The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-07
r. II. VALUATION
is GREAT WORK
Already There Have Been About 10000
Inquiries About Possible Positions
in the Work.

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Washington. d. c.. July 5.-The stu.
pendous character of the work involved
in the physical valuation of railroads
! by the interstate commerce commission
/ is emphasized in a statement issued by
| the civil service commission, which is
charged with recruiting the vast army
of experts and other employees required
for the undertaking The first of the ex-
aminations in this new field of civil serv-
ice employment. will be held in all OF
the states and in the territories of Ha-
wall and Porto Rico, on July 81 and %.
| So great Is the interest among those
seeking employment that already about
10000 inquiries have been received at
civil service headquarters. From all
parts of the country, letters have poured
in at the rate of from 600 to 1000 daily
since the announcement on June Ia Of
the first examination.
Not only will large force be re-
quired to complete the initial work of
apprasng the valuation of all of the
railroads of the country, but after the
final figures are obtained it is probable
that a considerable number will be re-
quired to keep the information up to
date. Thus il viii be seen that the
work about to be undertaken viii be
permanent for a great number of EN-
ployes under the civil service Those
who are appointed when the work starts
and make good, naturally will have the
best chance for advancement. AS the
undertaking is entirely in its infancy,
il is impossible to tell how long a task
he ht14 Sc fnA ha+
will require about five years 1t will
be started as soon as the employees can
qualify.
While the civil service commission is
anxious to receive applications from as
many qualified persons as possible, be-
cause ii believes that there will be no
great surplus OF such men, it has been
found necessary to emphasize the re-
quirement of experience in the differ
ent lines of work covered by the sew
enteen examinations to be held, Many
OF the applications for examinations
thus far have come from telegraphers,
station agents, conductors and others.
whose qualifications are not Of the kind
required for the work about to be start
ed.
The character Of the work, the salaries
and the manner of the examinations is
explained by the civil service commission
as follows:
Junior and minor positions of archi-
tect. mechanical engineer, railway signal
engineer, electrical engineer. and struc-
tlral engineer will be paid from 81 ,0S0
TO 81 800 a year; similar grades of civil
engineer, inspector of car equipment,
and Inspector of motive power, from
81 200 TO 81 800. Senior inspectors OF
car equipment and senior inspectors of
motive power will receive from 81 500
to $4,000 year. There will be two
grades each of senior structural en-
gineers, senior civil engineers, senior cleo
trical engineers. senior railway signal
engineers, Senior mechanical engieers.
and senior architects. The first grade
win pay salaries ranging from $1,000
to "a 500 year. and the second grade
from 81 500 to $1,000.
"There will also be held on July %
an examination for examiner of accounts
in the interstate commerce commission.
These accountants will be paid from
50 300 to $1,000 year for the first
grade and from 81 500 to 81 100 for the
second grade. Applicants must have had
actual experience in connection with
accounting work in pub
lie accounting practice, with state com
missions engaged in the regulation of
affairs of common carriers, or with the
commerce commission. Sew
en- years such experience is required
for the first grade, while five years ex
perience is sufficient for the second !
grade.
THE examinations to be given by the |
,ivil service commission for all these |
positions wall be strictly practical in
character. For the senior positions and |
for examiners of accounts the applicants |
will not be expected to come together in |
room and sit at desks for the purpose I
IF answering questions on how to APP |
praise the value of railroad property, |
lut they will be required 10 fill out an /
application and examination form pre-
pared for the purpose giving a state
nent of their general education and
echnical training, courses of study pur
,ued, and where so pursued, also a de-
allied statement of, their professional I
md technical experience along the lines
II the duties of the position for wjbich
hey apply, giving the names Of their
Employers, with dates, pay and kinds of
work they have done. They must make
hese statements under oath, and must
ave the names Of witnesses who can
orroborate their statements.
"The commission acts upon these APP
much as any business insti-
ution would act, except perhaps that {
he examination by the commission into
he education and experience Of the APP
,licants is more thorough and systemat-
c than is customary with commercial I
ouses. Specific inquiries are addressed I |
o the references given by the appl-
ants, and when all the evidence possible
o obtain in regard to the education,
raining. experience and fitness of the /:
pplicants is obtained. the papers are {
laced before board Of experts sccus- {
omed to weigh such evidence-men who
ave a knowledge OF the qualifications {
anr,froJ IA tho nositinu 20 he hlIed- Z