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Show Si NLWYORK Thev Earn from $40 to $50 a Week-Must Pass Examinations New York. July 15. The confidential confiden-tial clerk to Secretary of State Koe- nig, wh;) Is conducting an cxamlnn- j ticn of chauffeurs In this city under j the provisions r f Now York state's new automobile law, believes that the j examination will have disqualified nearly one fifth of the city's motor car drivers by the time the last test is held, just before Aucust 1. After; that date, the exnmlnat.ons will be far j more severe. Of the 500 of New York's 2.500 hired chauffeurs who took ' the examination yesterday, 15 p"-r cent i failed t:i pass. There were , many men In yester- j day's examination who could st-arce-ly read the questions nnd who had to write their answers In their natlvo tongue, French, Italian. German and Spanish chauffeurs imported by globe-trotting globe-trotting Now Yorkers had the stnbi department's Interpreters explain the .questions to them and then wrote their answers in their own languages. These papers all make a very high mark. George Robertson, the w ell-known, ell-known, driver of racing cars, got 100 per cent. A few rich men's sons took the examination as a "6tiint.'-" "6tiint.'-" Results from their papers show ihey know moro about automobiles than, olo their chnuffe irs. Secretary Koenlg's clerk ha- col locted some Interesting statistics about chauffeurs Most of them, be j eayst are between IS and 21 vears' of age and have picked up their rade, by observation Of cars from the street; and hy hanging around garages, j Chauffeurs' wages vary Immensely, but on the whole they make more than any trade workers who serve only a short apprenticeship, except waiters. The majority of them earn from $10 to $50 a week, mostly Hps. |