1896, Seattle: Civil Service exam
Just the facts, ma’am.
One of these men might be the Chinook-speaking police chief (image credit: Wikipedia)
Here’s a cop who gets right to the point:
In an application for chief of police, in
answer to the question, “What special
qualifications do you possess?” it says: “I
speak Chinook and some Chinese.”
— from “Civil Service: Commissioners Have Many Knotty Questions to Answer”, in the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer of April 23, 1896, page 8, column 4
