The Wesleyan Alumni Reunion was held in New York yesterday. The following officers were elected: President, Rev. Dr. Albert S. Hunt; Vice President; D. G. Harriman; Secretary, C. M. Hicks. Nearly a hundred of the graduates of the University were present. Among them President Cyrus D. Foss, Professors C. S. Harrington and T. Winohester, Rev. Dr. Warren; and Drs. Kidder, Hurst, C. K. True and J. E. King, Orange Judd, General Clinton B. Fisk and Byron A. Brooks.
Mr. Byron A. Brooks of this city is the author of a new book about to be published, entitled "Earth Revisited." He contributed an article on "What to Do" published in the last issue of Christian Unity, a layman's journal and organ of the Brotherhood of Christian Unity.
Byron Brooks, a Brooklyn theological writer, will have a paper in the November Arena, Boston, on "Christianity as It Is Preached."
Byron Alden Brooks, patent expert of the Union Typewriter Company and the inventor of one of the best-known typewriters, died yesterday at his home, 314 McDonough Street, Brooklyn. He was identified with the typewriter business for forty years, and devoted his life to the improvement of writing machines. Mr. Brooks was graduated from Wesleyan College in the class of 1871 and was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He was one of the Trustees of the Bedford Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association and one of the founders of the Boys' Welcome Hall, besides aiding in many of the educational and philanthropic movements of Brooklyn. He was a member of the Hardware Club and the Lincoln Club of Brooklyn.
The wood-work shop of the Whitney Wagon-works, part of the roof of the salt-water reservoir, owned by the State, and the factory of the Crandall Type-writer Company, in Syracuse, were burned on Friday night. The Whitney Wagon-works is insured for $19,000, and the Crandall Type-writer Company for $8,000.
Syracuse, N. Y., January 5. - The wood-work shop of the Whitney wagon works and part of the roof of the salt water reservoir, owned by the state, and the factory of the Crandall type-writer company, burned last night. Loss, upwards of $40,000.
At a senatorial Convention of the United Democracy for the 4th Senatorial District, held at Fon du Lac on the 23d inst., Mr. K. Gillet of Fond du Lac was called to the Chair, and Edward Edwards, Esq., of Oshkosh, was appointed Secretary.
On motion the Chair appointed Messrs. James Densmore, Alexander Carpenter, and Isaac Orvis a Committee on credentials.
The Committee reported credentials from 9 members from Winnebago, 9 from from the West District, and 4 from the East District of Fond du Lac.
The delegation present from the East District claimed the right of filling vacancies in their delegation, but on motion of Mr. Densmore it was
Resolved - That this Convention will receive as delegates those appointed at any regularly called meeting therefor, or such as are substituted by those appointed, and none other.
The Convention then on motion went into informal ballot for candidates for the Senate, in which L. M. Miller received 9 votes, and M. S. Barnett received 8 votes.
Mr. Flint here offered the following:
Resolved - That this Convention deems it inexpedient at this time to make a new nomination, other than the one made on the 13th instant.
This resolution was discussed by Messrs. Eaton, Densmore, Flint, and Chase, when on the question being taken, the resolution was lost.
The Convention then went into the 2d informal ballot, in which L. M. Miller received 11 votes, M. S. Barnet 8, and J. A. Eastman 2.
The Convention on motion went into formal ballot, in which S. M. Miller received 12 votes, and M. S. Barnet received 8 votes.
On motion of D. A. Campell it was resolved that L. M. Miller be declared the unanimous nominee of this Convention.
The Chair then on motion appointed James Densmore, Alexander Carpenter, and Dana Lamb Esq. a Ceptral Committee for this Senatorial District.
The Convention then adjourned.K. GILLET, ChairmanEd. Edwards, Sec.
New Paper at Madison. - Messrs. James Densmore and C. L. Sholes announce their intention to start an independent paper at Madison, to be called the State Democrat, commencing next month. It will be published weekly at $2,00 a year to single subscribers and $1,50 for Clubs. We will endeavor to find room for their prospectus in our next. The new paper will reflect, of course, the peculiar views of Messrs. Densmore & Sholes, both of whom have long been connected with the Press of this State. We do not hesitate to predict a prosperous and useful career for the "State Democrat."
October 6th, 1853.To the friends of Free Democracy:- A Prospectus has been issued stating that the undersigned, in connection with C. Latham Sholes, would commence the publication of a newspaper, at Madison, during the present month. Complete arrangements had been made for the consummation of this project. But Mr. Sholes having receded from those arrangements, an obstacle is thereby thrown in the way, which makes it necessary to postpone the enterprize.
Thanking fervently, the kind notices and courtesies of the brethren of the Wisconsin Press, an opportunity to reciprocate is hoped for.Respectfully, JAMES DENSMORE.
James Densmore will hereafter be associated with the undersigned in conducting this paper, in the place of Col. Frank, who for some time past, in consequence of other duties, has had no active connection with the establishment.
We introduce our new associate to our readers and the community in which he proposes to make his home, with confidence that they will be pleased with him, both as an editor and as a man. Whether he can fill the place made vacant by the withdrawal of our universally esteemed late associate remains to be seen. He has had experience in editorial life, and will try.C. L. Sholes
We owe an apology to friend Densmore for forgetting to notice that he has become assocated with C. L. Sholes, in editing the Kenosha Telegraph. The Telegraph was an excellent paper before, and we expect now to see it still more so.
The State Printing. - The secretary of state some days since awarded the contact for the public printing for two years from the 1st of January next, to James Densmore, of the Kenosha Telegraph, as the lowest bidder. From that award Mr. Brown of the Madison Democrat has appealed to the board of state officers; the governor, attoney-general and the treaurer. - The appeal was heard Friday last, but the decision has not yet been made.
In July last, the bids for the public printing were opened by the Secretary of State at Madison, and the contract, after investigation and deliberation, was awarded to James Densmore, as the lowest bidder. - From this decision an appeal was taken by Beriah Brown to the board constituted by the law to hear such appeal, viz: the Governor, Attorney General, and Treasurer. - The law says they shall proceed to hear and determine such appeal "without delay;" yet it is now nearly the first of October and nothing has yet been heard from it. Two years ago the same thing was done. The Board witheld their decision until November. The consequence was the successful contractor was obliged to dispose of a profitable contract for a mere song because no time was allowed him to get the necessary material together, and the Madison publishers became the recipients of the profits. - Whether that is the object of the present delay we know not. Probably not, from the fact that under the circumstances the person to whom the contract was awarded by the Secretary can hardly expect to have the decision in his favor confirmed. True, the Secretary of State made the decision in his favor on the testimony of printers, and all unbiassed and impartial printers would probably confirm such decision by pronouncing his the lowest bid; yet it must be borne in mind that Brown, of the Madison Argus, appeals and "Barstow and the Balance" have the decision to make. And the inference that would naturally flow from this state of facts is strengthened by the further fact that the appeal is said to have been made through the suggestion and under the advice of one of the Board of Appeal, who thus pre-pledged himself to a decision.
We allude to these things only to show how the laws are administered by those who are entrusted with the duty of administering them, and to show what reliance and dependence can be placed on them for the protection of rights or interests.
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between the undersigned, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Densmore is authorised to collect and receive all moneys due the firm, and will pay all debts contracted by the firm.C. LATHAM SHOLES.January 1st, 1855.
JAMES DENSMORE.Mr. James Densmore is authorised to receive subscriptions and other patronage, for the Tribune and Telegraph establishment.
C. L. SHOLES,January 1st, 1855.
S. S. SCHOFF,
J. A. BUTTS.
Newspaper Change. - Mr. James Densmore has retired from the editorial management of the Elkhorn Independent; which will henceforth be published by Mr. Hotchkiss (Mr. D.'s partner) and Messrs. Leland & Utter, late of the Geneva Express. They will no doubt make the Independent a good and paying paper.
Elkhorn Independent. - The editor-in-chief of the Independent - James Densmore - has just published his valedictory, and retires with a tirade of abuse, bile and slang, hoaped upon the Wisconsin press, the villagers and business men of Elkhorn and the public generally. From a perusal of his last article, we have put him down as an egotistical ass. We do not believe the fraternity of editors has suffered a farthing from his withdrawal. "Republics is ungrateful."
Consoling. - James Densmore, formerly editor of the Independent, of Walworth County, is getting some very complimentary notices "over the left," upon his retiracy from the editorial chair. Among the rest, the La Crosse Republican says "Densmore has retired from the Elkhorn Independent, and we home has or will leave the press of the State." How can you be so cruel brother Rogers? Why mutilate a "dead brother."
James Densmore succeeds J. N. Van Slyke in the editorial management of the Hudson Chronicle.
Judge Foster Editor of the Hudson Chronicle, will address the people on the issues of the present Judicial election, at the School House in this village, on Sat. eve. March 31st.
of this village, and
James Densmore,
An important suit was tried a day or two since in the United States Court in New York city. An injunction was applied for by Watson, Densmore & Co. to restrain Snow, Buck & Co. from running tank cars, on the ground that it was an infringement of their patent. Judge Thompson decided that there was no valid patent in the case and of course no infringement. There could be no patent about wheels, trucks, barrels nor their peculiar position and juxtaposition and arrangement in tank cars, and so the defendants prevailed. There were a good many more of the same sort of eases on the topic but this decision puts an end to them.
Important Patent Suit. - The great suit of Densmore vs The Cleveland Oil Tank Company began yesterday morning in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Sherman, James and Amos Densmore obtained, in 1866, a patent for a tank car for conveying petroleum in bulk, instead of in barrels, as formerly, and charge the defendants with infringing by using two hundred cars like theirs, and sue for $100,000 damages. Nearly all of the crude oil is transported in tank cars like those of plaintiffs, more than a thousand being in use by various parties. The case will occupy several days, and awakens great interest in the oil trade - Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, Feb. 8.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WIS., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES DENSMORE. IMPROVEMENT IN NUMBERING-MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,978, dated September 12, 1871.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Numbering-Machines.
The invention is an improvement on my previous numbering-machine inventions, patented, the first April 30, 1867, and the second June 15, 1869.
The instrument, in its present practical form, was patented by Mr. C. L. Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wis., under date of October 29, 1871, applications, however, for other patents on further improvements being still pending.
Those of our readers desiring further information should call upon or address Messrs. Roudebush, Densmore & Co., No, 4 Hanover street, New York city.
James Densmore, who published the Oshkosh True Democrat, the first paper published in the city, now a resident of the city of New York, was the guest of J. M. Little for a short time Wednesday. There has been great changes in the appearance and features of each since they last met, in 1854.
"Mr. Sholes, the chief inventor of the typewriter, has called my attention to an article in your number for July last, which in my hasty reading, I had previously overlooked, the article headed "A Boon to Telegraphers." In the article occurs the following paragraph:Mr. Butler informed us that he was the first operator to adopt this method of receiving from the telegraph direct on the typewriter and said that it came from a suggestion made by Mr. Erastus Wiman, one of the proprietors of the Mercantile Agency, and well-known in commercial and telegraph circles. It was in 1875, when the machine was in its infancy, that this experiment was made by Mr. Butler. He said:The pith of the foregoing quotation is, aside from its tribute to the great value of the typewriter, that R. G. Dun & Co., besides a certain department of the Western Union General office, is using the typewriter to copy messages received by ear from the telegraphic sounder, and that the manager, Mr. Butler, claims to be the first operator to do that feat.`At first it looked futile. The noise of the sender, and the tintinnabulation of the (then) imperfect typewriter, when combined was well calculated to frighten the average telegrapher, at even an attempot to produce an intelligent result, Yet it was one of the old original machines that until lately has been in daily use at this office for many years, and it did not take long to assert, even in its imperfect shape, that it was much more practicable than the wearisome pen, The large amountof business transacted daily at this office, in answering in part the requirements of hundreds of subscribers, the ability to serve with the present efficiency is largely due to the typewriter adoption in receiving. The present perfected and comparatively noiseless Remington No. 4, simply defies the speed of abbreviated telegraphy, and while it may be impossible to reduce the number of characters in the letters of the Morse telegraph, it calls for the invention of some shorthand form of sound-transmission, in order to keep pace with the speed and ease of the telegraph-typewriter manipulator, The type-writer offers to and should be to the telegraph fraternity with its advantages and ease, speed and general comfort, what is enjoyed by stenographers.'
A year ago, or thereabouts, the newspapers were full of the story of an Elmira telegraphic operator who claimed for himself the honor and glory of being the first to use the typewriter to copy messages from the telegraph sounder.
With all these stories you cannot say half enough in praise of the merits of the typewriter; but for the sake of the "truth of the history," I must dispel these illusions, and tell who was the first to copy with the typewriter messages received by ear from the telegraph sounder.
Mr. E. Payson Porter, who Gen. Anson Stager once said was the finest, quickest, and most accurate reader from the telegraph sounder of any operator he ever knew, carried on a telegraphic college from 1868 and before, up to 1872, and perhaps after. Like myself, he became enamored of the typewriter, when he first learned of the conception of the idea, and before the machine was born. He bought and paid the expense of making several of the first crude attempts at machines and gave us his cordial an enthusiastic sympathy and help in all ways. In the autumn of 1872, we got up for him one of our then latest experimental machines, and as soon as it was done, I set for him to come over to Milwaukee and examine it. He came, and, as was his custom, he was exuberent in the overflow of his appreciation and gratification at the progress made.
"Now, Porter," said I, "if you will take that machine into Gen. Stager's office and get him and the Western Union folks to say it is a success, I will make you a present of the best typewriter that money can hire made, when we get into regular manufacture."
"I'll win that machine, as sure as you live," was his instantaneous reply.
He took the experimental machine home with him. He practised with it some two or three weeks or more, to become entirely familiar with the key-board. (It is proper to observe here that in getting up our experimental machines of which we made nearer fifty than half that number, we never made two alike, and never put the same key-board on two successive experiments. Hence, every time he got a new one, he had to learn a new key-board).
After he had practised till he felt sure of his familiarity with the new key-board, he went into Gen. Stager's office one day and said he wanted to bring over the typewriter, and have the general examine and test its merit.
"Very well, " said the general, "bring it over at once."
The machine was brought over immediately. The general's office was then in a room directly under the upper and great operating floor of the Western Union building in Chicago, and in it there were arranged two tables, one at each end, with a telegraph instrument on each, and a coil of many miles of wire between. Porter, with the typewriter, sat down at one table, and the general at the other. In his youth the general had been a first-class operator, but he was then no longer young, and had been out of any but amateur practice for many years, but he took a newspaper and prepared himself to "send" a paragraph to Porter. Porter attached the "sounder" to the typewriter, and cried out:
"Ready, General!"
The general began to "send" very slowly, as if sure that Porter would be unable to "receive" unless he did so; but before the first line was written; Porter called out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then sent faster, but immediately Porter again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then "put in his best licks," but Porter directly again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
Then the general stopped, and struck his page-bell. When the page appeared, the general said to him:
"Send Smith down here."
Smith was an expert telegrapher of the operating room above. The boy departed, and directly Smith ushered himself in, and, Stager said to him:
"Smith, sit down here and `send' for Porter."
Smith sat down, and began "sending" in a common way; but almost directly, Porter called out:
"A little faster, Smith."
Then Smith began to make his best exertions; but directly Porter called out again:
"A little faster!"
Whereupon Smith did the very best he could; but Porter directly called out:
"A little faster!"
Then Stager again struck the page-bell, and when the page appeared again, the general said,
"Send Jones down here."
Jones came, and was directed to "send" for Porter as Smith had been doing. Jones obeyed; but Porter, as usual, soon cried out:
"Faster, Jones!"
Jones increased his speed but directly Porter again called out:
"Faster!"
Then Jones "sent" with his utmost speed; but Porter again cried:
"Faster!"
Then Gen. Stager said:
"That is enough. Porter, I know about that machine just as well as if I had tried it a year. It's a success!"
Thus, Porter had won the machine; and since the No. 2 has been developed into present condition of progress, the promise has been cheerfully redeemed.
Shortly after the test, Stager employed Porter to come over and take press dispatches with the typewriter for the Chicago Tribune Porter notified us of this fact, and Mr. Sholes and I immediately went over to Chicago, and paid a visit in the evening to the operating room of the Western Union Telegraph office to witness Porter's work.
To me, it seemed a wonderful thing. There was a large room, covering the upper floor of the entire building, in which were seventy-five to a hundred telegraph instruments in active, simultaneous use by as many telegraphers, and it seemed to me impossible for the operators themselves to understand what they were doing in such a din; but I was told that there was no confusion, and no chance for any - that, in practical fact, each operator heard nothing but the click of his own individual instrument.
Amid the crowd, and somewhat near the middle of the room, was Porter and the typewriter. He sat in a big arm-chair before a small table, on which were nothing but the type-writer and a telegraph sounder. He was `receiving' press dispatches. He seemed to have very little to do. He seemed to write very slowly; and yet he told us that the `sender' from whom he was `receiving' was an excellent, first-class operator. He would first write several lines with one had, and then write as many more with the other hand. It was perfectly easy for him to `receive' with one hand, and even at that, to the onlooker, the work seemed slow.
The chair he sat in, happened to be quite a high-backed one, and at one moment he leaned back with his head resting on the chair-back, with one hand and arm hanging carelessly down beside the chair, while he was writing with the other hand, and exclaimed:
"Boys, if I had a pillow now, under my head, this would be luxurious and all right!" - the operating hand, all the while, constantly at work, though seemingly slowly.
Porter followed that employment after that, for half a year or more, and demonstrated perfectly the unqualified practicability of receiving from the telegraph instrument with the typewriter, and that demonstraton was of much advantage to me and the enterprise.
At the time, Gen. Stager, and the Directors of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, of which he was president, and Mr. Elisha Gray, of telephone fame, was superintendent, felt quite sure of the practicability of introducing the typewriter as a receiving instrument in telegraphy; and they were so much pleased with the machine, and this conviction was so strong with them, that they were induced to take the selling agency for a large territory for which Chicago was the centre, and to advance $10,000 to inspire confidence in the manufacture.
They failed at that time, to get other telegraphers to learn to use the typewriter, and, as otherwise the typewriter enterprise was somewhat incompatible with their electric manufacturing business, they were induced to release their contract and agency, and thereby they separated themselves from the business.
Thus is was not Mr. Butler, nor the Elmira man, nor any one else but Mr. Porter, who first demonstrated the entire feasibility and unqualified success of using the typewriter for receiving telegraph dispatches. And the day will soon come when operating telegraphers will of necessity be required to use the typewriter for that purpose.
I can remember when, some thirty years ago, all such messages were received by, and copied from the dots and dashes impressed by the telegraph instrument itself on a paper-ribbon; but about that time, or not long before, some sharp operator discovered he could read the instument by ear, and forthwith the whole machinery of the paper-ribbon was dispensed with; and all telegraphers too old to learn to read by sound had to retire, and give place to the younger generation who could.
And the time will soon be at hand when the telegrapher who will be too conservative to use the typewriter in receiving and copying will be compelled to give way to those younger and more alert who will be adequate to the demand for the better way."James Densmore.No. 345 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburgh, N. Y. Aug. 14, 1886.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald writes the following from Courtland, N. Y.:The libel case between the type-writer manufacturer and inventor now on trial in the supreme court, before Judge H. Boardman Smith, is developing some very interesting as well as sensational points, and the history of the type-writing machine is fully detailed. In the early '70's what was then called Scholes & Glidden's type-writer was invented, and Mr. James Densmore, of Meadvillek Pa., and Mr. George W. Yost, of Corry, Pa., an inventor of no small reputation, took hold of the patents. They established their office in New York, and made a contract with E. Remington, of Ilion, N. Y., for their manufacture. This was what was called the "number one" machine. In 1873 they employed Lucien S. Crandall, an inventor, who was then working on a typesetting invention, as a salesman, and also provided him with a lathe and tools and set him to work perfecting the type-writer. Mr. Crandall soon worked out and procured a patent for an oscillating type bar containing two or more type, which is the principle involved in the "number two" Remington type-writer of the present day. This, by shifting the platen, prints both capital and lower case letters. Mr. Crandall assigned one-half of his patent to Densmore & Yost, under which they authorized the Remingtons to manufacture their machines. In 1883 Mr. Crandall, having left the service of Densmore & Yost, and having invented what is called the Crandall type- writer, entered into negotiations with E. Remington's Sons for the sale of his type-writer patents, and also for the sale of his one-half of the patent before mentioned.
Mr. Densmore, learning of the negotiations, wrote a long letter to the Messrs. Remington, in which he denominated Mr. Crandall a "liar, scoundrel, a dishonest and immortal man," which letter is claimed by Crandall to hav defeated him in his sale to the Remingtons. Crandall now brings this action against Densmore for defamation of character, laying his damages at $100,000, claiming that sum to be the loss sustained by him in his failure to negotiate with the Remingtons, as the sale of the Remington type-writer has reached an enormous number, and a small royalty, such as Crandlall claims he could hav got, would approach very closely to these figures at the present time.
Mr. Densmore's defense is that the grave charges made in his letter were each and every one true, and the testimony produced to sustain those charges has been of a very interesting and spicy nature.
Final Requests and Instructions of the Late James Densmore. The will of James Densmore, who died September 16, at 961 Bedford avenue, was filed to-day in the Surrogate's Court. He left a widow, Adella R. Densmore, a son, D. J. Densmore and a daughter, Tina Delehanty. To his widow he leaves the Bedford avenue house with all it contains, including jewelry, in lien of dower, except as afterward specified. To Joel Densmore and his wife Carrie, of South Bend, Ind., he leaves real estate in St. Joseph County in that State. To Samuel Bush and wife, of Lakeland, Washington County, Minn., he leaves all his property in that county, and the remainder of the real estate to his son, D. J. Densmore. His trustees are to continue an arbitration with George W. N. Yost, of Hartford, Conn., respecting stocks held by the testator in the Typewriter Company, of New York. To his daughter, Tina, he leaves $5,000; to Daniel C. Roundy, $2,500; to his stepson, Ernest Ryan Barron, $15,000. He then disposes of the stock in arbitration, if it should be decided in his favor, making further provisions in that case for the legatees named. He confirms an arrangement for the payment of a debt of $68,000 to his brother Amos. He next gives instructions as to the conduct of various business matters, including sundry investments. His executors and trustees are Clarence W. Seamans, Ernest R. Barron and Daniel C. Roundy. The will is dated August 3, 1889.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST R. BARRON, DANIEL C ROUNDY, AND CLARENCE W. SEAMANS, EXECUTORS OF JAMES DENSMORE DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patenet No. 558,428, dated April 14, 1896. Application filed December 31, 1881. Serical No. 49,127 (No model.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST R. BARRON, DANIEL C. ROUNDY, AND CLARENCE W. SEAMANS, EXECUTORS OF JAMES DENSMORE, DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,621. dated May 5, 1896.
Application filed February 18, 1890. Serial No. 340,922 (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefull Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
On the 12th inst., by Rev. Abel C. Thomas, Mr. Elias Longley to Miss Elizabeth Margaret Vater.
Bro. Caldwell - It is known to you, and to most of the Teachers of the State, that I have long advocated the introduction of Phonotypy into the Primary classes in our schools, as a means not only of making better readers and spellers in the common mode, but for the great saving of time.
About a year since, Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati, was employed to teach the Primary department of one of the Ward Schools of Indianapolis, and Phonotypy was introduced for the purpose of testing its merits. Mrs. Longley, though a correct Phonetician, had had very little experience in teaching. Her school was large; and accessions were made to it at various times during the year. There were from fifty to seventy-five pupils.
