Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-15
SEPTEMBER EXAMS
TO FILL VACANT
STATE POSITIONS
Chief Examiner Gardner Colby
Announces Openings and
Dates for Trials.

TRENTON, Aug. 15.-Gardner Col
by, chief examiner and secretary of
the New Jersey Civil Service Com
mission, has that a series
of examinations will be held by the
commission for the positions of detec-
tiyes in Union, Essex, Hudson and
Mercer countless; supervisors, nurses
and other attendants in the various
State institutions: stenographers; In
speetors of gas and gas meters for
the Public Utility Commission; boat
captains. n several other positions
which will be vacant in the various
institutions and departments of the
State. A complete list of the examin-
atoms and the dates upon which they
will be held follow:
Thursday, September 1-SupervIsor
tmale and ~feinale). State Village for
~Epileptics. Skillman; salary, $35 per
month and maintenance. Duties: To
supervise the patients, employees,
clothing and buildings under the d.
rection of the superintendent and as
sistant physician.
Thursday, September assistant
engineer, carpenter and cablnet-makee,
New Jersey State Normal School,
Trenton; salary, $40 per month AMI
maintenance. Duties: To take care Of
heating and electric light plant; must
also have sufficient knowledge of car
pentry to make repairs to furniture,
do cabinet work and carpentry job
work.
state Boat Captain.
Monday, September 12-Captain of
the State boat New Jersey; salary, 500
per month. Must be licensed pilot and
understand thoroughly the navigation
of New Jersey waters.
Monday, September 12-Engineer OF
State boat New Jersey; salary, SIS
per month. Must understand the
operation of standard gasoline en-
gines and be able to care for the
boats electric plant.
Thursday, September 15.-Dietitian,
Trenton State Hospital and other
State institutions; salary, S45 to $50
per month and maintenance. Duties,
supervision of kitchen/and preparation
of dietary, etc. Should be graduate of
a recognized school OF domestic
science with course in dletetics.
Monday September 1s-Inspector of
gas and gas meters, Board of Public
Utility Commission; salary, $10O to
$3.50 per month. Candidates should be
educated technically as mechanical or
chemical engineers, with special
knowledge of gas manufacture and
thermodynomics. Should have had
some experience as cadet engineers
in a gas plant.
Thursday, September 22.-Supervisor
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heads. SIS to 800 per month and main
tenanee; assistants, s45 to $50 per
us6fith and maintenance. Duties, gen.
eral supervision of wards, attendants
and patients. Should be familiar with
INSTITUTIONAL work, and preferably
graduates in nursing in insane hos
pitfalls.
Monday, October 3, officers (female),
state Home for Girls, Trenton, salary,
s25 per month and maintenance.
Duties: To supervise the work of the
girls in the kitchen, laundry, sewing
room, etc.
Thursday, october 6, Food n Drug
Chemist, State Board of Health, salary,
$1,000 per year.
$1,000 Position.
I Thursday, October 10, first grade
s~tenographers and typewriters, salary,
$50 to SIS per month. Candidates should
have had a hrst-class common school
education, be able to spell correctly
words Of more than average difficulty,
be familiar to some extent, with tech
meal terms; they should be able, also,
70 perform operations in interest and
in addition to simpler
They should be familiar with
aling and indexing methods and with
the general systematic care of business
papers and the routine of business SO
far as the same pertains to steno-
graphic work. Candidates should have
had several years practical experience
and be able to take dictation at the
rate of from 100 to 100 words per min
ute. The papers in s~tenography viii
be critically marked for errors.
Thursday, October 20, second grade
s~tenographers and typewriters. salary,
$50 to 500 per month. Candidates should
have had a common school education.
be proficient in the ordinary operations
of mathematics, be able to spell and
punctuate correctly. be familiar with
indexing and fling; they should also
have had some practical experience and
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