a rating of 70 or more to become eligible. The rule barring reinstatement after a separation of one year does not apply to any person honorably discharged after service in the civil war or the war with Spain, or his widow, or an army nurse of either war.

ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION EMPLOYEES.

The examinations for employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus extend only to positions of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, surgeon, physician, trained nurse, and draftsman.

PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE.

Appointments to the insular civil service of the Philippines are made under an act passed by the Philippine Commission and rules promulgated by the governor of the islands. The municipal service of Manila is also classified and subject to the provisions of the act and rules, which are similar to those of the United States. The United States Civil Service Commission, under an Executive order, assists the Philippine Board by conducting examinations in the United States for the Philippine service and in all other practicable ways. These examinations are held only for positions for which competent natives can not be found, the natives being preferred for appointment.

The transfer is permissible, of classified employees who have served for three years, from the Philippine service to the Federal service.

CIVIL SERVICE IN PORTO RICO AND HAWAII.

The Federal positions in Porto Rico and Hawaii by act of Congress fall within the scope of the civil-service act and are filled in the same ways as competitive positions in the United States. The competitive system does not extend to the insular and municipal positions of Hawaii, but such a system for Porto Rico has been approved to become effective January 1, 1908.

UNCLASSIFIED LABORERS.

Appointments of unclassified laborers in the Departments at Washington and in the large cities under Executive order are required to be made in accordance with regulations restricting appointment to applicants who are rated highest in physical condition. The system is outside the civil-service act and rules.

DEMAND FOR ELIGIBLES WITH CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS.

There is an increasing demand for male clerks qualified as stenographers and typewriters, veterinarians, patent examiners, draftsmen of the various kinds, and for civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers; superintendents of construction, computers, and aids in the Coast and Geodetic Survey; also for teachers, matrons, seamstresses, farmers, and physicians in the Indian Service, and for railway mail clerks in most of the Western and some of the Gulf States.

Persons who become eligible in any of the examinations for positions outside of Washington, D. C., which are not apportioned usually have a good chance of appointment. The same is true of those who pass examinations for apportioned positions if they are legal residents of States or Territories which have received less than their full share of appointments.

A manual containing all information needful to applicants is furnished by the Civil Service Commission upon request.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

The Public Printer is the executive head of the Government Printing Office. Directly or through his principal officers he purchases all materials and machinery subject to the provisions of law, disburses all money, appoints all officers and employees, and exercises general supervision over the affairs of the office.

The Deputy Public Printer acts as chairman of boards to examine and report on paper and material purchased, and also of a board of condemnation. He has supervision over the office of the Superintendent of Documents, the details of manufacture, the maintenance of the buildings, and the care of the stores, and performs such other duties as are required of him by the Public Printer. In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Public Printer he performs the duties of the Public Printer.

The Secretary to the Public Printer has direct charge of the personnel of the office, and is charged with the duty of interviewing all who call on matters in connection with appointments or transfers; he has charge of the general correspondence and the care of the files.

The Attorney examines and passes upon all bills, checks, vouchers, specifications, contracts and orders for paper, material, machinery, and equipment, requiring the expenditure of money, before the same are presented to the Public Printer for signature; certifies that specifications and contracts are drawn so that the interests of the Government are protected, and acts generally as the legal adviser of the Public Printer in matters relating to public printing and binding.

The Congressional Clerk has charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol and acts as the Public Printer's representative in furnishing information and estimates to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates.

The Purchasing Agent prepares the annual proposals to furnish paper and the schedule of material required to be purchased, secures proposals for open market purchases, draws contracts for the same, and draws orders for the purchase of paper, material, and supplies, and prepares the papers necessary for the Public Printer to complete the purchase.

The Accountant has charge of the keeping of the records of material, of the time of employees, of the accounts with the several allotments of the appropriation and with the Treasury Department, computes the cost of operation, prepares for the signature of the Public Printer pay rolls and vouchers requiring the payment of money, renders bills for work done, and keeps all other accounts.

The Superintendent of Work has direct charge of all the manufacturing divisions of the office, including the composing divisions, press division, electrotype and stereotype division, binding division, and money-order division; also of the stores division and the buildings division.

The Assistant Superintendent of Work (night) has immediate charge of the manufacturing divisions at night.

The Foreman of Printing has charge of the composing divisions, where the work of preparing copy for the printer, setting type, and reading proof is done.

The Assistant Foreman of Printing (night) is responsible for the work in this division at night.

The Foreman of the Congressional Record is in immediate charge of that section of the composing division where the Congressional Record is printed.

The Superintendent of Documents has general supervision over the distribution of all public documents, excepting those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress and for the Executive Departments. He is required to prepare a comprehensive index of public documents and consolidated index of Congressional documents, and is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge the distribution of which is not specifically directed.

UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD.

By Executive Order of August 10, 1906, the official title of the United States Board on Geographic Names was changed to United States Geographic Board, and its duties enlarged.

The Board passes on all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the departments, as well as determining, changing, and fixing place names within the United States and its insular possessions, and all names hereafter suggested by any officer of the Government shall be referred to the Board before publication. The decisions of the Board are to be accepted by all the departments of the Government as standard authority.