The Annual Report of Geo. B. Stone, Esq., Superintendent of the schools, thus alludes the experiment: "The result of the experiment which has been tried in the Fifth Ward Primary School, has been all that could have been expected. Classes have been formed at eight different times during the course of the year. The two first formed have made the transition from Phonetic to common print, and are now reading in the Indiana Second Reader. The first class made the transition three months since, and can now read and spell accurately any thing in the first 120 pages of the reader above mentioned. This was fully tested in the recent examination, in which all the reading and spelling exercises were selected by the Trustees and visitors. There was great distinctness in articulation and enunciation, readiness in pronouncing words, good emphasis, and a varied intonation, which surpassed any thing we have heard in any Primary School.
"In spelling, although difficult exercises were selected, and in various parts of the book, not a single word was missed - equaling in this respect our very best schools taught by the alphabetic method.
"I refer to the spelling particularly, because, as children in the Phonetic method are taught to spell by sound during the whole time they read the Phonetic print, it might be reasonably supposed that in this point they would be behind those who are taught in the usual way.
"The second class made the transition four weeks since, and now read tolerably well in the Second Reader. One little boy in this class, his parents were unable to teach his letters after more than a year's trial. A year by the Phonetic method, and he is reading in the Second Reader.
"It will be seen by the facts here given, that the transition from one print to the other is attended with no difficulty. One of these classes began the common print eleven weeks ago, and the other only four weeks. No Intermediate or Transition Reader is needed. From the Phonetic First Book, scholars can pass directly into the Second Reader. Our own experience and that of others, show us that children will learn the letters of the common print, without the aid of Teachers, before leaving the Phonetic books."
In the above quotation I am responsible for the italicising. Notwithstanding the success that has attended the trial, Mr. Stone, or perhaps I should say the School Board, will introduce Phonotypy into but two additional schools the coming year. Though for years I have ceased to have a doubt respecting the superiority of the Phonetic system in teaching the first rudiments of Romanic reading, I admire the caution that they show in its introduction in Indianapolis. But I cannot admire the caution that keeps many of the best Teachers of Ohio from even making the experiment, when every fair trial, in our State, has shown that not only may we save time, and make better readers and spellers, but that the Phonetic system also gives to children a love of study, a self-reliance, and an early use of their reasoning powers, not given by the old method.
I hope that such of our Teachers and school officers, as can, will visit the schools of Indianapolis, and see for themselves the working of theis time-saving system.
When my labors shall have closed in the fall Institutes, I shall be glad to aid personally in the introduction of Phonotypy into the Primary Schools of the State.
Huron (not Hudson), Erie Co., O., July, 1857.
- Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 4, 1857.Friend Caldwell - I am at the Capital of Hoosierdom, making my temporary home with Mr. Stone, the editor of the Indiana Journal, and Superintendent of the City Schools. I came here to assist two Primary Teachers, who for the first time, are using Phonotypy as a means of teaching the first rudiments of Romanic reading. The experiment of last year is continued this year, and one school is added instead of two, as I told you would be the case. It is solid pleasure to bear the children that have made the transition into the Romanic print, read and spell. They read and spell very much better than others, who have been in school longer than they - yes, than some that were reading and spelling when they commenced attending school.
You are probably aware that the population and business of this city have nearly doubled within the last three years.
As a youth of rapid growth thrusts his limbs too far through coat sleeves and pants, so does Indianapolis show that she is outgrowing her school facilities. Children are transferred from one ward to another for temporary accommodation. School houses are too small for the accommodation of the pupils; especially is this the case with the entries or passages. Two hundred or more children, without respect to sex or size, are, necessarily, required to pass through an entry too small to accommodate one-fourth the number.
The High School building is an old two story brick building, which, I think, was once a Ward or District School building. It stands on a good lot of some four acres, I judge, and is quite central in its location. In that, there are separate entries for the sexes.
Formerly, the sexes were taught in separate school rooms, and yet used the same entrance, as I have said, in most of the buildings. Since Mr. Stone has been here, he has been gradually bringing them together. I think they had Primary Schools for boys, and the same for the girls.
Last year, he had so far overcome this squeamishness of old maids, of both sexes, as to bring the sexes together in the recitation room, even of the High School, though they were seated in different rooms, This year, from Primary to High School, they are seated in the same rooms. The change has been so gradual and noiseless, that the people have hardly been cognizant of it.
Mr. Stone is well qualified for his post. As a practical Teacher he can take hold and teach in any school, from the lowest to the highest grade. I saw hime give instruction in the Primary department; and he has taken the place of the Principal of the High School, who was unwell, since I have been here.
His last Annual Report will give you the statistics of his school. He seems to have, as he certainly deserves to have, the entire confidence of his corps of Teachers.
New York, May 12, 1869.Dear Advocate:Your correspondent, in company with the Cincinnati delegates to the Equal Rights Convention to be held on the 12th and 13th, left Cincinnati on Sunday night and arrived Tuesday morning, all safe and sound. Our first visit was to the Revolution office. I was agreeable surprised to find the publishers of that paper so comfortably situated in a private building on East 23rd street, which building is devoted to women's interests, and known as the Woman's Bureau.The Equal Rights Convention met in Steinway Hall.
This new building into which they have just moved the Revolution office was purchased by a Mrs. E. P. Phelps and donated to the cause of woman. She has furnished it throughout in excellent style. Every room is carpeted with Brussels, and all the furniture corresponds. The order and good taste exhibited in the arrangement of the rooms throughout the building bear testimony to woman's presence.
Had it not been for the word "Revolution" modestly placed just under the windows in front, no one would have taken it for a newspaper office.
Although very weary, Miss Anthony herself showed us through the building, which is four stories high, and contains fourteen or fifteen rooms. I should like to describe each attractive feature, but have no time.
Mrs. Phelps gave a reception at the Bureau, Tuesday evening, May 11th, to which your correspondent was invited. The house was so crowded it was almost impossible to get from one place to another. The display of wealth and fashion far exceeded anything I had ever thought of seeing among reformers. As I looked on those women who were more fitting representatives of Madame Demorest than of the intellect of authoresses and the democracy of philanthropists, it was hard to tell which emotion was strongest within me, that of regret that equal rights advocates had not yet arrived at a higher standard of beauty, or gratification at finding that the doctrines of woman's rights had penetrated into circles of fashion and wealth. For it is too true that one fashionable girl could advance a cause more by her influence over voters than a dozen sensible women with all their arguments. But Madam Demorest's art can add nothing to such women as Mrs. Livermore, of Chicago, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Stanton, &c.. &c. One is too much occupied in the contemplation of the intelligence and goodness of their countenance to give a thought to their apparel.
The woman reform is taken hold of here by the wealthy class, and the audience was composed principally of people from the upper walks of life. It would occupy too much time and space to attempt a description of all the distinguished persons present. As one looked on those occupying the platform, it would have been easy to imagine that the millennium had indeed come, when sex and color were no longer taken into account, but all, men and women, met on a on equal footing.
The large proportion of women present was a very noticeable feature, about nine-tenths of the audience being of that sex. Among the notabilities, national and local, who were on the platform or in the general audience were: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, First Vice-President of the Society, Ernestine L. Rose, of New York, Susan B. Anthony,of the Revolution, Mary A. Livermore, of Chicago, Phœbe Cozzens, of St. Louis, Lilly Peckham, of Milwaukee, Madam Anneke, of Milwaukee Madam de Harricourt, of Chicago, Mrs. M. E. J. Gate, of Syracuse, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, of New Jersey, Olive Logan, of New York, Josephine Griffith, of Washington, Mrs. Mary McDonald, of Mount Vernon, Rev. Mrs. Hannaford, Rev. Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell, of New Jersey, Mrs. Heath, of Kansas, Mrs. Newman, of Binghamton, New York, Mrs. Wendt (German) of New York, Andrew Jackson Davis, Mary Davis, Mrs. Holmes, of Union Village, New York, Mrs. Phelps, of the Women's Bureau, New York, Senator Pomroy, Mrs. Longley, of Cincinnati, Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, of Council Bluffs, Iowa (the original bloomer), Mrs. Boynton, of Ohio, Mary A. Gage, of Brooklyn, Mrs. Sarah Norton, of the New York Working-women's Association.
In the absence of Lucretia Mott, the President of the Society, who was prevented from attending the Convention by illness, the First Vice-President, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, presided. The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mrs. Hannaford.
Mrs. Stanton made a brief opening address. She remarked that the cry of many in the present day, both here and in England, is that republicanism is a failure. But republicanism, that is to say the equal rights of all before the law - black and which, men ad women - has never been yet tried in this country or anywhere else, and till it is fairly tried it cannot be called a failure. The danger, the weakness, of our present system, is that it is only part republican. We nver can have a true republicanism till the whole idea of aristocracy, or sex or anything else is abondoned This is the only safety of the country, and the Women's Rights movement is therefore a great patriotic movement. It is not only merely the right of woman to drop a hallot into a box that is fought for: it is the safety and perpetuity of our government. This cause is now instrusted to the women of this nation. All the nations of the earth are looking to this country. We have the destinies of the world in our hands. Let us be true to ourselves and realize on this Western continent a genuine republicanism, a true manhood and true womanhood, and then set up a beacon light to the nations by which they may safely be guided.
Lucy Stone presented verbally the report of the Executive Committee for the last year. Mrs. Stone ran over the various petitions in favor of woman suffrage presented during the year to State Legislatures and the various conventions held in different parts of the country. She remarked upon the greater respect shown to the petitions over former years. Formerly they were laughed at, and frequently not at all considered. The last year they were referred to committees, and often debated at grteat length in the Legislatures, and in some cases motions to submit to the people of the State an amendment to the State constitution doing away with distinction of sex in the matter of suffrage was rejected by very small majorities indeed. In one State, that of Nevada, such a motion was carried, and the question will shortly be submitted to the people of that State. A number of important and very successful conventions, in various parts of the country, have laso been held, and have made a decided impression. But what is most significant is, that public attention is so called to this subject that newspapers of all shades of opfnion are giving a great deal of space to it. The question is recognizedas taking of the age, which cannot be put down until it is settled upon the great basius of immutable justice and right.
Various committees were then appointed, viz., on Organization, on Finance, on Resolutions, and on Credentials.
A full report of the proceedings of the Convention you can get from the N. Y. Tribune, the reporter for that paper having told his employers, if they wanted it caricatured he was not the man to send, as he should give a fair account of the convention. It is not necessary, therefore, for me to give a detailed account of the Convention's proceedings.
Had there not been so much time occupied by Mr. Foster and Mr. Burleigh, the Convention would have been more satisfactory to those who supposed they were going to a woman's rights meetng.
The unkind remarks of Mr. Foster in reference to Miss Anthony, excited unusual earnestness, and she and Lucy Stone favored the Convention with two off-hand, but able speeches.
At the evening session the house was again filled at an admission fee of twenty-five cents.
Mrs. Antoinette B. Blackwell - who has not spoken more thant once in twelve years - entertained the audience in her old, quiet way, which appeals to the reason rather than the feelings, and excites serious thought rather than enthusiastic demonstration.
Mrs. Livermore, of Chicago, came last and was listened to with deep interest by the audience, who had listened to three long speeches before. And when, on account of the lateness of the hour, she proposed to close "Go on! go on!" was shouted from all parts of the house, and she was constantly interrupted by enthusiastic cheers. I was proud of our Western woman, who stands second to none, East or West, and who deserves the gratitude of all Western women interested in the welfare and development of their sex. She works not only for the suffrage of women, but for the abolition of many legal disabilities from which they now suffer. Within the last two months, greatly through her influenee, the law of Illinois has been changed, and now women can control their own wages.
The following is the substance of the resolutions adopted:1. That the extension of suffrage to woman is essential to the public safety and the permanence of free institutions.
2. That woman will become, when the State is based upon universal suffrage, a conservator of the public morals.
3. That in seeking to remove the legal disabilities of woman as wife and mother it is not intended to undermine the sanctity of the marriage relation.
4. That the petitions of more than 200,000 women for suffrage, and other expressions of their wishes, disapporve the cavil that "women do not want to vote.
5. Regrets that Congress has not submitted an amendment for the enfranchisement of woman along with that for the enfranchisemten of blacks.
6. Declares the Republican party to be false to its professions, short-sighted in its policy and not worthy the confidence of friends of impartial liberty, because it ignores the political rights of women.
7. Commands the report of the joint special committee of the Massachusetts Legislature in favor of woman suffrage.
8. Thanks Hon. George W. Julian and Hon. Henry Wilson and the Hon. S. E. Pomeroy for their efforts to secure suffrage to woman.
9. Recommends the formation of local suffrage association everywhere.SECOND DAY. New York, May, 13.The Equal Rights Convention closed its labors to-day, after having been in session two days. The number in attendance was sufficient to fill Steinway Hall, one of the larges in the city, at every meeting. On the second eventing they met at Cooper Institute, which was also full, notwithstanding the rain.
That the old name, "Woman's Rights," was changed to that of "Equal Rights" has proven a misfortune, the latter giving such latitude that the convention bearing that name is expected to discuss not only the subject of woman's rights, but colored suffrage, the labor question, and the Indian interests, either of which is of sufficient importance to occupy the time of a separate convention; and yet the delegates representing these different interests could not be excluded, because it was called an "Equal Rights" Convention.
Those who undestood the name in its broadest sense, thought they had the right to present any resolutions they considered of importance, on any subject. On the other hand, those who supposed that equal rights, in this case, meant the equal rights of women with men, were not willing to have the time occupied in the consideration of any other subject. But for a time, it seemed that every interest n America was to be considered; and when the delegates saw there was a possibility they would not be heard, each seemed desirous of getting possession of the floor first; consequently a number of men were up, tryping to speak at one time, and would not yield to the decision of the Chair, that they were out of order.
A little incident occurred here which illustrates the sympathy which Mrs. Livermore, the great champion of the woman cause in the West, has with the working people.
Before order had been fully restored a lady stepped forward to read a report from the Boston Workingwomen's Association, which she represented. Mrs. Livermore not hearing her name and object announced, in order to prevent the expenditure of time on that which she considered foreign to the object of the Convention, moved to lay the different resolutions which had been presented on the table. When, however, she found she was thus shutting out the "Workingwomen's" report she turned to Mrs. Stone and said, "It is cruel to put that working woman down; we can not do it," and at once moved that the report be heard; and with tears in her eyes went to the delegate, who felt very much injured, and apologized, explaining why she had made the motion.
Friday evening the Academy was crowded to overflowing. The audience was addressed by a number of speakers, among whom were Mrs. Lucretia Mott, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Fred. Douglass and Lucy Stone.
Mrs. Mott, who has worked so long and effectively for human freedom, and whose feeble step and trembling voice so plainly tell that old age is upon her, was received with the greatest enthusiasm. Although, for lack of strength, she spoke with difficulty, the most prefect quiet prevailed. Her voice, though trembling, penetrated every corner of the large hall, and called up the same feelings as in years gone by. Time seems not to have left its mark upon her intellect, save to perfect it. It is clear and penetrating as ever.NEW ORGANIZATION EFFECTED. According to a previous notice there was a meeting of those interested in the woman movement at the Bureau on East Twenty-third street, Saturday evening. The object was to organize a National Woman Suffrage Association. Still smarting under the falsity of the reports made by the newspapers, and the difficulty caused in the Convention by men, some of the present desired the exclusion of men from the society about to be formed. This was strongly opposed, however, by women who were not willing to abandon the principle for which they were working, and, for a time, the speeches for and against were quite spirited.
Mr. Stanton was called on for his views. He remarked that he had been drilled for twenty years privately, and he was convinced that women could do better if left alone, to wit - in their own way for a time, at least. A Cincinnati delegate replied that it might appear presumptuous to differ with the gentleman who had been drilled twenty years by their worthy President, but that she had been trained twenty-two years by man; and her experience was that they accomplished most when they labored together in any good work.
Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose was in favor of admitting men; she had a husband whom she wished to be a member of this society.
A proposition was then made to admit them as honorary members, but the compromise was not accepted.
The vote was then put on the question, Shall we admit men? first to the women, who gave a large majority in favor of their admission, and to the men, who gave not so large a majority for their admission; then a vote of the whole was taken, and the men were admitted by a great majority. After this there were great congratulations at the decision. They then proceeded to the adoption of a constitution, elected permanent officers, and appointed committees, The members of each State were intrusted to call State conventions, and go to work in earnest.
I see it is stated by the papers that the Convention split, and one division voted to exlude men. How such a mistake could have been made I cannot understand, for it was distinctly stated that the new society about to be formed was not a split from, or a branch of the Equal Rights Association, that that Society remained as it was, but this was an entirely new organization, devoted exclusively to the woman suffrage interests.M. V. L.
Indianapolis, June 8.Convention was called to meet in Indianapolis. A pleasant day dawned, and pleasant people also. The meeting was called to order by Miss Amanda M. Way, and opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Marshall. Mrs. Dr. M. F. Thomas, Prof. Thomas Charles and Mrs. Goodwin were appointed as a committee to nominate permanent officers. The Woman Suffrage Association of Dayton was represented by J. J. Belville, Proprietor of the Woman's Advocate, and Mrs. E. B. Bruns and Mrs. M. M. Cole, Associate editors. Pending the deliberations of the committee the meeting was addressed by Mr. Belsville. At the conclusion of his speech, the committee reported the following permanent officers of the organization:President, Miss Amanda M. Way, Indianapolis. Vice Presidents, Mrs. M. V. Longley, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. E. B. Swank, Indianapolis; Mrs. M. M. Cole, Sidney, Ohio. Secretary, Dr. Mary F. Thomas. Treasurer, Mrs. Jane Trueblood. Committee on Resolutions, Rev. E. P. Ingersoll, Mrs. McKay, Mrs. Igoe. Executive Committee, Miss Amanda M. Way, Rev. E. P. Ingersoll, Prof. Thomas Charles, Rev. H. Blanchard, Dr. Mary F. Thomas, Mrs. E. B. Swank.The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows:Whereas, The platform adopted by the Indiana Woman's Rights Association organized in 1851, is identical with the movement of to-day; therefore,Mrs. Longley, of Cincinnati, took the floor next. While she regertted the undoubted fact of the apathy on the subject, it was but a waste of time to recriminate between the sexes. The men could complain of the women, and say that the majority did not want their rights, while the women could complain of the men and say that while they have the power they fail to confer the ballot on their legal equals.
Resolved, That this be considered as the ninth session of the Indiana Woman's Rights Associations.
CONVENTION IN SEPTEMBER. At the organization of the National Woman's Suffrage association, effected immediately after the adjournment of the late National Equal Rights Association, in New York city, an Executive Committee woman was appointed for each of the States there represented, who was authorized to proceed promptly to organize State Associations having the same distinct object in view, viz: the right of political suffrage for woman.
The undersigned was appointed on the Executive Committee for Ohio, and after consultation with a number of the friends of the cause in different parts of the State, has decided to solicit the co-operation of all interested in the work, in making arrangments for such organization.
It will be avisable to hold a convention early in September, the exact time and place for the meeting of which will be decided by the expressed wish and the inducements offered by the friends of the movement. It is thought that Cincinnati will be the most desirable place, on account of its railroad facilities, hotel accommodations, the extensive circulation of its newspaper reports of conventions, and other advantages.
Persons wishing to sign the call for such a convention, and having suggestions to make in reference to it, will please address, immediately,Mrs. M. V. Longley, Loveland, Ohio.Editors will confer a favor by copying this notice.
The Indianapolis Journal gives the following sketches of some of the noble Western women who figured at the recent Woman's Suffrage convention in that city, and their manner of conducting the convention itself.Mrs. V. Longley of Cincinnati was a valuable and sensible member. In person inclining slightly to embonpoint, with cheery face, easy manners, and an evident appearance of being at home in a public meeting, she made a favorable impression. She is the wife of Mr. Elias Longley of the Cincinnati Chronicle, formerly of the Cincinnati Gazette. Mrs. Longley has been long identified with the woman reform movement, and has contributed to it in many ways - chiefly, however, in playing her vocation as a reporter of their proceedings. She is evidently of a cautious, diplomatic disposition, and would make an excellent embassadress to settle the Alabama claims.
We have been requested by the friends of cause to publish the following article, which appears in a well conducted weekly paper, printed at Dayton, Ohio.Ohio Woman's Suffrage Association. At the organization of the National Woman's Suffrage association, effected immediately after the adjournment of the late National Equal Rights Association, in New York city, an executive committee woman was appointed for each of the states there represented, who was authorized to proceed promptly to organize state associations having the same distinct object in view, viz: the right of political suffrage for women.
The undersigned was appointed on the executive committee for Ohio, and after consultation with a number of friends of the cause in different parts of the state, has decided to solicit the co-operation of all interested in the work, in making arrangments for such organization.
It will be avisable to hold a convention early in September, the exact time and place for the meeting of which will be decided by the expressed wish and the inducements offered by the friends of the movement. It is thought that Cincinnati will be the most desirable place, on account of its railroad facilities, hotel accommodations, the extensive circulation of its newspaper reports of conventions, and other advantages.
Persons wishing to sign the call for such a convention, and having suggestions to make in reference to it, will please address, immediately,Mrs. M. V. Longley, Loveland, Ohio.
In all probability the time for holding our State Convention will be fixed for the 15th and 16th of September, instead of the 29th and 30th, as hinted at in last week's Advocate. This contemplated change in time was made, in order to suit the convenience of speakers from abroad, who are expected to be present. For instance, Mrs. Livermore writes to Mrs. Longley: "Call your Convention for the 15th and 16th, and announcc that Mrs. Stantou, Miss Anthony and I will be in attendance, for we are to be. * * * It will be a success - never fear. Yours should be the first convention, so as to accommodate us in getting from one place to another," &c.
The time will be definitely annnounced in the next number of the Advocate, and in the daily papers of the state before our next publication day, Send in the Calls - signed - to Mrs. Longley, at Loveland, O., as indicated in the published Circular, as fast as possible. And let every-body get ready for a pentacostal season. Mrs. Stanton, the champion of our cause; Mrs. Livermore, the representative woman of our great west, and Miss Anthony, who never permits a convention with which she has anyting to do, to prove a failure - will be with us. Others of national renown as lecturers and writers will be there, to say nothing of the noble women of our own state whose first ambition it is to see the Convention a success. Indiana has promised to "come over and help us," and she will. And our opponents will, we hope, be there. Come, gentlemen, you are cordially invited. All we want is a fair field and an open sea, and God defend the Right.A. J. B.
The undersigned unite in calling a Convention, to meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, for the purpose of organizing a State Woman's Suffrage Association, to be based on the followingPLATFORM: Whereas, All just government are founded on the consent of the governed; and,
Whereas, Taxation without representation is tyranny; and,
Whereas, Every human being is endowed by the Creator with the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; therefore,
Resolved, 1st. That the Government of the United States in denying to women, who constitute full one-half of its subjects, the right of suffrage, and with it most of the privileges and emoluments pertaining to full citizenship, is only half republican in its character.
Resolved, 2d. That it is the duty of women, who are thus denied their right of suffrage to demand it, in order that the Government may be in truth what it is represented to be, and by this means be preserved for the welfare of future generations.
Resolved, 3d. That it is the duty of all progressive and truth-loving men, who would know the right and help do it, to unite with the women in helping them to secure the ballot, which will prove a sufficient gurarantee for all civil and social rights.
