The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-04
EXAMINATIONS FOR POST OFFICE JOBS
 TO BE HELD SOON
October 2 Is Date For Tests For Carriers and Clerks
 Positions.

The United States Civil Service Commission will hold a competitive examination at Bridgeport October 2, 1915. for the positions of clerk and
 carrier in the Bridgeport post office. The examination will consist of spelling, 20 words of average diff1- culty in common use to count 10 points; arithmetc, simple tests in addition, subtraction, tiplication, and division of whole numbers, com mon and decimal fractions and Unit ed States money, 20 points; letter writing, a letter of not less than 125 words on some subject of general in tereSt. Comp etitorS will be permitted to select one of two subjects given. It will count 20 points. Penmanship,
 the handwriting of the competitor in copying from plain copy, will be con sidered with special reference to the elements of legibility, rapidity, neat 1 ness. general appearance, etc, and will count 20 points. Copying from plain copy a simple test in copying accurately a, few printed lines in the competitors handwriting, will count 20 points and reading addresses, a test in noting with pen or pencil on
 printed sheet of addresses differences between the printed addresses and
 the written addresses of which they
 are a copy, 10 points.
 Exa minations for positions in the engineering department of the gov ernment will be held October 1,61915.
 Applicants for carriers and clerks jobs must have reached their 1 8th but not their 45th birth day on the date of the examination. The age limits are waived, however, in the case of
 persons honorab1y discharged from the United States military or naval
 service by reason of disability result ing from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty. Eligibles result ing from this examination who were
 under 21 years of age on the date
 ofsthe examination will mot be certified for filling vacancies in the position of assistant postmaster.
 Applicants must be citizens of the
 United States.
 Male applicants must be at least five feet four inches in height and
 those whose normal weight is Jess
 than 125 pounds should not apply as
 no male eligible will be appointed eitn-
 CT as clerk or carrier who is under l this weight
 Clerks in offices of the. first and
 second classes and carriers in the city delivery service are divided into
 five grades as follows: First grade, salary $500; second grade. salary $S00; third grade, salary $1,0oO; fourth.
 grade. salary $1,1Oo; fifth grade, sal
 ary $1, 200. Clerks and carriers of first grade offices will be promoted 1 successively to the fourth grade, and clerks and carriers at the second
 class offices will be promoted success
 iyely to the third grade. on evidence of satisfactory service
 Applicants are required to be physi- ca1Iy sound and in good health as shown.in Form 1872; which is furnish
 ed with each application. Those
 suffering from any of the disabilities
 therein shown will not be admitted to l the examination,
 Married women. except those who
 are divorced from their husbands will 1 not be admitted to the examination l From the eIigib1es resulting from j this examination it is expected that certif7cation will be made to any ex- l isting or future vacancies in the local postofice.
 For application blank and pamphlet of instructions containing specimen
 examination questions and other in
 formation apply to Edward E. Stelb- I bins. district secretary, First p. S.
 Civil Service District, headquarters, i Boston, Mass, Room Al. Postofice
 building, with whom complete appli- l cations must be filed in time for him to arrange for the examination or to
 William Paul. the local secretary, at I the registery department of the local
 postofice. If possible applications
 should be filed prior to September s, | 1915.