Advisory powers were granted the Board concerning the preparation of maps compiled, or to be compiled, in the various offices and bureaus of the Government, with a special view to the avoidance of unnecessary duplications of work; and for the unificatlon and improvement of the scales of maps, of the symbols and conventions used upon them, and of the methods of representing relief. Hereafter, all such projects as are of importance shall be submitted to this Board for advice before being undertaken.

THE JUDICIARY.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

(In Capitol Building. Phones, marshal's office, Main 1 and 2; clerk's office, Main 3476.) MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Augusta, Me., February 11, 1833; was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853; studied law, attended a course of lectures at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1855; formed a law partnership in Augusta, Me., and was an associate editor of a Democratic paper called The Age; in 1856 became president of the common council, and served as city solicitor; removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1856, where he practiced law until appointed Chief Justice; in 1862 was a member of the State constitutional convention; was a member of the State legislature from 1863 to 1865; was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880; the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Northwestern University and by Bowdoin College in 1888, by Harvard in 1890, by Yale and Dartmouth in 1901; was appointed Chief Justice April 30, 1888, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took the oath of office October 8, same year. He is chancellor of Smithsonian Institution; chairman trustees Peabody Education Fund; vice-president John F. Slater Fund; member board of trustees of Bowdoin College; one of the arbitrators to settle boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana, Paris, 1899; member permanent court of arbitration, The Hague; member arbitral tribunal in the matter of the Muscat Dowhs, The Hague, 1905; received thanks of Congress December 20, 1889.

JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Boyle County, Ky., June 1, 1833; was graduated from Center College, Kentucky, in 1850; studied law at Transylvania University; practiced his profession at Frankfort; was elected county judge in 1858; was the Whig candidate for Congress in the Ashland district in 1859; was elector on the Bell and Everett ticket; removed to Louisville in 1861 and formed a law partnership with Hon. W. F. Bullock; in 1861 raised the Tenth Kentucky Infantry Regiment and served in Gen. George H. Thomas's division; owing to the death of his father in the spring of 1863, although his name was before the Senate for confirmation as a brigadier-general, he felt compelled to resign; was elected attorney-general by the Union party in 1863 and filled that office until 1867, when he returned to active practice in Louisville; was the Republican candidate for governor in 1871; his name was presented by the Republican convention of his State in 1872 for the Vice-Presidency; in 1875 was again the Republican candidate for governor; was chairman of the delegation from his State to the national Republican convention in 1876; declined a diplomatic position as a substitute for the Attorney-Generalship, to which, before he reached Washington, President Hayes intended to assign him; served as a member of the Louisiana commission; was commissioned an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court November 29, 1877, and took his seat December 10, same year; has received the degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin College and the University of Pennsylvania; was a member of the Behring Sea tribunal of arbitration which met in Paris in 1893; was vice-moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1905.

DAVID JOSIAH BREWER, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837; is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and Emilia A. Field, sister of David Dudley, Cyrus W., and Justice Stephen J. Field; his father was an early missionary to Turkey; was graduated from Vale College in 1856 and from the Albany Law School in 1858; established himself in his profession at Leavenworth, Kans., in 1859 where he resided until he removed to Washington to enter upon his present duties; in 1861 was appointed United States commissioner; during 1863 and 1864 was judge of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth County; from January, 1865, to January, 1869, was judge of the district court; in 1869 and 1870 was county attorney of Leavenworth; in 1870 was elected a justice of the supreme court of his State, and reelected in 1876 and 1882; in 1884 was appointed judge of the circuit court of the United States for the Eighth district; was appointed to his present position, to succeed Justice Stanley Matthews, deceased, in December, 1889, and was commissioned December 18, 1889; president of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission, appointed by President Cleveland; member of Arbitration Tribunal to settle boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela; orator at bicentennial, Yale University, 1901; president International Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, St.

Louis, 1904; received degree of LL. D. from Iowa College, Washburn College, Yale University, State University of Wisconsin; Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; University of Vermont, and Bowdoin College.

EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in the parish of Lafourche, La., in November, 1845; was educated at Mount St. Mary's, near Emmitsburg, Md., at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and at Georgetown (D. C.) College; served in the Confederate army; was licensed to practice law by the supreme court of Louisiana in December, 1868; elected State senator in 1874; was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1878; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James B. Eustis, and took his seat March 4, 1891; while serving his term as Senator from Louisiana was appointed, February 19, 1894, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and took his seat March 12, 1894.