NAME. | RESIDENCE. [We have received a list of names to the Call from Cincinnati, and from one or two other points in the State; and judging from the number already received, it will be impossible for us to print all the names that will be obtained to this Call. We annex part of the Cincinnati list, and a few from various other portions of the State. We shall from time to time add the names of the most prominent signers, as they are sent to us. We also add a portion of the Dayton list. Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland, and other cities have not yet been heard from. - Eds. Ad.]FROM CINCINNATI. Hon. James W. Fitzgerald, President of City Council. John King, M. D. Rev. H. D. Moore, Congregationalist. L. A. Hine, Editor Daily Times. Elias Longley, City Editor Daily Chronicle. Mrs. Augusta W. Hinckley. Miss. S. A. Burgonyne, Chronicle office. Judge A. G. W. Carter. Mrs. Judge Hoadly. Mrs. Judge Cox. Mrs. Julia A. Harwood. Mrs. I. D. Williamson. James Blinn, Esq. Mrs. M. B. Soule. Mrs. Chas. Moulton. Miss Carpenter. Mrs. Charles Graham. Mrs. Morrell, M. D. Ludlow Apjones.FROM DAYTON. J. J. Belville. S. Boltin, Prest. Dayton Woman Suffrage Association. Rev. W. J. Shuey, Publisher Religious Telescope. J. C. McKemy, Judge Common Pleas Court, 2d Judicial District. Mrs. E. T. Crain, Secy. Dayton Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. E. G. Belcher, Ex. Com. Dayton W. S. Association. A. J. Boyer, Ed. Woman's Advocate. Miriam M. Cole, Ed. Woman's Advocate. Magggie R. Boyer, Vice President Dayton W. S. Association. Anna Boltin, Ex. Com. Dayton. W. S. Association. Maud T. Depew, Dayton.FROM OTHER POINTS. Mrs. M. V. Longley, Loveland, O. T. W. Organ, M. D., Cable, O. Mrs. Organ, M. D., Cable, O. Prof. Chas. S. Royce, Norwalk, O. Sarah B. Chase, M. D., Berea, O. Rebecca S. Rice, Selma, O. A. S. Currier Brown, Athens. Rev. S. P. Carlton, Woodstock.
The undersigned unite in calling a Convention, to meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, for the purpose of organizing a State Woman's Suffrage Association, to be based on the followingPLATFORM: Whereas, All just government are founded on the consent of the governed; and,
Whereas, Taxation without representation is tyranny; and,
Whereas, Every human being is endowed by the Creator with the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; therefore,
Resolved, 1st. That the Government of the United States in denying to women, who constitute full one-half of its subjects, the right of suffrage, and with it most of the privileges and emoluments pertaining to full citizenship, is only half republican in its character.
Resolved, 2d. That it is the duty of women, who are thus denied their right of suffrage to demand it, in order that the Government may be in truth what it is represented to be, and by this means be preserved for the welfare of future generations.
Resolved, 3d. That it is the duty of all progressive and truth-loving men, who would know the right and help do it, to unite with the women in helping them to secure the ballot, which will prove a sufficient gurarantee for all civil and social rights.
(Signed.)BY RESIDENTS OF CINCINNATI. Hon. James W. Fitzgerald, President of City Council. John King, M. D. Rev. H. D. Moore, Congregationalist. L. A. Hine, Editor Daily Times. Elias Longley, City Editor Daily Chronicle. Mrs. Augusta W. Hinckley. Miss. S. A. Burgonyne, Chronicle office. Judge A. G. W. Carter. Mrs. Judge Hoadly. Mrs. Judge Cox. Mrs. Julia A. Harwood. Mrs. I. D. Williamson. James Blinn, Esq. Mrs. M. B. Soule. Mrs. Chas Moulton. Miss Julia Carpenter. Mrs. Charles Graham. Mrs. Morrell, M. D. Ludlow Apjones. Rev. L. F. Vancleve. Rev. S. B. Smith. Miss Ella Moore. Delia S. Bennett. Mary Haynes. Mary Jane Ellis. Hugh Stewart. Benj. H. Stewart. Sarah C. Perry. Wm. Galway. Levi Coffin. Mary Rawson. Mrs. Judge Storer. Miss F. L. Storer. Miss Bessie Storer. Charles R. Fosdick. John Reakirt. Miss E. M. Sellew. Belle W. Forbes. Wm. N. Nichols. Mrs. L. S. Dodge. Mrs. J. H. Pulte. J. Taft. Mrs. Jess Garretson. Wm. Haller. J. Shannon. Dr. A. Berry. D. Heaton. Mary A. Amphlet. Wm. McDiarmid, Covington, Ky., A. W. Pugh, Covington, Ky., F. T. Lockwood. Mrs. L. Moore. A. A. Bennett. Rowland Ellis. L. J. Omohundro. George Forbes. Wm. Sellew. I. S. Dodge. Dr. J. H. Pulte. Dr. Jesse Garretson. Jos. B. Quinby. Mrs. A. L. Berry. Mrs. D. A. Ruthenberger. J. L. Taylor, Covington, Ky., Jeremiah Lambe, Newport, Ky., Helen C. Lockwood. Peter H. Clark.
And hundreds more.TOLEDO. T. M. Cook. F. A. Jones, Judge Probate Court. A. W. Gleason. D. R. Locke, Ed. Toledo Blade. Mrs. A. C. Miner. Mrs. M. Hunker, Vice President Toledo W. S. Association. A. Hunker. Geo. B. Brown. Charlotte S. Williams. Edward D. Moore. A. E. Macombe. Emma J. Ashley, Prest. Toledo W. S. Association. Mrs. Israel Hall, Cor. Sec'y. Toledo W. S. Association. Israel Hall. Mary B. Hall, Sarah R. L. Williams. J. P. Augier. E. M. Augier. Rev. Francis E. Abbot M. J. Barker, Member Ex. Com. Toledo W. S. Assocation.DAYTON. J. J. Belville. S. Boltin, Prest. Dayton Woman Suffrage Association. Rev. W. J. Shuey, Publisher Religious Telescope. James Kelly, Propr. Daily Ledger. J. C. McKemy, Judge Common Pleas Court, 2d Judicial District. Mrs. E. T. Crain, Secy. Dayton Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. E. G. Belcher, Ex. Com. Dayton W. S. Association. A. J. Boyer, Ed. Woman's Advocate. Miriam M. Cole, Ed. Woman's Advocate. Magggie R. Boyer, Vice President Dayton W. S. Association. Anna Boltin, Ex. Com. Dayton. W. S. Association. Maud T. Depew.YELLOW SPRINGS. Dr. A. E. Duncan. Lusina H. Lewis. C. D. Ellis. Eveline L. Gates. Elizabeth Fogg. Eleanora C. Lewis. Rev. H. K. McConnell, Antioch Col. Urbane L. Gates. Mrs. Mary A. Cone. Catherine Oakes, Jr. Catherine Oakes, Sr. Philetus Eycke. R. B. Lillie. Mr.s J. V. Lillie.OTHER POINTS. Mrs. M. V. Longley, Loveland, O. T. W. Organ, M. D , Cable, O. Mrs. Organ, M. D., Cable, O. Prof. Chas. S. Royce, Norwalk, O. Sarah B. Chase, M. D., Berea, O. Rebecca S. Rice, Selma, O. A. S. Currier Brown, Athens. Rev. S. P. Carlton, Woodstock. Mary C. Thorne, Selma, O. Isaac G Thorne, Selma, O. Mattie C. Thorne, Selma, O. Mary Dodds, Xenia. Capt. G. Snyder, Xenia. J. Jacoby, Oldtown,
We announce with pleasure that Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, of New Jersey - names familiar to the world - will deliver a lecture on the subject of Woman Suffrage, at Huston Hall, on Tuesday evening next, September 14th. This will be a treat to the friends of our cause in Dayton, and we are sure Huston Hall will be full to overflowing.
Mrs. M. M. Cole, will also be here; and we are almost positive that Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, editor of the Chicago Agitator, will also be present. These parties will all be in attendance upon our State Convention on Wednesday, and they have kindly consented to address our people the day before the convention meets.
We respectfully invite the friends and delegates from northern and eastern Ohio to "come this way," on Tuesday, and hear these eminent persons on the great question of the day, before Conventional hours. The early train for Cincinnati leaves Dayton about 4 o'clock, and another at 7.25 a. m. so that delegates will arrive in Cincinnati in due time for the morning session of Convention.
All the above named speakers, and many others, including Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony, of New York, Miss Phœbe Cozzins, of St. Louis, Lillie Peckham, of Milwaukee, will be at the Convention.
Let every one who has any desire to hear the question of Woman Suffrage discussed as only Lucy Stone can discuss it, come to Huston Hall on Tuesday evening. The admission fee will be on 25 cents.
THIS MORNING'S PROCEEDINGS. At half past ten o'clock this morning an audience, equal in size and respectability, was found congregated and waiting to hear the interesting proceedings expected.
The President, Mrs. Longley, called the meeting to order, and called on Rev. Mr. Henley to offer prayer.
Mrs. Dr. Chase, from the Committee on Nomination of Officers, stated that an omission had been made in the report yesterday. Woman not being accustomed to hold the purse, had overlooked the necessity of a Treasurer, until the liberal contributions at the door last night had placed in their hands several hundred dollars to be distributed, and the surplus taken care of. She therefore nominated for Treasurer, Mr. L. H. Crall, who was thereupon elected.
The long taled-of, to Ohioans the all-absorbing topic, and to the friends in the State and elsewhere the all- important Woman Suffrage Convention, called for the 15th and 16th of the present month, was held, and its deliberations are before the world.
The speakers from abroad were: Lucy Stone and her husband, Mr. Blackwell of New Jersey; Susan B. Anthony of New York; Mary A. Livermore, of Chicago; Miss Lizzie M. Boyonton, of Indiana, and others whom we need not here mention. Our own good Ohio women, from the lake to the river, were there in force.
The following were the permanent officers of the Convention:President - Mrs. M. V. Longley.
Vice Presidents - Mrs. Dr. Chase, of Cleveland; Mrs. Dr. Pulte, of Cincinnati; Miss Mary B. Hall, of Toledo; Mrs. E. T. Crain, of Dayton; Mrs. C. D. Ellis, of Yellow Springs, Mrs. F. E. Allison, of Xenia; Mrs. A. S. Currier Brown, of Athens; Mrs. E. D. Stewart, of Springfield.
Secretaries - Mrs. L. H. Blangy, of Cincinnati, Mrs. M. M. Cole, of Sidney.
Treasurer - L. H. Crall, of Cincinnati.
The Woman Suffrage Convention held in Chicago on the 9th and 10th instant, was a success, both in point of numbers and in interest. The object of the Convention, as heretofore announced was to "bring together the workers and leaders of the Woman Suffrage Cause in the several Western States, to unite on some definite plan of action for the future, to form acquaintance with each other, and to arrange for a more general and complete movement in the West."
Hon. C. B. Waite presided temporarily. Among the speakers present were Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Mott, Mrs. Kate Doggett, Madame D'Harricourt, and others of Chicago; Lucy Stone, Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Longley, Mrs. Hazard, Miss Lizzie M. Boynton, Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Ballou, and others from abroad. Many distinguished men, from the east and west, were also present, and took part in the deliberations.
Mrs. Livermore was called to preside permanently, with Mrs. Longley, of Ohio; Mrs. Willhete, of Indiana; Mrs. Hazard, of St. Louis; Mrs. Adams, of Iowa; Mrs. Bishop, of Minnesota, as Vice-presidents. Amanda M. Way, of Indianapolis, was appointed Secretary, and Mrs. Kate Doggett, of Chicago, Tresurer.
Many important letters from notable workers in the Cause were read, and reports of the progress of the work in the several States presented.
One of the most prminent features of the Convention was the address delivered by Mrs. E. O. G. Willard, author of "Sexology, the Philosophy of Life," on the "Sphere of Woman, and the Orbit of Man." It is said to have been the most able and lucid address of the Convention, arguing and explaining away the disgraceful "sphere" doctrine so much referred to by the opponents of the Woman Cause. We may find room for a portion of it in a future number of the Advocate.
Mrs. Kate N. Doggett and Mrs. Dr. Mary Safford were elected to the Woman's Labor Convention, which is to meet in Berlin, Germany, in December next.
A series of resolutions were adopted, the several women justly reprimanded the late temperance body, for excluding the woman suffrage plank from its platform, and the Convention adjourned.
Held in Pike's Music Hall, Cincinnati, Pursuan to call, singed by over two hundred citizens of Ohio, including clergymen, judges, lawyers, physicians, professor, editors, etc. an Ohio State Woman Suffrage Convention was held in Pike's Music Hall, Cincinnati, Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th, and 16th, 1869.
September 15 and 16, 1869.
Convention was called to order at 10 o'clock by Mrs. Mary Graham, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cole, of Sidney, Secretaries. The exercises of the morning were opened with prayer by Rev. H. D. Moore, of the First Congregational Church, of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Longley, on taking the chair, expressed her thanks for the honor conferred, but hesitated to accept the duties imposed, in view of her inexperience in such a capacity. She then proceeded to say:It may be proper to say a few words explaining the object for which we have met, and the work to be done.On motion of Miss Julia Carpenter, the Chair was authorized to appoint a committee on Permanent Organization, which she did by naming the following: Miss Julia Carpenter, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Cole, of Sidney; Mrs. Dr. Chase, of Cleveland; Mr. Boyer, of Dayton; Mrs. Leavitt, of Cincinnati; Mrs. A. S. Currier Brown, of Athens; Mrs. Graham and Mr. Longley, of Cincinnati.
Although prior to the late war much was said and written on the political inequality of woman with man, it was not until after the abolition of slavery in the United States that any great or proactical advance could be made toward woman suffrage. It could but be so according to the law of progress, for until the people's moral vision was sufficiently developed to see the greater wrong, they could not comprehen the less. The same women who now advocate woman suffrage, devoted themselves to the liberation of the slave as long as the necessity existed. As all has been done by them that women can do, because all has been done except what had to be done through the ballot box, it is proper that she should now work for the elevation of her own sex. As all minor interests were set aside, and all energies concentrated on the one great object, the liberation of the slave, so, now that there is nothing more for women to do for them, they have determined to unite in one great effort for woman suffrage.
Having been taught by the experience of the New York Convention that one thing well done was better than many attempted, the friends of the cause in the West determined to waive all side interests, and agreed to confine themselves to that which underlies all political rights - the right to the ballot.
We have met, then, to form an Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, the object of which shall be to send documents and speakers through the country to facilitate the formation of societies in every neighborhood, and by all proper means advance the cause of woman suffrage, and thereby make our Government in fact, what it is in theory, the Government of the people.
For the purpose of securing harmonious and effective work in our conventions, some have made such sacrifice of personal interests in other reforms, as only those can make who are devoted to the greatest good of all. Nothing but the conviction that the good of the cause demanded such a sacrifice could have induced them to consent to exclude from our deliberations other measures long endeared to them - such, for instance, as the temperance reform.
I hope the knowledge that such self-denial has been practiced by many who are actively engaged with us will be appreciated by you, and cause you to be equally unselfish; and cautious in any resolution yo may offer, or any action you take during our session.Afternoon Proceedings. Convention called to order by the President. Prayer by Rev. Miss LeClerc, of Madison, Indiana.
Mrs. Dr. Chase presented the following report of the committee on permanent organizaion: President Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati: Vice Presidents - Mrs. Dr. Pulte, Cincinnati; Miss Mary B. Hall, Toledo; Mrs. Mary B. Hall, Toledo; Mrs. E. T. Chain, Dayton; Mrs. Ellis, Yellow Springs; Mrs. Allison, Xenia; Mrs. A. S. Currier Brown, Athens: Mrs. E. D. Stewart, Springfield. Secretaries - Mrs. L. H. Blangy, Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cole, of Sidney. Treasurer - Mr. H. L. Crall, of Cincinnati.
On motion, the report was adopted.Second Day's Proceedings. President Mrs. Longley, called the meeting to order. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Henly.
MORNING SESSION.Afternoon Session. The proceedings of the afternoon were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Wiley, editor of the Ladies Repository.
On motion of Mrs. Dr. Chase, of Cleveland, the following were appointed.
Committee on Permanent Nominations - Mrs. C. D. Ellis, J. J. Belville, Esq., and Mrs. M. V. Longley.
Pending the report of this committee, Henry B. Blackwell entertained the Convention with an address of considerable length.REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT OFFICERS. Mrs. C. D. Ellis submitted the report of the Committee on Permanent Officers, as follows:
President - Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler, M. D., Cleveland.
Vice-President - Mrs. M. V. Longley, Linwood.
Recording Secretary - Mrs. H. M. Downey, Xenia.
Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. Miriam M. Cole, Sidney.
Treasurer - Mr. L. H. Crall, Cincinnati. Warden - Mr. J. B. Quinby, Cincinnati. Business Committee - A. J. Boyer, Esq., Dayton; Elias Longley, Esq., Cincinnati; Mrs. D. Segur, Toledo; Mrs. Morgan K. Merrick, Cleveland; Dr. T. W. Organ, Urbana; Mrs. E. D. Stewart, Springfield, Miss Rebecca S. Rice, Yellow Springs.
Mrs. Dr. Chase moved for the acceptance of the report, which was seconded and carried.Evening Session. Miss Anthony then took the floor. She commended by producing the following letter, which was read:"Mrs. M. V. Longley:Miss Anthony said this letter had been sent up for her to answer. What could she say? The writer wanted those women who earn and possess property to own it and have the right to protect it? A lot of men could get together if the owner lived in a school district and vote it all away to build a school house or a town house or any sort of a building and the owner would have no voice in it.
"Dear Madam - I can not sign your call for a Woman's Suffrage Convention, for I do not feel a serious interest in the subject.
That there are woman's wrongs that the law-makers should right, I believe.
"For instance: I think married women should hold property independetly; that they should be able to save and enjoy the fruits of their indeustry; and that they should not be absolutely in the power of lazy, dissipated, or incapable husbands.
"But I can not see clearly that the posession of the ballot would help women in the reform indicated.
"If however, a majority of the women of Ohio, should signify, by means proving their active interest in the subject, that they wanted to acquire the right of suffrage, I don't think I would offer opposition.M. Halstead.
It seemed to Miss Anthony that when the writer of this letter says he wants a woman to possess property, he must conced the next thing, which is the ballot - the right to protect it.
The speaker regareded the idea of the suffrage being something apart from every thing else, as a mistake, and related how, in 1848, Judge Joshua Spencer had told her friend, Mrs. Stanton, he did not believe that women had a right to won property which they had inherited. He said it would bring discord into families, and would destroy all peace and harmony there.
After the passage of the law in New York, Mrs. Stanton met the Judge, and said to him: "Allow me to condole with you, Judge Spencer. You must be having a very sad time at your fireside now." Said he, "Don't speak of it. My wife has not heard of it yet." [Applause and laughter.]
Miss Anthony thought that there would be really no greater change on the surface of things when women got the right to vote, than there was in 1848, when the law was passed that gave to women the right to hold their property.
The undersigned, being convinced of the necessity of an American Woman Suffrage Association, which shall embody the deliberate action of the State organizations, and shall carry with it their united weight, do hereby respectfully invite such organizations to be represented in a Delegate Convention, to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, November 24th and 25th, A. D. 1869.
The proposed basis of this Convention is as follows:
The Delegates appointed by existing State organizations shall be admitted, provided their number does not exceed in each case that of the Congressional delegation of the State. Should it fall short of that number, additional delegates may be admitted from Local organizations, or from no organization whatever, provided the applicants be actual residents of the States they claim to represent. But no votes shall be counted in the Convention except of those actually admitted as Delegates.
Ohio - Hannah M. Tracy Cutler, A. J. Boyer, Mary V. Longley, J. J. Belville, Miriam M. Cole, S. Boltin.
We are pleased to announce, on behalf of the Business Committee of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, that Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati, Vice-President of the State Association, has consented to act as State Missionary in Ohio. The causes which actuated the committee in the creation of this office, and the work and duties of such an officer, will be more clearly set forth in the next number of the Advocate. In the meantime, we urge the friends throughout the State to prepare the ground for the State Missionary, who, among other things, will want your co-operation in organizing Woman Suffrage Associations in every Congressional District in the State.
Organized September 16th, 1869. President - Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler, Cleveland.
Vice-President - Mrs. M. V. Longley, Cincinnati.
Recording Secretary - Mrs. H. M. Downey, Xenia.
Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. M .M. Cole, Sidney.
Treasurer - L. H. Crall, Cincinnati.
Warden - J. B. Quinby, Cincinnati.
Executive Committee - A. J. Boyer, Dayton; Elias Longley, Cincinnati: Rebecca S. Rice, Yellow Springs: Mrs. M. K. Merrick, Cleveland: Rosa L. Segur, Toledo: Mrs. E. D. Stewart, Springfield: Dr. T. W. Organ, Cable.
Besides these officers, the Constitution of the Association provides for an additional Vice-president within and for each Congressional District in the state, to be elected by the District Association, and who shall represent that District in the State Association.
The Woman Suffrage Convention held in the city of Lafayette on the 9th and 10th instant was in every way a successful one. The public agitation of the question is no longer confined to State and National Conventions, but county conventions are held in all parts of the country. In Illinois, county conventions are very numerous, and arrangements are making in our own state for holding conventions in every Congressional District in Ohio. And thus it is all over the west, not to mention the fine progress the work is making in the east. At the Lafayette Convention Illinois from the west and Ohio from the east assembled and made the occasion in every way a success.
The convention was called to order soon after half past ten o'clock by Mrs. Dr. Stockham, of this city, who was chosen temporary President. Miss Lizzie Boynton, of Crawfordsville, was chosen temporary Secretary. Both of these ladies were afterward made permanent officers by the Committee on Permanent Organization, which consisted of Mrs. McDonald, of Crawfordsville, Mrs. W. C. Wilson, and Rev. Mr. Bruce, of this city.
On motion of Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati, a Committee on Resolutions was appointed, consisting of Mrs. Dr. Mary A. Wilhite, of Crawfordsville, Miss Sara Pettit, Mrs. Dr. Ingersoll and Rev. J. C. Reed, of this city, who were instructed to report in the afternoon.
SECOND DAY. The resolution presented the previous day were then taken up, seriatim, considered and adopted. Considerable discussion followed the reading of the second resolution, objections being raised by Mrs. Longley and others to that portion which asserts that self-control, self-restraint and obedience were inherent in woman, because it implied that these qualities were not inherent in man. Mrs. Longley moved to amend by inserting the words, "and man," which amendment was finally accepted and the resolution adopted.
Pursuant to the call of the Executive Committee of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, a special meeting of the Association was held in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, corner Seneca and Superior streets, in the city of Cleveland, on the 23d day of November, 1869.
LIST OF DELEGATES. First District - Mrs. M. V. Longley, Linwood.Mrs. Longley, Mr. H. K. McConell, J. J. Belville and Mrs. Stewart afterwards made a few remarks, when the convention adjourned.
H. M. TRACY CUTLER, President
A. J. Boyer, Sec'ry pro tem.
Held at Columbus, Ohio, February 10th and 11th, 1870. This Convention was held under the auspices of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, organized September 16th, 1869.
President, Mrs. H. M. Tracey Cutler, Cleveland.The Convention assembled at the Opera House, Thursday, February 10th, at ten A. M., and was called to order by Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler, President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.
Vice President, Mrs. M. V. Longley, Cincinnati.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. - C. Graham, of Cincinnati.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. M. M. Coles, of Sidney.
Treasurer, L. H. Crall, of Cincinnati.
Warden, J. B. Quinby, of Cincinnati.
Executive Committee, A. J. Boyer, Dayton; Elias Longley, Cincinnati; Mrs. M. K. Merrick, Cleveland; Rebecca S. Rice, Yellow Springs; Mrs. R. A. S. Janney, Columbus; Mrs. E. D. Stewart, Springfield; Dr. T. W. Organ, Urbana.
A BUSINESS COMMITTEE Celia Burleigh, Mrs. Mary F. Davis, Mrs. M. V. Longley, Mrs. M. A. Bayer, Ohio; Mrs. J. W. Howe, Mrs. T. W. Higgenson and Rev. J. F. Clarke.
The Second Annual State Convention of the Ohio Woman's Suffrage Assocation, held in the Opera House, Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 15th and 16th, 1870.
The delegates assmbled at 11 o'clock a.m. The morning was disagreeable, and as no fire had been made in the furnaces, the Opera House was very uncomfortable, so they took a recess until 2 p.m.AFTERNOON SESSION. Mrs. M. V. Longley, the Vice President, (in the absence of the President,) called the convention to order, when prayer was offered by Rev. Mrs. Mary Bardford.
