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F OREST AND S T R E A M 
March, 1918 
WANTED 
FOR THE 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT 
OF THE ARMY 
TO SERVE IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
'"THOUSANDS of workers are 
A urgently needed in the prosecu¬ 
tion of the war. The actual fight¬ 
ing forces would be powerless 
without an efficient civilian army 
behind them. 
IT IS YOUR DUTY TO SERVE 
THE GOVERNMENT, AND AT ONCE 
CLERICAL 
POSITIONS 
2,000 stenographers and 
typewriters, men and 
women, $1,100 to $1,200 
a year. 
2,000 typewriter operators, 
men and women, $1,100 
to $1,200 a year. 
2,000 general, clerks, men 
and women, $1,100 a 
year. 
500 index and catalogue 
clerks, men and women, 
$1,100 to $1,200 a year. 
200 clerks qualified in busi- 
ness administration, 
$1,200 to $1,500 a year. 
300 schedule clerks, men 
and women, $1,400 to 
$1,600 a year. 
300 production clerks, not 
more than $1,500 a year. 
200 clerks qualified in sta¬ 
tistics or accounting, 
$1,100 to $1,800 a year. 
100 statisticians. $1,800 a 
year. 
100 multigraph operators, 
men and women, $1,000 
to $1,200 a year. 
TESTING 
POSITIONS 
200 engineers of tests of 
ordnance material. $1,500 
to $2,400 a year. 
200 assistant engineers of 
tests of ordnance mate¬ 
rial. $1,000 to $1,500 a 
year. 
MECHANICAL 
TRADES 
POSITIONS 
2,500 machinists, $4.00 a 
day. 
500 machine operators, 
$2.75 a day. 
200 drop forgers, $5.75 a 
day (piecework). 
300 tool makers. $4.50 a 
day. 
Large numbers in practi¬ 
cally all other trades. 
DRAFTING 
POSITIONS 
500 mechanical draftsmen. 
$800 to $1,800 a year. 
50 gauge designers. $2,000 
to $3,000 a year. 
100 apprentice draftsmen. 
$480 a year. 
INSPECTION 
POSITIONS 
300 inspectors of small- 
arms ammunition, $1,500 
to $2,400 a year. 
100 inspectors of artillery 
ammunition (high-explo¬ 
sive shell loading), $1,500 
to $2,400 a year. 
100 inspectors of artillery 
ammunition (forgings), 
$1,500 to $2,400 a year. 
100 inspectors of artillery 
ammunition (ballistics), 
$1,500 to $2,400 a year. 
300 inspectors of field artil¬ 
lery ammunition steel, 
$1,500 to $2,400 a year. 
300 assistant inspectors of 
field artillery ammunition 
steel. $3.50 to $5.00 a 
day. 
500 inspectors of small 
arms, $1,500 to $2,400 a 
year. 
100 inspectors of material 
for small arms, $1,000 to 
$1,800 a year. 
100 assistant inspectors of 
cannon forgings, $1,500 to 
$2,400 a year. 
100 assistant inspectors of 
finished machine parts, 
$1,500 to $2,400 a year. 
100 assistant inspectors of 
gunfire control instru¬ 
ments, $1,200 to $1,500 a 
year. 
50 assistant inspectors of 
steel helmets. $1,000 to 
$1,800 a year. 
50 assistant inspectors of 
cleaning and preserving 
materials, $1,000 to 
$1,800 a year. 
400 inspectors and assist¬ 
ant inspectors of powder 
and explosives, $1,400 to 
$2,400 a year. 
Salaries named are the usual salaries at en¬ 
trance. Higher or lower initial salaries may be 
paid in exceptional cases. Positions paying sal¬ 
aries higher than those named are usually filled 
through promotion. 
Men only, unless otherwise specified. 
For further information apply to the represen¬ 
tative of the United States Civil Service Commis¬ 
sion at the post office or customhouse in any city, 
or to the Civil Service Commission in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. Except for the positions of stenog¬ 
rapher and typewriter, typewriter operator, multi¬ 
graph operator, and general clerk, applicants are 
not assembled for a written examination, but are 
rated principally upon their education, training, 
and experience, as shown by their applications 
and corroborative evidence. 
JOHN A. MclLHENNY, 
President, U. S. Civil Service Commission, 
Washington, D. C. 
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the government or to any one and no solu¬ 
tion of any problem for any one—to the 
destruction of an invaluable asset which 
cannot be replaced? Why don’t we raise 
sheep on a sensible basis in a sensible and 
rational place for the raising? 
True, my brothers, all economic matters 
adjust themselves in time slowly and in¬ 
evitably. In a few years the truth of every 
conclusion raised here will be established 
beyond a peradventure. By that time the 
elk may all have been mapped and “esti¬ 
mated’’ to their extinction. 
Which do you want, sheep or elk? May¬ 
be certain public men will listen to your 
choice. It sometimes occurs to me that a 
great many of our public men could not 
be better engaged than in doing a little 
more listening just now. 
REMINISCENCES OF 
CHARLES HALLOCK 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The notice of the death of Chas. Hal- 
lock recalls his coming to Saginaw some 
time in the early eighties, the first time as 
a guest of my father, the late'A. H. Mer- 
shon. They went fishing then for grayling 
in Hersey Creek, a tributary of the Mus¬ 
kegon. They probably fished between the 
little town of Hersey and Reed City, and 
returning stopped off at Farwell, where 
they fished the Tobacco*for trout. 
The first brook trout that were planted 
in Michigan were put into the head waters 
of the Tobacco near Farwell. The fry 
were obtained from Seth Green by San¬ 
ford Keeler, Dr. I. N. Smith, Chas. W. 
Wells and my father, A. H. Mershon. This, 
as above mentioned, was the first planting 
of brook trout in the state. At that time 
the only trout known were, I believe, in 
the Jordan River where they were caught 
along with grayling. The Jordan River 
trout evidently came from the trout 
streams of Lake Superior. The grayling 
have been gone many years. The grayling 
streams are nearly all trout streams now. 
Mr. Hallock’s second trip was a year or 
two later when he went to Baldwin with 
Sanford Keeler, then superintendent of 
the Pere Marquette Ry. They fished the 
Pere Marquette River only one day, then 
by team drove north to the Manistee River 
and fished for grayling. Mr. Keeler, in 
response to my inquiry under date of the 
20th of January, 1918, writes: 
“I took him to Baldwin and we fished 
the Pere Marquette River one day. The 
next day we took a team and went north 
to the Manistee River and fished for gray¬ 
ling and had a good catch and a general 
good time. This was some time in the 
early 8o’s as near as I can remember.” 
About eighteen years ago Mr. Hallock 
again visited Saginaw as my guest. My 
boyhood was very fortunate in being 
thrown in contact with many of the old- 
timers as my father was one of the old 
school anglers, so that I recall meeting, 
when a boy. Uncle Thad Norris on the 
Au Sable River; later on I knew Fred 
Mather quite well and the characters that 
he pictures in his stories of those he has 
fished with, Dan Fitzhugh and Len Jewel, 
were companions of my father In fact, 
the first deer hunting trip that I ever went 
on was with Len Jewel and Giarley Fitz¬ 
hugh. 
W. B. Mershon, Michigan. 