RUFUS W. PECKHAM, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in the city of Albany and State of New York, November 8, 1838; his father was a native of Albany County, and had been district attorney of the county, justice of the supreme court of the State, and, at the time of his death in the shipwreck of the Ville de Havre, November 22, 1873, was one of the judges of the court of appeals of New York State. The son was educated at the Albany Academy and at one of the schools in Philadelphia; he studied law in the office of his father, who was then in partnership with Lyman Tremain, attorney-general of the State, practicing law under the firm name of Peckham & Tremain, in the city of Albany; he was admitted to the bar of the State in December, 1859; his father was in that year elected to the bench of the supreme court, and the son formed a partnership with the former partner of his father, under the firm name of Tremain & Peckham, which continued until the death of Mr. Tremain in December, 1878. In 1866 Mr. Peckham was married to a daughter of D. H. Arnold, an old New York merchant and at that time president of the Mercantile Bank in New York City. In 1868 he was elected district attorney of Albany County; was subsequently corporation counsel of Albany City, and in 1883 was elected a justice of the supreme court of the State. While serving as such he was elected, in 1886, an associate judge of the court of appeals of New York State, and while occupying a seat on that bench he was, in December, 1895, appointed by President Cleveland an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

JOSEPH MCKENNA, of San Francisco, Cal., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 10, 1843; attended St. Joseph's College of his native city until 1855, when he removed with his parents to Benicia, Cal., where he continued his education at the public schools and the Collegiate Institute, at which he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865; was twice elected district attorney for Solano County, beginning in March, 1866; served in the lower house of the legislature in the sessions of 1875 and 1876; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses; resigned from the last-named Congress to accept the position of United States circuit judge, to which he was appointed by President Harrison in 1893; resigned that office to accept the place of Attorney-General of the United States in the Cabinet of President McKinley; was appointed, December 16, 1897, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Justice Field, retired, and took his seat January 26, 1898.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, of Boston, Mass., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1841; graduated from Harvard College in 1861; July 10, 1861, commissioned first lieutenant of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; October 21, shot through the breast at Balls Bluff; March 23, 1862, commissioned captain; shot through the neck at Antietam, September 17; shot in the heel at Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, on May 3, 1863; on January 29, 1864, appointed aid-de-camp to Brig. Gen. H. G. Wright and served with him until expiration of term of service; brevets as major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel; Harvard Law School LL. B., 1866; in 1873 published twelfth edition of Kent's Commentaries, and from 1870 to 1873 editor of the American Law Review, in which, then and later, he published a number of articles leading up to his book entitled, The Common Law (Little, Brown & Co., 1881), first, however, delivered in the form of lectures at the Lowell Institute. An article on "Early English equity," in the English Law Quarterly Review, April, 1885, also may be mentioned, and later ones in the Harvard Law Review. From 1873 to 1882 he practiced law in the firm of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe; in 1882 took a professorship at the law school of Harvard College, and on December 8 of that year was commissioned a member of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts; on August 2, 1899, he

was made Chief Justice of the same court. He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Roosevelt, confirmed by the Senate December 4, 1902, and sworn in and took his seat December 8, 1902. He has published a volume of speeches (Little, Brown & Co.). LL. D., Yale and Harvard.

WILLIAM R. DAY was born in Ravenna, Ohio, April 17, 1849, being a son of Judge Luther Day, of the supreme court of Ohio. In 1866 he entered the academic department of the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1870; he also spent one year in the law department of that institution. In 1872 he was admitted to the Ohio bar and began the practice of law in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, where he was elected judge of the court of common pleas in 1886. In 1889 he was appointed United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio by President Harrison, which position he declined. In April, 1897, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State by President McKinley, and in April, 1898, was made Secretary of State, which position he resigned to accept the chairmanship of the Commission which negotiated the treaty of peace with Spain at the close of the Spanish-American war. In February, 1899, he was appointed United States circuit judge for the sixth judicial circuit by President McKinley. In February, 1903, he was made justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Roosevelt, taking the oath of office March 2 of that year. WILLIAM HENRY MOODY, of Haverhill, Mass., was born in Newbury, Mass., December 23, 1853; he was graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1872, and from Harvard University in 1876; was district attorney for the eastern district of Massachusetts from 1890 to 1895; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill a vacancy, and to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; was appointed Secretary of the Navy and assumed the duties of that office May 1, 1902, in which office he served until appointed Attorney-General by President Roosevelt to succeed Philander C. Knox, July 1, 1904. On December 3, 1906, was appointed by President Roosevelt an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and was confirmed by the Senate December 12, 1906, and took his seat on the bench on the 17th day of December, 1906.

RESIDENCES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

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[The designates those whose wives accompany them; the † designates those whose daughters accompany them.]

† Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, 1801 F street.

* †† Mr. Justice Harlan, Fourteenth and Euclid streets.

*Mr. Justice Brewer, 1923 Sixteenth street.

* Mr. Justice White, 1717 Rhode Island avenue.

* Mr. Justice Peckham, 1217 Connecticut avenue.

* Mr. Justice McKenna, The Connecticut.

*Mr. Justice Holmes, 1720 I street.

*Mr. Justice Day, 1301 Clifton street. Mr. Justice Moody, The Connecticut.

RETIRED.

* Mr. Justice Shiras.

* Mr. Justice Brown, 1720 Sixteenth street.

OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

Clerk.-James H. McKenney, 1523 Rhode Island avenue.

Deputy Clerk.-James D. Maher, 2025 H street.

Marshal.--J. M. Wright, Metropolitan Club.

Reporter.-Charles Henry Butler, 1535 I street.

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