Mrs. Longley then addressed the convention. She said that notwith standing the scoffs and sneers of men the convention has assmebled to simply talk over our wrongs. We are deprived of suffrage, and it is suffrage which we demand. If a man is hungry he he will ask for bread; nothing else will satisfy him. We are asking for equal rights, and will only stop when we receive them. Our fathers cried out against "taxation without representation," and so do the women of to-day.
We come before you - a few of us only as practiced orators; but we come as wives and mothers, not as disaffected wives and disappointed old maids. We want this right of suffrage for many reasons, but will only refer to a few. We demand it as law-abiding citizens. We want to vote to secure justice to ourselves - to enact just laws. We want to vote that we may help to turn back the tide of intemperance that is sweeping over us. And so we come here and go elsewhere, for we want the people to see how earnest we are.
The report of last convention was read by the Secretary, Mrs. Mary Graham, of Cincinnati.
The Vice President then announced the following committee:On Business. - Mrs. Coit, Mrs. Smith and Dr. J. H. Coulter, of Columbus; A. J. Boyer, of Dayton, and Mrs. Sharp, of Kingston.
Credentials. - Mrs. M. M. Coles, of Sidney; Mrs. E, D. Stewart, of Springfield; Mrs. A. S. Curier Brown, of Athens; Miss Rebecca S. Rice, of Yellow Springs, and Mrs. D. E. Woody, of Eaton.
Organization. - Mrs. Mary Graham, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Mary L. Strong of Dayton; Mrs. R. A. S. Janney of Columbus, and A. J. Boyer, of Dayton.
Resolutions. - Mrs. M. M. Coles, of Sidney; Mrs. Sherman, of Circleville, and Miss Rice, of Yellow Springs.SECOND DAY. MORNING SESSION The convention met at 10 a.m., and after some preliminary business, elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Dr. H. M. T. Cutler, Cleveland ... President. Mrs. M. M. Cole, Sidney ... Vice Prs't. Mrs. Mary Graham, Columbus ... Rec. Sec'y. Mrs. E. D. Stewart, Springfield ... Cor. Sec'y. L. H. Crall, Cincinnati ... Tresurer. H. H. Kimball, Columbus ... Warden. Exective Committee. Mrs. R. A. S. Janney ... Columbus. Dr. T. W. Organ ... Yellow Springs. Mrs. Dr. Tuttle ... Eaton. Mrs. E. Coit ... Columbus. Dr. J. H. Coulter ... Columbus. Mrs. M. V. Longley ... Cincinnati. DELEGATES TO CLEVELAND. Mrs. Janney, from the Executive Committee, reported the following names of delegates to the annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association:
Mrs. M. V. Longley ... Cincinnati. Rev. Henry D. Moore ... " Mrs. Mary Graham ... " Mrs. R. A. S. Janney ... Columbus. Mrs. Elizabeth Coit ... " J. M. Peebles ... Cleveland. Mrs. Little ... " Mrs. Mary L. Strong ... Dayton. J. P. Belville ... " Mrs. M. M. Cole ... Sidney. M. G. O. Deforest ... Norwalk. Mrs. E. D. Stewart ... Springfield. Mrs. R. A. Sharpe ... Kingston. Mrs. Monroe ... Xenia. Dr. T. W. Organ ... Yellow Springs. R. Keese ... Bennington. Mrs. Sarah J. Barkham ... West Jefferson. Mrs. Sherman ... Circleville. Mrs. Col. Bond ... Chillicothe. Delegates at Large. Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler ... Cleveland. A. J. Boyer ... Dayton.
Cincinnati, Nov. 9 - The Ohio State Woman's Suffrage Convention commenced this afternoon, at Xenia, Ohio, and the attendance is small. Mr. R. A. Janney of Columbus, called the convention to order. After the appointment of a committee on resolutions, addresses were made by Mrs. Longley of Cincinnati, Mrs. Stewart of Springfield, Mrs. Colt of Sidney, O., Mrs. Cutter, Miss Deforest and others.
The Ohio Woman's Suffrage Convention met at Columbus on the 5th. The permanent officers chosen are: President, Mrs. M. M. Cole; Vice-President, Mrs. M. V. Longley; Recording Secretary, Mrs. C. Buchwalter; Corresponding Secretary, Miss J.J. DeForest.
In Convention at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, November 5. - The American Woman Suffrage Association met this morning, with about ten additional delegates present, Miss M. A. Murrah; the only female student of the Cincinnati law school, acted as Secretary. An executive session was held to settle the question of the nomination of officers, when the following were nominated and elected for the ensuing year: President, Henry B. Blackwell of Boston; Vice-Presidents, T. W. Higginson of Rhode Island, Mrs. Hazard of St. Louis, Mary A. Livermore of Illinois, George Wm. Curtis of New York, George W. Julian, Indiana, Theodora D. Weld, Massachusetts; Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret V. Longley, Cincinnati. Chairman of Executive Committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone; Foreign Corresponding Secretary, Julia Ward Howe; Corresponding Secretary, Myria Broadwell, Illinois; Recording Secretaries, Miss Matilda Hindman, New Jersey, Amada Wray, Indiana; Treasurer, Frank B. Sanborn, Massachusetts.
Reports were read of the progress of the movement in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Indiana.
A resolution was adopted to appoint a committee who shall, in a proper manner, present memorials to all church organizations, asking that equal rights be granted to all members, irrespective of sex.
The afternoon session was devoted to addresses. The speakers were Dr. Hannah Tracy Cutler, Rev. Mrs. Perkins, Rev. T. J. Vater, of Indiana, and Mrs. Dr. Thomas.
Resolutions were adopted in memory of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who signed the call by which the association was formed, and of Angelina Grunke Weld, who rendered efficient help to the cause of woman's suffrage also.
A resolution was adopted urging auxiliary societies to circulate petitions asking school, Presidential and municipal suffrage, and present them to their respective Legislatures.
Election of Officers for the Ensuing Year - Reception at Boston. Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean.
Boston, Oct. 11 - Never was "cloth of gold" at medieval fetes more brilliant in splendor of coloring than the leafy corridors of Boston Common, which seem a flutter with welcome to the city's guests - General U. S. Grant and the Woman's Congress. That may strike some credulous reader as a queer combination, but it is nevertheless true. To-day the Governor and Mayor receive the one, to-morrow the other, while over each and all falls like a benediction the unwonted beauty of these autumnal days, or, in plainest prose, Boston never looked better than she does to-day.
Solomon was wrong when he declared there was "nothing new" under the sun." We almost begin to fear that there is never any more to be anything old. Why Boston is the newest place we have ever been in. Arriving at the Hotel Vendome, we find the very restless spirit of "let us pull down our barns and build greater" in active operation; and the scent of fresh paint and the sound of the enterprising hammer greets us everywhere, and through a corridor of scaffolding we arrive at the elegant cining hall of what will be, when it is completed, one of the most elegant hotels in the United States; but at present it is as new as Chicago.
But we must not loiter, but make our way toWOMAN'S CONGRESS. Here we hope to find something of moss-covered, ivy-grown, or historic, but alas, "look out for paint" is the familiar watch-word, while, as we enter the hall where the Congress is assembled, there files in front of the President a prcession of women, arraved with scrub-brushes, brooms, and leather-dusters, who beat a retreat as the advance guard of the Woman's Congress fall into line, while our speakers and the workmen engaged upon the unfinished building enter upon a spirited rivalry.
This mistake was due, however, to the failure on the part of the managers of the hall to have it completed, and not to the courteous Committee of Arrangements. The Congress is the guest of the New England Woman's Club, whose members hav kindly furnished a delicious lunch to all members of the Congress each day of the sessions.
At the present writing, with the programme for the succeeding days, including in addition to the regular sessions of the Congress, a reception by the Governor at the State House, an excursion down the harbor with the Mayor and City Council, a reception at the residence of Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, and also by the "Artists' Guild," there is little time for letter-writing. Reserving, therefore, much of interest until our return, we send at present the merest outline in addition to the interesting report furnished by Mrs. Sathe Joy White, of the Boston Advertiser.
The followingOFFICERS were elected for 1880-81:
President - Julia Ward Howe, Rhode Island.
Vice Presidents - Abby W. May, Massachusetts; Professor Maria Mitchell, New York; Elizabeth B. Chace, Rhode Island; Sarah T. Hamilton, Maine; Armenia White, New Hampshire; Emily E. Reed, Vermont; Antoinette Brown Blackwell, New Jersey; Rachael G. Foster, Pennsylvania; Mrs. A. R. Spofford, District Columbia; Finnete S. Seelve, Ohio; Julia Holmes Smith, M. D., Illinois; Martha N. McKay, Indiana; Sylvia Goddard, Kentucky; Rebecca N. Hazard, Missouri; Emma C. Bascom, Wisconsin; Mary C. Pecknam, Minnesota; Julia M. Hunting, Iowa; Alinda C. Avery, M. D., Colorad; Ellen Clark Sargent, California.
Secretary - Kate Gannett Wells, Massachusetts.
Tresurer - Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Massachusetts.
Auditors - Elizabeth K. Churchill, Massachusetts; E. M. O'Conner, District Columbia.
Directors - Sophia C. Hoffman, New York; Alice C. Fletcher, New York; Anna C. Brackett, New York; Phebe M. Kendall, Massachusetts; Mary J. Safford, M. D., Massachusetts, Mary A. Livermore, Massachusetts; Mary F. Eastmann, Massachusetts; Lita Barney Sayles, Connecticut; Henrietta W. Johnson, New Jersey; Angusta Cooper Bristol, New Jersey; M. Louise Thomas, Pennsylvania; Lachel J. Bodley, M. D., Pennsylvania; Kate Newell Doggett, Illinois; Ellen Mitchell, Illinois; Caroline M. Brown, Illinois; E. Mont McRae, Indiana; May Wright Thompson, Indiana; Clara M. Hohnes, Iowa; Margaret V. Longley, Ohio; F. H. Mason, Ohio; Sarah Berger Scearna, Minnesota; M. D. B. Lynde, Wisconsin; Elia A Giles, Wisconsin; Caroline M. Severance, California.
"The next paper will be upon the subject ofWRITING MACHINES, by Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati."Mrs. M. V. Longley said:
"So much has been said about type-writers and type-writing in your conventions and periodicals, that I scarcely know what there is left for me to say. If you were a body of business people, with a large correspondence to attend to, and no knowledge of these useful and fascinating little machines, I might find much to say in favor of them. I might descant on their beauty as a piece of furniture, of the ease with which they are worked, or some of them, at least, of their value as a preventive of the 'writer's palsy.' and of the pleasure it gives one to read the letters written on them.
"When a gentleman receives a communication from a merchant or manufacturer who uses one of these instruments, he is not at a loss to know what any word is, whether this letter was intended for n or u, or that for m or w, or another for a or o, and so on. There can be doubt about them, for each letter has its perfect form, hence each word is perfectly legible. But of the merits of the type-writer you are all, no doubt, aware. Although I do not rejoice with joy unspeakable when I learn that an article of time-saving machinery has been invented (because I always think of the misfortune it is to those whose time is saved), I feel that women particularly, are to be benefited by the introduction of type-writing machines. It is a consolation to know that if it does reduce the number of clerks and assistants needed, it opens another field of usefulness for women, and that if our sons are forced to find other occupations a little sooner than they otherwise might be (for type-writing will not, as a general thing, be followed by men), our daughters are given the opportunity to be self-sustaining, and therefore independent.
"A gentlemen from New York city, who called at the type-writer office in this city last summer, while speaking of phonography and type-writing, remarked, that 'Type-writing is done entirely by women in New York city. Women are much more of a success at type-writing than men, if they have not got much sense, sometimes.' The modifying 'sometimes' was an after-thought, added, no doubt, on remembering that he was talking to a woman. Whatever may be my opinion of his estimate of women's 'sense,' I have reason to think there was truth in his remark, that women excel men as type-writer operators. This is, no doubt, due to the fact that women are more generally accustomed to a similar use of the fingers in playing the piano, which, of course, gives them an advantage over men.
"There is a growing demand for this kind of work, and those who are the first to take advanctage of it will be well rewarded. I do not, of course, mean to say that all a young lady has to do is to procure a type-writer or a position as clerk, and go right to work. I can not say, as some have done, that 'any child who can read can run the type-writer.' It is true, that any one who can read may strike the keys and produce an impression on the paper, but that can scarcely be called type-writing. I have seen a person write with the two index fingers, using them for both printing and spacing, but such an one would not expect to get a position as type-writing clerk. As well might a person expect to be a successful pianist or organ player while using but two or three fingers of each hand, as expect to be a successful type-writer operator while using only a part of the fingers to strike the keys of the instrument; and who would expect to attain any great degree of success as a pianist or organist unless all the fingers and the thumbs were brought into use? With only a part of them engaged, the time lost in carrying the hands back and forth over the key-board to strike the different keys, as is necessary in such a case, is very considerable. But by utilizing all the fingers and thumbs, there need be almost no loss of time. If the hands are held over the key-board, the fingers will reach to the extreme right and left, and each be in position to do duty, and the thumb will be in readiness to strike the space-bar.
"Another important qualification in a type-writer operator is good spelling. Writing machines do not shield poor spellers, as phonography does, but records their errors with unmerciful prominence. It is one of the discouraging features of type-writing teaching, that so many of those whose nimble fingers are capable of doing good service in other capacities are unfitted for the profession, because of poor spelling. For, although instrucntion in spelling is not one of the duties of those who teach the use of type-writing machines, one can take but little satisfaction in instructing those whom they know must fail to do acceptable work.
"Neither need a careless person hope to succeed in making satisfactory copy. But with an accurate habit and good spelling, any young lady or gentleman may, with a few months' preparation, become an expert operator; and such need never want employment. I am satisfied that if there were more competent operators to be found the introduction of type-writing machines would be much more rapid. Literary men, lawyers, and, indeed, all professional and business men, would find themsuch a great help that they would feel that they could not do without them.
"It seems as though the inventive genius of the present time had produced about all that could be asked for the rapid production of perfect copy. Yet we are not quite satisfied. We want an improvement even on the best we now have. We want something to indicate when the sheets on which we write are nearly filled. We want to be able to see our work without loss of time in lifting the machine carriage. And, oh! if we only had some arrangement by which we could make all the lines of the same length, how happy we should be. This latter improvement, I fear, however, can never be made, but the former are quite practicable.
"A gentlemen told me the other evening of a lady reporter who, when feeling weary, after talking testimony all day, said she wished she could throw her notes through an opening in the wall, into a machine, and in the morning, after a good, sound night's sleep, find it all written out and ready for the attorney. While I cannot claim that any of the type-writers with which I am acquainted will ever quite equal the desires of such persons, I am confident that the improvements I have suggested, and possibly others, will be made, and that at no very distant day."
On the 31st August and 1st September the first Annual Meeting of the International Association of Shorthand Writers was held in this city. The attendance was not as large as had been expected, but reached the respectable number of over one hundred, including a dozen lady reporters and amanuences.The first paper read was one on the Benefits of Association, by N. R. Bucher, of Canada; the next by Ms. M. V. Longley, of Cincinnati, on Writing Machines; Official Reporting Lose, by F. C. Rose, of Ithaca, N. Y., in favor, and James Abott, Chicago, against. Much discussion followed, by many members, for and against; as there was also on the President's recommendation to take action against lose providing for exclusive official reporting; but the whole subject was lead on the table.
The first thing to be done, after procuring a Type-Writer, is to learn how to use it to the best advantage. Any one can sit down, and, by striking the keys, print words; just as any one can, by striking the keys of a piano, sound the notes of a tune; but to strike the keys of the Type-Writer in a way that will make the most perfect work the most rapidly, requires experience, or what is better, the advice and instruction of one who has had a more extended and varied experience than usual.
Until the present time each person owning or using one of these valuable instruments, has had to gain this experience for himself or herself, by slow and uncertain steps, except in a few of the larger cities where teachers of Type-writing may be found. The consequence has been that good machines, which, if operated by skillful fingers, or by a person having the aid of a thorough course of instruction, would have become "a real comfort," and "an indispensable clerk in every professional and business house," as those who know how to use the Type-Writer speak of it, have been allowed to stand rusting in a corner unused. In other cases the persevering owner, or clerk, is plodding along as best he can, using but one or two fingers of each hand, instead of all the fingers and a thumb, as piano-players do. No wonder it is often said, by such operators, that they can write as fast with pen and ink as with the Type-Writer, for they fail to bring into use half the capacity of the instrument.
Realizing the need of a more thorough system of instruction than she has been able to find in the market, the writer, early in her experience as Type-Writer instructor, began by preparing the lessons for her pupils on the machine as she needed them. Subsequently these were graded and arranged in progressive order; and, to enable the learner to practice correctly, in the absence of the teacher, the proper fingering of the words was indicated by figures. Finding these exercises exceedingly useful to herself as teacher, as well as to her pupils, she has concluded to put them in print for the benefit, especially, of those having machines who are out of reach of a living instructor, and for the use of such instructors as may have nothing better of their own.
Although well aware that these lessons are not faultless, the author believes they will do good service, and supply a want that is every day growing, as the use of the Type-Writer is constantly and rapidly increasing. The demand for skillful operators calls for some thorough instruction of this kind, and it is hoped this effort will in part, at least, meet this want.
The first thing to be done, after procuring a Caligraph, is to learn how to use it to the best advantage. Any one can sit down, and, by striking the keys, print words; just as any one can, by striking the keys of a piano, sound the notes of a tune; but to strike the keys of the Caligraph in a way that will make the most perfect work the most rapidly, requires experience, or the advice and instruction of those who have given the subject special attention.
Until the present time, except in large cities, each person owning or using one of these instruments has had to gain this experience for himself by slow and uncertain steps, plodding along as best he can, emplying but one or two fingers of each hand, instead of utilizing all as piano-players do.
Realizing the need of a more thorough system of instruction than she has been able to find in the market, the writer, early in her experience as type-writer instructor, began by preparing the lessons for her pupils on the machine as she needed them. Subsequetly these were graded and arranged in progressive order; and, to enable the learner to practice correctly in the absence of the teacher, the proper fingering of the words was indicated by figures. Finding these exercises exceedingly useful to herself as teacher, as well as to her pupils, she has concluded to put them in print for the benefit, especially, of these having machines who are out of reach of personal instruction, and for the use of such instructors as may have nothing better of their own.
The same systematic drill is needed to make good operators of those who use the Caligraph; and for the aid of such these "Caligraph Lessons" have been prepared.
Although aware that they are not faultless, the author believes they will do good service, and meet a want hitherto unsupplied.
MRS. LONGLEY'S "CALIGRAPH LESSONS." J. Geo. Cross, Author of "Eclectic Shorthand" and Dean of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., after testing Mrs. Longley's "Caligraph Lessons," writes: "Mrs. M. V. Longley, Your Instruction Book for the Caligraph is invaluable. Will you have the kindness to send me by return mail, at such rates as you can continue to furnish them, 12 copies, with bill, and I will at once remit the amount." In remitting the money Mr. Cross says: "We like them better and better."
TYPE-WRITER LESSONS. For the Use of Teachers and Learners. Adapted to Remington's Perfected Type-Writers. By Mrs. M. V. Longley, Instructor in the Cincinnati Shorthand and Type-Writer Institute.
This work consists of twelve lessons; large type, in which the proper fingering of each word is definitely indicated by a figure under each letter, with corresponding exercises and sentences, including, also, Forms of Business Correspondence, Invoices, Account of Sales, and Legal Papers, Testimony, Judge's Charges, etc.
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CALIGRAPH LESSONS. Designed to Develop Accurate and Rapid Operators. These are the same exercises as the above, but with the necessary changes in fingering, etc. Price 50 cents. Order through any bookseller or direct of the author.M. V. LONGLEY, Cincinnati. O.
To my old Phonetic and Phonographic Friends:- While the train of the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railroad is bearing me swiftly through the endless prairies of Kansas, where there is scarcely a house or a tree to be seen from horizon to horizon, I sit me down to my faithful Remington No. 2, on my lap, and proceed to tell my phonetic and phonographic readers, the experiences of a man passing from "the gates of death" unto life again, In anticipation as it were. But before going on, let me say that the sight of a man running a typewriter on an express train, seems to be a novel thing in this western land, as perhaps it is anywhere; but the luxury of this method of writing letters, will commend itself to newspaper correspondents as soon as they learn how readily and satisfactorily it may be done. My fellow passengers gather around me and look on with wonder at the strange performance.
Another peculiarity of the writing of this letter is, that it is done with fingers that are stiff an feverish with rheumatism - fingers that would accomplish but little with the pen or pencil, and with much suffering to the writer. I mention this for the benefit of fellow sufferers from rheumatism, and slso for those who have the pen paralysis.
I used the phrase, "gates of death," a few lines back in two senses: first, the wasting away of the physical body of disease, until one's dearest friends began to despair of his recovery; and second, the unexpected, undesired and grievous breaking up of social and business relations, in order to prolong the life of the body. Having barely escaped the first death, it became necessary, in the opinion of physicians and friends, to undergo the second, which, in the language of Scripture, is more grievous to be born, (a free translation) than the first. So my partner, in life as well as in business, thought and realized, when, in transferring our Shorthand and Typewriter Institute to our successor, Mr. Wagner, our pupils called upon us, with their floral tributes, and spoke their kind words of good-bye, saying they were so sorry to part with us, and how they would miss us in the school room. So we felt, and oh how sadly realized when we began tearing down the penates - the household gods - of our loved home on Walnut Hills, built from its foundation and cherished and beautified in its ample grounds, by the enterprise and industry of the good wife. The removal of family and familiar pictures from the walls, the separation of our library of books - the accumulation of almost half a century - some to go to the heartless auctioneer, after being read, admired and sacredly cared for by father, mother and children, through the varying vicissitudes of two generations - and those we could not, under any circumstances, part with, being boxed for unknown shelves in a distant land; the sale of furniture, that like our dear children had come into the household when we were young, one thing at a time, as necessity required, and had become a part of our daily existence - one article going here and another there, into strange places and rude hands; all these things partake of the nature of the sundering of those ties which the world calls death.
And when, in addition to all this, came the tearful procession of children, relatives and friends, to the waiting train, and the tender good-byes and loving kisses are given, and the soulless locomotive moves slowly from the depot, separating forever some, if not all, the "chief mourners," - then surely the grief is little less than that over the final parting on earth.
Such were the circumstances of our departure from Cincinnati, on the last day of May. Of course our friends bid us "good cheer," and hoped for renewed health and long life and prosperity, and among the most sanguine, apparently, was our good friend and physician, Dr. Slosson, who asscured us that he thought our health would improve from the first day's travel, and that our rheumatic pains and incipient but persistent cough would gradually vanish in a more genial climate.
After spending a week at different points in Indiana visiting relatives, we reached Chicago on the 9th of June. Here we met one of the old phonetic firm of Longley Brothers of 1850, all five of whom are yet living and in the printing business. We also paid oure respects to the shorthand publishers, Messrs Brown & Holland, and Mr. J. George Cross. Both these parties are also conducting shorthand schools, in such a manner as to deserve and win success. The latter gentleman and his wife, with a ministerial friend who had studied "Longley's Manual of Phonography," a quarter of a century ago, spent an evening with us at our hotel very pleasantly, talking over the pioneer times of phonetic shorthand and the spelling reform. The question was raised, whether a life spent almost wholly in this work, as ours had been, was profitable, pecuniarily, physically, mentally, or in any other way? On the first point there was a great unanimity. Nobody yet had been known to make a respectable living in the publication and dissemination of the phonetic arts, although of late years thousands were making excellent salaries in the practice of phonetic shorthand. But it was thought by our good friends that we had pursued the commendable course in standing faithfully to our post, and for forty years laboring, "in season and out of season," for the promotion of the Writing and Spelling Reform. Said the teacher and author, Mr. Cross: he believed in the concentration of the mind, and the undivided effort of the hands, for the accomplishment of any great work. Said the minister: he had never knwon a preacher who neglected his high and holy calling and dabbled in politics, or law, or medicine, or anything else, that was successful in saving souls or being known as a great thinker or author. And as to fame, reputation and honor among men, it was unanimously voted by these too complimentary friends, that the humble author of the old American Manual of Phonography, and of the recent Eclectic series of Phonographic books, by devoting his life to one purpose was more extensively known in the United States, England and Europe, than thousands of more pretentious and perhaps more men. We bowed our head in silence.
