Evening star., 1899-03-14
Statement for the Benefit Of Appi-
cants for Positions.
ACTING DIRECTORS ANNOUNCEMENT
Few Places to Be Given Out
Before June, 1900.
HIN rs TO CANDIDATE S

The acting director of census, Mr.. Wines,
gave out this morning the following Off
cial statement for the benefit of persons
who intend making application for employ
ment in the census office:
''nhere are, under the census act, not
more than sixty places provided for above
the grade of a clerkship of class one, in
which the maximum rate of compensation
is $1,000 year. OF these sixty places one
fourth are what may be termed staff ap
pointments, which only be filled by ex-
perts, and none others need apply. Appli-
cants for clerkships of higher grade than
class one will be expected to enter the
lower class and await the chance of pro-
motion; otherwise promotion in the office
as a reward for efficient service would be
impossible, and the director would be de-
prived of the opportunity to select from
his force of clerks those found upon trial
TO be best fitted for the oversight and COM
mand of the large number of men and
women to be governed and disciplined The
highest wage will not be paid in the first
instance to clerks of class one, but they
viii be requested to earn their promotion.
Ali employees of the office receiving more
than $3.50 per year will have to submit 10
an educational test. Comparatively few ap-
pointments to clerical ros tions win lie made
before June, 1900
Enumerators and SUPERVISORS.
ut is useless to forward to the director
applications for appointment as enumera-
tor. The enumerators will be selected by
the supervisors; the supervisors who must
under the law be nominated by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate, will not
be appointed before December of the pres
ent year, on the convening of Congress
The place of supervisor is worth $1,000;
that of enumerator about $50. The term
OF employment of an enumeratOr will not
exceed thirty days
Special agents will probably not be need
ed ceIofe the numeTation in June, 1893. The
NUMBER which will be needed thereafter is
not now known The principal if not the eX-
elusive demand for special agents will be in
the d4VlSion of manufactures. They will be
paid not to exceed So a day, together with
their necessary travelling expenses and
When absent from home an allowance will
be made them in lieu of subsistence not
greater than s. day They should possess
Some business experience and knowledge OF
the world, and their general grade of quail
fications should be as high as that of a
commercial traveller for wholesale house.
Applications for Appointments.
All applications for appointment are
hled, dncketed and indexed in the office,
and Will receive conSidera ton in due course
OF time Nothing is gained by undue haste
IN forwarding them. Applications should
state the age of the applicant, the degree
OF his education, the character and dura-
tion of his present employment or the
length of time employed, the amount of
salary or wages paid him in his present or
last place of employment, the minimum
salary which he is willing to accept in the
census office, the character of the position
sought, and if qualified to render special
service in some particular direction, the ma
ture and evidence of such qualification. All
applications should be accompanied by tes-
timonials, references or recommends tions
They should be in the applicants own
hand.
Many Bound TO BE Disappointed
ut is believed that the number of appli-
cants will prove to be ten dozen times
as great, at least, as the number of clerks
needed. and that therefore a very large
majority of the applicants are doomed to
disappointment. Assuming that the num-
her TO be employed in the Office at Wash
ington will be approximately 1900, includ-
ing laborers, mechanics, messengers and
scrub-women, this will be at the rate of
one employe to every 10000. a little more
than one to county, if distributed on that
geographical distribution, but only within
such limits consistent with the in
terest of the work to be done. Political
considerations will be wholly subordinated
to those of capacity and efficiency the
part of the applicant Young and vigorous
men and women in the prime of life will
have the preference over the aged and de-
crepit, whose poverty may move compass
sion, but whose practical utility for the
purposes of the census office is on the wane
or at an end