Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-03-31

49, s serT5ce t and a ansH now r gz,-
A larly employed in that
work or have risen to higher positions
IN the same line. Now your prom1s-
| ing boy can take up the work and sue
coed in it, if he happens to like this
sort of employment. 1t is agreeable
work, and fairly remunerative and
there is high success possible as re-
ward for industry If your boy will stay
with it. besides the advantages of be-
ing employed by the government un-
der civil service regulations. That
makes employment certain as long as
the worker attends to business. Thus
| he is free from all the uncertainty
that now and then disturbs the indus
trial world and may look upon his
career as fixed-an advantage that IS
more attractive than a high salary
with a possibility that business re-
verses of ones employer or other
causes may compel him to look for an
other job without warning.
This is how to go about it getting
into the railway mail service: Write
letter to the United States Civil
Service Commission at Washington.
stating that you wish to enter the rail-
way mail service, and you will receive
full information as to the general
preparation required, physical and
mental qualifications, as we'll as the
time and place of the next examina-
ton to be held in your vicinity Your
bow must pass the civil service tests
before he is eligible to appointment;
but examinations are held at frequent
intervals in various parts of the coun-
try. often enough and sufficiently near
to where he lives so that he can ar
range to attend them without diff
Guilty. At some time in the year every
State has it's examination for the rail-
way mail service.
Your boy must be between 18 and
IS years of age to take the eXam1na-
ton, and must be at least feet 5
inches in height and weigh 100 pounds.
The subjects of examination are as
follows: Spelling, arithmetic, letter
writing, penmanship, copying from
plain copy, political geography of the
United States, reading addresses, and
systems of railway transportation.
The test in reading addresses consists
Of comparing a number of written ad-
dresses with printed copy on which
various errors are purposely made.
The questions on systems Of railway
TRANSFORMATION will be confined to rail-
roads entering and running through
the railway division in which the ap-
pIicant lives and connecting the prin-
cipal cities or important railway CEN
ters within or near its borders; also
junction points on these railway
routes. The country is at present d.
vided into Is divisions, according to
| the distribution of volume Of mail
| traffic. For example, the first division
| includes the New England states; the
second, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, the eastern shore
| of Maryland, and Accomac and North
| ampton counties, Virginia; the 18th
| division, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas
and New Mexico, and so on.
Having passed this examination,
your boys name is added to the list of
| eIigibles, and he awaits the summons
from Uncle Sam, that informs him that
there is a substitute job awaiting him.
! This means that somebody is Ill or has
| been transferred, or that there Is a
sudden increase of work and he is
wanted to take some place temporar'
! II will DIN tho CIIhCtitufH
| list for a year or year and half,
| according to the needs of the service
/ but during that time he will be paid at
} the rate of $500 year for the time he
works. After that he will be given a
regular appointment at which he must
work on probation for six months be.
fore be,eg a full f1edged postal clerk
Howes CT, the time he served as subsu
tute is deducted from this probation
period. and, If he has served for at
least six months, which is likely, as
he will have worked as substitute al
| least half the time-he will get his full
! appointment at once, at salary o.
5000 a year. or So month.
Now he will be at his regular work
with no doubts Of future employment
and steady promotion on ahead o.
him. His duties will be on mail cars
where he will work for eight hours Oh
more a day, according to the require
ments of his particular route.
His work will be the distribution
and routing Ct mail. This sounds sim
nle enough; tut it means that h'
should know the proper and specifies
route to send letter that comes from
xxsvhere ana goes anywhere in O