WEATHER BUREAU. 195 



Appointments — Continued. 

 Temporary — 



Compositor, at $1,500 1 



Compositors, at $1,250 5 



Clerics, at $900 3 



Repairmen, at $720 2 



Fireman, at $720 1 



Folders and feeders, at $630 2 



Messenger boys, at $G00 2 



Messenger, at $4S0 1 



Skilled laborer, at $450 1 



Messenger boys, at $450 3 



Messenger boys, at $360 27 



Evaporation observer, at $3 a day 1 



49 



Promotions (all promotions except 5 were to the next higher grade or by 



certification for advancement from subclerical positions) 201 



Reductions : 

 Causes — 



To grant assignment to preferred station 3 



To grant assignment to preferred work 2 



Necessitated by assignment to station duty 3 



Necessitated by employee's return to duty from leave of absence 



without pay 1 



Necessitated by civil-service ruling 1 



Decrensed efliciency due to increasing age 4 



Physical disiibility 1 



Absence without authority 1 



Unsatisfactory services 7 



23 



Resignations : 



Voluntary 53 



Required because of — 



Unsatisfactory services 6 



Unsatisfactory services and conduct 2 



61 



Transferred to the office of the Secretary of Agriculture 1 



Removals : 

 Causes — 



Absence without authority 1 



Unsatisfactory services 1 



Unsatisfactory conduct 2 



Indecent conduct 1 



Gross impudence 1 



Theft 1 



Physical disability 1 



Physical disability and unreliability 1 



9 



Dropped from the rolls at termination of probationary period because of 

 unsatisfactory services 3 



Deaths 8 



