MERIT EXAMINATION FOR PARK POLICEMEN. No. 66. RULES AND REGULATIONS. Date, July 29, 1897. 1. Number 40, of the Selections from Instructions governing Park Police, reads as follows: "No member of the force shall be permitted to solicit, or be obliged to make contributions, in money or otherwise, on any pretense, to any person, committee or association for any political purpose whatever." What, in your opinion, is the reason for this rule? 2. A team, attached to a carriage containing a woman and small children, becomes frightened; the carriage is overturned on the side of a steep slope and the children are thrown down the hill. What would you do first. 3. You meet a drunken man, who is noisy, but not otherwise violent, in one of the walks in Central Park. What would you do with him? 4. If obliged to use force, what considerations should be borne in mind in so doing? 5. Define felony and misdemeanor, and state under what circumstances an arrest may be made for each. 6. You stop a runaway horse, and possibly save a life by so doing. The person rescued, in order to show his gratitude, sends you a check. What is your duty? 7. Give the substance of the oath required of a Park Policeman. CITY INFORMATION. 1. Name all the parks in the City of New York as now constituted that you can remember, and give, in a general way, the situation of each. 2. Name five large hotels not on Broadway or Fifth avenue. 3. Suppose you are on duty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, how would you direct a stranger asking the quickest way to the Pennsylvania R. R. ferry, and how long should you tell him it would take to go there? 4. What buildings are in the following locations: Corner Madison avenue and Twenty-third street; Broadway, opposite Wall street; Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street; One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Amsterdam avenue; Battery Park? 5. Choose any five surface car lines and give their routes. 6. Of how many Commissioners does the Park Board consist, and how are they appointed? Are they paid a salary or not? EXAMINATION FOR FITNESS, PARK POLICE, HELD BY PARK DEPARTMENT. Name, Application No. 412. Date of examination, October 5, 1897. Q. What is your age? A. Twenty-three. Q. What is your height? A. Five feet ten and a half inches. Q. Where were you born? A. New York City. Q. Are you married or single? A. Single. Q. What is your occupation? A. Clerk; now in the life insurance business for myself. Q. Where were you last employed, and how long were you employed there? A. Queens Insurance Company; two and a half years. Q. Why did you leave your last place of employment? A. A change in the office system did away with my position. Q. Have you any knowledge of the duties of a Park Policeman? A. Yes, sir. Q. Have you ever had any serious illness; if so, when? A. No, sir. Q. Do you use intoxicating liquors; if so, to what extent? A. Moderately. Q. Why do you prefer appointment to the Park Police rather than the Municipal Force? A. I think it is a more pleasant position. Q. What is a misdemeanor? A. A crime less than a felony. Q. What is a felony? A. A crime punishable by death or life imprisonment. Q. What is disorderly conduct? A. A misdemeanor. General appearance of applicant: Merit-42d on list. Fitness 1st on list. Rating, 48 per cent. Comparative Merit Examination of Cottage Attendant with the Examination Fitness as Held by the Park Department. EXPERIENCE. No. Date, June 30, 1896. Give full information on the following points: 1. Age. 2. Education. 3. Employment since leaving school. 4. Where employed. 5. By whom employed. 6. How long employed by each employer. 9. How long employed on own account? 10. Any other facts which will enable the Examiners to form a complete and correct idea of your experience and qualifications. COTTAGE ATTENDANT. No. DUTIES. Date, June 30, 1896. 1. State, as fully as possible, what you consider to be the duties of a Cottage Attendant. 2. Does a Cottage Attendant have to make any reports? If so, what, and to whom? Mrs. (SAMPLE No. 1.) Fitness Examination. -, applicant for Cottage Attendant. Widow. Husband's name, Lives with mother, whose support she is. cleaning, sewing, had charge of children. employment as Cottage Attendant for the past five weeks; no fault found with her during those past five weeks. References. (SAMPLE No. 2.) Miss Fitness Examination. applicant for Cottage Attendant. Single. Has already been in the employment of the Park Board as Cottage Attendant, and her services were commended by Superintendent Never been in City employment before coming under the Park Board. Refers to Ex-Sheriff No. 26 on list. (Extract from application of same applicant.) Question No. 10. Were you ever in the service of the City of New York? |