CHICAGO 1 Superintendent $416.66 2 Assistant Superintendents 250.00 5 Inspectors 233.33 14 Captains 187.91 35 Lieutenants 125.00 55 Patrol Sergeants 100.00 1,738 Patrolmen--First Class 83.33 525 Patrolmen--Second Class 60.00 SAN FRANCISCO 1 Chief of Police $333.33 5 Captains 150.00 38 Sergeants 125.00 336 Patrolmen 102.00 Mark the uniformity in gradation of pay throughout! Their average hours of duty are nine. The only articles they furnish themselves which the soldier does not are quarters, subsistence, clothing, and equipments. The average cost of clothing and equipments per month in New York is $5.42. San Francisco has a retired list on half pay after twenty years' service at sixty years of age. In 1891 there were employed in the Post Office Department in the 454 largest cities in the United States, 10,443 letter-carriers (nearly half the number of enlisted men in the Army) with monthly pay as follows: 1st class, $83.33; 2d class, $66.66; 3d class, $50.00; the average monthly pay being $73.00 per month, or a total annual pay of $9,161,137.00, nearly one-third more than the total pay and allowances of the 25,000 enlisted men in the Army. On the breaking out of the Civil War in the early part of 1861, there were borne on the rolls of the Regular Army 1,083 commissioned officers and 15,367 enlisted men. These officers and men had been maintained by the Government, under the long existing organization and administration before referred to, for the main purpose of preparing them for the emergency that was then suddenly thrust upon them, as a nucleus for the large army then organizing.