The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-31
Going Through The
Civil Service Mill
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
Do you want a government office? Now
is the time to hustle If you do. The
civil service commission will hold its
great fall examinations within a few
weeks in 200 cities throughout the country.
President McKinley's recent prociama-
ton insuring greater permanence in fed
eral offices has greatly increased the al
ready high premium on government posi-
tions. Now that the president has shut
Up shop for the summer many disap-
pointed and impatient officeseekers are
turning from the white house to the civil
service commission. The writer has been
at the national intelligence office for sew
eral days collecting fresh facts of in
terest and value to seekers after offices
included under the newly extended and
newly protected classified service.
The fall examinations in New Orleans
will be held on Oct. and Oct. 25 On Oct.
C applicants will be examined for posi-
tions as bookbinder, clerk departmental
service) compositor, electrotyper (all
kinds), elevator conductor, janitor, mes
senger, pressman, railway mail clerk,
skilled laborer (male and female), steno-
grapher, stereotyper, stock examiner, tag
ger, typewriter and watchman. On Oct.
25 examinations will be held TO fill future
vacancies In the following offices: Act
ing assistant surgeon Marine hospital,
assistant in department of agriculture,
assistant examiner in Patent Office, as
sistant microscopist, assistant topograph-
er, bookkeeper, craftsman, engineer
(steam), farmer, fireman, fish culturist,
hospital steward, inspector of boilers,
inspector of hulls, interLe, junior civil
engineer, keeper lighthouse service, mas
ter in lighthouse service, matron, meat
inspector, nurse in Indian service, obser.
yer in Weatf er bureau, pension exam
lining surgeon physician in Indian SER
vice. proofreader, sanitary inspector in
Marine hospital service, seamstrcss,
special pension examiner, statistical field
agent for fish commission, superintendent
of construction under supervising archi-
tect's office, and teachers of all kinds
in the Indian service. What more of a
variety of good positions from which to
select could you reasonably ask for?
If you wish to compete for one of these
offices, here are some timely hints which
will aid you greatly. In the first place,
you want to get Immediately to work.
| Those to be held on the dates mentioned
are what are termed the Ordinary" civil
| service eXamir ations. They are held
periodically in the spring and fall of each
| year. You must make an average of at
| ltdSl ~ Oh your tAdInludllOn DeIOTe you
can pass, but you will have little prospect
| of appointment unless you rank some
| where in the nireties. To pass an ordinary
| civil service examination in most cases
| simply amounts to the entrance of your
name upon a large register of eligibles
| kept at the Civil Service commissions
| headquarters in Washington. Registers OF
| eligibles are now kept for nearly every
position included in the classified service.
Examinations to fill vacancies for which
| there is no provision are called as soon
| as the vacancy exists. II you wish to be
| Informed when particular office In this
| category becomes vacant you may be so
accommodated after you have applied "a
| the commission for an application for
| information" which you must fll out and
return, There are few chances nowadays
for inexperienced persons to reach high
| departmental positions Immediately
| through the civil service examinations
The practice of filling the higher grade
offices, such as of chiefs OF division, by
| transferring or promoting experienced men
already in governmen employ is becoming
more and more the practice OF the present
| Administration, Two assistant secretar.
les have already been appointed in this
| way. Your examination having been
passed, your entrance into the classified