Show COLORED CLERKS Between fifty and sixty colored men hold positions as clerks in Executive Departments at Washington and with few exceptions they were given their places only after a rigid competitive examination Some were given the positions sitions as rewards for political service The officials say the blacks are faithful efficleRt and trustworthy and that they are really more polite accomodating and gentlemanly than rthe whites There are sat colored clerks in the Third Auditor Williams office and tbe auditor says they are in no respect in I tenor to their white associates The other day he promoted one of the negroes to SlCOO position and placed him in charge of a section with several white clerks under him Itr suppose they are all Republicans queried I Civil Service Commissioner JEdgerton to whom Williams was tallinn 0 Every one of them was the reply And did they kIck asked Mr SdVerton Kick Well I should say so Butt did them no good The man deserved ro tion and I It eto a promo cave to him I Thats an there was about it It is worthy of note tbat while the Departments contain hundreds of women there is not a single colored woman in any responsible position requiting re-quiting education and clerical training It is said that occasionally a colored woman applies for a place and appears tor competitive examination but invariably variably fails |