Napanoch, Eastern New York Reformatory. Oxford, Women's Relief Corps Home... County probation officers, sealers of weights and measures, superintendents of REPORT To the Governor: ALBANY, N. Y., January 31, 1918. In accordance with the requirement of the Civil Service Law, we submit report for the year 1917, being the thirty-fifth report of the department. The personnel of the Commission has remained unchanged except that John C. Clark, New York, N. Y., was appointed President of the Commission February 1, 1917, to succeed Samuel H. Ordway who had previously resigned to accept appointment as justice of the Supreme Court. During the year the Commission held sixty-three meetings, of which thirty-six were in Albany, twenty-four in New York, and three at other places in the State. With the exception of a few minor changes the staff of employees has continued unchanged. We take this opportunity to record the fact that three of the regular employees of the department have entered the military service, having enlisted as indicated: Walter F. Reilly, private, 106th Field Hospital, now at Spartanburg, S. C.; Ioward F. Lewis, private, somewhere in France; and Raymond T. Jones, wagoner, 51st Pioneer Infantry, now at Spartanburg. Examinations During the year 1917, 20,964 persons filed application forms for examinations. Of these, 17,258 were actually examined: 8,775 in open competitive examinations; 1,693 in promotion competitive examinations; 5,443 for positions in the non-competitive class; and 1,347 in other tests. As compared with the year 1916, the total examined during the year was less by 2,047. The total number of open competitive examinations held was 318, and the total number of promotion competitive examinations held was 152. In 1916, the Commission held 237 open competitive examinations and 137 promotion competitive examinations. While there were over twenty-five per cent more examinations held in 1917 than in 1916, the number of competitors decreased by more than twenty-eight per cent. The falling off in competition was due to the demand for employees in private business, and to the absence of persons in military service who would otherwise have been candidates. The largest single examination during the year was that for stenographer, with 1,298 candidates as compared with 1,943 in the previous examination held in 1915. The next largest examination was that for court attendant, First and Second Judicial Districts, with 715 candidates. The following table shows the number examined non-competitively for provisional appointment during the years 1912 to 1917 inclusive: The increase in 1917 in the number of provisional appointments over 1916, is explained by vacancies on account of the war, and the difficulty in securing engineering employees for the Public Service Commission, First District, particularly for work under compressed air. Of the provisional appointments, about 50 per cent were made by the Public Service Commissions. When competitive examination fails to secure a sufficient number of eligibles, appointment may be made upon non-competitive examination in accordance with civil service rule VIII, paragraph 10. The number of such appointments during the year was 158, as compared with 21 during the year 1916. More than one-half of these also were to engineering positions in the Department of the Public Service Commission for the First District. |