Show emoi IN SAMS SHOPS A civil service bexan battle cause 1 special to washington april 17 two realf ago accordine accordi nR to the report of the civi demce one out of even four appointees to a place under the cal service laws was a woman toja reliable reports indicate that in at leahi one of the departments women are being reduced instead of promoted the reason given in one case being that the believe that nu woman shall draw more than 1200 a year po ex tra ordinary has been the falling off in the matter of women that there is now virtually no call for women to fill vacancies in 1893 the number 0 women in abo public service at washington waa 3 in 1894 the number had been ledncid to a fall iuar of durine the earne period there were nino times an many men appointed to minor clerkships clerk ships where the proportion two years ago waa only thoe th oe to one the civil service com mis ion can do nothing for the women unless makes a law requiring a certain proportion of the department employed emp loyes be women lady clerks did not come into the public service by grace of the civil baw they did not bold regular appointments in iho government service until tho war period when gen spinner treasurer of the tried tho experiment of putt insi women to work tha trial proved a and the number in the blivice increased rapidly from 1862 the date of lhoir first employment until two years ago in the commercial world this ratio bolda good today but in the government service women are aa well paid aa men who do the same work their employment as a rule ie to the lower grades the latter rula ia however not absolute and when the report of two years ago waa made there were seven women clarka in the drawing forty six drawing 1600 ah each nine drawing 1500 drawing J drawing 1200 and nine dri drieu iu salaries ranging from 1252 to 1 aso H year when the acta of edisto ia discrimination came to the notice of the women ft bo take an active interest in ibe advancement of their sex there is likely to be a lively protest made co the president |