The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-19
In THE SWEAT BOX.
wouLD-BE Cors PERspfRE UNDER
CIVIL SERVICE.
Twenty-Five Applicants Take the Ex-
aminaffon-A Number of klondfke
ouestfoas Appear en- the List
Aspiring Fireman Makes q Cur
less Enumeration of Five Conn
bustfbses.

For several days pas. the seats and
desks IN the city council chamber haze
ceen haunted b. other occupants thaa
those who usually frequent them. The
IFf service commissioners have been
conuucung examinations for positions on
TIE IRE and police force and the forty
iosF applicants H'ho were unfortunate
enough to encounter those examinations
have been perspiFing over the questions
twenty-five Elsn took the examination
Tor applicants for positions on the police
force, and out OF a total of twenty-ssx who
1aa nled applications for places as fire.
men, nineteen yesterday took the exam
fnation.
The members OF the board began work
on grazing the various papers last night.
SGk Tie task - Eol4ninous one and they
VIII probably not be ready 10 report on
tae standing OF the candidates until the
latter part Of this week
PERHAPS reading some Of the questions
that were submitted on examination viii
give the public a deeper sympathy with
the applicants. For instance, the appli-
eants for patrolmen were required 20
spell the following words:
Authority, citizen, temper, officer
physical, assault. power. clothes.
weapon. attempt. violence, injury,
prisoner. malice, defraud, property,
arrest, robbery. offense captain
Tney were also required to write the fol-
lowing exercise In dic1ation:
IL you are intruSted with the acre of
beat, DO not play the Iosfer on IL by
iounging in doorways or on corners. or
BY leaning against lamp posts, but patrol
your beat continually. Make il your bus
mess 10 know what Is going on in every
part of ii as far as practicable, without
unnecessary interference; lei no person
or circumstance escape your notice, and
be able at all times 10 give information
respecting any circumstance Of Importance
occurring thereon"
The examiners minds seem TO have been
affected more or less by the Klondike ex-
element for In the patrolmen's examina-
ton Oh arithmetic We find the following
problems:
- IL an Alaska miner lands at Dyea
with horse and an outfit of 1850 pounds.
how many trips win he have 10 make
over the mountains IN transporting his
goods II he packs - pounds at each trip
and the horse go poundsg"
.. IL the miner mentioned above wishes
10 pack % pounds himself az each trip,
and transport the whole outfit In FIVE trips,
how much must the horse carry at each
load?"
8 II the miner mentioned In question
makes each round trip in FIVE and one
half days. how long Will II take him 10
make four trips?"
The impending resignation OF the mayor
also had its suggestions. for under the
head OF patrolmens duties we find the
question. IF the mayor of Seattle resigns
how must the vacancy be filled?"
Other questions under this head are:
Write such directions as you would
give a stranger inquiring the quickest
way from the Arlington dock TO the
city park"
What are the four most essential quail
ihcations OF q police ofiicer?'
What Is crineG'
Define murder"
Name and locate four public school
buildings IN Seattle"
Name the street car lines running near
est to the following places viz: Denny no
tel. Providence hospital. Stetson and Pos:
mill, Magnolia blum. Seattle General hos
pital"
Into how many wards is Seattle d.
yided?"
Name the states and territories Of the
United states bordering on the Pacific
ocean
Under the present law how are ap-
polntments to the position OF patrolmen
nader"
In the examination for the fire DEPART
mcnt besides the general questions sub
mittod 20 al the applicants. those for each
particular line 81 work were afflicted with
a separate set OF questions. and a mere
enumeration OF all these questions would
I'll moderate sized volumas
When the board got % work on the ans
wors last night. some surprising lnforma-
fion was met with, and judging from the
laughter that Tcsounded through the
room. some % u must have been consid-
cred funny. despite the fact that the
uemhers ~ the board sympothize warmly
with the heroic cfIorts % the applicants
One struggling aspirant for honors IN the
firc depArt n3es.t. called on 10 name I've
couhustsole substances rave as an ans
wer. water. sleep exercise. money" and
some other weird which the examiners
were utterly unable 70 make out In ans
ver % me request 70 name four causes
OF Gre one writer Eravely mentions ''three
yesterday and ane the day before" while
stiu another gives as his answer. a brush
FIRE on Queen Anne hili. the fire a; the
Salvation Army headquarters" and two
other instances OF &re that had CHANGED
10 fan under his notice.