the Official Postal Guide, and lists of changes in
post-offices published each month in the supplemental postal
guide.

One clerk, assigned to the claims division. Duties: Preparation
of correspondence connected with claims of postmasters for
reimbursement for losses occasioned by burglary, fire, or other
unavoidable casualty, and for losses of money-order and postal
funds in transit to depositaries.

Office of the topographer: One woman skilled as draftsman, at
$1,400, prepares the guides for the colors printed on the
post-route maps, and has supervision of the map sheets
transmitted from and to the photolithographer. Three other women
draftsmen note the reported changes in the postal service of a
group of States, revise and post-route map sheets of those
States, and correct monthly the corresponding diagram maps for
the use of officers and clerks of the Post-Office Department.

Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General: One clerk, salary
$1,600, on work relating to ocean mail contract service;
occasional translating, indexing, and briefing. One clerk,
salary $1,400, on work relating to domestic statistics in
connection with the international service; stating accounts of
steamship companies for the sea conveyance of mails; occasional
translating, and assisting in general correspondence. One clerk,
salary $1,400, "corresponding clerk," whose duties consist in
the examination of applications for establishment of star and
steamboat service; changes therein; preparation of cases to be
submitted for decision; preparation of orders and correspondence
for official signature.

In most of the examinations which women pass in order to be appointed in
the departments technical skill is required, as shown by the following
list of subjects:

Artist, assistant microscopist, clerk stenographer and typewriter,
computer in Coast and Geodetic Survey, counter, Government paper mill,
industrial teacher, trained nurse, register and receiver's clerk,
compositor, public document cataloguer, assistant ethnological
librarian, scientific assistant, book typewriter, kindergarten teacher,
scientific aid, zoological clerk, Internal-Revenue Service, Philippine
Service, topographic draftsman, assistant to bookbinder, music teacher.

The following is a compilation and table of comparison showing the
number of men and women employed in