San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 161, 10 May 1902 — Statistician in the Custom-House. [ARTICLE]

Statistician in the Custom-House.

J. B. McChesney was appointed yesterday by Customs Collector Stratton as statistician in the Custom-house. It will be his duty to compile for the Secretary of the Treasury statistics relating to imports at San Francisco from Porto Rico and the Philippines up to the time of the passage of the act regulating the tariff on the products of those islands. McChcsney is an Oakland man and was principal of the High School of that eastern metropolis. The appointment is but temporary and does not come under the civil service rules.