892 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The Cuarrman. Have not these men been running these engines for 
ears? 
¢ Mr. Burcu. Some of them have, and some of them have not. 
The CuHarrman. Who has been running them if they have not been 
running them? : 
Mr. Burcu. They have been changed, you know. They do not stay 
more than- a year or two—some of them—and some stay longer. and 
then, recently, of course, some engines have been put in—the Plant 
Industry 7 in one recently. They heat all the buildings, you under- 
stand, and the laboratories. 
The Cuarrman. The Bureau of Plant Industry, the Chemical Labo- 
ratory, and the Bureau of Animal Industry ? 
Mr. Burcu. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. One man runs each one of them? 
Mr. Burcu. And one at the Museum; that is another. 
The Cuarrman. They have been run heretofore by one man apiece, 
eight hours a day? 
Mr. Burcu. Yes, sir. 
The CHarrmMan. Has there been any complaints about their not 
being in order, or anything of that sort, more than happens to any 
engine?! 
Mr. Burcu. We have to have them examined once a year by a 
District officer. 
The Cuarrman. I suppose every engine, whether it is out of order 
or not, you have to submit to that? 
Mr. Burcu. Of course; if there is anthing out of order, we have to 
call on the engineer to put it in order. 
The Cuarrman. The next is ‘‘ Electrician” on page 2. An increase 
of $100 is submitted in his salary. On what ground do you ask that? 
Mr. Burcu. For the amount of work that is necessary to be done 
and the qualifications of the man—it requires a man skilled in that 
kind of work. He has been performing it in the last two years very 
satisfactorily, and last year we had a system put in for the Depart- 
ment alone which has 50 ’phones on and the necessary lighting of all 
the buildings; and that is his principal work. 
The CHarrman. Now, as to your 11 night watchmen. Only a cou- 
ple of years ago we rearranged all that watchman business so that it 
was satisfactory to everybody, I think, and, if my memory serves, 
it was arranged so that there was a full double watch—night and day 
watchmen—enough supplied for all purposes; now you ask an increase 
of two. Tell us what you want those two for? 
Mr. Burcu. We have rented other buildings since you rearranged 
that, Mr. Chairman. There is the Chemical Laboratory that requires 
two watchmen; the Bureau of Animal Industry, two watchmen; the 
Vetetable Pathology, two; Botanical, two; and the Bureau of Soils 
have two provided for in their estimate; and the museum, stable, and 
Statistical Division buildings are all under one watchman or two 
watchmen, for the year. They look after the museum and the stables 
and the Statistical building. And the Bureau of Plant Indastry, two; 
and the annex to Entomology; they have rented a building recently 
and have none; and then there are day watchmen, one on the grounds 
and one at the door of the main building. 
The CHarrman. The Bureau of Animal Industry has a watchman on 
their lump sum? 
