The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
UNCLE SAM HAS
JOBS FOR MANY
Government viii Employ Nu-
merouS Special Agents to
Collect Statistics.
FEW WOMEN TO BE HIRED
APPLICATIONS WILL BE RE-
cEIVED BY CENSUS BUREAU.

Instructions have been issued from
the bureau Of the census of the depart
ment of commerce and labor to appli-
eants for appointment as special agent
Tor next year, in connection with the
collection OF statistics of manufactures,
mines and qUarries. The bureau of the
census, about Jan. l, 1910. will employ
from 1900 to 1,SO0 special agents in
connection with the work of collecting
IheSe statistics, and it is desired, so
Tar as possible, to obtain for the work
persons who have had college or uni
Nefslty courses in statistics or econ
comics, and those who have had service
IN the accounting department of some
notwithstanding or other business estab-
dshment.
Applications for appointment as Spe-
claI agent viii be received at the cen
suS bureau, Washington, D, G, until
Ihe close of business on Oct. %, 1909.
Blank applications may be obtained by
addressing the director of the census,
al Washington. When an application
IS complete in every particular it should
De mailed to the director of the census.
II the applicants statements as to bust
ness training and experience and edu-
cation are satisfactory, and the appli-
cation is complete in every respect, a
card viii be mailed to the applicant
advising him when and where to an
pear to complete the prescribed prac-
Tical test in filling out a schedule such
as Is required in the actual work of a
special agent.
Applicants must state in their appli-
cations the place selected for taking
the practical test. Applicants must be
citizens of the United States, between
! the ages of 20 and so years. in good
Health and physically able to perform
/ the required duty, and must be persons
Fof good character and habits, which
facts must be VOuChed for by at least
two persons who are personally ac-
ouainted with the applicant.
Applications viii be accepted from
women having the -equired experience
land education, but the opportunity for
/ the employment Of women in the work
sis slight, and few, if any, such appoint
t5nents will be made.
Compensation of Agents.
Special agents will be divided into
two classes: Glass 1, chief special
lRgents, who will collect statistics and
; supervise the work Of assistant special
agents within a given territory or dis
Ftrict; and class ? assistant special
agents. who will be assigned to the
collection of statistics under the di-
Erection of, and subordinate to, special
agents of class 1. Special agents Of
! class l VIII receive compensation of
from $3.50 to s6 a day, including in
: OF class ., If paid by the day, viii re
Ceive from So to 81 each day, including
Intervening sundays; such agents, how
ever, may be compensated on piece
price basis.
Special agents of class I will be en-
ployed from six to fifteen months, and
those of class from three TO six
months. Each special agents viii, upon
appointment, be assigned an official
station, and no expenses of subsistence
will be allowed any special agent while
working in the immediate vicinity Of
his station. Special agents who are
necessarily absent from their desig-
mated stations. engaged on official bust
ness. will be allowed their actual trav-
cling expenses and a per diem in lieu
of subsistence No appointments OF
class will be made until about Jan. /,
1910.
on Nov, 3. 1909, applicants who have
been furnished a card of admission viii
be assembled at the places named in
the schedule for the purpose of taking
the practical test. The places desig-
mated in Utah are Salt Lake, Logan
and Provo. There are three places in
Idaho, Boise, Moscow and POcatellO.