Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — EXAMINATIONS TO BE HELD. [ARTICLE]

EXAMINATIONS TO BE HELD.

Autos to Be Used on Rural Mail Routes. Washington, July 3. —The United States civil service commission announces that it will immediately begin holding open competitive examinations in various parts of the country for motor rural carriers. The department plans to introduce the automobile on rural routes as rapidly as it can be done, and with this end in view it proposes to establish county eligible registers. The salaries it is announced, will range from $1,5.00 to SI,BOO a year. Each appointee will be required to provide, maintain and operate a modern automobile with a carrying capacity of not less than 800 pounds ami :t cubic ca pacify of not less than eighty feet. The examination i a to include spelling 110 points), arithmetic (20 points >, letter writing- (20 points), penmanship (20 points), copying from plain copy (20 points), reading addresses (TO points). Men now in the rural mail service, it is announced, are to have preference, provided they take the examination. The department is now making a survey of the rural system in Indiana with a view to the introduction of automobiles in many counties in that state. One carrier with an automobile will be expected to do the work of two and possibly three carriers with horse drawn vehjcles.