all the informa- tion concerning it employees at tits fingers ends," so to say, nobody has any idea of the exact number of civil service employees or of their location and status in the government service.
 It was determined, therefore, to have the census bureau make a detail- ed inquiry into the subject with a view to preparing statistics that would be valuable and accurate. The re- turns from that inquiry have been compiled carefully and with interest T ing results. The total number of em- ployes in the executive civil service of the government on July 1st., 1907, exclusive of these employed in the diplomatic and consular services, was 2S6,902 These employees are scat tered all over the world, but about tenth of them 29,103, to be accu- rate, are employed in the City of Washington in the various executive departments.
 A large number of employees of the government, under the civil service regulations, is not included by the census bureau in its inquiry because of the difficulty in obtaining the exact status of the people. These included postmasters, navy-yard employees, me chanics and people employed on the Isthmus of Panama on the canal.
 Eliminating these, the total number considered by the census bureau is 1S5,S74. Of these, 25,351 are employ ed in the District of Columbia and 160,523 in other parts of the county or world. It is curious fact that, while the number of employees in the District of Columbia is only about one-sixth of the total number, the number of women employed in the city of Washington exceeds the num- Der employed in all other parts of the world by S95. The total number of women employed by the government in Washington is 7,35S while only GAGS women are employed elsewhere.
 In the city of Washington, one government employe in every nine is negro. Of the total number employ ed by the government. S3 per cent are native whites, and 6 per cent are colored. Of the colored. S,352 are negroes, 1,725 are Indians. 1,0iT are Filipinos, 142 are Chinese and g are Japanese. It must he borne in mind, of course, that these are civil service employees. Many others are employ ed in other branches of the govern ment service.
 One half of the employees are un- der B years of age. In the city of Washington the average limit is slightly higher being 3SS years. There are 137 persons in the civil ser vice employ of the government who are S0 years of age and over The old employees nearly all are located in Washington, although there are few elsewhere.
 The average compensation of the men employees in the District of Co., lumbia is S1,1TS; of women SS3T. In other places. the compensation is S93J for men, and S766 for women. The figures show that the women do not rate as high in the service as the men.
 It is particularly interesting to note that more than one-half of the em- ployes considered in the bulletin are connected with the post office depart ment.