194 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



of the Bureau. In order to better this condition recommendation 

 was made to the Civil Service Commission, and favorably acted upon, 

 that only unmarried men be eligible for appointment as assistant 

 observers, owing to the low entrance salary as well as to the fact that 

 in the earlier years of their service these appointees are liable to be 

 moved from station to station frequently and at short notice. Of the 

 103 probationar}'' appointments made during the year all but 3 suc- 

 cessfully completed the six months' trial period. Nine undesirable 

 emploA'ees were eliminated from the classified service during the 

 year and 23 reductions were made by way of necessary discipline or 

 for other sufficient reasons. 



In the unclassified service there were 5 permanent and no tem- 

 porary appointments, as compared with 6 permanent and 1 temporary 

 for the preceding year. 



The absence record differed but slightly from that for the calendar 

 year preceding, there having been a fraction of a day less, both for 

 sickness and for annual leave, the average for the entire service 

 considered. 



There were 8 deaths in the commissioned force of the Bureau, as 

 against 3 for the year before. The list includes Prof. Edward B. 

 Garriott, through whose death, on May 13, 1910, the Bureau lost one 

 of its most valued officials and the science of meteorology an able 

 investigator and enthusiastic student. Professor Garriott had for 

 years been in charge of the forecast division of the central office. 



CHANGES IN THE FORCE OF THE BUREAU. 



CLASSIFIED SERVICE. 



Appointments : 



Probationary — 



Compositors, at $1,250 4 



Printers, at .$1,000 5 



Sliilled mechanic, at $1,000 1 



Clerlv, at $900 1 



Assistant observers, at .$720 41 



Carpenter, at $720 1 



Repairman, at $720 1 



Watchman, at $720 1 



Firemen, at $720 2 



Folders and feeders, at $630 3 



Sldlled laborers, at $450 3 



Messenger bovs, at $450 3 



Messenger boys, at $360 37 



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Transfer — 



Engineer, at $1,200 1 



Printer, at $1,000 1 



Messenger, at $600 1 



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Reinstatement — 



Printers, at $1,000 2 



Assistant obsei'vers, at $1,000 2 



Assistant observer, at $720 1 



Messenger, at $600 1 



Messenger boy, at $480 1 



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