The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1908, Page 10

RRS RET tes had tentatively determined tw use, |tone of the ex i > The World's representa. |Sible. nothing f jay Stated to) The World's representa: | "the moat eesential thing ot all’ f vtive—or as vou would have been in-| keep cool and to pay the very formed had you had time to investi-/Of attention to all the exercises, ,@nd 4c your best—tor speed. Every-| | One Hy ind thins conspires in your cavor. You | Jen j@in, nether crowding words nor br jaime them in two In awkward 4 open Syne Sore Eenpytne es THE EVENING WORLD'S Civil Service -:- By Ernest L. Crandall, Former Civil Service Examiner. cleverness of your ideas or the amount of your information, but by your use | of simple, grammatical English. Try to | be neither verbose, high-flown nor | slangy. Adherence to subject {s an im- | portant point, [f the subject pre scribed is the recent anti-raclng legis lation, talk about that. Don't try to | pad out your letter by teling Mabel | about the last matinee you attended. | One hundred words well written and | Steno grapher and Typewriter. LESSON NO. 8. fl WORD to the timorous. We) ty the point will get more credit than IA have received comments to! the full 2) quite aside from the sub | Ject. the effect that the rate of |’. test on speed in transcribing Speed at present contemplated as a} Miniauin m ‘this test (00 words per minute), as disviosed by our last ar- Hele, isa little sum. There are a num- | ber of things to be taken Into con- gideration before indulging In elan un that point. From the extremely Jarze number of candidates it is rea- @onable to suppose that some pretty | 00d material will develop, and the| citv Is surely entitled to the best. [f, n the other hand, you feel that your @yerage rate of speed is noc up to| 200 words per minute, that {s no reason ‘why sou should despair altogether. In the first place, do not cake @nnouncement in that regard as abso Tutely official. The exact rates of speed Mentioned in our last article were dersta those which the Civil Service authori- from plain copy will be given as fol-| lows: Each candidate at a given time Will be handed q typewritten sheet of | about 100 to 16 words. Several minu will be given to examine this, all must start to copy it at a given | signal, anq all stop at a given signal. - | Your rating will depend both upon the, amount you have tintshed and the ac- curacy with whic! you have tran- seribed (tA y good 7 is to make your tines of the same length e Spetling Test. The spelling test will consist of only our! | ordinary, terms noth words, no strictly he arithmetic test will invo you BP the whoie Wate We claim no exclusive intorma- @ion. [f there is any change, however, {We shall endeavor to keep you oa The Best You Can Do. But now let us suppose your normal ite ts only about eighty words. The city is enutled to see what is the very Dest you can do. And, indeet!, under | favorable circumstances, you a:ay weil | 9xcel yourseif. he dictation will be/ Youd, clear, distinct; you will be on} @ensivn, under che strongest incentive, | understanding what is expected of be: vou start to work. Permit i. to gallantly wish you: FIFTY ESCAPE DOWN CHUTE AS us, posed in the adjoining |eape. lex ‘ Jlast. He | proprie: few have considerable time yet for practice. Finally, considse char you may even 1 of 1 per cent. on the speed test @nd yec make che list. You very iikeiy understand how to figure that out cor yourself. iy not, the method wus explained in Lesson No. 4 | jam. ed ~—TAIDERS ENTER Seven Prisoners and a Bear @or remen and policemen) in The that Evening World or June 3. | Bank Roll Captured at [Vie “Douw't get “cold feet,” girls, and let = e | aft men “ your nervier sisters carry off the places. the Cobweb Club. | Hundred and Go in and do your little best. You will @il bave a (air show. In 4 moment we shail expiain how the lower candidates on these lists have an advantage not @tuching co the usual eligibie lsc. ating for Accuracy, There was a lifelike echo of the one- time famous Jerome raids at 2 o'clock {b this morning when a carefully selected /{ staff of Trafic Squad men axed and| ™ battered their way uw, 43 Wo the raung « into the Cobweb whicn counts .3 on a scale Club at No, 398 Lenox avenue and * ts cuced, of course, on yo transcript | an |mabbed a wazonful of prisoners and an alleged proprietor with a $2,000 bank roll. Only seven prisoners were taken, not- withstanding the expeditious and stren- taken, as described in the | w then, nee your