The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-03
WANT TENEMENT INSPECTORS.
BIG EXAMINATION DAY IN
GRAND CENTRAL PALACE.
Commissioner DE Forest Wonders n tho
Ciyfi Service Rules Really Give Him
. Chance NJ the Best Available Ma
terial-How Test Tact and Sense?

o Chnncc ~ the Best Asailahio MA
terial-liow Test Tact and Sense?
Robert W. de Forest, Tenement House
Commissioner, has discovered since Jan. I
one Of the weak points In the OWL service
reform system as it is administered in
his endeavors TO get his department into
working order he has found himself 'up
against it 30 decidedly that he said yester-
day:
The organization Of the Tenement House
up to- the Municipal Civil Service Com
mission. Almost all the positions In the
department come under civil service
rules and can be filed only after examina-
tons have been held and eligible lists made
by the Civil Service Commission
Not only is the organization OF the de-
partment up to- the commission, but that
commission. burdened by its rules, Mr.. dc
Forest finds hardly up to his ideas Of serving
what he believes would be the best inter-
ests of his department. He was not will
ing yesterday TO c~riticise the commission
in terms. but finding himself helpless to
organize his department. except as the
commission makes 1t possible for him to
do 40 under the incubus Of what he con-
siders unfortunate rules, he issued a state
ment in which he calls attention TO the
handicap under which no must labor, and
incidentally 10 an unsatisfactory exami-
nation system TO which the new Civil Service
Commission is bound by the rules of its pre-
decessors.
He cannot get his working force until the
commission furnishes him with a list OF
persons TO make selections from, and the
commission has only now been able TO get
a time for examinations for the supplying
Of this list. II will be some time later
before the list can be made ready. There
are something more than ll6 places to ba
filed and the number OF applicants Is nearly
800, a number unprecedentedly large. The
commission Is unable to accommodate such
a number Of applicants In it's examination
rooms. and has engaged the Grand Central
Palace for the examinations, which Will lie
held there on Friday next at 10 A. NJ. APP
plications. IL Is understood will be received
at the COMMISSIONS Office at $40 Broadway.
up TO and including Wednesday. Mr..
de Forest said yesterday:
The eIamins tons for sanitary inspectors
and for inspectors OF light and ventilation
Will ! think. be a supreme test OF the ability
OF the civil service in the hands Of tie friends
to properly I'LL such positions. The work
OF the Tenement House Department dealing
e y doc, 20 m ,nt ~ MidS ne home o9n,
and most ignorant classes. requires a large
measure OF all-round common sense, The
spsotors in the Tenement House Depart.
mere technical thOwi.dss. and the eIamlnA-
ton test seems TO Inc a very dln1cult one.
some respects. a m~isnomer. for the duties OF
a sSs,s n ,os siss t Lsas1s SG s SSS... a sftsa ihs "
are completed, aud only u part OF these duties
are on the sanitary side.
such inspectors require IN . marked degree
sound Judgment n tact ~ dealing With
people ~ oil kinds. With children a. well a.
With STown-ups. with men and women and
and naiioLal habits Their highest fyBo-
tons. AZ least ~. the hr-t Instance, Will h.
quite a. much educational AZ dsiectiNe. foI
much Of the SHINING against tenement and
EAnitary law arissr from Ignorance, and until
u IL manifest that direction fgils o. oonsot
thsse s.ils. punishment should b. ,sfeiuhy
II there could bs any method 20 ,es,. by
Owl ser!ioe elimination ihe ,einmon
a. give 10 tAs po=sssslon ~ these u~ualitles
the greatest ssishi aud the h,Ths-t mari
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