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MAY 31, 1900. THE MARINE RECORD. 8 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR GOVERN- MENT POSITION. The United States Civil Service Commission announces ex- aminations to be held in any city in the United States where it has a local Board of Examiners, for the following position: June 18, 19, 20, for the position of marine engine drafts- man, The Department states that for this position it desires a man who is a marine engine draftsman and who has had sev- eral years’ experience as such in marine engine building es- tablishments, and one who is familiar with the best and most recent practice in engine and boiler construction, and who is also able to make all calculations neccesary in work- ing out the design of details insteam machinery. From the eligibles resulting from this examination certification will be made to the position of draftsman, marine engines, in the Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, at a salary of $1,400 per annum. From the eligibles resulting from this examination certi- fication will be made to the position of mechanical drafts- man, Ordnance Department, War Department, at a salary of $1,200. June 25, 26, 27, for the position of draftsman of marine engines and machinery. From the eligibles resulting from this examination certification will be made to the position of draftsman in the office of the United States Inspector of Machinery at Weymouth, Mass., at a salary of $4 per diem. June 28, 29, 30, for the position of mechanical draftsman. From the eligibles resulting from this examination certifi- cation will be made to the position of mechanical draftsman at the League Island Navy Yard ata salary of $4 per diem. These examinations will consists of the subjects mentioned below, which will be weighted as follows: (i), Wetter-writing 32s es aes ne ero yn 5 (a) reat Nemauies i inc st ica cate cco ec us coe Bee 15 (3) SWERLOMAIS Soi Vie de eR at ctecel f we ger wes 15 PACA COlationsi et nen ak cation a a 20 Gl Dralting sce oe ce eee eis rhea nes cece 25 (6) Technical education and experience............. 20 Motaleon gees ee fae sie Sore eb wea a ce eens oes oe 100 The examination will be divided as follows: First day,the first three. subjects; second day, the fourth subject; third day,the fifth subject. Age limit, twenty years or over. July 5, 6, 7, for the position of ship draftsman and assist- ant ship-draftsman. Information relative to the scope of this examination may be found in section 57 of the Manual of Examinations revised to January 1, 1900. . From the eligi- bles resulting from this examination certification will be made to the following named position: Second-class drafts- man, Mare Island Navy- Yard, salary $4.56 per diem; drafts- man in charge, Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard, salary $6 per diem; assistant ship draftsman, Crescent Ship Yard, Hlizabeth City, N. J., salary $4 per diem; assistant ship drafts- mau, Norfolk Navy Yard, salary $4 per diem; second-class ship draftsman, at Norfolk, at $4 per diem. These exami- nation are open to all citizens of the United States who com- ply with the requirements and desire to enter the service. All such persons are invited to apply, and applicants will be examined and graded with entire impartiality and wholly without regard to any consideration save their ability as shown by the grade attained in the examination. Persons who desire to compete should at once apply to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., forap- plication forms 304 and 375, which should be properly exe- cuted and promptly filed with the Commission. ; $__———>< << ORDERS were issued May 21 detaching twelve cadets from duty on board the New York and Texas and assigning them to duty with the torpedo station at Newport. Ten older offi- cers will also be attached to the station. ‘These officers will form a class which will receive wireless telegraphy instruc- tion. ‘ LITERARY AND BOOK NOTICES. One of Miss Mary EK. Wilkins’s delightful heroines re- marks, in speaking of certain would-be leaders of social re- form in her village: ‘‘I don’t know that I think they are so much above us as too far to one side. Sometimes it is long- itude and sometimes it is latitude that separates people.’’ “This is true,’’ says Gov. Roosevelt in the June Century, ‘“‘and the philosophy it teaches applies quite as much to those who would reform the politics of a large city, or, for that matter, of the whole country, as to those who would re- form the society ofa hamlet.’’ : Frank T. Bullen, who is well-known to those who keep track of the literature of the sea, has brought out another book, ‘‘The Log of a Sea Waif,’? D. Appleton & Co., New York. In this, as the author tells us, in the preface,-he aims to do for life in British ships what ‘‘T'wo Years Before the Mast’’ did for American sea-faring existence. Mr. Bul- len’s acquaintance with the sea is admirably shown in his accounts of the ships’ behavior in storm and calm, and if parents who have boys possessed with a craving for sea glory would give them such books as these, their sons might be intelligently dis-illusioned, as were the two ’prentices on board the good barque Harrowby. The illustrations are good, and well selected. A writer in The Review of the Week says: ‘‘A friend of mine reports from Wynberg that the nurses in the hospi- tal there require a little supervision. He found a patient, a big Irishman, looking very melancholy. ‘Are you not com- fortable?’ asked the visitor. ‘Asa prince,’ replied the Irish- man, ‘barrin’ the onraysonableness of the little woman wid the red hair. It. is scouring me face she does be doin’ five times in an afthernoon. ‘‘The Lord has given mea call to be a blessin’ to you poor dear men,’’ she sez, and then she does be dabbin me face again wid a sponge. An’ manny’s the time I lieson the broad iv me back and sez I to mesilf, ‘Peter Docherty,’ I sez, ‘was it to Afriky yecame for glory an’ a bellyful of fightin’, or was it have the ould face iv ye shined up like a blessed milk-can on a Monday mornin’ ?? ”’ “Old Ocean’s Ferry,’’ the log of the modern mariner, the the Transatlantic traveler, the quaint facts of Neptune’s realm. A collection of odd and useful information for nau- tical travel and strange features of the sea. For landsman and mariner. Compiled. by John Colgate Hoyt, also ‘“‘A Summer Journey to Brazil,’ by Alice R. Humphrey, with sixteen full-page illustrations, cloth, 12 mo., $1.25. This volume of easy reading proves that there is another ‘‘world to conquer’’ for the ubiquitous travelers, very pleasantly ac- cessible. It gives many a hint of life on an English steamer in tropical seas, and of a part of the world hitherto almost unknown to American travelers. The Englishman knows it as he knows Australia, New Zealand, and as we are beginning to know the Sandwich Islands and Japan. The book con- tains many suggestions of value to merchants who may have international relations with South Ameriga, to philanthro- pists and to missionary readers. Published by Bonnell, Silver & Co., 24 West Twenty-second street, New York. Cassier’s Magazine of Illustrated Engineering has the fol- lowing articles in its June number: Trade Possibilities in South Africa. manufacturer and merchant. By Edgar Mels. Three Systems of Selling Pig Iron. The German, British and American methods. By George H. Hull. Sixty Years in British Iron Works. A Retrospect. sixteen illustrations. By George Beard. Practical Inventing. Suggestions in systematising inven- tive effort. With thirteen illustrations. By W. H. Smyth. Naval Architecture and Sanitation. The elimination of diseases aboard ship. By J. R. Tryon, late Surgeon-General Prospects for the With twelve illustrations. With U.S. N. _ The Increasing Size of American Locomotives. A look into the future. With nineteen illustrations. By William Forsyth. Engineering Graduates from Universities. From a works manager’s point of view. By George W. Dickie. see The Cost of Machine Work. By Francis H. Richards, « Current Topics.—Boilers with too Much Heating Surface —A Curiosity in Blast Furnace Practice. Illustrated—Brass and Paint on Old Time Locomotives—Fast Transatlantic Service—Electricity as a Bye-Product—Hot Water Heating from a Central Station—Refrigerating by Brine Circulation from a Central Station. Government Proposals. U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Galveston, Tex., May 30, 1900. Sealed bids in triplicate for improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Tex., by dredging, etc., will be received until 2 p. m., June 30, 1900, and then publicly opened. For information apply to. C. S. RIcHE, Capt., Engrs. 22-25 U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Jones Building, Detroit, Mich., May 29, 1900. Sealed pro- posals for improving Detroit River, including dredging, removing boulders and excayating bed rock, will be received here until 12 noon (Standard time), June 13, 1t900, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on application. G. J. LyDECKER, Lt. Col., Engrs, 22-23 U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Vicksburg, Miss., May 28, 1900. Sealed proposals for excavating 7,500,000 cubic yards of earth, more or less, along route for diverting mouth of Yazoo River, near Vicksburg, Miss., will be received here until 3 o’clock, p. m., June 28, 1900, and then publicly opened. Infor- mation furnished on application. Tos. L,. CASEY, Maj, Engrs. 22-25 U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Custom House, Cincinnati, O., May 16, 1900, Sealed pro- posals for hire of tow boat having cylinders about 14 inchesediameter, with 5 feet stroke, to serve as tender for Ohio river dredges during present season, will be received here until 2 p. m., June 18, 1900, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on appli- cation. Wm. H. Brxsy, Maj., Engrs. 20-23 SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Light-House Board until 2 o’clock p. m., June 25, I900, and then opened, for furnishing the material and labor of all kinds necessary for the construc- tion and delivery of the twin-screw steel steam light-house tender Sumac, for a fixed sum for said vessel, delivered either in the harbor of Chicago, Ill., or at the Light- House Depot at St. Joseph, Mich., as will be determined by the Light-House Board. Forms of proposals, plans and specifications may be had upon application to the Light- House Board, or at the office of the Light- House Inspector, Chicago, Ill. F. J. Hic- GINSON, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. 21-22 MARINE ENGINES, PROPELLER WHEELS, DECK HOISTERS, MPN TIN ld @ 312 ATWATER STREET, DETROIT, MICH. ° Chas. E. & W. F. 58 William Street, New York City. 5 and 6 Billiter Avenue, E. C., - Insurance BROWN&CO., - - - J.G. KEITH & CO., - Lakes, both CARGOES and HULLS. Royal Insurance Building, Chicago, Ill. 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