For the sake of economy, and to secure greater comfort than the luxurious Pullman Palace Cars afford, with all their tinsel and glory, we took seats and berths in one of the excursion trains that monthly leave Chicago for the Pacific cities. The cost is only about half the usual fare, namely, $57.50, and the accommodations substantially the same, except for a small portion of the road, where the cars are run with a feight train, and the time is lengthened out to seven days, instead of five or six.
Of our flying trip over unbroken prairies for hundereds of miles through desert plains, day after day, and over and through mountain ranges, capped with snow, and seemingly insurmountable, we need not here occupy the reader's time. Enough to say, that the whole trip seemed a glorious panorama of grandeur and beauty, too maginificent and charming to be real. But while it rendered the long ride very endurable, it failed to charm away our rheumatic pains, or strengthen to any perceptible degree our tottering limbs; so that we all three arraived at our destination in about as good condition as when we left Cincinnati, and this is more than well folks are in the habit of saying after taking a long journey. We have now spent two weeks very agreeably with daughter and son, and begin to feel a little at home in this nominally young and rapidly-growing city, of which I may write something at another time.Elias Longley.
Mr. Longley's health failing him, he has gone to Los Angeles, California, to recruit. He addresses his old fonetic and fonographic friends through the Phonographic World, in a touching letter from which we extract this pathetic picture :-I used the phrase, "gates of death," a few lines back in two senses: First, the wasting away of the physical body of desease, until one's dearest friends began to despair of his recovery; second, the unexpected, undesired and grievous breaking up of social and business relations, in order to prolong the life of the body. Having barely escaped the first death, it became necessary, in the opinion of physicians and friends, to undergo the second, which, in the language of Scripture, is more grievous to be borne (a free translation) than the first. So my partner, in life as well as in business, thought and realized when, in transferring our Shorthand and Type-writer Institute to our successor, Mr. Wagner, our pupils called upon us with their floral tributes, and spoke their kind word of good-by, saying they were so sorry to part with us, and how they would miss us in the school room. So we felt, and oh! how sadly realized when we began tearing down the penates - the household gods - of our loved home on Walnut Hills, built from its foundation and cherished and beautified in its ample grounds by the enterprise and industry of the good wife. The removal of family and familiar pictures from the walls, the separation of our library of books - the accumulation of almost half a century - some to go to the heartless auctioneer, after being read, admired and cared for by father, mother and children, through the varying vicissitudes of two generations - and those we could not, under any circumstances part with, being boxed for unknown shelves in a distant land; the sale of furniture that, like our dear children, had come into the house when we were young, one thing at a time, as necessity required, and had become a part and another there, into strange places and rude hands - all these things partake of the nature of that sundering of ties which the world calls death. And when, in addition to all this, came the tearful procession of children, relatives and friends to the waiting train, and the tender good-bys and loving kisses are given, and the soulless locomotive moves slowly away from the depot, separating forever some, if not all, of the "chief mourners," then surely the grief is little less than that over the final parting on earth. Such were the circumstances of our departure from Cincinnati, on the last day of May.Mr. Longley leaves Cincinnati with honors won by a quarter-century's work in fonetic and fonographics reform. He is a martyr to progressive science.
In a glowing communication regarding the wonderful growth and promising future of Pasadena, Cal., his present home, Mr. Elias Longley, citing numerous instances of health regained in the far west, writes as follows, dated Dec. 25th.:"Mrs. M. V. Longley, of Walnut Hills, brought her invalid husband to Los Angeles in June, 1885. The cold and frequently changing currents of atmosphere there not agreeing with him, she took him to Pasadena, where he soon began to improve. Near by she bought two acres of land at $500 per acre, covered with orange, apricot and lemon trees, but without a house or a street. In about a year's time other lots have been sold and houses built upon them, new streets laid out, giving her two corner lots. She has sold a portion of her ground at the rate of $2,000 an acre; and while retaining her home lot of 150x100, she could now sell the rest for $3,000 - thus more than quadrupling her investment. * * * * * *In another communication, Mr. Longley writes us as follows:
The attractions of Pasadena are mountain streams of running water and small lakes, in which the speckled trout tempt the weary climber; while the more vigorous, with gun in hand, press on for larger game, quail, squirrels, rabbits, deer, with the possibility of getting sight of a bear or cougar. The future of Pasadena is at present an unsolvable problem. It is booming like a mountain torrent, and can not stop while the rain lasts, and there are no indications of any let-up to the tide that is pouring in. Although the season for visitors and settlers has just begun for this winter, there are at least a thousand more here now than ever before; hotels full, boarding-houses and private families running over, and tents are being struck in many a door-yard and rented furnished for $10 a month. Still there is some way found to take care of all who come.""Leo. A. Longley, formerly one of the official stenographers of the Cincinnati courts, after spending a three months' vacation visiting his parents in South Pasadena, Cal., is so well pleased with the country that he has concluded to remain. He has made a very desirable engagement with one of the best law firms in the city of Los Angeles, as their shorthand assistant; has purchased an acre of land among the `foot-hills' of South Pasadena, and is building him a home."
For the past forty-two years, the name of Elias Longley, of Cincinnati, has been familiar, not only to the shorthand writers of this country, but tu the phoneticians of the entire world. Mr. Longley was born at Oxford, O., in August, 1823, and is now in his sixty-fifth year. Though not an old man, yet by reason of having attmpted to do twice as much of the world's work as other men in the time usually allotted to mortals, he is prematurely feeble in bodily health, and has to some extent retired from the active pursuit of his life-long labors. Two years ago, after suffering from a protracted siege of pnewmonia, rheumatism, etc., he removed, by the advice of his physican, to Southen California, locating at what is now known as South Pasadena, here Mrs. Longley selected two acres of land, for which she paid $1,000, pitched a tent under a large live oak tree, and proceeded to build a home. The result is seen in the sketch above, and which has been procured expressly for the World. The land was covered with fruit trees, mostly orange, lemon, apricot and plum, to which Mr. Longley added after recovering health somewhat, by planting with his own hands, peach, apple, cherry, pear, fig, loquat, guava, blackberry, currant, etc.; also, hedges of cyprus, and such ornamental shrubbery as aplms, acacia, heliotropes, cactus, roses, etc., without number; and now in two years' time this industrious couple have a home that is surrounded with everything that is pleasant to the eye and palatable to the taste, their two acres worth eight times its cost, with a railroad and a town built up around them, and what is more than all, with Mr. Longley's health greatly improved, and the prospect of several happy years added to their lives. In addition to all this, the only two sons of the family, both excellent reporters, have built themselves homes in the immediate neighborhood of their parents, and are profitably engaged in their profession. Mr. Longley is the local agent for the Remington Typewriter in the city of Los Angeles, besides which he devotes three days in the week to teaching shorthand and typewriting, and has now as many pupils as he can comfortably attend to. Thus, notwithstanding the misfortune of having to leave his Phonographics Publishing business in Cincinnati, Mr. Longley enjoys the satisfaction of seeing his style of phonography becoming firmly planted and growing rapidly into favor on the whole Pacific Coast, as well as inthe Eastern States.
Perhaps there is no man living in the whole United States who can look back over an active business life of forty years and call up as many prominent and pleasant reminiscences in connection with shorthand affairs as can the subject of our sketch. Beginning the study of Phonography in the year 1845, only eight years after its birth in England, in the Class-Book and Reader of Andrews & Boyle, soon after their publication in this country, Mr. Longley soon put himself in communication with the author of the system. Learning that these American publishers had not adopted Mr. Pitman's latest improvements, he at once set to work and brought out a book in accordance with the system as then published in Englan, entitled "The American Manual of Phonography," which soon became one of the most popular text-books of the art in this country. It may be said of Mr. Longley that he has perhaps reported more distinguished men of our country than any other shorthand writer. Though a ready writer as early as 1850, and occasionally reporting a sermon, or a speech, or a trial, it was not until after the war broke out in 1861, that he relinquished his printing and publishing business, and engaged in shorthand newspaper work on the Cincinnati daily papers. While so engaged, for twenty years, he reported speeches of Presidents Lincoln, Andy Johnson, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield; Vice-Presidents Colfax, Wilson and others; of statesmen, Blaine, Chase, Morton, Conkling, Ben Butler, Chandler, Logan, the two Shermans, Schurz; of Governors, Bramlett, of Kentucky; Oglesby, of Illinois; Todd, Dennison, Brough, Noyes, Allen and Foraker, of Ohio; of lecturers, Beecher, Ingersoll, Tilton, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, George Willam Curtis, Fred Douglass, Lucy Stone, Anna Dickinson, Mrs. Livermore, Susan B. Anthony and others.
Mr. Longley was for two years official court stenographer in Cincinnati, and is now in his new home, occasionally called into the court-room, when the officials are all employed, to "take a case," which he finds no difficulty in doing. As one of a very few of the many authors of shorthand systems before the public who is himself a thoroughly capable sternographer, Mr. Longley has brought to his work the valuable experience of many years, which, incorporated in his system, is itself the very best endorsement possible to obtain. His writers, hundreds of whom are filling important positions to-day in all parts of the country, are living monuments of the value of the system which grants them a livelihood, while his improvements and many valuable suggestions, incorporated and adopted from time to time in the different phonographies of the day, are glowing proofs that Elias Longley has not lived in vain.
"Mrs. Longley started from here to visit her mother and sister in New York, last Thursday week. On Monday the train was thrown down an embankment forty feet, near Streator, Ill., and along with fifty others she was badly injured. The editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Wm. Penn Nixon, an old friend, hearing of her ill-luck had her taken to his home, where she is now under treatment for two broken ribs and other injuries."Elias Longley.South Pasadena, Cal., Sept. 1, 1889.
Los Angeles, Cal., April 16, 1890.Editors Woman's Journal:
The Woman Suffrage Association of Los Angeles, Cal., held its seventh annual meeting, April 1. Some of ints members are continually coming and going, but the number of permanent ones is increasing.
In this city, many "isms" and public measures so engross the attention of women and men that it is difficult to interest them in the most important one. Yet we have held five public meetings the past year. Matilda Hindman lectured at one of them. Rev. D. D. Bowen of this city at another; different ment and women made brief and spicy speeches at the others. We have also distributed suffrage literature, and find the public mind generally more favorable to the cause.
As our State Legislature did not meet last winter, we have done little work with reference to it, but expect to go earnestly about it for the coming session. Officers elected for the coming year are:President - Margaret V. Longley.
Vice-President - Marie J. Barra.
Secretary - Elizabeth A. Lawrence.
Cor. Secretary - Sophia W. Knight.
Treasurer - Asenath S. Marshall.
Ex. Committee - Alice M. McComas, Lauretta James, Jessie M. Dunning, Martha L. Patrick.Elizabeth A. Kingsburry.
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 15, 1892.Editors Woman's Journal:
The past fortnight has been one of considerable interest to woman suffragists in this city, and a brief record of what has transpired will be readable and instructive.
"The People's Party," though only in the first year of its existence, is known all over tha land as a reformatory and somewhat radical organization. It is rapidly assuming shape and power in this intelligent and progressive State. A preliminary State organization was effected in this city only last October. As its leaders invited the coöperation of such woman's clubs and societies as look after the improvement of social and political conditions, the woman suffrage society of the city sent delegates to the convention. They were received kindly and hartily, and a woman suffrage resolution was incorporated in the platform of the new party.
At a lter convention in Stockton the party was more fully organized, and the platform adopted at Los Angeles was accepted, including woman suffrage. At the national convention of the party held in Omaha, however, no woman suffrage plank was put in the platform, and this disturbed and sicouraged the women here who have affiliated with the movement. Still, when the call was issued for a county convention a few weeks ago, many of the People's Party clubs, representing voting precincts, appointed women delegates to the convention, and they were received and seated without question by the committee on credentials and by the convention. Of the 250 delegates, eight or ten were women. Several of these ladies participated in making motions and discussing nominations and resolutions as freely as the men. They did not, however, enter the arena for nominations to office; they seemed willing to wait a while longer for this, but while waiting they were diligent students.
As an evidence of the progressive and liberal character of our people, the following plank in the platform was adopted without a single nay:6. The granting of the franchise to women.Although the convention was as large as such county conventions usually are, and made up mostly from the working classes, including farmers and fruit growers, it was orderly, decorous and free from smoking and drinking.
In the evening, the immense hall known as "Hazard's Pavillion" was densely packed from the ground to the third gallery, with 5,000 as intelligent looking men and women as ever assembled in the city; and for an hour and forty minutes they listened to the able speech of General Weaver, candidate for the presidency; and then for another hour to the wonderfully eloquent address of Mrs. Mary E. Lease, of Kansas. Of the latter, the editor of the Daily Times said; "For over an hour she held her audience spell-bound by the charm of her voice and the beauty of her language, as never before had been heard such a speech as she delivered, from a local platform." In the course of her remarks upon the misrule and bad financial management of the government, Mrs. Lease said:Thank God we women are blameless for this political muddle you men have dragged us into. Again, ours is a grand and holy mission, a mission as high and holy as ever inspired the heart, fired the brain, or nerved the sinewy arm to do and dare; ours the mission to drive from our land and forever abolish the triune monopoly of land, money, and transportation. Ours is the mission to place the mothers of this nation on an equality with the fathers of this nation, that we may have in that happier time fast coming, not one start only on the field of blue of our flag, representing but one solitary State in this Union where women are considered "people," but when the field of blue shall be dotted with every start that represents a State of this Union.While saying this she pointed to the elegant flag furnished by Mrs. Longley, 12x18 feet, hanging in view of the audience.
When she closed with a plea for silver dollars with which to carry on the campaign, she invited the people not to wait for the baskets, but to throw them directly at her, and she would run all the risk of getting knocked down with too many of them. The result was such a shower as yielded 400 of the people's shining specie.
But as a discouraging sequel to the exhilarating prospects inspired by this convention, comes to hand to-day the People's Party Press of last Saturday, from San Francisco, in which the editor says:One of the best-tempered and most sensible papers ever read by the editor of this journal on Woman's Enfranchisement, has come to hand from Mrs. M. V. Longley, of South Pasadena. But she is the only woman in the State who urges the editor to take up that issue at this time. The issues made by the People's Party in this campaign are set forth in the national platform adopted at Omaha, July 4. True, that Stockton State convention a month before adopted the St. Louis platform and indorsed the Los Angeles platform. But all the county conventions held since July 4 have adopted the Omaha national platform as a matter of course. The Press also at once gave place to the Omaha platform in its columns, instead of that adopted at St. Louis and Stockton. Could it do otherwise? Several men have also taken the same position as Mrs. Longley. It is untenable and untimely, at least so far as the People's Press is concerned. It cannot make room till after the campaign for other issues than those named in the platform, as published in these columns from week to week. This battle is to be fought on money, land and transportation. In the meantime it is due to the cause of equal justice to say that, so far as it is possible now to determine, certainly four-fifths of the voters in the People's Party are heartily in favor of woman's enfrancisement. In conclusion the editor desires to say that at twenty-two years of age, more than thirty years ago, when this subject was not much discussed and had few advocates, he accepted it unreservedly, and holds to it more strongly to-day than ever before. But it is not an issue in this campaign.In reply Mrs. Longley has written the editor a scorching review, in which she shows that what "four-fifths of the voters in the People's Party are heartily in favor of," and what has always been more heartily applauded than any other, must be more popular and important than "any other issues named in the platform."S But, as the editor did not publish her former communication, although he admits it to be "one of the best-tempered and most sensible papers" he ever read, she does not expect her reply to be published. If such is the case, he will hardly have the opportunity of reading any other such sensible paper from the same pen.E. L.
A Few of Them Made--Fowler the Probable Candidate for Governor. Sacramento, May 23 - When the People's party convention opened this morning, George Dunn, of Sacramento was elected secretary. Mrs. Longley of Pasadena, was elected vice-president yesterday and was escorted to a seat beside Chairman Fowler. The convention took a recess until 2 p.m.
Candidates were nominated as follows: Congress, 1st district, J. E. Bell of Shasta; 2d district - C. Johnson of San Francisco. Mathew Harry of San Francisco was nominated for member of the State Board of Equalization for the 1st district. The remaining district nominations will be made this afternoon. Indications point to the nomination of Chairman Fowler for Governor.
Sacramento, May 23 - The Assembly was filled by 9 o'clock this morning, the hour fixed for the People's Party Convention to meet, but it was 25 minutes later before Chairman Fowler called the convention to order.
William Boyne, a delegate from this city, took the floor and read from the Bee the reference to an invitation of the Buffalo Brewery to drink free beer, Mr. Boyne said Mr. Gerber was a gentleman, but he moved and it was seconded, that the invitation be declined with thanks. There was one dissenting voice. The speaker said he hoped the papers would spread abroad the news that this was not a beer-guzzling crowd.
Milton McWhorter was appointed to escort Mrs. M. V. Longley, the Vice-President, to the chair. She was greeted with loud applause. Mrs. Longley said she had always said she never wanted to hold office until her sister women could vote for her, and she knew she was expressing the gratitude of her sisters to the grand men of this convention when she thanked them for the honor they had given her.
Margaret Vater Longley was probably the first woman in Cincinnati to learn phonography. She began the study in 1849, soon after her marriage to Mr. Elias Longley, who afterward became well known as a printer and publisher of phonetic and phonographic works. In 1850 Mrs. Longley met, with marked success in Cincinnati in teaching a class of children to read by means of the phonetic alphabet, and in 1851, she went to Indianapolis, in response to an invitation to make the experiment, and taught the same method in the public schools, demonstrating its great advantages.
Having adopted what were in those days advanced ideas about the right of women to step outside of the theretofore restricted field of work open to them and to engage in the more remunerative and reputable employments of men, she at this time learned how to set type, setting at the same time an example to other young women to work in her husband's office. From that time women printers multiplied rapidly in Cincinnati.
When the war broke out in 1861, and Mr. Longley engaged in reporterial work on the Cincinnati dailies, and was moreover employed as reporter of courts martial by the United States government, Mrs. Longley assisted him in reading and trascribing his notes, and, he says, was often more sccessful in deciphering his hieroglyphics than he himself.
Mrs. Longley taught many private pupils in phonography, and when in 1881 her husband opend a regular school of shorthand, she engaged with him as a teacher.
Upon the appearance of the Remington typewriter, Mrs. Longley learned to operate it and became the first teacher of its use in Cincinnati, if not in the whole west, and she was the first person anywhere to formulate a complete course of lessons for a typewriting machine. This was her "Typeing Lessons, Arranged for Teachers and Learners of Remington's Perfected Typewriters," published early in the '80s. A similar work adapted to the Caligraph was soon after published. The books have been recently revised by Mrs. Longley to keep them abreast of the latest developments in the art of typewriting, and they are still the most popular exercises in use. They are published by the Phonographic Institute Co., Cincinnati.
Mrs. Longley was also the first agent in Cincinnati for the sale of the Remington machine after its introduction by Mr. Yost, the subsequent inventor of the machine bearing his name.
About ten years ago owing to the illness of her husband, who sought and found health on the Pacific coast, Mrs. Longley became a resident of California. Two years ago, when the Populist party was organized at Los Angeles, she, in connection with other ladies, succeeded in getting adopted in their platform a plank in favor of woman suffrage, and she became a warm supporter of that party, and she was accepted as a delegate to its first convention. This led to her becoming a delegate to the recent state convention, and having had much experience as a presiding officer in women's meetings, she was chosen as its vice-president. She is now a member of the Los Angeles County executive commitee of the People's party, and is doing a full share of the work which she hopes will result in the redemption of the Golden State from the corruption of the two old parties.
From the Los Angeles Times
Miss Phoebe Couzins and her financial condition have been a subject of much discussion and speculation in this city recently. Several weeks ago this matter was brought formally before the Los Angeles County Woman Suffrage campaign committee, and an immediate effort was made to assist Miss Couzins. Through the influence of Mrs. M. V. Longley, Mrs. Leland Stanford has provided her a pass but she is too ill to travel alone, and transportation must be provided for a companion. Her aliment is acute rheumatism and it is probable she may never entirely recover.
Miss Couzins is to be sent to her relatives in St. Louis where she will be cared for by them. At a benefit under the auspices of the Los Angeles County Woman Suffrage campaign committee $94 was taken in by voluntary contribution at the door and the sum was afterward raised to $110 by the collection taken just before the audience was dismissed. This sum is almost enough to provide for the expenses of Miss Couzins's journey to St. Louis. As the unfortunate lecurer is cripple with rheumatism she is unable to travel alone, and part of the money contributed must be used to pay the expenses of some one appointed to take care of her until she reaches her people.
Is it advisable to teach students to write by position on the typewriter? If so, at what stage of their progress should they begin to write by position?O. F. Hunter.Answer. - Yes. Longley recommends the systematic practise of fingered exercises, looking at the keyboard until the knowledge is "well in mind and well in hand as to what fingers are to be used in striking the several letters of the alphabet." The learner is then advised to begin again with the simplest fingered exercises and review them without looking at the keyboard.
Mrs. Leo Longley gave a dinner party on Saturday night in honor of the seventieth birthday of her mother, Mrs. Adaline Jackson. Among the guests were Mrs. S. Dering of Long Beach, Mrs. M. Lundy of San Gabriel, Mrs. Hinckley of South Pasadena, Mrs. L. M. Garbutt of Los Angeles and Mrs. M. V. Longley of South Pasadena. Several other guests came in to spend the evening.
Mrs. M. V. Longley Passes Away; Lived in South Pasadena 27 Years Mrs. Margaret Vater Longley who for twenty-seven years has been a resident of South Pasadena, died last night at her home, 824 Mission street. She was the widow of the late Elias Longley, the inventor of a new and improved shorthand system, and the author and publisher of a series of texts on the subject. The Longleys were among the earliest inhabitants of South Pasadena, and the death of Mrs. Longley marks the passing of one of the oldest settlers in this section. Mrs. Longley, who was 81 years of ago, was a native of England. She is survived by one son, Leo Longley, 807 Prospect avenue; one sister, Mrs. W. H. Venable of Cincinnati; and two brothers, Thomas J. Vater of Indianapolis and S. J. Vater of La Fayette, Indiana.
Mrs. Longley Dead
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Leo Longley, and interment will be in Mountain View cemetery.
Said to Have Been the First Woman to Make Home in South Pasadena Mrs. Margaret Vater Longley, 81 years old, died yesterday at her home at 824 Mission street, South Pasadena. She was one of the best known women in the city, and was noted for the fact that she was the first woman to settle in South Pasadena. This was twenty-seven years ago.
Mrs. Longley was the widow of Elias Longley, who died in 1889. He was the author of the Longley shorthand system, which is still extensively used. The were pioneer residents of South Pasadena. She is survived by one son, Leo Longley, a resident of South Pasadena; two brothers, Thomas J. Vater, of Indianapolis, Ind.; and S. J. Vater of Lafayette, Ind., and a sister, Mrs. W. H. Vanable of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The funeral will be held from the residence of Leo Longley, 807 Prospect avenue, South Pasadena, at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.
Candidates for Reporter for the Third District Before the Board.
