The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-09
MUST PASS EXAMINATION
APPLICANTS TOR 4PPOINTlTENT TO
 POLICE OR FIRE FORCES.

Civil Service Examinations the Rule After
 January 1-Mayor, Superintendent ofPo-
 lice and Chief of Fire Department the
 Examiners-The New Law Governing
 Appointments.
 With the advent of the new year a new method will be adopted In mall- ing appointments to the forces of the police and fire departments of this city. Heretofore the custom has been for all persons desirous of securing 8 place ill either department to send in an application signed by five reputable citizens as to the personal character etc, of the applicant. This application has then been presented to the boards of police or fire commissioners in ses- sion at some regular or stated meeting, the applicant appearing at the same time and going through an examination as to his ability to read and write, etc, after which the applications were placed on file and the applicant sent to the board of surgeons for physical cx- animation.
 After the first of January, however, all this will be changed and all appli- l caElts for positions in either the police or fire departments will be compelled to pass a regular civil service eXamina- ton. At the recent session of the gen. eral assembly law was enacted which creates a civil service commission com posed of the mayor of the city, the su- perintsndent of the police department and the chief of the fire department, whose duty shall be to examine all ap- plicants for positions in either depart ment and report their finding to the boards of police or fire commissioners as the case may be.
 Just what disposition will be made of the applications nov on file has not been fully determined, but the probabil- ities are that all applicants will be call ed before the civil service commission
 and examined as fo their qualifications for appointment and their applications again placed on file. In the police de- partment there are over a hundred ap- piications on file which have been ac- cumulating for a number of years, While in the fire department there are proba- l ply twice or three times as many. Up to the present time the members Ipf the commission have not decided what sort of an examination the appll- cants for appointment will be compelled to go through, but Mayor Hendrick Superintendent Smith and Chief Ken nedy will in all probability within, the
 next few days confer in reference tc | the matter and decide as to the manner
 of conducting the examination, the l questions to be answered and the quail 1 tications necessary for appointment. 1 The act creating the commission is
 as follows and was approved July | l 1895:
 Resolved by this assembly: That the
 mayor, superintendent of police and su-
 perintendent of the fire department oi
 the city of New Haven shall consti- 1 tute a board of civil service commis- l sioners for the recommendation of per sons for appointment to the police and
 fire departments of said city, such rec tommendation to be based upon the re-
 suits of competitive examinations con-
 ducted by said commissioners. person
 ally or under their supervisior and di- rection.
 They shall prepare rules not incon- sistent With existing laws for the selec- ltion of persons to be recommended foI such appointment, and shall supervise
 the administration of the same. After
 January 1,tS96, no appointments shal
 be made to the supernumerary force ci
 the police department or to the regular force of the fire department except from
 a list of persons recommended by said | board of civil service commissioners
 as eligible for such appointment.