The Washington times., 1902-07-23
EXAMINATIONS TO Be
Held FOR MANY POSTS
Civil Service Commission
Supplements Manual.
POSITIONS TO BE FILLED
Tests for Local Positions in Hawaii and
Porto Rico to Be Eeld Only in Islands
No Men Appointed Press Feeders.

The Civil Service Commission has
| Just issued q supplement to its manual
| of examinations.
Examinations will be held this year
/ to fill the following positions;
Aid. Coast and Geodetic Survey; ap-
sistant examiner. Patent Once assist
ant topographer; bookbinder; bookkeep-
er. departmental service; bookkeeper,
! Philippine service; civil and electrical
! engineer; clerk promotion; coIapositor;
computer. Supervising Architects Of
fee; copyist. topographic craftsman; de-
/ partment assistant. Philippine service,
/ electrical engineer and craftsman; cleo
/ trotype fnisher; electrotype molder,
/ elevator conductor; farmer; farmer with
/ knowledge of irrigation; fish culturist;
/ heating and ventilating craftsman; in
tcrnal revenue; junior architectural
craftsman; junior civil engineer; kin
dergartcn teacher; law clerk; manual
! training teacher; meat inspector; me
/ chanical and electrical engineer; mes
senger: messenger boy; observer; phys
| ician; press feeder; pressman; railway
mail clerk; skilled laborer; stenogra-
pher; stenographer and typewriter;
stenographer- typewriter Junior trans
| lator. Philippine service; stenographer-
typewriter Philippine ser
vice: structural steel craftsman; super
! intendent Of construction; teacher; to-
! ar- Offipa AND
| departmental services; translator, de-
partmental service; translator. Philip
pine service; trained nurse; typewriter:
watchman.
Statement Regarding Positions.
The following statements as TO ap-
pointments and prospective examiaa-
tions are also contained in the man
ual:
1T has been the practice of the Pub
lie Printer not to appoint men to the
position OF press feeder.
F"Applicants for the railway email
clerk examination must be at least
feet inches in height, exclusive OF
boots or shoes. and must weigh al least
135 pounds in ordinary clothing, without
hat or overcoat.
After the examination 20 be held
this fall the following named ezamica-
tions will be held only when eliSibleS
are needed and viii be duly announced:
Apprentice. skilled laborer, messenger.
messenger boy. watehman. trained
nurse After the examinations to be
held this fall applications for the eX-
aminations mentioned in this paragraph
fsnFf1 a7rfuh l.
tions are announced.
Examination in Hawaii AID Porto Rico.
special attention is invited to the
fact that the scheduled examinations,
which will be held at various other
places throughout the United States
during the fall OF 1902, Will also be held
at Honolulu and Hilo Hawaii, and at
San Juan and Ponce, Porto Rico.
Appointments to Federal positions Il
Hawaii and Porto Rico will be made
upon the same basis as appointments tol
similar positions in the States and other
Territories.
examinations for local positions in
the postoffice, customhouse and Internal
revenue services in Hawaii and Porto
RICO VIII Dt HElu OAis ~ A-4N.snN A~-A+%N-
les. Persons who desire to be examined
should apply to the secretary of the
Civil Service board of examiners at the !
postoffice at San Juan, Porto Rico, or at
the customhouse at Honolulu for appli- |
cation blanks and examination infor- |
nation.
AT the request Of the Philippine civil
service board the following examinations
will be held curing the fall OF 1902 for
positions in the Philippine service.
Bockke ler age limit. eighteen TO forty
years. '-pa ment assistant: age iimit.
eighteeI scr or over. Stenographer
typewriter, ,1nior translator Spanish
age limit. eighteen 70 forty years. Ste
nographer- typewriter translator (Span-
ishJ: age limit eighteen TO forty years.
Translator Spanish: age limit, eigh-
teen TO forty years.
The stenographer and typewriter ex
aminations will be given only ia connec-
tion with the translator and junior
translator examinations, and hose who
fail in Spanish viii not ne entitled G
have their names entered on the ste
nographer or typewriter register OF eli
gibles. Persons having no knowledge of
Spanish will not be examined for ste