The sergeant thought of them mostly as a list of names to be ticked off one by one in a careful roster as each man did his turn of duty, went out, or came back and reported in.

==================================================================== The following cases taken from the official rosters show some promotions to the higher positions in the service of employees who entered the lower ranks of the classified service: A clerk who entered the service in 1899 at $1800 per annum was appointed in 1903 an assistant chief of bureau at $3000 per annum and in 1908 executive secretary at $9000 per annum.