Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1911 — Old-Time Office Boy Gone. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Office Boy Gone.

Exit the office boy, enter the disdainful monarch, watchful of the entrance to the sacred sanctum. • The race of cigarette-smoking urchin office boy has becomp extinct, say business men. The new office boy is a sedate little man who smokes two-for-quarter Havanas and who has a supreme scorn of cuspidors and brooms. Office boys of today receive the princely salary of >4BO a year, hence the change, say employers. The civil service commission has placed their salaries at that figure. “Office boys at >lO a week become czars,” said R. A. Wlddowson, secretary of the civil service commission. "The old-time three dollar ft week boy could be but employers cannot cope with the >lO ones of today, who demand reserved seats with cushions at a prominent point in the office." Clerks range in salaries from >960 to >4,200, according to the new grading of positions made by the commission. The >960 positions are filled by original entry examinations. Promotional „ examinations govern all other jobs. Six and a half years would be required to rise from the first position to the highest.—Chicago Record-Herald.