The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
Numerous Lines of Work which At
ford Openings for the Right Sort
of Applicants.
THE AGE OF sPECIALTIEs
ELIGIBLE LIST DEPLETED AND
STATE LINES TO BE IGNORED.
Stenographers and Engineers Par
ticuIarIy Wantcd-UncIe Sans
Employment Agency.
OF the indianapolis Journal.

Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.-Young man.
have you any speciality?
If so Uncle Sam probably needs you, and
has q good opening salary for you.
Yesterday / called at the governments
big employment agency and asked the off,
Gals there to tell me the qualifications
which will best guarantee success in this
autumn's civil-service examinations to be
held in 156 cities. including two each in
Porto Rico and Hawaii. i was told that
this years race for office would be the
greatest on record, both in the number of
goals to be won and in the variety of con-
testants TO be entered
This fall the eligible registers of the
Civil-service Commission are depleted for
the first time in years. Between June 15
and July Is more than 4.5o0 appointments
were made from these lists. This, of course,
means that all former records have been
far eclipsed. Every department of the big
government mill has hung out the sign,
Help Wanted" and the most hopeful sign
of the times is that in the vast majority of
examinations State quotas, hitherto the
bugbcar of the office hungry, are to be ig-
nored. In other words, the fact that your
State has long ago received it's full share
Of appointments need be no Gamper on your
hopes in the vast majority OF examina-
lions.
Fifty-one different kinds of offices are to
be contested for through this regular ex-
animation. Even then a sufficiency of eligi-
bles Will not be obtained, and special ex-
aminations will have TO be held throughout
the coming year. In fact. the long list of
eligibles made UP as the result OF the last
regular contest became so soon depicted
the result of appointment that $50 spe-
cial examinations had to be held within
the two months following. Some of these
fifty-one examinations will lead thousands,
others hundreds. to office.
The supply of men stenographers and
typewriters is so far below the demand this
year that state quotas must be disregarded
even in their examinations. In fact, the
eligible list of stenographers is so badly
depleted that the, civiI-service Commission
contemplates constituting a lower grade
for the class. Young men can enter this
through an examination much less diff
cult than that through which all govern
ment stenographers are now appointed
THESE ARE SURE THINGS.
mere are the specialists Uncle sam most
sorely needs this autumn: Assistant patent
office examiners, coast and 6eodetic sur
vey aids, architectural craftsmen, struc-
tural steel craftsmen, craftsmen versed in
heating and ventilation, topographic drafts
men, men qualified in both electrical en-
cheering and drafting, in both civil and
electrical engineering in both mechanical
and electrical engineering; civil engineers.
topographers. computers. superintendent
of construction, law clerks, translatorS,
kindergarten teachers and department as
sistants for the Philippine service. These
are the few specialties which offer the very
best CHARGES. The list is long one and
the others will lead many well-equipped
young men to promising berths. This is
truly the age of specialties in public as
we'll as private institutions. AS a high
official of the commission put 1t, the young
man who knows some one thing in which
few other men are qualified will soon be in
clover so far as Uncle Sans big institu-
tons are concerned. In fact the only eX-
aminations out of the entire fifty-one which
Go not demand some speciality are those
for apprentices, messenger boys, messen-
gers, watchmen and classified laborers.
Appointments through these will be made