Female Employes

Tbero are moro than 4,000 women in the cmployment of the Government at Washington, and General Francia E. Spinner is their patrón saint. During1 the war it was impossible to obtain a pfflcicnt number of men to SU the olerical positions in the departmenta. Finding the forcé growing smaller every week, General Spinner, who was then Treasurer of the United States, suggested that women might be employed on much of the work. His suggestion was acted upon, and the first woman went to work in the Treasury Department counting money. The salaries of women in the deparfements range f rom $600 to 81,800 a year, and there are quite a number who receive the latter sum. Mrs. P. F. Chandler, who is employed in the chief clerk's división of the Pension Office, receives asalary of $1,800, and Mrs. Emlly V. D. Miller, who is a stenographer in the Pension Office, receives for her work a salary of 81,600 a year. The greater number of women in the departments are employed a.- oopyists and typewriter operators, and for this wort tbey receivo $900 ;i y 'au Many women are now finding employment at the Census Bureau. The Census Uureau is not under the Civil-Serviee, but Superintendent Portar has estiiblished a civü-sorviee exaraination of hia own which all appl cations fot1 positionü in his bureau must pass. All of bis appointees start to work U $T20 a yearand take their chances of promotion for merit Work in the Census Bureau is not so much in deraand, because it is only temporary and must cease in a year or two, when the work of the bureau is complete. Still there are ten to twenty applicants for every vacaucy under Mr. Porter. There very few instanees of the employment of huaband and wife in the Government service. There was at one time a strict rule agalnst it in the departments. There Is at least one man in the Government service who wishes thatrule was in f orce now. I saw a letter a short time ago, written to a member of the Cabinet by an employé of the department, asking that his wife be removed from the position she was then holding. liis salary of 31,800 a year, he wrote, was quite enough for both of them, but so long as his wife was receiving an independent salary she neglected her household duties. He wanted her made dependont on him again. Before the head of the department had an opportuni ty to act on this strange request he receivved another letter from the husband recalling the flrst letter and stating in exDlanation that the removal of bis wife from her position would cast a stigma on her name which she might S=á flifflni.lt to remove.- rw. w„..v