Evening star., 1917-11-25
WAR BOOSTS D. c.
POPULATION 100000
Government Pay Roll Increas-
ed About 10000 Persons
Since Conflict Began.
WOMEN HUGE FACTOR


| than $4,000 persons employed in 1915.
| figures compiled by the committee on
| public information from records of the
civil service commission show.
Approximately 10000 employees have
| been added to the governments pay
roll since the war begun. and it is es-
timated by the committee that the pop
ulation of the National Capital has in
increased more than 10000 persons. all
/, told.
! The expansion OF the governments s
| operations. not only in Washington. but
| throughout the country. is revealed in
| the certifications Of the civil service
commission.
! Since the outbreak of the war the
| commission has certified for appoint
services. between 10000 and l25,090
| persons.
! Appointments in Lead.
i While the nuniber of appointments is
! far behind the number Of certifica-
tions. the figures indicate the prepara-
| tions made for the extraordinary de-
mands of war. Appointm ents are being
| made daily from this list and the civil
| service commission continues to hold
examinations Civil service certifica-
| tions for the service in and out of
Washington embrace all classes from
| Watchmen and messengers to expert
| accountants and chemists.
| The War Department leads in the ad-
| ditions to clerical forces since the be-
| ginning Of the war. Since April the
| War Department has added approx
| mately $500 names to its roster of
| Washington employees.
| The clerical force of the Navy De-
| partment is today substantially double
| that at the beginning Of the war.
About $500 employees have been added,
! Sc 1har fnr rty1dt sy-an
women who have enlisted in the Navy
and are now assigned to clerical du-
| ties
Independent bureaus have employed
| many hundred clerks, typists and
| stenographers. The food administra- :
| tion now uses force of nearly one
| thousand. The War Trade Board en-
| ploys more than 700; the fuel admin
and the Council of National Defense
! and the Red Cross have engaged APP
proximately 1,400 persons who are
| divided about equally between. the two
! organizations.
Printing Adds Work.
| Wartime printing has added materi-
ally to the large force of the Govern
| ment Printing Office and it is esti-
| mated that additions to the other de-
! partments will run the total number
of new government workers to 10000.
|
has been a problem for the govern
ment since the declaration of war
| Dozens Of rented buildings are being
used. Within the past few days the
| government found 1t necessary to lease
almost the whole of an eight-story
office building for the War Trade
Board. The old Department of Justice
! building was quite Inadequate
In Its search for room the govern
n1ent has found it advisable to rent
| even apartment houses. An apartme At
| house at 18th and NJ streets was reLed
| in, its entirety before completion and
! the cantonment division Of the Quar-
! termaster Corps moved in as the plas-
| tered walls were drying.
Erected in Rush.
| Rapidly expanding bureaus and COM
| missions have made necessary the con-
struction of several buildings for the
| These buildings have been hurriedly
| but substantially constructed on gov
| ernment land near Potomac Park. The
buildings erected are not unlike those
at the National Army cantonments The
! Council OF National Defense the food
! administration and the American Red
! Cross tan overflow section of the lat
| teri have recently moved into these
wartime structures. 1t is still neces-
| sary. however. to rent buildings in
! bureaus of some departments may be
| found in widely scattered areas
In addition to the thousands of paid
| government employees who have recent
ly come to Washington, the city Is peo-
pied now with hundreds of reserve Of
| ficers. business men who have volun-
! teered to work for 81 year, contrac-
! tors and the families OF those who have
been called to Washington for the
| duration of the war.