The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-12
BIG RUSH FOR "PANAMA" JOBS
LICENSE INSPECTOR ANSWERS
4DyERTTSEMENT roo.
Then He Gels Sulnmonses for Heads OF Mer-
chants AMI Bsnkers' Sohool-C1viI
service Omcers Cut on Blanks-How
10 say CLARK" English style.

| II. W. Gardner. proprietors OF tho -mer-
chants and Bankers School Of Business.
| at Fifty ninth street and Madison avenue.
| The men are charged with violating the new
license law in regard to the keeping OF
employment agencies and also with doing
business under an assumed name without
fling a certificate with the County Clerk
Tho attention of Commissioner Heating
was called 10 the school by the following
advertisement, which appeared in morris
ing newspaper recently:
WANTED. 80 MEN.
Bookkeepets, clerks. and iiuekeepors 10 WORK
on the Ishnian Canal, Panama.
Free transportation. good salaries paid IN gold,
ana rapid promotion when eligible Address
Az the Panama Canal Commission has
repeatedly announced that there we're no
Jobs Of the kind described 10 be had on the
canal, now or at any other time. except
under the civil service rules, MIR. Heating
decided TO investigate. Inspector Murray
wrote under the name Of Charles P Hahn.
applying for one OF the soft snaps offered
in the advertisement and got reply asking
him TO call. When he got there on nieday
evening no found great crowd of apph
cants ahead Of him and had to wait twenty
minutes before he could get the ear OF
McNeeoe The rush OF business had been
10 great, in fact, that the elevator 10 the
building was put out OF commission. On
MoNeece's deck was a stack of applications
for jobs. more than foot high
Murray was told that he would have to
give up fee Of IS for registration but on
the plea Of poverty he was let of for half
price He paid $3.50 and got a receipt
which when he read no found merely en-
titled him to -5cholarshp' in the Mer-
chants and Bankers School He was told
thai the concern did not really secure po-
sitions on the Panama Canal. but that il
did prepare its pupils for the civil service
examinations He WAS also told that the
school would attend to all the preliminary
details and get him the necessary spplica-
ton blanks for the examination.
He was then invited into the school TO
take a lesson. About twenty-five scholars
were there. The pupils, he SAYS. were
asked TO spell Il few simple words and to
tell how much three -eiRhths OF dollar was
Then a tall man with an English accent APP
peared and said he would give them IN
structons in pronunciation. which he
said we're particularly necessary TO those
who wished TO take the examination for
-clarks. II took him about fifteen minutes
10 explain that In England the word clerk"
was always pronounced CLARK, and that
u about all there was to the lesson, Murray
SAYS The words that the pupils were asked
instructions which il issued free of charge
by the Federal Civil Service Commission
A an indication OF the size Of the bust
ness the Merchants and Bankers School ia
doing in tho Panama Canal game. ii was
learned Yesterday afternoon that Secretary
Babcoch Of the local branch Of the Ma.
Honal Civil Service Commission had re
ueived in the last two days sixty postsl |
ca rtls typewritten signature and all ask
ing for blanks and full particulars concern
Ing examinations for clerks &c on the I
Panama Canal
These postal cards were signed with
names OF men who had made applications .
for Jobs in answer to the advertisement
printed above and were sent in. il is believed,
by the propretors Of the Merchants and
Bankers school The number Of cards
would indicate that the school was clean
Ing up ut least $50 day on the Panama /,
end Of its business.
Secretary Bahcock. being Suspicious re-
fused 10 send the blanks 20 the addresses |
given So ali that the applicants eau get |
for their money is the instructions gwen !
at the school and as the examination will be I
held on Jan rs they haven't much time 10 |
prepare for IL
The principal charge that will be brought ,
against Estey McNeecp and Gardner is run,
ning an employment bureau without G
license The law also makes il misdr
meanor to publish false or misleading ri
vertisements in relation 10 securing Jos
and says that all advertisements enlAnsing
from employment agencies must in very
IN m OF, Ina aCd-ass ~ tho ppUCy.