Moreover, A. Making duplicate corrected Civil Lists. B. Comparisons of monthly pay-rolls taken from the Comptroller's office. C. Examinations of the original common labor registers for errors in I. Ward Lists, containing the 872 names of all applicants for II. New register of 150 names of Skilled Laborers classified by B. Ap C. Apt Milwau Wisconsi New Yor Illinois.. Pennsyl Massach Ohio..... Missouri Michigan Minneso Vermont German Englan Austria Norwa Ireland Canada Russia STATISTICS OF THE 627 APPLICANTS FOR THE OFFICIAL SERVICE. March 1, 1896, to February 27, 1897, inclusive. A. Applicants dropped out for non-appearance or other reasons.. NATIVITY OF B. AND C. NATIVE BORN. 47 ..274 ....306 The total number of individuals in all departments of the City Service may be surprising to many citizens, who forget that the city government must provide not only for the comfort, health and safety of 280,000 inhabitants, but also for the good condition and improvement of a territory covering about 201⁄2 square miles with 500 miles of streets, of which 73 miles are paved, 216 miles otherwise improved, and 208 miles unimproved, to be taken care of. The following table classifies briefly the persons at present in the service of the city, the numbers being subject to change from day to day: B. UNDER THE BOARD OF FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSIONERS: 3. In the Fire Department, including 27 pensioners........... Commissioners (*), Heads of Departments, Deputies, Secretaries, Teachers in all Public Schools (including Substitutes).. Total 3,047 Temporary positions to be filled by departments for short periods of time are not considered in the above enumeration. Of the 3,047 positions, 2,972 are compensated and 75 marked (*) are honorary. Among the applicants for common street work were many who had formerly been in affluent or at least comfortable circumstances, some of them men of college education who had lost their fortune and, driven to last extremes, thus showed themselves willing to do their duty to their families. On the other hand, when it became known that several thousand families were regularly drawing supplies from the Poor Department, and you permitted the re-opening of the common labor registers for applications, the notices of such re-opening of the labor list, generously published by all the newspapers, brought but very few applications; and a requisition made for seven common laborers for street work in a certain Ward, had to be filled by transfer from other Wards, because there were no laborers in that Ward who wanted work. If each family or person asking for public relief, were required to make a written application, stating facts required for a good system of statistics, and giving references, the records of the Poor Department would show whether the 2,000 to 3,000 families receiving such relief, besides those relieved by the Associated Charities, were all families of widows or of men really unable to work or to obtain work on account of sickness, age, inebriety or other causes. Such statistics would facilitate investigation and the prevention of fraud and favoritism. The following tables give a synoptical exhibit of a part of the routine work and its results: Date of Ex amination. EXAMINATIONS IN THE OFFICIAL SERVICE. March 1, 1896, to February 27, 1897, inclusive. POSITION SOUGHT. your examination Since my election, all the examinations were held in hall, except the technical examination of stenographer-typewriters, for which Mr. R. C. Spencer permitted the use of his college rooms without remuneration. 1 1 1 |