The first session of the examination of candidates for the Third District Court stenographership was held last evening in the court library. There were eight genuine applicants, viz., J. B. Hartford of Arthur Brown's law office, Miss Webb of the land office, Harmel K. Pratt, amanuensis for Prof. Holden; Ex-Editor J. W. Pike of the Salt Lake Democrat, C. L. Maine, Idaho; F. E. McGowan, Michigan; F. E. Barker of the Salt Lake Herald, and Frank Wager of the D. & R. G. express office. W. G. Young of the city started in with the others but withdrew, Frank Langford, stenographer for P. P. Shelby of the Union Pacific, was also on hand, but only for fun. The examination lasted one hour and was for rapidity, the three judges reading out loud at various speeds from United States Supreme Court reports and testimony in a mining suit. Judge Sutherland read hardly over 125 words to the minute, Judge Rosborough 150 to 160, and Judge Harkness began at 160 and ran up to 200 before stopping. The Pittman, Munson and Graham systems were used by the candidates, the Graham men writing without apparent effort, while some of the others wrote as though taking down in abbreviated long hand. After the three readings, Judge Rosborough announced that the next regular examination would be on the following afternoon at 3 o'clock, but those who could not attend then would be examined at 10 a. m. by Judge Harkness. What the nature of to-day's proceedings are to be the examiners declined to state. After to-day's session the candidates will be examined privately; their notes read and compared with the text, and their various capabilities carefully considered. It may be the end of the week before a report can be made.
The candidates for court stenographer have dwindled down one-half, as the note books of only five were finally left yesterday in the hands of the committee. Two candidates, Messrs. Pike and Main, stated yesterday, they had misunderstood the committee's order to leave their note books behind with the examiners Monday night, and had not done so. They were offered a chance to remedy the omission by standing an extra and special test with the most expert of the candidates in taking down a reading at the rate of 240 words per minute. But the offer was not accepted, neither were the two candidates present when the committee were ready for them, late in the afternoon.
Yesterday's work was reading of the notes taken the previous evening of the four readings by the committee, and private examination of candidates as regards hearing, general health, education and other qualifications. The applicants are required now to transcribe six folios of each of the four readings, endorse the same with their names and leave them with the Clerk, Mr. McMillan, by to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. A decision will probably be reached by afternoon. The candidates have dwindled down to Miss Webb and Messrs. Wager, Pratt, Barker and McGorran. The readings of Monday night, tabulated, are:
First - 500 words, read in 4 minutes 3 seconds; average 121½ per minute.
Second - 2225 words, read in 15 minutes; average 148½ per minute.
Third - 750 words, read in 4½ minutes, average 166⅔ per minute.
Fouth - 750 words, read in 3½ minutes, average 214 2-7 per minute.
Frank E. McGurrin Receives the Recommendation of the Committee.
The Committee appointed to examine candidates for the position of court stenographer settled on their choice yesterday, after reading the transcripts without any difficulty, and reported as follows:
To the Hon. S. S. Zane, Judge District Court, Third Judicial District.--The undersigned Committee appointed by your Honor to examine the qualifications and fitness of applicants for the position of phonographic reporter of your court, respectfully report that we have made careful tests of the proficiency in behalf of all applicants who have attended at the meetings of the Committee. As the result of our examination, considering all the test, but without disparagement of others, we designate Frank E. McGurrin as a suitable person for such appointment.
Respectfully submitted, September 9, 1886.J. B. Roseborough, Robt. Harkness, J. G. Sutherland.Judge Zane accepted the appointment, congratulating the young man on his success, and he was put right to work reporting the arguments on the bond of injunction in the Beck mining case. Mr. McGurrin, the successful candidate, has for several years reported in the Michigan Circuit Courts, and has been highly commended there because of his proficiency. He claims to be the first typewriter in the country, the only man who can apporoach him being a Louisville, Kentucky, operator. In fact Mr. McGurrin is willing to put up $500 that no one can beat him. In using the writer he keps his eyes on the copy, knowing by intuition where to put his fingers. His speed limit is put at 100 words per minute on the type writer which is faster than sone can write in shorthand.
Court Stenographer F. E. McGurrin leaves this morning for a three months' vacation in the East. He goes direct from here to his home at Grand Rapids, Mich., for a visit with his relatives, and in August he will be in Rochester, N. Y., to participate in the contest for stenographic speed, in which will be entered expert stenographers from the United States and Canada. Mr. McGurrin then goes to New York City by special invitation, where he will make the typewriting fraternity there feel like to king around for a final resting place by his unparalleled speed on the machine. Men who can transcribe down their shorthand notes on the typewriter without looking at the keys and as rapidly as an expert pianist can meander his fingers over the cadenzas in one of S. R. Mills's capricios, don't grow on every bush. And in the mere master of shorthand, it is doubtful if the wonderful secretary of Governor Lee of Virginia can surpass the Salt Lake stenographer. Mr. McGurrin took down the proceedings in the recent Austin-Tribune libel suit, and copied, between 7:15 p. m. and 12 midnight on the last day, from shorthand notes for publication, 200 folios of counsel's argument, there being 100 words to the folio; that is, 20,000 words. It is safe to say this record has never been even approximated anywhere, and that Mr. McGurrin easily stands the first stenographer and typewriter in the country.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 13, 1887.Editor the Typewriter Operator.
In view of the large number of typewriter operators now in the country, the various kinds of typewriters in use, and the conflicting statements as to what speed can be and has been attained by different operators, and on different machines, it seems to me the question of speed on typewriters should, if possible, be determined in some way. To this end, therefore, I desire to make, through your valuable paper, the official organ of typewriting, the following announcement:-
I hereby challenge any one or more typewriter operators to a speed contest in typewriting, for a purse of not less than five hundred dollars, which shall be contributed pro rata by those competing, proper provision as to forfeits being made; to take place in the city of Chicago, or any city in the United States west of Chicago, at any time during the months of July or August, 1888; provided, that, so far as I am concerned, if it take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, the purse need not exceed fifty dollars, and the contest may take place at any time; the writing to consist of copying, for not less than two hours, of ordinary court proceedings, new to the operators; the writing to be done in full English longhand, on any machine having both capitals and small letters; and the contest to be decided by three competent and disinterested judges.
Any suggestions will be thankfully received.F. E. McGurrin.
Salt Lake City, Feb. 24, 1888.Gentlemen, - Your challenge in The Typewriter Operator being slightly different from mine, I suggest that we combine the two, and thus have a fair test for the best all-round operator, as follows:-
A contest for the purse you mention, each operator to choose his own machine (provided that it write both capitals and small letters), the writing to be, say thirty minutes from dictation, and thirty minutes copying; the matter written to be entirely new to the operators, and the person dictating to be a stranger to both.
On receiving notice from you that you accept this, I will deposit one hundred dollars or more with Wyckoff, Seamans, & Benedict as a forfeit; you to deposit a like amount. We can then arrange upon a suitable time and place for holding the contest, as well as judges and other details.Very respectfully,To Messrs. Snyder & McLeod.
Frank E. McGurrin.
Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, challenges the world to a special test on the typewriter, and especially challenges Snyder and McLeod (through the Typewriter Operator of February, just out,) as follows:A contest for the purse you mention, each operator to choose his own machine (provided it write both capitals and small letters) the writing to be, say thirty minutes from dictation, and thirty minutes copying; the matter written to be entirely new to the operators, and the person dictating to be a stranger to both.Cannot some of the many expert typewriter users, readers of the Shorthander, accomodate Mr. McGurrin? Come, let's have a real live typewriter contest!
On receiving notice from you that you accept this, I will deposit one hundred dollers or more with Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedit as a forfeit; you to deposit a like amount. We can then arrange upon a suitable time and place for holding the contest, as well as the judges and other details.
Contest for a Prize of $500 - The Remington Operator Wins the Battle. Two young men sat yesterday morning before two white-keyed writing machines in a cool, breezy room way up in the Palace Hotel Building. The young men's fingers flew over the white-keyed instruments with the rapidity of a Hans Bulow improvising a staceato composition. The clicking of the two machines made a metallic chorus, the tinking bell on each machine doing a solo before a line was finished. The rooms were crowded with stenographers, typewriter operators and reporters. For a long time there has been an intense rivalry between the expert operators who work upon the two standard types of writing machines, the Remington and the Caligraph. The rivalry culminated last fall in a challenge issued by Mr. F. E. McGurrin, a marvelously rapid operator on the Remington machine, to any typewriter operator in the world.
Mr. McGurrin is a celebrated stenographer from the breezy West, hoding an official position in the Salt Lake City Courts. Mr. Traub accepted the challenge, and the stakes, $500, were promptly posted. Yesterday morning the two young men met to fight their battle in a room in the Bradford Building. Mr. McGurrin operated a Remington machine, a brand new instrument, with glistening mountings that worked with the rapidity and precision of a chronograph. Mr. Traub worked on a caligraph. Both young men removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony.
Dictation was the first test. At the word go, the young men started and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutes each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin in copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of blind Tom at a piano. Mr. Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words, his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the caligraph Mr. Traub wrote in the ninety minutes allotted, 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words.
Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges, Messrs. Dean, Cook and Perin, stenographic Court reporters, awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin.
It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long-disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter.
Mr. McGurrin will give an exhibition this morning at 11 o'clock in the Palace Hotel Building Room 21, writing blindfolded on the Remington from dictation.
The First Professional Contest on Record. The first professional type-writing match that has ever taken place in this country occurred at Graham's Cincinnati Phonographic Academy in the Bradford Block yesterday morning. The contestants were Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who is the official stenographer of the Federal Court there, and Louis Traub, of this city, who is considered the most expert caligraph operator in this locality. The question as to the speed which could be attained in type-writing has never been fully decided until yesterday, and type-writers all over the country are interested in the result of this contest. The mach was for a purse of $500, one-half of which was put up by each contestant. The conditions of the match were that the whole time to be occupied in writing was an hour and a half, forty-five minutes of which was devoted to writing from dictation and forty-five minutes to writing from copy read by the operator.F. E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Beats Louis Traub, of This City.
The Winner Writes Nearly Nine Thousand Words in One Hour and a Half.
It was forced that the matter to be written should be the ordinary Court proceedings, selected by the Judges and new to both operators. TheJUDGES CHOSEN TO DECIDE THE RESULT Of the contest were Norman F. Dean, Edwin M. Williams and Buchanah Perin, well-known Cincinnati stenographers and type-writers. The struggle began at ten minutes of ten o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. McGurrin won the choice and chose dictation first, while Mr. Traub, who was in a separate room, wrote from copy. The Judges also acted as time-keepers. Mr. McGurrin used a Remington machine, while Mr. Traub operated the caligraph. It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. It was evident that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and he was to that extent placed at a disadvantage.
Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvelous speed and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested fourteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. The men finished at twenty minutes of twelve. At the end Mr. McGurrin had written from dication 4,294 words; or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 83.26 per minute; from copying 3,191 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.AN ANALYSIS OF M'GURRIN'S WORK Shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin a wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of The Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving but a letter, character, space or capital; striking a letter or character oftener than necessary. Mr. F. E. McGurrin, the winner of the contest is probably the fastest type-writer in the United States. He is twenty-seven years of age, and a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. He began type-writing about eleven years ago and is also an expert stenographer. His next trial of skill will be at a contest under the auspices of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association at New York City, the 1st of next month. He is also entered for the International Type-writing Tournament at Toronto, Can., on August 13th next. Mr. Louis Traub, who made such a credited his showing has only been in the United States five years, and when he came here did not understand a word of English. He has not only mastered the language, but he has already attained distinction as a stenographer and type-writer. It is probable that no man in the West except. McGurrin can beat him in a contest similar to that of yesterday.
Mr. McGurrin will give an exhibition this morning for the benefit of the type-writers of the city, at ten o'clock, in Room 21 Bradford Block.
Cincinnati, July 26. - At the time match contest of speed in the use of the type writer, made here yesterday between Frank E. McGurrin, of New York, and Louis Traub, of this city, the time occupied was one hour and thirty minutes, in which, the report of the judge says: McGurrin scored 8,709 words, Traub 6,987 words, half from dictation and half from manuscript.
Cincinnati, July 27. - The first professional type-writing contest in this country, at Graham's Phonographic academy, between Louis Traub, of this city, and Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, resulted in a victory for the visitor. The match was for $500. At the end of the contest, which lasted one hour and a half, McGurrin had written from dictaion 4,294 words, or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.
A Contest at Cincinnati in Which a Utah Reporter is the Victor. Mr. Frank E. McGurrin, the stenographic reporter of the third district court has returned from Cincinnati, whether he had gone to compete in a typewriting contest. He wrote over 8,700 words in 90 minutes while his opponent, a Mr. Louis Traub, barely reached 6,700. The writing was half from manuscript and half from dictation. Mr. McGurrin returns with honors and $500 in his pocket.
Mr. Frank E. McGurrin, the stenographic reporter of the Third District Court, has returned from Cincinnati, whether he had gone to compete in a typewriting contest. He wrote over 8,700 words in ninety minutes while his opponent, a Mr. Louis Traub, barely reached 6,700. The writing was half from manuscript and half from dictation. Mr. McGurrin returns with honors and $500 in his pocket.
The following Associated Press dispatch from Cincinnati, received today, is of some local interest:
"A typewriting contest took place here yesterday, between Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake, and Louis Traub, of Cincinnati. The time occupied was one hour and thirty minutes, in which the report of the judges says McGurrin scored 8700 words and Traub 6938 words, half from dictation and half from manuscript."
We understand the premium for which the contestants competed was $500. Mr. McGurrin, who is official reporter for the Third District Court of Utah, scored an average of 97 words a minute. This is marvelous speed, although he is reputed to have run as high as 108 in this Territory. He is said to be the lastest typewriter in the world, although that has probably not been thoroughly proved. The way he left Louis Traub, another expert, in the rear, would, however, bear out such an assumption. He is also a rapid shorthand writer.
A speed contest for typewriters, open to all operators using any machine having upper and lower case, under the auspices of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association, was held last night at the rooms of the association, 208 West Twenty-first-street. Of many operators who had entered only four contestants - two ladies and two gentlemen - appeared. The matter written was dictated by a reader selected by the association. The time allowed to each writer was five consecutive minutes, deductions being made for errors.
The first prize of $25 was won by F. E. McGurrin, who wrote 479 words, Miss May S. Orr following with 476 words, and Miss M. C. Grant with 469 words. At the conclusion of the contest Mr. McGurrin gave an exhibition of writing blindfolded, making the extraordinary record of 101 words to the minute.
To the American Writing Machine Co., Hartford, Conn.:
I have traveled over 2,500 miles, from Salt Lake City, for the purpose of meeting in an open contest the expert caligraph operators on behalf of whom you have issued challenges. For this purpose I entered the tournament arranged by the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association of this city, due notice of which was sent to you thirty days in advance. The test occured last evening, but your machine was not represented. Your New York agent states as your excuse that all your experts are "absent from the city on vacation." In order to bring this much-disputed question to an issue, I am willing to pay travelling expenses to New York and return of any such operator who will compete with me in this city and equal on the caligraph machine my speed on the Remington. If desired I will stake any amount from $100 to $500 on result. The matter to be written may be selected by my competitor from the proceedings of any case tried in the New York courts during 1887, the test to occupy half an hour or upward. I shall remain in New York thirty days to give any operator so desiring an opportunity to compete. Frank E. M'Gurrin.Official Stenographer, Salt Lake CIty, Utah.New York address, Astor House.
Miss Orr Secures the Gold Medal at the Canadian Shorthand Convention. Toronto, Aug. 13. - The seventh Annual convention of the Canadian Shorthand Society met here to-day. An interesting feature of the convention was the type-writing contest. Commercial correspondence and legal evidence were read to the operators and five minutes were given to each. The first contestants who were called, were Miss Orr, Miss McManus, of New York, and F. E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City. Miss Orr won the gold medal. Her skill in manipulating the machine was marvelous. McGurrin, whose handling of the instrument was masterly secured the silver medal. Out of a possible five thousand points, Miss Orr made 4,035, and McGurrin 1,756.
The following, received just as we go to press, rather strongly suggests the possibility of an added interest at Caldwell, Lake George, this month, in a line not before anticipated in connection with the N. Y. S. S. A. meeting, and may make the session one of unusual interest to typewriter operators, as well as to stenographers:Phonographic World - I am informed that Mr. Isaac S. Dement, the shorthand claimant of Chicago, asserts that he is also the fastest typewriter operator in the world. I dispute his claim to this distinction, and respectfully challenge him to a typewriting contest, to take place at the forthcoming meeting of the New York State Stenographers' Assocation, for such stake as he may desire.Frank E. McGurrin,
Official Reporter, District Court, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Cincinnati, O., July 24, 1888.
A grand typewriting contest, which has already been made the subject of hundreds of telegrams and communications to every newspaper in the country, took place at Cincinnati on the 25th last month, between two very expert operators, one using the Remington Typewriter and the other using the Caligraph. The test was the result of many challenges and counter-challenges which have been made in various publications of late, between Frank E. McGurrin, Official Stenographer of the District Court at Salt Lake City, Utah, operating the Remington - and Louis Traub, Principal of the Typewriting Department of Longley's Shorthand Institute at Cincinnati (now and for some time past conducted by Messrs. Jack & Traub), who is an expert operator of, and for some time past has been agent for, the Caligraph. The matter culminated finally in a contest being arranged for Cincinnati, July 25th, for a purse of $500 ($250 being furnished by each contestant), before a committee of three judges consisting of N. F. Dean (Secretary of the Ohio State Stenographers' Association), E. M. Williams, and Buchanan Perin, all well known and competent Cincinnati stenographers and typewriter operators. The room selected for the contest was the office of the Caligraph agent and contestant, Mr. Traub, the contest beginning at ten minutes to ten o'clock, A. M., continuing until twenty-five minutes to twelve (allowing fifteen minutes rest in the meantime), and being solid work of just one and one-half hours at the machines. The time was divided into two separate tests as follows: 1st, forty-five minutes to writing from dictation; fifteen minutes rest; 2d, forty-five minutes to writing from copy, the operator reading as he wrote. The matter written was a selection from ordinary court testimony, selected by the judges, and new to both operators. In an extended report of the proceedings, the Cincinnati Enquirer says:"It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. It was evident that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and he was to that extent placed at a disadvantage. Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvelous speed, and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested fourteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. The men finished at twenty minutes of twelve. At the end Mr. McGurrin had written from dication 4,294 words; or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 83.26 per minute; from copying 3,191 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette described the contest in a lengthy article, from which we clip the following description:
An analysis of McGurrin's work shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin a wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of the Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving but a letter, character, space or capital: striking a letter or character oftener than necessary."Both young men removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony. Dictation was the first test. At the word go, the young men started and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutes each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of Blind Tom at a piano. Mr. Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the caligraph Mr. Traub wrote in the ninety minutes allotted, 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words. Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin. It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long-disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter."Messrs. Jack & Traub have since abondoned the agency for the caligraph at Cincinnati, have placed all Remington machines in their school, and write the World, under date of July 28, that in the future they will use and advocate only the Remington.
Chicago, Sept. 5 - [Chronicle dispatch - Special to Triumph] - Frank E. McGurrin of Salt Lake gave an exhibition of his skill and speed on the typewriter at the Methodist Church block yesterday. Mr McGurrin made a record of 108 4-5 words a minute from dictation besting all previous records. He was requested to show the Chicago typewriters what he could do and he astonished his audience by the rapidity and precision with which his fingers struck the keys. When blindfolded he wrote 107 words in a minute.
Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, gave an exhibition of his skill and speed on the type-writer, at the Methodist Church block, Chicago, a few days ago. Mr. McGurrin has made a record of 108 3-5 words a minute from dictation, beating all previous records. He was requested to show Chicago type-writers what he could, and he astonished his audience by the rapidity and precision with which his fingers struck the keys. When blindfolded he wrote 107 words in a minute.
F. E. McGurrin, Esq., official reporter of the Third District Court, was at his post today. Of one of his exploits as the champion manipulator of the typewriter, while on his recent visit east, the Chicago Herald says:
Mr. F. E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, feeling that his record at the Toronto tournament (on which occasion he was defeated by Miss Orr, of New York - also a "Remington" operator) did not do him justice, attended the convention of the New York Stenographers' Association, at Lake George, August 23, 1888, for the purpose of writing against time, and succeeded in breaking all previous records on matter entirely new to the operator.
The following is a copy of the committee's report:Lake George, N. Y., Aug. 23.We, the undersigned, having been requested to act as a committee on a speed test on typewriting by Frak McGurrin, do hereby report as follows:
Said McGurrin wrote on a Remington No. 2 typewriter at the Fort George Hotel, at the above named place and date, in the presence of upwards of fifty persons, including several leading stenographers of the country, he being timed by us, and in such writing he reached the following result:
Writing blindfolded from dictation, 109 words in one minute gross, 107 net.
The matter so written was taken from ordinary court proceedings, new to to the operator.(Signed) Wm. A. Woodworth, (Teacher Shorthand and Typewriting), Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
G. F. Hitchcock, Jr., (Official Stenographer), Minneapolis, Minn.
Edmund Daniel, (Official Stenographer), Detroit, Mich.
THE FIVE-HUNDRED-DOLLAR TYPEWRITER TEST HAS TAKEN PLACE, AND THE REMINGTON IS VICTORIOUS. 97 WORDS A MINUTE. THE FASTEST TIME ON RECORD.Through the medium of the Cosmopolitan Shorthander, the typewriter contest, between McGurrin and Traub was arranged and brought to an issue at Cincinnati, on the 25th of July. The contestants, as our readers are probably aware, were Frank E. McGurrin, official stenographer of the District Court of Salt Lake City, for the Remington typewriter, and Louis Traub, principal of the typewriting department of Longley's Shorthand Institute, Cincinnati, for the Caligraph. The contest was for five hundred dollars, and took place in the office of Mr. Traub (who, at the time was the agent in Cincinnati for the Caligraph), before a committee of three judges, namely, N. F. Dean, secretary of the Ohio State Stenographers' Association, E. M. Williams, and Buchanan Pernin, well known stenographers of Cincinnati.
The contest began at 9.50 a.m. and ended at 11.35. Two separate tests were given, the first being 45 minutes' writing from dictation of matter selected by the judges (ordinary law testimony), and new to both operators. After 15 minutes rest the second trial was made, writing from copy. In the dictation test, Mr. McGurrin wrote 4,294 words, or an average of something more than 95½ words a minute, for the 45 minutes, Mr. Traub wrote, at this test, 3,747 words, or an average of something more than 83¼ words a minute for the 45 minites. In the copying test, occupying also 45 minutes, Mr. McGurrin wrote 4,415 words, making the unprecedented record of 98.11 words a minute. Mr. Traub wrote in the same time 3,191 words, or 70.91 words a minute. Mr. McGurrin beat Mr. Traub's average time on both test, 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.
"It was evident," says the Cincinnati Enquirer, "that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and that he was to that extent placed at a disadvange." Mr. Traub evidently thinks so too, for he at once abandoned the agency of the Caligraph, and has supplanted the Caligraphs in his school by Remington typewriters.
The same paper says: "It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvellous speed, and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested forteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. An analysis of McGurrin's work shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin's wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of the Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving out a letter, character, space or capital: striking a letter or character oftener than necessary."
The Cincinatti Comercial Gazette says: "Both young man removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony. Dictation was the first test. At the word go the young men started, and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutee each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of Blind Tom at a piano. Mr Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words, his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the Caligraph Mr. Traub in the ninety minutes allotted wrote 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words, Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted, Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work, it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin. It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter."
