If it takes eight men five and one half days to make 100 lamps, how long will it take six men to make 350 lamps? A building is 302 feet high; the walk and court measure 90 feet; what is the length of a straight line running from the top of the building to the opposite curb? At 25 cents a square yard what is the cost of a sheet of iron sufficient for the construction of a cylinder pipe closed at both ends 28 feet long, the diameter of whose base is 28 inches? What is the capacity in gallons of a sphere 15 inches in diameter? If 24 gallons of water flow through a 2 inch pipe each minute how many gallons will flow through a 3 inch pipe under the same conditions? What is the length of the diameter of a circle whose area equals 1,386 square yards? Name the materials used in the construction of a street lamp? Name three essential qualifications requisite for a foreman?" A street lamp could not be repaired, as a matter of fact, by a person unable to answer these questions! This truth must be apparent to any unbiased mind! All the other applicants could answer the last two questions only, simply because they were honest; but the metal worker answered them all, and was marked 100, although he had not been at school since he was thirteen years of age, and does not appear to have been much of a student since that time. The Superintendent's examination ran as follows, viz.: "What are the duties of Superintendent of Lamp Repairs? What experience have you had to qualify you for this position? How many lamps should a tinner complete in a day? How many signs should an etcher complete in a day? If a special assessment were levied and confirmed, what would your duty be to secure the erecting and lighting of the lamps? On what part of the city property should those posts be set? If posts were to be erected how would you determine what class of posts would be required? What is the general duty of Superintendent of Lamp Repairs regarding repairs to lamps?" The attacks on the civil service law come from all sources. A party convention in 1898, in its platform said, "We pronounce the Civil Service Law inefficient, mischievous and hostile to the regnant principles of popular government. We demand its repeal." The next convention of the same party resolved: "We pledge the ------party to the strict enforcement of this, the Civil Service Law." The Mayor's consistency and that of his party are identical. If the two removed commissioners were incompetent and neglectful, so must the third have been, and yet that equally incompetent and neglectful commissioner was appointed to an office, the very highest in the gift of the Mayor.