Newark post., 1914-09-16
Civil Service Examination

be held for the position or clerk IN
the post office at Newark, Del.
/ Clerks in offices of the first and
second classes are divided into five
grades. the salaries of which are
$500. 5000, $1,000, $1,1OO, and
81. 200 per annum, respectively.
Clerks at frst-class Offices will be
promoted successfully, grade at a
time. to $1,000, and clerks at sec
ond-class offices will be promoted In
the same manner to 81 600.
Promotions will be made at the
beginning Of the quarter following
the expiration of years service IN
the next lower grade. No promo
ton will be made except upon evl-
dence satisfactory to the Post Ot-
fee Department of the efficiency
and faithfulness Of the employee
during the preceding year. Clerks
of the highest grade are eligible for
promotion to the higher positions
in their respective offices.
| Competitors will be examined in
the following subjects, which will
have the relative weights indicated:
l. Spelling twenty words of av-
erage difficulty in common use), 10;
2. Arithmetic (simple tests in ad-
dition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division Of whole numbers,
common and decimal fractions, and
United States money! 20.
3. Letter writing Ga letter Of not
less than 125 words on some sub
ject of general interest. COmpeti-
tors may select either of two sub
jects given) 20.
4. Penmanship (the handwrit-
ing of the competitor in the sub
ject of copying from plain copy
will be considered with special ref
erence to the elements of legibility,
rapidity, neatness, general appear
ance, etc 20.
). Copying from plain copy "a
simple test in copying accurately
few printed lines in the competi-
tor s handwriting) 20.
6. Reading addresses (test in
noting with pen or pencil, on a
printed sheet of addresses, differ
ences between the printed addresses
and the written addresses of which
they are a copy 10. Total weights,
100.
Applicants must have reached
their eighteenth but not their
forty fifth birthday on the date
Of the examinations. The age
limits are waived, however, in the
case of persons honorably discharg-
ed from the United States military
or naval service by reason Of dlsa-
bility resulting from wounds or
sickness incurred in the line of
duty. A person under 81 years of
age on the day Of examination will
not be eligible for appointment as
assistant postmaster.
Male applicants for the Post
Office Service must be at least )
feet 4 inches in height in bare feet,
and 125 pounds in weight without
overcoat and hat; otherwise their
applications will be cancelled. Fe-
male applicants are not required to
be Of any height or weight
The Post Office Department has
advised the Commission that no
person who has any of the follow
ing-named physical defects will be
appointed to the position Of clerk
in the Post Office Service: Hunch-
back; defective hearing, sight, or
speech; blindness in one or both
eyes; asthma loss of arm, hand, or
leg; crippled arms or legs; flatfoot;
hernia; congenital weakness of the
abdominal wall, or such weakness
caused by wound or operation ex-
cept that reaf-mutes and persons
with defective speech or hearing
may be appointed to the positions
Of mail clerk, distributor, and dir
ectory and forwarding clerk; and
persons suffering from hatfoot or
weakness of the abdominal wall
may be appointed to any position
Of clerk the duties Of which they
are physically capable of perform
ing Applications Of persons who
are not entitled to examination on
account of physical defects will be
cancelled. Other physical defects
may debar persons from this exam
ination when in the judgement Of
the commission such defects would
render them unfit to perform the
duties of the position for which the
examination is held.
Married women will not he admit.