Thus the disputed question as to which is the faster machine, the Remington or the Caligraph, is settled, by a fair and conclusive test. The operators are probably the most expert of their respective machines. The challenge issued by Mr. Traub was open to all writing machine operators, and was meant to be "for blood", and to fairly test the mooted question of superiority of typewriting machines. The fact that Mr. Traub could have operated faster had the Caligraph been able to respond to a quicker touch, proves beyond a doubt that Mr. Traub can and did reach the full speed capacity of the machine; and if it were possible to produce a faster operator on the Caligraph, it would be useless for test purposes, for Mr. Traub can reach the speed limit of the Caligraph. It only remains now for Remington experts to beat the record of Mr. McGurrin, if they can. We confess that the record made by both machines is far better than we anticipated could be made by either machine. Think of it; 97 words a minute, 7½ strokes a second, kept up for an hour and a half! We had not supposed it possible for either machine to respond to such fingering, and still more impossible to find an operator able to sustain that speed for so long a time.
We thought that the speed of the two machines was about equal, the Remington having, perhaps, a slight advantage from its keys being more compact, requiring less territory to be covered in fingering: but we were not prepared to find the Remington one quarter faster than the Caligraph (and perhaps more, for the limit has not been reached); yet this is what the record proves.
The first of a series of three typewriting tournaments, and the first typewriting match of a purely professional character which has ever taken place in this country, took place July 25, in Cincinnati, O. Frank E. McGurrin, official stenographer of the Federal Court, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Louis Traub, an expert Caligraph operator of Cincinnati, were the contestants. The purse of five hundred dollars was won by Mr. McGurrin, who used the Remington machine. Both men did notable work; and, though beaten in the contest, Mr. Traub can probably surpass any operator in the West, excepting Mr. McGurrin.
The second contest was held in New-York City, Aug. 1, under the auspices of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association. The interest excited by the report of the Cincinnati trial called together the most prominent of New York's typewriter operators. Mr. McGurrin was hard pressed in the struggle by the rapid work of Miss Mae E. Orr of New-York City. The result showed a very close margin in favor of Mr. McGurrin; his record being ninety-five and four-fifths words per minute, while Miss Orr's was ninety-five and one-fifth words per minute. It was hoped that this contest would be between the three machines, the Remington, the Caligraph, and the Hammond; but, when the hour arrived for the trial the operators of the Remington held the field alone. This test was a hard one, as many of the words were long and difficult.
It is particularly valuable to have these open contests begun so favorably, for it will undoubtedly lead to certain progress in typewriting that would hardly be reached without the incentive of these contests. While the various manufacturers may use certain incidents to advance the claims of their machines, the operators at large are interested in what it is possible to attain under certain conditions.
The international writing-machine speed contest for the championship of the world was held under the auspices of the Canadian Shorthand Society, in the Convocation Hall, education department, Toronto, Aug. 13, 1888. The report of the speed committee was as follows :-"Ten operators (five of whom used the Caligraph, and five the Remington) took part in the contest. Their names and addresses, with character of work done, are given below.
"Before the contest took place, the audience was challenged by the committee to question any of their actions, or to state that the contest was arranged in the interest of any machine.
"The contestants drew lots for positions, and wrote in groups of three. After drawing for positions, the operators were excluded, and not allowed to enter the room where the contest took place until their turn came; and after writing they had to remain until the close of the contest. During the time of writing, no person was allowed to enter, leave, or move about the room, or take shorthand notes.
"Each class of work was written for five minutes. Three copies of all work were manifolded; and before the paper was put into the machine it was stamped with the seal of the society, and signed by the operator and his or her reader.
"The matter in the law evidence and commercial letter was entirely new to the operators, and was fair average copy.
"The operators were allowed but a single trial, and were given about half a minute to look at the matter. At the word `Go' each group started, and finished simultaneously at the word `Stop.'
"At the conclusion of each test, the three copies manifolded, with the copy read from, which also bore the reader's and operator's signature, were pinned together, and immediately handed to the committee.
"All the work was examined by the committee with closed doors, and no person saw or had an opportunity of seeing the work up to the time of making the final award.
"On general writing - law evidence and commecial matter - Miss Mae E. Orr won the gold medal for the championship of the world. Mr. F. E. McGurrin won the silver medal in the same class.
"On the memorized sentence, `This is a song to fill thee with delight,' Mr. T. W. Osborne won the silver medal. This sentence was published for about two months, and was written just as it appears above.
"The prizes won, points made in each class of work, and words per minute are given in order of merit in each class below :-
GENERAL MATTER. Explanation. - After an operator's name [R] indicates Remington; [C] Caligraph; (a) Commercial Letter; (b) Law Evidence.
1. Miss Mae E. Orr, [R], (a) 2,451; (b) 2,484; total, 4,935 points = 98.7 words per minute. Prize, gold medal; value, $50.00.
2. F. E. McGurrin, [R], (a) 2,401; (b) 2,355.5; total, 4,756.5 points = 95.11 words per minute. Prize, silver medal; value, $20.00.
3. T. W. Osborne, [C], (a) 2,320; (b) 2,357; total, 4,677 points = 93.5 words per minute. Prize, $15.00.
4. Miss M. C. Grant, [R], (a) 2,219; (b) 2,242.5; total, 4,461.5 points = 89.22 words per minute. Prize, $13.00.
5. G. A. McBride, [C], (a) 2,141; (b) 2,173.5; total, 4,314.5 points = 86.29 words per minute. Prize, $12.00.
6. Miss Mamie G. McMannus, [C], (a) 2,091; (b) 2,098.5; total, 4,189.5 points = 83.79 words per minute. Prize, $10,00.
7. Mrs. A. J. Henderson, [C], (a) 1,907; (b) 2,071.5; total, 3,978.5 points = 79.57 words per minute. Prize, $8.00.
8. Miss Maud Berry, [R], (a) 1,908; (b) 2,018; total, 3,926 points = 78.52 words per minute. Prize, $7.00.
9. T. M. Snyder, [R], (a) 1,673; (b) 1,771.5; total, 3,444.5 points = 68.89 words per minute. Prize, $5.00.
10. A. J. Nicholas. No report.1
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1 Mr. Nicholas arrived late, and, as the matter was not written in accordance with the rules, a satisfactory report could not be given.
MEMORIZED SENTENCE. "The total number of words written in five minutes by each competitor, and the number of words per minute, are given below :-
Gross No. of Words. Net No. of Words. Words per Minute. 1. T. W. Osborne, Rochester, N. Y. 646 630.7 126.14 2. F. E. McGurrin, Salt Lake City, Utah, 637.9 613.3 122.66 3. Mrs. A. J. Henderson, Toronto, Ont., 621 606.3 121.26 4. Miss Mae E. Orr, New-York City 579.1 575 115 5. Miss M. C. Grant, New-York City 558 555.2 111.04 6. Miss Maud Berry, Toronto, Ont. 550.1 527.9 105.58 7. G. A. McBride, Ottawa, Ont. 547 524.7 102.54 8. Miss M. G. McMannus, New-York City, 522 517.6 103.52 9. Tom M. Snyder, Pottsville, Penn. 513 490 98 10. A. J. Nicholas, Youngstown, O. 522 483 96.6
MANIFOLDING. "In this contest, by mutual consent, the Remington and Caligraph were each represented by two operators, selected by the agents of the respective machines. Fifteen copies were made on linen paper, No. B 2, with semi-carbon. Both the Remington operators did their work without a ribbon, while those using the Caligraph kept the ribbon on. The first place was given to Mrs. A. J. Henderson (Caligraph), the second to Mr. McClain (Remington), the third to Mr. Osborne (Caligraph), and the fourth to Mr. McGurrin (Remington). All the work was of a most creditable character. Messrs. John Underwood & Co. donated all the linen paper and carbon which was used in the contest.
Thomas Pinkney, President, N. Stewart Dunlop, Secretary, C. E. Stanbury, W. W. Perry, Thomas McGillicuddy, Committee."
There were quite a large attendance of telegraphers, typewriters and others at the rooms of T. W. Clayton, Esq. in the Deseret National Bank building at Salt Lake City, Saturday evening, to witness and engage in a contest for the champion cup of the Territory, to be awarded the most expert manipulator of the typewriter's keys. The conditions were that each competitor should write five minutes on correspondence. The only contestants who came forward were Mrs. L. S. Hewett and Mr. W. G. Miller. Mrs. Hewett, who first took her seat before the instrument, wrote four hundred and eight words in five minutes, average eighty-one and three-fifth words per minute, on correspondence. This, of course, was after deducting words for errors. Mr. Miller's score was not taken, probably because he was so far behind his layd competitor.
Afterwards Mr. Frank E. McGurrin, the official reporter of the district court, and the acknowledge chief of typewriters in the country, gave an exhibition of his skill, He was blindfolded and wrote from dictation one hundred and five words in a minute without a single error. This is a little behind his usual record, but it was attributed to the faulty working of the machine, with which he was not familiar.
Mr. McGurrin then presented Mrs. Hewett with the trophy she so bravely won, and stated that her performance would be referred with pride to her eastern friends, as there were but four ladies in the great contest at Toronto who surpassed the score she had made. The lady herself stated that she would be pleased to meet and would do her best to maintain the cup against competitors in the future.
The rooms were filled and the utmost interest was manifested in the exhibition. Mr. McGurrin has in contemplation the formation of a class in shorthand, pupils to have the privilege of learning to use the typewriter. He writes the Graham system and is unquestionably one of the greatest exponents of the art in the world.
In the type-writing contest at T. W. Clayton's rooms in the Deseret National Bank building, only two competitors appeared, the others, for some unexplained reason, failing to present themselves. Mrs. L. S. Hewett was the first to make the test, and succeeded in writing 408 words in five minutes, on legal work and 400 wrods in five minutes on correspondence. This was an average of 81 3-5 and 80 words per minute - too rapid for the other contestant, Mr. W. G. Miller - and the silver cup was awarded to Mrs. Hewett. The lady stated that she was willing to meet all other competitors in a contest for the prize on a future occasion. Her record is highly creditable, and was exceeded but by four ladies in the great contest recently held at Toronto.
Mr. McGurrin also gave an exhibition of his remarkable skill, and being blindfolded he wrote 105 words per minute.
The work was all done on a Remington type-writer No.2, no others venturing to put in an appearance.
Operating the typewriter without looking at the keyboard is not a simply ornamental accomplishment, but one exceedingly useful to all operators, and especially so to those having copying to do. A stenographer having this faculty, can copy his own notes as fast and as easily as he can dictate them to another operator, and thus save the trouble, delay and expense of securing operators to take dictation. To the copyist, four hours out of every eight are saved, the work rendered pleasant and easy, the eyesight, which would be severely taxed by changing from keyboard to manuscript is badly written (of course shorthand notes nver are), the eye can run ahead and unravel all knotty places, and have them ready for the fingers when reached. This is also the case when the stenographer has to edit the work to make it grammatical, and who was the speaker who was not constantly making mistakes in grammar?
To acquire this faculty is not difficult, and the operator will be paid a much higher price for time spent in acquiring it than could be obtained in any other way. Supposing it took an hour a day for six months to acquire it; if for the next six months the operator had two hours work to do per day, he would in that time have made up all the time spent in acquring it, and have his accomplishment as clear profit. Then as the months and years went on, the operator would find that the time spent in acquiring thsi aculty was the most remunerative in his or her experience.
The fingering is the most important requisite for learning to operate without looking at the keyboard. All the fingers should be used, thus practically covering the entire keyboard. (The Remington machine is referred to, as ti is impossible to acquire this faculty on any other double case writing machine now in use.) Ths shift-key should be depressed with the fourth finger, and the space bar struck with the thumb of the right hand. One finger thus locates the position of the next key, which would not be possible if the hand had to be raised and carried over a number of keys. One finger of each hand should be left to rest always on some one key, and from this the other fingers will readily find any key desired.
The same word should always be fingered in exactly the same manner, and thus the fingers will soon find the keys almost mechanically.
The first thing to be done is to commit the keyboard to memory, so as to have a map of it in the mind. Then take a short sentence, and practive it until familiar, and gradually become capable of writing it without looking at the letters. After this can be so written, add another sentence, and so continue until a paragraph of six or eight lines can be written without looking. Then every day, before beginning other work, write this paragraph over at least once, without looking at the keyboard, and this valuable knack will soon be acquired. In practical work meantime, it should be practiced wherever possible, and the operator will soon find himself or herself doing all work in that way.
The outside row of keys on each side can readily be struck correctly without looking, and these should invariably be so struck from the first. The next row is easy to acquire, and the main work will be in acquiring the three inside rows for each hand. Of course it should be done slowly at first, and absolute accuracy made the first requisite.
The ability ot operate without looking at the keyboard possesses so many advantages, in saving of time, labor and expense, and in lessening the liability to make errors, and is so comparatively easy of attainment, that in the near future the operators who can do it will be the rule and not the exception.F. E. McGurrinSalt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 24, 1888.
Cincinnati, July 25, '88. Writing legal testimony for ninety minutes, average, 97 words.New York, August 2, '88. Writing for five minutes, average, 95.4 words.
Latest and best performance at speed test, 575 words (unfamiliar) in 5 minutes. 125 words (blindfolded) in 1 minute.
Chicago, Ill., September 5, 1888. We, the undersigned, having been requested to set as a committee at a public speed test in typewriting, by Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, hereby report as follows: Said Test occurred at the City of Chicago, Ill., in the First M. E. Church building, corner of Washington and Clark Streets, on the 5th day of September, 1888, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of about seventy-five persons, including leading stenographers and typewriter operators. The dictation was by Mr. Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago. The matter written was from ordinary court proceedings new to the operator. Said McGurrin was timed by each of us. In five consecutive minutes said McGurrin wrote Five Hundred and Eighty-three words, gross; after deducting errors, there remained five hundred and seventy-five words, a net average of one hundred and fifteen words per minute. In one minute, writing blindfolded, said Mr. McGurrin wrote one hundred and twenty-five words, in which there were three errors.
(Signed), O. S. BAYLESS, (Principal of Bayless Business College, Dubuque, Iowa). FRANK W. GANSE, (Attorney at Law, Chicago, Ill.). J. G. GROSS, Chairman.
The above is correct, (Signed), Isaac S. Dement.
Boston, Jan. 8. - The typewriter contest under the auspices of the Hibbart Business College, who offered a purse of $150 to the winner, was held this evening. The contest was open to any writing machine. All the prizes were won by Remington operators. Frank McGurrin of Salt Lake City winning the first prize of $100 and Miss Meineke of New-York City the second of $50.
Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, the acknowledged champion expert on the typewriter who has been giving exhibitions in the Eastern cities, and who can write under certain conditions as many as 161 words per minute, was interviewed in St. Louis on Thursday en route home. Mr McGurrin won the first place by his performance in Boston of seventy-six words to the minute, convering an hour's time. His copy was almost faultless. A young lady, Miss Meinecke, was second in the contest. She wrote seventy-two words per minute during the time the contest lasted. Mr. McGurrin says he averages nearly ninety words to the minute when he is copying from his own shorthand notes. To his interiewer he went on to say:
"I began to use the type writer about ten years ago," he said, "and I attribute all my proficiency to constant attention to my work and to hard practice. I found that by becoming thoroughly acquanted with the location of every letter on the keyboard I could write as rapidly without looking at the keyboard at all as I could by using the usual method. In fact I found that I could write much more rapidly. By this method the time required to glance at the copy and then at the machine and then back at the copy was so much time saved. Instead of having to stop to see the next word to be transcribed, I simply read on continuously and kept my fingers in motion all the time. Thus, you see, there was absolutely no time lost in the performance. This knack can be easily acquired by a little practice, and there is no reason in the world why all type-writers and stenographers should not be able to do it, if not as well as I can, at least nearly as well." "You use the fingers only, Mr. McGurrin, and not the wrists!" was asked. "Yes, exactly. I completely cover the keyboard with my hands, and do not move my hand proper at all. When I strike the first letter of the word I keep that finger at rest on the key for the purpose of more easily locating the other letters to be used in the word." "Do you use the fingers and thums of both hands?" "No. I never use the thumb of the left hand, for the simple reason that there is no use to which it can be put. I use the thumb of the right hand to strike the spaces and the four fingers of the right and the left hands to strike the letters. Thus I save all waste of time, and it is to these methods and constant practice that I attribute all my success."
"After a careful study of the subject, the writer adopted the following system of fingering; and, for the reasons hereinafter stated, believes it to be the best:
Use all the fingers of each hand, and the right thumb for spacing.
Apportion the keys to the respective fingers as follows:There being ten diagonal rows of keys, five for each hand, and only four fingers, the duty of taking care of the extra row is placed upon the first and second fingers of each hand, they being the best fingers for use ordinarily, and consequently the fourth diagonal row from the outside is to be taken care of by those two fingers in common, the one being selected which is most convenient in the particular word to be written.
LEFT HAND. RIGHT HAND. 4th, 3d, 2d, 2d, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2d, 2d, 3d, 4th, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l ; z x c v b n m , .
The principal exceptions to the above rule are two: First, where it would require two successive keys to be struck by the same finger; in which case the next most convenient finger is to be used. Second, where it would necessitate turning the hand outward, i. e., so that the thumb would be brought upward overthe keys, instead of downward in front of the machine.
Appended is a short list of words, showing the system in its practical application.
The principal advantages of this system of fingering over the one-finger system are: First, by distributing the labor among eight fingers, there is less fatigue to each finger. Second, each finger, having but one-fourth of the labor to perform, sooner acquires the faculty of doing the work mechanically, thus producing greater speed with less mental labor or liability to error. Third, it enables the operator to run the machine without looking at the key-board.
As to whether this system of fingering permits of higher speed than the one-finger system, would seem to be questionable in view of the contests during the past summer, in which the two systems were brought into direct competition. The writer believes that Miss Orr's marvelous speed was achieved, not by reason of the system which she used, but in spite of it, and that if she had used the system mentioned above, her speed would have been much greater than it was. She is a lady apparently well adapted to rapid typewriting, and has adopted it as her sole profession. The writer on the other hand, is not naturally adapted to it, has no taste for it, and has pursued it merely as an incident to another profession. It is quite certain, therefore, that any ordinary person, by the use of this system, can with practice, equal any speed which has been reached thus far; and, if naturally adapted to it, can far exceed it.
(Mr. McGurrin then includes a list of sixty-three long, but generally common words, showing his method of fingering them on the Remington No. 2 typewriter, as follows:)abridgement 41222122211The third point mentioned above, as to operating without looking at the key-board, is possible only by using all the fingers, as accuracy could not be secured if the fingers had to be raised and carried over several letters in so writing.
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zoology 4223211F. E. McGurrin.Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 6, 1888.
"There was quite a large gathering of stenographers here on the 22d inst., to witness the wonderful performance of Mr. McGurrin, the lightning Remington operator. The meeting was at Hopkins' Hall. There wer about 300 people present, almost all being stenographers. The hall was too small to accommodate everbody, and a good many of the ladies left on account of the scarcity of seats.
The president of the Cincinnati Stenographers' Association stated in a few words the purposes of the meeting, explaining at the same time the object of the Cincinnati Stenographers' Association, and asking those who wanted to committee. He closed his remarks by introducing the Hon. Job E. Stevenson, who addressed the audience in a spritghtly and instructive way.
Mr. Stevenson stated that a few years ago stenography was almost an unknown art, and that the time might not be far distant when, with the aid of the phonograph, a universal language of sound would be used. At the end of his remarks Mr. Stevenson was loudly applauded.
The President then introduced Mr. McClain, representative of the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. Mr. McClain addresed the audience, stating that he was not here to discuss the merits of the different makes of writing machines, or to demonstrate the superiority of the Remington Typewriter, as everybody in the audience knew that it was the best; that that point had already been conceded, and the honors had been won by Mr. McGurrin at Toronto; but those honors had been questioned by an operator of a rival machine, and to settle this dispute Mr. McGurrin had come all the way from Salt Lake City to take part in an open contest at Boston on the 8th of January, to which this claimant was invited. Mr. McGurrin met with no competitive machine on that occasion. The superiority of this particular operator being already acknowledged, it remained but to show the possibilities of the fastest writing machine in the world, in the hands of the fastest operator in the world.
Mr. McClain also stated that his concern attached no importance to records made on single sentence tests, but as a certain writing machine company claimed to have the best operator in the world, Mr. McGurrin would also during the evening write a memorized sentece, to show the absurdity of attaching importance to any speed attained under such conditions. These figures may not appear high as compared with those mentioned in advertisements of a certain operator, in which it is stated that a medal was awarded for the highest speed on record - 126 words per minute. `Let me explain,' said Mr. McClain, `that these 126 words a minute were made on the continuous writing of a memorized sentece containing short words. We do not take any stock in such tests, for several reasons; first, it permits of special preparation of a machine to write that particular sentence; secondly, it does not bring into play all the characters of the key-board; thirdly, the only true test of any labor-saving device is to try it on the labor which it is designed to save. But inasmuch as our competitors are making great capital out of those schoolboy records, and misleading the public, Mr. McGurrin will show you what he can do on a single sentence; but he does not wish to be understood as attaching any importance to it as a matter of record.'
Mr. McClain said that it was the practice heretofore to read for only one minute, and he asked if anybody in the audience would object. Thereupon somebody suggested that the first test should be for three minutes, which was done accordingly.
Mr. McGurrin in this time wrote 269 words, or an average of 89⅔ words per minute, with three errors. In the second test of one minute, Mr. McGurrin wrote 88 words without an error. He then wrote for one minute, writing 98 words without an error. On the fourth test he wrote 110 words.
Mr. McClain then stated to the audience that Mr. McGurrin could write just as well blindfolded; but as it was of no object for a man who could see to write bloindfolded, it was only done to show what a perfect command he had of the key-board. In this test Mr. McGurrin wrote 118 words per minute. Mr. McGurrin then wrote from his shorthand notes the introductory part of the speech of Mr. Stevenson, which he had taken down, without once looking at the machine. He then wrote the sentece, `Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party,' succeeding in the first attempt in writing 138 absolutely correct words. On the second test, 144; on the third, 150, and on the fourth and last, 161, which is the highest he has ever attained. At the announcement of the last result the audience cheered and applauded loudly.
The President then stated that any on the local experts would have the chance to try their hands in meeting Mr. McGurrin in a friendly contest. This announcement the audience hugely enjoyed.
The President then introduced Mr. Louis Traub, law and general stenographer, and proprietor of the Longley Institute and Graham Institute of Cincinnati, the ex-caligraph expert, who was defeated in the first professional contest on record for the championship, twenty words per minute, six months ago, by Mr. McGurrin, stating that these two gentlemen would meet again in a friendly contest; that Mr. Traub had only used the Remington since that contest, on account of which Mr. McGurrin would give Mr. Traub a handicap of ten per cent.
Mr. Traub wrote first, new matter from dictation. Mr. McGurrin wrote from dictation the same matter (he having retired from the hall while Traub wrote).
The result was, Mr. Traub wrote in five minutes 434 words, an average of 86⅔ words per minute. Mr McGurrin wrote in the five minutes 447 words, an average of 89 2-5 words per minute. The matter written in this test was full of long words and technicalities, which accounts for the low rate of speed which was accomplished.
This was quite unexpected, and everybody in the hall was surprised, and loudly applauded Mr. Traub's victory. This is quite remarkable, considering the length of time Mr. Traub has been using the Remington - not quite six months.
The announcement drew forth a comparison of Mr. Traub's work on the machine he used in his former contest with McGurrin, when he only wrote 77 words per minute as against 86 on this occasion, and a voice asked in behalf of the rival machine if 77 words was no net while the 86 gross. In reply, Mr. McGurrin stated that while that statement had been made by rival machines, he was glad to have the opportunity of correcting the statement, as the 77 words was gross. He then explained how the count was made and result arrived at by the judges on the former occasion, and Mr. Traub at once arose and verified the statement of Mr. McGurrin, which occasioned increased applause.
Mr. Traub had been operating the machine he used in his contest with Mr. McGurrin in July last for over four years, and as he has used the Remington since July only, and as his many other business duties admitted of time for him to practice, his performance on the 22d inst. certainly reflects great credit not only on Mr. Traub, but also on the Remington machine, which he has so recently adopted.
It is needless to add that Mr. Traub is delighted with his change of machine.