accuracy of sarily affects to some} ing. cor | Yous breaking in of the zaiders, for the club was equipped with @ skilfully ar-, ranged exit in a closet and doWn a blind stairway, Through jhis tube-like j@perture fifty players factoanees into @ neighboring butcher shop, and thence darted out of a corner saloon. in their haste to avola iu. axes and e element much more © purpose of fixing this rating, nerely mean gecting © the dictation; | nee. [Towbars tables were overturned, a Mt roulette wheel was upset with @ clatter , ur aim should be to turn in just |that awoke the neighborhood, and hun- @uch 4 paper as you would be willing |4reds of chips and packs of cards were to submit to “the on his | Scattered about the place, Grustiest. m Bugher Planned Raid. Deputy Commissioner Bugher, mander-in-chief of the traffic squad, hed devised the raid on tie Cobweb Club, a “ambilng house that fas flour- ;|Mshed in Harlem for fifteen years. Capt, it there Is a change | Thomas Walsh, of thi t One Hun- dred and Twen ixth street station, had no inkling of the raid until he was | politely requested to send azound a be careful of your sense of the pas- ®ige 50 as to punctuate Intelligentiy; be Hberal with your right hand mar- com- | use psragraphs, of subject or of treatment in the midst ef any passage. The passages will be from 2 to 2 Uwords in lens Most auch passages | patrol wagon. Nor was Deputy Com. frequire parngraphing. | misstoner Hanson, who is regarded a, Under arr ent are embraced, be-| the official raider of the desactmen jeldes varagraphing, the vt | advised of his fellow-de fi | NEW feaptions, grouping, ca low-deputy's plans, Fmoe Mkely that any a Policeman’ ‘ha e luxurious fetrict sease will be ts generally reserved for ex Lor a special acter, However, the i passages are (requenuy selected from ‘ Wepantinental reports and mater ts 4698, “had | ‘very likely co apyear which will read ood, [badly “in block.” ‘Thus, suppose you] im- | hear a passure: | Ee ene tee fae u | “Subjects and welishts in exam#nation| See aeer ao ratanecenUnEt \ for stenographer and typewriter female LegG I OIGE Ee sar Hepeliing 1 speed in taking shorinand|$nq pomman and hy gts, Casey notes 2 accuracy 3 peed in transmitting | £04 Gallagher, of Inspect ; a from plain copy to machine 2 letter 1) {ty g arithmetic 1.” | Your judgment should lead you ‘o Raiders Armed With Axes, arrange It as fuliows: | Before making the attack Bourke and | Subject and welhts in examination | Hogan armed themselves with axes and for stenograpner and ty pew? “rippers” borrowed from a nearby fire | (femule): | house. Then the atackers took bear. peilin . | s the stre ee fin’ ta th ay, Ge bs Accuracy ; hesllivas Sheed fin “transi h tier eral Bourke advange will the § dite or Cechitiea Hing intended 1 fron eneral puolic ‘men into them at ever; exit. Then he bule tacing Hogan ne | cross my dead bc 1¢| Bourke di } ing him limp and bruised of his d ther up : of ae bing Speed. yeaa stcans New York ‘ity, Jan. 2 1% | door another squa nl No. 30° Mulberry street, | OPEN A rear ent nd, bellewing word. - containgl in your t ranged out- | Judged not by the let that let down into a butcher shop | | Cully @ty players had 1 THE EVENING WORLD, “Burgiar-Proof” Jewel Safe, As Cracksmen Lett It, Looted. ARROW SHOWS WHERE SAFE WAS ENTERED evening, The Song Hit Now at the New York Theatre; Words and Music Free. FEATURE! Be Sure to Get The World’s Great Sunday Sporting Section ---Out for the First Time To- Morrow. Two Full Pages of Sporting News andTwoPages of Specia: Features. uuu Order Your Newsdealei The Sunday World for You. ine to Save a Copy of Vota lb 4 vi ° | The Best Magazi led and pro- ‘yh nc nr TILE TT EIN IO SATURDAY, SAFE BREAKERS ~ STEAL JEWELRY JUNE 20, 19086 shop. is pens as a repairing department. fs in the front part of sat 1s close to the partition, | ten and then started on | steel surface of the sate. inches for working by | plaster of Paris would have taken | hours. They got $1,000 worth of wat Cut Big Hole in ae cae anything else in the place, id to amofnt t al ad broke ft an open n diame: SOUNT TOLSTOr" S) BOOKS SUPPRESSED IN RUS ST. PETERSBURG, June 2 > Interio Talstors ng a pane otism and | JAMES McGREERY & CO, 23rd Street 34th Street Commencing Monday, June the 22nd. RUG DEPARTMENTS. fn Both Stores. 