accounts of steamship companies for the sea conveyance of mails; occasional translating, and assisting in general correspondence.  One clerk, salary $1,400, “corresponding clerk,” whose duties consist in the examination of applications for establishment of star and steamboat service; changes therein; preparation of cases to be submitted for decision; preparation of orders and correspondence for official signature.

In most of the examinations which women pass in order to be appointed in the departments technical skill is required, as shown by the following list of subjects: 

Artist, assistant microscopist, clerk stenographer and typewriter, computer in Coast and Geodetic Survey, counter, Government paper mill, industrial teacher, trained nurse, register and receiver’s clerk, compositor, public document cataloguer, assistant ethnological librarian, scientific assistant, book typewriter, kindergarten teacher, scientific aid, zoological clerk, Internal-Revenue Service, Philippine Service, topographic draftsman, assistant to bookbinder, music teacher.

The following is a compilation and table of comparison showing the number of men and women employed in the various departments at Washington, D.C.  The figures are based upon the Official Register of the United States, July 1, 1901, volume 1.  Since that date there has been a great many hundreds of new appointees of both sexes in all the respective departments and bureaus below enumerated, and the accurate figures down to the present time will show an increase accordingly: 

-----------------------------------+--------+--------+
|  Men.  | Women. |
-----------------------------------+--------+--------+
Executive Office (the President’s) |     28 |        |
Department of State                |     92 |     17 |
Treasury Department                |  3,234 |  2,313 |
War Department                     |  2,411 |    300 |
Navy Department                    |  2,292 |     85 |
Post-Office Department             |    812 |    237 |
Department of Interior             |  4,810 |  2,862 |
Department of Justice              |    191 |     21 |
Department of Agriculture          |    650 |    382 |
Government Printing Office         |  2,623 |  1,068 |
Department of Labor                |     74 |     10 |
United States Commission of Fish   |        |        |
and Fisheries                   |     55 |     12 |
Interstate Commerce Commission     |    133 |        |
Civil Service Commission           |     55 |      6 |
Industrial Commission              |     10 |      7 |
Smithsonian Institution            |    320 |     39 |
Bureau of American Republics       |     13 |      9 |
-----------------------------------+--------+--------+

The first woman employed in the Government service was appointed by General Spinner, of the Treasury Department, about 1864.

On July 1, 1901, the clerical force in the Executive Departments in Washington was approximately a force of 27,605 employees of both sexes.  Out of this number there were 7,496 females.  The time, at this ratio of increase of the respective sexes, when the gentler sex is to overcome and pass the men, is merely a matter of arithmetic to those who wish to ascertain this interesting data.  The above table shows that the women have between one-fourth and one-third of the appointments in Washington, D.C.