It is is taken into consideration? The chief examiner would not be understood as recommending a general increase in salaries; it is not necessary. Some positions ought to be increased; others are well paid now. believed, however, that a uniform minimum schedule, which would give the head of the department or institution some discretion about increasing the pay of a good employé, without exceeding the maximum in his grade, would keep many excellent men and women in the service, which it is now losing. For the purpose of conducting all written examinations the same day, and of holding them in the territory from which the largest number of applicants is obtained, the chief examiner appointed local and medical examiners in twenty-seven different cities. Those examiners simply conduct the examinations on the day it is called. The questions and supplies for the various examinations are shipped to them by express before the examination. They open the packages at the examination, distribute the questions, oversee the examination to see that no fraud is committed and that no helps are used by applicants. The medical examiners examine the applicants physically. After the examination the examiners return the papers to the commission. They are separated into groups by the chief examiner and the identification papers removed. The questions and answers are sent to the examining board, if it be a technical examination. The work of the local and medical examiners has been unusually satisfactory and the Chief Examiner appreciates the intelligent coöperation they have given him. The examiners appointed were: TRANSFER OF EMPLOYES. The number of transfers during 1910 was the largest in the history of the commission. The increase was due principally to the establishment of the Board of Administration, which frequently desired to transfer employés from one institution to another for the purpose of obtaining the best results. It is the object of the Board of Administration and the Civil Service Commission to treat the institutions as a single department so far as posible. The following transfers were made: Thomas L. Atkinson from the position of bookkeeper in the Illinois School for the Blind to the position of bookkeeper in the Jacksonville State Hospital. Frank H. Cogswell from the position of carpenter at the Soldiers' Orphans' Home to that of instructor in carpentry in the Illinois School for the Deaf. (Subject to examination.) Orpha Lawrence from the position of attendant in the Jacksonville State Hospital to a similar position in the Kankakee State Hospital. Miss Adele Poston from the position of chief nurse in the Jacksonville State Hospital to the position of chief nurse in the Kankakee State Hospital, by the Board of Administration. Elizabeth Tunnell from the position of stenographer for the Board of Administration to stenographer in the Elgin State Hospital. May Shelton Robinson from the position of attendant in the Anna State Hospital to attendant in the Elgin State Hospital. Frank Barger from the position of attendant in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home to attendant in the Elgin State Hospital. Miss Mildred Unclebee from the position of graduate nurse in the Watertown State Hospital to graduate nurse in the Kankakee State Hospital. C. S. Collins from the position of attendant in the Watertown State Hospital to attendant in the Lincoln State School and Colony. Lena Jackson from the position of attendant in the Kankakee State Hospital to attendant in the Elgin State Hospital. Eva Turner from the position of attendant in the Lincoln State School and Colony to attendant in the Watertown State Hospital. Maggie Baggett from the position of attendant in the Kankakee State Hospital to attendant in the Anna State Hospital. Dr. C. C. Atherton from the position of assistant physician in the Peoria State Hospital to assistant physician in the Lincoln State School and Colony, by the Board of Administration. Recie Henderson from the position of housekeeper in the Soldiers' Widows' Home to a similar position in the Watertown State Hospital, by the Board of Administration. Dr. C. R. Bell from the position of physician in the Peoria State Hospital to physician in the Elgin State Hospital. Dr. R. F. Winsor from the position of assistant physician in the Peoria State Hospital to assistant physician in the Chester State Hospital. Dr. R. M. Ritchey from assistant physician in the Chester State Hospital to physician in the Anna State Hospital. Miss Elizabeth Peel from the position of stenographer in the Board of Administration to stenographer for the Charities Commission. Miss Hilda Smith from attendant in the Kankakee State Hospital to attendant in the Elgin State Hospital. Miss Anne W. Jackson from librarian in the Illinois School for the Blind to librarian in the Illinois School for the Deaf. Mrs. M. J. Schermerhorn from assistant matron in the State Training School for Girls to supervisor of the large boys mending room in the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Clarence Wooten from the position of fireman in the State Training School for Girls to attendant in the Kankakee State Hospital. EXAMINATIONS IN 1910. One hundred and twenty-five examinations for sixty-seven classes of positions were held during the year in the following thirty-seven cities: Anna, Aurora, Belleville, Bloomington, Cairo, Canton, Centralia, Chicago, Clinton, Charleston, Fairfield, Effingham, Elgin, Galesburg, Geneva, Golconda, Jacksonville, Harrisburg, Lincoln, Macomb, Kankakee, Marion, Mt. Carmel, Mt. Vernon, Olney, Ottawa, Pana, Peoria, Paris, Paxton, Quincy, Rockford, Springfield, Sterling, Urbana, Vandalia and Watertown. RESULT OF EXAMINATION. The following table will show the results of these examinations: |