27-28

30 Clerk .......
5 Bookkeeper .......
5 Deputy factory inspector ...........
18 Court law clerk ...

4 Special agent, Department of Excise ...
14 Siatistician .......
28 Engineering draughtsman ....

5 First assistant physician.....
19 Hospital superintendent .....
11 | Medical interne .........
30 Junior physician ........

Chainman..............
Arebitectural draughtsman ....
Steam engineer............
Assistant steam engineer ........
Prison guard ...........
Reformatory guard .........
Court attendant-messenger .......
Matron........
Inspector public works ........
Assistant (civil) engineer........
Leveler .......
Rodman....

Total, August ........

Nov

Sept.

9 Sept.

25

Superintendent, House of Refuge for

Women, Hudson.....
Instructor in moulding, Elmira Reform-

atory .........
Instructor in bookbinding, Rochester
Industrial school .......

Total, September..

12 Albany, Rochester, Syracuse.
12 Albavy, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuso
4 Albany and Rochester.

20

LIST OF COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS, 1897 — MERIT EXAMINATIONS UNIER CHAPTER 426, LAW OF 1897—(Con).

TABLE OF STATISTICS OF COMPETITORS WITII RESPECT TO AGE, EDUCATION, BIRTH

PLACE AND PREVIOUS OCCUPATION.

2. Previous occupation :
Professional.....
Teachers...
Studenta..
Public officials ..........
Clerks, bookkeepers, eto ...
Merebants, salesmen, oto....
Mechanics and laborers......
Farmers and domestics ...
Miscellaneous....
Unemployed .........

3. Education :
Common school.
Business college* .
Academic....
College ...
Prolessional school....

Total examined..
Average age .....
Number of " veterans"
Previously in civil service.
Absentees ......
Total notified

* "Business college" oducation counted as common school, except in case of bookkeeper and stenographer examinations.

TABLE OF STATISTICS OF COMPETITORS WITH RESPECT TO AGE, EDUCATION, ETC. — (Continued).

Buttor oxport, April 3. vuor ca 2, August

Butter export, August Chainmen, August 28. Cheese osport, April 3.

Passed. Failed. Total. Passed. Failed. Total. Passed. Failed. Total. Passed. Failed. Total. Passed

Failed. Total.

• "Business collogo" oduoation countod as common sohool, except in caso of bookkooper and stonographer oxaminations. TABLE OF STATISTICS OF COMPETITORS WITH RESPECT TO AGE, EDUCATION, Eto. — (Continued).

1. Birthplace :
New York State ...
Other parts of United State
Foreign countries.

2. Previous occupation :
Professional ...
Teachers...
Students ...
Public officials ......
Clerks, bookkeepers, etc....
Merchants, salesmen, eto....
Mechanies and laborers ...
Farmers and domestics.
Miscellaneous......
Unemployed ..........

3. Education :
Common school.
Business college*
Academic...
Collego.....
Professional school....

Total examined ...
Average age .......
Number of "veterans'
Previously in civil service.
Absentees ....
Total notified ...

* "Business college " education counted as common school, except in case of bookkeeper and stenographer examinations.