200 Body Brussels and Axminster Rugs, Size gxr12ft. 17.00 and 18 50 200 Wilton Rugs, Sizegx12ft. 23.00 UNABLE TO GET WORK HE DROWNED HIMSELF. t One 5 250 rolls, Carpet. Best Tapestry Brussels 65c per yard Despond brought on by his fall- eS “ sie fiat ed to have | zoo rolls, Best Wilton Velvet Carpet. goc per yard Prices are one-third less than age and lived | former figures, 23rd Strece 34th Street case to the police. Tr was found in the river thank 4 | | be accurate they pencilled off a circle i} and then inserted their boring mach “They must have had some sort ie electric, machine,” said Mr. Reiner, in the little window in the rear of the They entered a@ section that ts partitioned off from the front part and | ynseotions The the | hine. hand on that steel and them ches, | pins and rings, $180 In cash, a $5 check | and my bankbook. They didn't disturb nd evident- h SIA. Illustrated Magazine Articles Candidate's Home Life. Unhappy Marriages. Divorce. Nagging Women, Scientist. ors of One Fair Lady's Hand. Put This In Your Scrapbook: Languages.” Reaching the People. the Wealthy Wife of a Former Fiano Salesman. Are to Decide the Question. Forgiveaess hat Followed. oerey the place | The cracksmen sawed a hole in 8 rie Justice Dayton in the Supreme wood of the partition about twelve by | Court to-day on a claim for ca of | Pald $4,477.63 and sepudiated the rest proof’ Box and Then |x went out by, the back window, the | Way they came. € ——_ Clean It Out. | mReIan oar When, Harry M. Reiner entered the| Jersey City Department Batin- ‘door of his jewelry shop at No. 1533| tingulshes Blaze on the Julenka, |rhird avenue to open business to-day| Fire was discovered early to-day in| he gave one glance at his safe andjthe hold of the New York and Conti- | \s nearest polleeman. nental Ii steamship Julenka, lying | that ne at the Manhanset pler at the foot of : City. An alarm quickly The cause of the blaze is| Photographic Glimpses Into the Interfor of Secretary Taft's Wash- ington Mansion and a Vivid Word Picture of the Presidential Anthony Comstock, ‘New York’s Censor of Morality,” Talks About the Bringing Up of Children, Unfit Literature and Other Interesting Topics. “Our Faces Don’t Balance, and Why,” Explains a Noted French The “We Will Never Marry’ Club, Composed of Eight Discarded Suit- Detailed Description of a Private Audience with Pope Pius the Tenth. “The Woman Who Speaks Forty : How and Why All Women Work ijn Denmark Until They Marry. ~* Twentieth Century Methods Now Employed by the Church in “Should the Husband of a Rich Woman Work ?” Of Course. Insists The Courts The New Woman “Announcer” Is Taking the Place of the Old-time “Barker” in Drawing Crowds to Coney Island’s Show Places. How a Devoted Wife Drugged Her Chauffeur Husband, Saving Him from the Dangers of a Frightful Endurance Race, and the ne-Newspaper Published in the United S CABMAN BEATS CITY CLUB. | RAN INTO SLEUTHS’ ARMS. Over-| Brothers Chased Man They Found on Ground of charges Crawling Near Bed. A man who Imnored by Court. The City Club was loser by a y et) Charged with pure described himself as e Braun, hire. | forty-one years old a James Hebron sued for a balance of | to-day held by Ma In order to, $1286.34 on a bill of $5,763. Yorkville Ce by members of the c 81, 1905, and Jan. 1, 198. The club Uhe ground of overcharges. Justice Dayton directed the jury to find a verdict for the full amount of | the bill, with costs and interest : he ran Shott and Saves AL eras JAMES McGREERY & 69. 23rd Street 34th Street Main Station Hudson River Tunnels To and trom New Jersey. mes McCreery & Co., 23rd Street, On Monday and Tuesday, June the 22nd and 23rd. SILK DEPARTMENTS “McCreery Silk.” Sale of Ten Thousand yards of white and black Silks including Taffetas, Rough Shantung Pongee, Japanese Habutai and Shanghai China Silk. 55¢ per yard in Loth Stores, DRESS GOODS; Sale of 25,000 colored Dress Linens. Pure Linen Suitings,—a wide range of checks and plaids on white and pale bluegrounds, 36inches wide. 25c per yd, value SOc Union Linen Suitings, Irish manu- facture. Piaincolors.—light blue, pink, lavender, reseda, navy and cadet blue, tan, white and natural, 25c per yard JAMES McCREERY & C0. 23rd Street 34th Street WASH In Both Stores. yards white and To BePrinted Exclusively in To-Morrow’s Sunday World They say that life is dull at best— It is, if thus you make it; &. But if you wear a coat of “blue” There’s a certain way to it. “shake” y, And Without Doubt That Certain Way Is to Get and | Read the Funny Section That’s Coming Out in Gay Colors with To-Mor- rows Sunday World. : itm The “Kid,” “Bad Bill,” and all the rest Will make you laugh and shout Until your triends will wonder what Your joy is all about. ———1 tates eoneintnnet eect TAN NT ee ae AE gee