Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

Much information of interest to Amer
lean government employees is to lie gained
from the annual reports
Civil Service of the British civil serv-
Da ice commissioners, indi-
A'oPoA'' eating the high standard
maintained in England in making up the
civil organization. The latest printed copy
which | was able to obtain in England
covered the year ending December 81.
1863 but | was assured that it was char
acteristic. as u reflection of general con-
ditions. OF the year that had just closed.
1910 The report is brief, comprising
only about fifteen printed pages. with APP
pendices. making pamphlet of altogether
about sixty pages The commissioners.
addressing their report to the king. recite
the results of their activities during the
year. with statistics showing the number
of examinations. the number of persons
rejected for one cause and another and
those appointed both permanently and on
probation.
During the year 1900 the commission
considered altogether 3',3l'' cases, or
which number II 6Si were disposed of,
leaving the remainder still under consid-
alton at the end of the year. At the
August examination for clerkships in the
home civil service. the Indian civil serv-
ice and eastern cadetshps there We're pa
candidates to fill - vacancies in the In
dian civil service and q in the home civil
service and IL eastern cadetships. total
of 40. Subsequent vacancies, however.
Increased the total number of appointees
by %. so that there were 90 successful
candidates out of the 2l4.
y glance at the qualifications of some of
the men named in the home civil service
would indicate the kind of
University material drawn upon by
the commission to fill the
uA"u uotoS' government places. The
leading man. who was named to posi-
ton in the Treasury, having scored sod
marks out of total of 1000 was educat-
ed at the Merchant Tailors Public School
and Ballol College. Oxford. He was an
honor man at the university. Number
two, appointed by the colonial office,
scored 1885 points, being Christ
Hospital man and an honor graduate OF
New College Oxford. The third man.
who was assigned to duty in the Scottlsh
office, scored 3,297 points, having gradual
ed from the University College at London
and Ballol College at Oxford, with hon
ors. Number four, who was detailed TO
the correspondence department or the IN
dian office, graduated with honors from
Christ Church College, oxford, and scored
total Of BITS points.
These examples indicate sufflclenly the
character of the candidates presenting
themselves for examination and the high
estimate placed upon government employ
ment by men of eminent scholastic at
tainments. The marks furthermore show
the keenness of the competition, although
ION, fba
separated by wider margins than in the
middle and a the bottom of the range OF
rank In the list of home civil service
appointees the top man. as already stated.
received 3.571 points and the bottom man
on the list 2,13O points, the latter thus
getting little more than 20 per cent of
possible scores The top man in the ex-
animation for the India civil service
scored a.o9S points and the bottom man
>, l26 points.
There were 50 open competitions for the
home civil service during the year 1903
the results of which were
Intense announced during the year.
u being for places in the
hIVdAy' post office. In 33 of tnese
G5 post office examinations Liza male can
didates competed for SO positions In the
remaining 20 examinations there were
=. i9l female competitors for 467 situa-
tons This was an average of traction
more than 81 men for each, place, as
against H. women for each position IL
is interesting to note m passing tfat ,iie
average number of female candidates LOT
each place in the Post Office Department
had risen from the year previous from !
candidates an increase of about 21a tlmes
AS an instance in this connection OF the
pressure for places may be cited two al
Il ha
clerks and former boy clerks to MI va
cancies for assistant clerks of the ap-
stractor class. There We're - candidates'
of whom 4J3 were successful
With reference to the health OF candi-
dates. the commissioners note that in
some cases a further medical examination
was allowed when the result OF the hrs'
was unfavorable. and during the year
143 candidates were thus reco1sldered win
reference to their physical qualifications
In - of these cases the unfaVoraDle YER
dict was reversed, and the CANDIDATES.
were pronounced qualified 1T may be
safely assumed that in these cases Inc
candidates had shown marked qualifica-
tons for az pointment on the basis of their
mental eXaminat ors. and this considera-
ton operated in their favor somewhat to
overcome the disposition to pronounce
them physically unfit.
The great majority OF the British ciVil
employees belong to the class known as
second division clerks. these correspond
=
paid from 81 go to l.sG0 a year During
iao9 one examination for clerkships OF
this elias was held. 1.5d5 cand dates com
peting for 20 appointments. foot note in
The report states that since the close or
the report year 80 further al po ntments
had been made from the result u that ex-
animation. thus giving 300 places TO these
candidates. or an average OF IS coh1pep-
tors for ca h position
The entire number of assignments OF
second division clerks since the Great on
Of that class in 1876 was. III to the END
of 1909 1888, an average of about 1'4
appointments during each of the twenty
four years.
Az an example of the stability of the
force it is interesting to note the state
ment in this report that
Infrequent during the year laoS
only thirty-one second
1TduSIeIS. division clerks had been