As a further demonstration of his progress in the use of the Remington, Mr. Traub delighted the audience by giving them an exhibition of his skill in writing on the machine from dictation ad from copy without looking at the key-board.
The whole entertainment was a marked success, and closed with unanimous praise of the experts who took part in the entertainment, and a declaration in favor of the Remington machine.
Cincinnati, January 24, 1889.
"The question, which method of capitalizing, that of the shift-key, as used on the Remington typewriter, or that of the double key-board, as used on the caligraph, is more conducive to speed, is one worthy of careful consideration. The two methods are diametrically opposed. In the former case, te labor of capitalizing is put entirely upon the fingers, by necessitating an extra, purely mechanical stroke to shift the paper, while in the latter case the labor is put entirely on the mind, by necessitating the keeping track of double the number of keys.
The question must be considered in reference to speed in actual work, (which includes accuracy) for it is poor consolation to a tired operator at the end of a day's work to know that he can writer on his machine "Chippy get your hair cut" an incredible number of times in five minutes, if another operator, next to him, and using another style of machine, has quit work two hours before after doing the same amount of work which the former has done, by reason of the superiority of the latter's machine in practical work.
In typewriting, the speed is limited by the action of the mind, and not of the fingers. To demonstrate this, let an operator take a new sentece and see how fast he can write it. Then, after practicing the sentence, time himself again, and he will find he can write it much faster; and further practice on the particular sentence will increase the speed on it to nearly or quite double that on new matter. Now let the operator take another new sentece, and he will find his speed has dropped back to about what it was before he commenced practicing the first sentence.
Why is this? The fingers are capable of the same rapidity. It is because the mind is not so familiar with the keys. If, therefore, the labor of the mind is added to, the speed will be decreased.
In the Toronto contest last summer this truth was clearly brought out. Mr. Osborne (caligraph operator), on the single-sentence contest proved himself to be possessed of more skill than any of his competitors. He proved that if he had had only the same number of keys to operate he could have won the gold medal. But when it came to writing new matter, requiring the keeping in mind of his large number of keys, he found that his mind had more than it could do, his dexterity of finger was unemployed talent, and he dropped to third place. This has been the experience of all other operators of the Caligraph, and is tacitly admitted to be true by those interested in that machine, for they do not and cannot make any claims to superior speed in any test on actual work. Depressing the shift-key on the Remington is, as stated above, purely mechanical. In addition to this, it requires no time. The method commonly in use, of depressing the shift-key first, and then striking the capital desired, is erroneous. The proper way is to make the depression of the shift-key and the stroke of the letter exactly simultaneous. A perfect capital letter will be obtained in this way without loss of time.
To be an improvement on the Remington, therefore, it seems clear that a typewriter must be invented which, instead of adding to the labor of the already overcrowded mind, will place a larger proportion of it on the fingers. If half the number of keys on the Remington key-board could be dispensed with by the addition of another mechanical stroke occasionally, the mind would push the fingers to greater speed than any yet attained. But a change which burdens the mind to relieve the fingers is a change toward slowness and not toward speed."F. E. McGurrin.
"Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, the acknowledged champion expert on the typewriter, was interviewed in St. Louis on Thursday en route home. To his interviewer he went on to say:
"I began to use the typewriter about ten years ago," he said, "and I attribute all my proficiency to constant attention to my work and to hard practice. I found that by becoming thoroughly acquanted with the location of every letter on the keyboard I could write as rapidly without looking at the key-board at all as I could by using the usual method. In fact I found that I could write much more rapidly. By this method the time required to glance at the copy was so much time saved. Instead of having to stop to see the next word to be transcribed, I simply read on continuously and kept my fingers in motion all the time. Thus, you see, there was absolutely no time lost in the performance. This knack can be easily acquired by a little practice, and there is no reason in the world why all type-writers and stenographers should not be able to do it, if not as well as I can, at least nearly as well." "You use the fingers only, Mr. McGurrin, and not the wrists?" was asked. "Yes, exactly. I completely cover the keyboard with my hands, and do not move my hand proper at all. When I strike the first letter of the word I keep that finger at rest on the key for the purpose of more easily locating the other letters to be used in the word." "Do you use the fingers and thums of both hands?" "No. I never use the thumb of the left hand, for the simple reason that there is no use to which it can be put. I use the thumb of the right hand to strike the spaces and the four fingers of the right and the left hands to strike the letters. Thus I save all waste of time, and it is to these methods and constant practice that I attribute all my success." - New Orleans Times-Democrat, January 28, 1889.
F. E. McGurrin yesterday sold a lot on the corner of Second South and Tenth East streets, 83x165 feet, with a neat house, to Mrs. Hartlet C. Taylor for $3600.
Frank McGurrin is confined to his house with influenza. A great many persons are suffering from this malady, but whether it is the genuine Russian article or not has not been settled.
F. E. McGurrin, Proprietor; E. C. Curtiss, Principal; Progress Building, Salt Lake City. Shorthand and Typewriting taught in the shortest time and most practical manner. Evening instruction, private instruction and instruction by mail. Terms reasonable. Write for particulars.
The Scott Zouaves held a largely attended and enthusiastic meeting last evening, and effected a permanent organization by electing the following officers for the ensuing year: A. A. Leonard, Captain; F. E. McGurrin, First Lieutenant; H. W. Rouse, Second Lieutenant; J. Rush Warner, Secretary and Treasurer. The members of this organization are all workers and they will succeed in making a crack military company.
The First Annual Ball of the Corps a Decided Success Last Night.
The Scott Zouaves never looked better than they did last night when they met together at their first annual ball. Their dark but nasty uniforms formed the background against which the more brilliant costumes of the ladies shone out in bright relief, and the scene at the G. A. R. Hall last night was a picturesque one. Flags, banners and streamers decorated the room, and did their best to hide the other wing bare walls. Geo. Connor, with Mrs. H. W. Rouse, led the grand march, and as it changed into a waltz, the ball was opened. From then until the early hours of the morning warned the dancers that it was time to retire, joy was free and unconfined, and throughout, the affair was a decided success. That it was so was mainly owing to the efforts of the committees, which were as follows: Masters of ceremonies, Capt. A. A. Leonard and F. E. McGurrin; committees on arrangements, P. E. Cullman, H. W. Rouse, W. R. Westover, D. Willson, J. R. Warner and W. O. King; reception committee, all the Zouaves present; floor manager, H. W. Rouse; floor committees, W. O. King, Alex Pfekering, H. Crowan, R. L. Wilson, F. W. Camomile and F. W. Muehlenbrach. Owing to the killing of the militia bill by the council, the boys are not allowed to carry arms, but they are willing to do it all the time.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McGurrin gave a delightful party at their new and elegant little home, 664 East First South street, Wednesday evening. There were fully 150 of the best people in Salt Lake present, there was dancing on the handsomely lighted dawn, the house was decorated with taste and skill, and a well-selected orchestra furnished music throughout the evening. The party was given in honor of C. H. McGurrin, brother of the champion stenographer, who with his wife are visiting from the East, and it was one the most pleasant parties ever given in Salt Lake.
The much talked of Charity ball, which has been looked forward to with so much interest by the elite of our city, was given at the Theater last night, and proved to be a grand success socially and financially. The attendance was larger than on any previous occasion of a simillar character, and the ladies having the matter in charge are deserving of much credit. The building was decorated handsomely and artistically, and the gay throng of beauxs and belles never appeared to better advantage.
A tempting repast was served during the evening which, with the beautiful flowers and exquisite taste displayed throughout, made the evening one long to be remembered in the annals of social successes.
The receipts could not be definitely determined last evening, but they they were sufficiently large to meet a handsome sum for the Day nursery and Orphans home, for whose benefit the bad was given.
The following committees had the charge of their respective department:
Reception Committee - Governor A. L. Thomas, Hon. Geo. M. Scott, Fred H. Auerbach, Mrs. Hanauer, Colonel and Mrs. Parke, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Webber, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McGurrin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Eccles, Captain and Mrs. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. J. Horitz.
Floor Managers - D. Murry, H. M. Wells, J. Heywood, J. Obernorfer, C. W. Pavey, J. M. Zane, W. Almy, A. F. Holden.
Supper committee - Mrs. William Jennings, Mrs. J. C. Conklin, Mrs. John Groesbeck, Mrs. C. O. King, Mrs. F. Dyer, Mrs. Margaret Clawson, Mrs. L. Cohn, Mrs. F. W. Hobbs.
The following committees were in charge of the afternoon party:
Floor manager - Prof. Younger, Mrs. Budie Cummings.
Reception committee - Misses Emma McCornick, Miss Grace Wallace, Winnie Kimball, Lucille Gilmer, Mary Mitchner, Bessie Sprague, Hester Cohn, Luscille Young, Miss Stout; Messrs. Charle-Caine, N. A. Ransehoff, Harry Shearman, William Groesbeck, Ives Cobb, Murry Colbe, W. Smedley.
For fifteen years the Remington Typewriter has been the Standard Writing Machine of the World, and at the present time constant improvement has brought it so near perfection that it is justly termed "the highest achievement of inventive and mechanical skill." It was invented by Sholes & Glidden originally, but the manufacturers, far from being content with the high reputation the machine has attained, are spending thousands of dollars in experimenting and investigating new devices, with the view of making the typewriter yet more satisfactory.
Its users find it indispensable. Professionals who use it secure plenty of work at remunerative rates. Its competitors unconsciously endorse it by claiming recognition through its merits.
F. E. McGurrin, Dealer, Salt Lake City, Utah. Progress building.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGurrin departed on Friday evening for the Pacific Coast, where they will spend several weeks. Mr. McGurrin has been under the weather for some time, and it is hoped the change will help him.
The following interesting document was issued yesterday:
Headquarters Democratic Central Committee, Some of the members of the Liberal party are making a dying effort to prolong its existence, after its usefulness is gone, its objects accomplished.
Salt Lake County, June 25, 1891.
The Liberal Party was composed of Democrats and Republicans, united to oppose polygamy and the dictation of the Mormon Church in political affairs.
The facts are incontestible, that the Mormon Church has in the most solemn manner, renounced the practice of polygamy, and disclaimed all right or purpose to interfere with the political action of its members. The People's party, members of that Church, have, through its constituted authorities, dissolved the party, and advised its heretofore adherents to unite with the national party of their choice, and great numbers have already done so. Yet there are still those who conted that notwithstanding the Mormon people have exercised all the powers with which they are endowed as human beings to right themselves, the professions they make, the acts they have done, are not prompted by sincere motives and should be rejected.
"Oh, for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun."
To the honor and credit of our kind be it said, there are many who accept the proffer of the Mormon people as made in all sincerity, and recognizing their obligations to redeem the promises made by them and by the Liberal party leaders and speakers for them have discontinued their connection with the Liberal party and united in the organization of national parties. We append below a partial list of Democrats and Republicans who believe we have made progression and that we should still advance. The Liberals have been left without a principle to contend for and their efforts will tend alone to revive strife and contention. "Let us have peace."
Caleb W. West, Chairman.Elias A. Smith, Secretary.DEMOCRATS. J. W. Judd, A. G. Norrell, Richard H. Cabell, J. L. Rawlins, Simon Bamberger, M. E. McEnany, Joseph E. Caine, J. E. Bamberger, P. L. Williams, Waldemar Vancott, J. G. Sutherland, A. T. Schroeder, C. S. Nichols, P. J. W. Daly, C. R. Barratt, J. H. Young, J. B. Walden, Laurens L. Archer, Frank Harris, Gustave Kroeger, Nat. M. Brigham, Cyrus L. Hawley, H. C. Reich, O. P. Graff, J. W. Jameson, J. B. Kerr, Charles A. Castle, Charles W. Cook, J. W. Dawson, T. B. Needham, Thomas O'Mara, D. S. Griffin, John B. Taylor, W. H. Casady, William Burke, James A. Williams, M. B. Sowles, W. D. Wood, G. E. Norton, F. O'Reilly, E. A. Fisher, Henry Pugh, C. T. Nelson, J. Montgomery, Jr., Julius Meyer, J. W. Sloan, J. M. Kennedy, Chas. H. Schreiner, G. W. Freeman, M. D. William J. Halloran, Andrew J. White, H. C. Lett, C. A. Wickham, W. R. Gibbs, John H. Keen, G. W. Casady, W. H. Root, W. F. Siebert, R. C. Chambers. C. B. Glenn, W. T. Gunter, S. A. Merritt, T. L. Bowman, Maurice Grossman, James W. Harum, James H. Nounan, Chas. Holloway, Jr., G. M. Wright, R. B. Lemon, E. C. DeWitt, J. E. Sherlock, John R. Price, Geo. Kramer, Frank Eblin, F. Kellar, T. F. Thomas, Jr., H. W. Laisy, Harry Clark, J. W. McElvine, H. Carlyle, W. H. Boyd, Chas. T. Price, Geo. Murray, H. S. Laney, W. H. Dale, A. L. Baddley, W. E. Wentworth, D. B. Bennett, C. S. Lovsey, R. B. Miller, Jno. R. Middlemiss, O. J. Greer, B. F. McErlaine, E. E. Sylvester, S. F. Brown, P. H. Taylor, R. Thompson, O. C. Brown, J. Stockdale, F. W. Little, Hervbert Pembroke, J. H. Hurd, W. H. Culmer, G. E. McErlain, Henry E. N. Phelps, Wm. W. Phelps, W. O. Norrell, John H. Keene, W. E. D. Barnett, G. W. Parks, A. J. Lewis, M. Kennedy, Wm. Condon, J. W. Whitehead, Jr. E. A. Franks, J. J. Kato, T. H. Bennett, H. A. Slade, B. T. Hutchinson, H. H. Schilling, P. Daniels, G. Bielich, U. Worthington, Fred W. Cleghorn, E. C. Lander, W. Wood, J. A. Corrivean, F. E. Barker, R. J. Knight, Thomas Marshall, J. C. Royle, George Y. Wallace, W. H. Davidson, E. W. Wilson, J. T. Little, A. L. Pollock, Philip Pugsley, Jr., Joseph Pugsley, S. M. Katz, C. S. Williamson, John Kelly, Thomas Matthews, E. E. Rich, J. B. Timmony, J. M. Stout, George R. Cushing, Fred Lyon.REPUBLICANS. Judge C. S. Zane, C. O. Whittemore, S. P. Armstrong, W. P. Kellar, George A. Wiscombe, Boman Cannon, F. D. Kimball, Reobert Harkness, George W. Heron, J. C. McAllister, F. M. Bishop, Alexander Cohn, A. E. Pratt, George A. Lowe, W. C. Reilly, M. C. Philips, Alexander Rogers, H. M. McCartney, Sam S. Kenyon, George Arbogast, Duncan McInness, B. F. Thornburg, James Devine, G. W. Walton, Joseph Geoghegan, Louis Simon, Frank B. Stephans, W. S. Hedges, John M. Zane, H. G. McMillan, William Glassman, J. J. Harvey, A. Hanauer, Jr., M. S. Hanauer, Col. J. W. Donnellan, A. H. Peabody, Col. M. Shauphnessy, James A. Pollock, Charles W. Lennett, N. Treweek, Arthur Brown, Fred Simons, H. R. Watrous, G. W. Bartch, Arthur Pratt, Harmel Pratt, L. M. Earl, Will C. Higgins, William Balderson, Willey L. Brown, John J. Bynon, Wm. N. Bynon, E. B. Crtichlow, Frank D. Hobbs, James F. Bradley, Calvin Reasoner, E. H. Parsons, John T. Lynch, Hoyt Sherman, Jr., W. G. Nebeker, F. E. McGurrin, O. A. Palmer, L. Cohn, W. F. James, J. H. Romeyne, J. F. Grant, A. Roundy, B. M. Ellerbeck.
Mrs. Frank McGurrin started for Butte last week, where she will join her husband, with the expectation of a jaunt to the Yellowstone in a week or so. Dr. and Mrs. Bascom have made arrangements to meet them later on.
Court reporter Frank E. McGurrin departs for Portland, Oregon, to-day, whither he goes to protect the championship now held by him in the arts of stenography and typewriting against a large number of comers at the exposition.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 9. - In a shorthand contest at the fair here last night F. E. McGurrin wrote 311 words in 59 seconds from dictation on the typewriter. He wrote 104 words per minute blindfolded.
McGurrin Breaks All Records in Stenography and Typewriting. The Evening Telegram of Portland, Ore., October 9th date, has the following of local interest:
At the Exposition building last night a large concourse of people assembled to witness the shorthand and typewriting contest which took place between Frank E. McGurrin of Salt Lake City, champion of the world; Q. D. Macdougal, Court Reporter of Butte City, and F. E. Sanford, R. A. Brown, W. J. Leonard and O. J. Mitchell of Portland. Within a space reserved in the music hall several tables were placed, those supporting the typewriting machinery on the north side of the central floral display, and those on which the stenographic contest took place on the southern side.Shorthand Contest. The first contest was between the shorthand writers, Some trouble was experienced at first from the fact that the dictation was too rapid. Mr. Macdougal, however, volunteered to do the dictating, and after that everything went on smoothly. The representatives of Portland started in first, and scored an average of 170 words a minute. Then F. E. McGurrin's trial commenced. During the first trial he wrote 250 words a minute, in the second 278 words, which is 26 ahead of the record, and at the third trial he wrote 286, breaking the record by a score of 34 words. R. A. Macdougal was then dictated to, and made a record of 214 words a minute.Remarkable Record. Later in the evening, in the presence of the judges, Mr. McGurrin wrote from dictation 311 words in fifty-nine seconds, at which time his pen broke and prevented him from writing the full minute. He then picked up his notes and read them back correctly to his dictator. The first public contest in shorthand writing was held at Lake George, N. Y., in August, 1888. This contest was won by Isaac S. Dement of Chicago, with a score of 252 words a minute. The record made last night of 278 words really places Mr. McGurrin champion of the world.
The typwriting competition then took place. It consisted in two trials, writing from dictation. The Portland boys started in first and did good work. Their scores, however, could not be ascertained last night, but will be ascertained and will be published later on. Mr. McGurrin was then blindfolded and he wrote from dictation 104 words. His fingers fairly flew over the keys, striking them faster than the eye could follow. He then wrote from copy and to this made a record of 100 words. Mr. McGurrin, at New York in July, 1888, in a typewriting contest made a record of ninety-one words a minute, in Cincinnati during the same month he wrote ninety-seven words and in August of the same year at Toronto, the same number. His record last night places him far to the front in the manipulation of the machine. During the contest, C. J. Peterson and Charles J. Schnebel of Portland acted as judges. Mr. McGurrin was awarded the first prize both in stenography and typewriting, and Mr. McDougal received second prize in stenography.
Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, has again proven the victor in an international contest of stenographers and typewriters. The competition took place at Portland, Oregon, October 9. Mr. McGurrin wrote 278 words in a minute. This was ahead of all previous records. In typewriting he made a record of 114 words per minute.
Frank McGurrin, in an exhibition test of fast typewriting at the Beatrice, Neb., Business College recently, beat the world's record by attaining a speed of 161 words in one minute. The feat was accomplished from a memorised sentence. In shorthand he wrote 333 in one minute from dictation. The shorthand work was from a court record, and was dictated by J. P. McGeath, of Omaha.
It was only fitting that Mr. McGuriin should wind up his triumphal progress through the provinces by appearing in London. And it was before an enthusiastic and appreciative audience that he performed his typewriting feats on Monday evening, September 26. It was here, therefore, that our interviewer collected the following notes.
"Well, Mr. McGuriin, and how many typewriters have you broken since you came to England?"
He smiled pleasantly, quietly saying, as he caressingly drew his hands over the keys of an anything but new No. 2 Remington, "This is an old friend, and I generally make every machine do me good service for five years before I trade it in for a new one."
"Do you prefer a No. 2?"
"Yes, for this sole reason, because I have used it since I began typewriting, and have consequently become more familiar with the key-board than with that of the No. 5."
"Do you think the No. 5 is capable of giving forth the same speed as the No. 2?"
"Most undoubtedly."
"From this evening's performance I see that you are very much under your own record in point of speed?"
"Yes," he sighed sadly, "I always felt that would be the case when I went to London. I am very much influenced by my audience. I feel that great things have been expected from me here, and consequently I have felt very nervous the whole evening. I do my best work always when the test is got up on the spur of the moment--- just straight on end without any preparation.
"To what do you attribute your record-breaking in Dublin?"
"I really don't know how it came; Mr. Nicholson's lecture went wrong on account of the lantern slides, and that fidgetted me and worked me up to a state of such nervous irritation that I just threw it off afterwards on the Remington." And with a queer little quirk of his mouth on one side, "And I felt that I hadn't got half out of that Remington that was in it."
"And how do you like the English audiences?"
"Well, I must say that I am disappointed in them."
"Oh! How's that? Do you find them cold and unappreciative?"
"No, the disappointment has been a pleasant one. I was told to expect cool indifference, if not hostility, and I have ment with the warmest welcome."
"What led you in the first instance to take up this high speed practice?"
"It was a matter of necessity at first. As official stenographer to the Ninth Judical District, Michigan, I was frequently sent to small towns where it was impossible to obtain the services of an assistant; so that when an attorney brought me a lot of evidence after court closing, which had to be typed the same night, I should have been cornered if I had not been able to do I myself."
"Your brother is also a speed writer?"
"Yes, he started it. His first record was in 1888, when he reached 154 words on the now classical memorised sentence, 'Now is the time for all true men to come to the aid of the party.' This was the highest record at that time, and remained so until I totted it up to 162, which set all the other typewriters on our side mad to break my record. Miss Currie topped me and my brother by fetching 182 out of the Smith Premier."
"You wouldn't stand that?"
"No, I should think not. I practised diligently, pressing every finger and thumb I have into the service, using my little finger for the shift key, which does the work of ever so many more fingers put together, and brought out more of the undeveloped powers of the Remington, first by 192 words, to be still further increased to 201. This record, of course, I broke in Dublin."
"Surely this is as fast as either you or the machine can go?"
"Well, it seems to me that I can't go much faster, but I am quite sure the machine is quite capable of doing so, and nothing gives me greater pleasure than breaking my own record. I thoroughly believe that Miss Currie could get up a much higher speed on a Remington than she did on the Smith Premier, for her fingers must be phenomenally supple to attain such speed on a double key-board; the distance the fingers have to travel over is intensely fatiguing, as you have to wok directly from the arm instead of from fingers. All the best stenographers on the other side prefer the Remington machine, and use it, and they would not do this unless there wer advantages."
"That sounds very much like puffing the Remington, Mr. McGurrin?"
"No, I'm not puffing the Remington, I'm only testifying to its excellence; but if to-morrow I heard that there was a better machine in the market, one capable of giving more speed combined with good work, I should just go for that machine straight away. I am not prejudiced in favour of any one machine in particular, beyond the fact of its being the best for my purpose."
"Do you consider it an advantage to see the writing as it is done?"
"No, I do not. You want to see what you're going to do, not what you've done. If you're bothered with looking at what is already accomplished, how can you keep your eyes free to make out what is still to occupy your attention?"
"Do you believe in a speed test on the memorised sentence as being a test of a good operator?"
"No, I do not, and I do not advise operators to go in for this kind of speed practice, unless they are able operators already. What I do pride myself upon is my speed in talking down from dictation of new matter."
"What has been your greatest achievement in this respect?"
"On one occasion I struck off copy at the rate of 115 words a minute for fifteen minutes at a run. Of course, I could not keep this strain on for any length of time. A great deal depends on the dictator."
"I should think that is very possible, for I noticed that you had several waits in talking down this evening. How is it you got up a higher speed blindfolded, for you have scored 99 as against 87 when you had your two eyes to guide you?"
"I put it all down to the reader, for I don't require to see the keyboard. I just get a start off by feeling the G, and then it's all the same to me. I have been concluding these performances by taking down the chairman's closing speech, and Mr. Nicholson there" (pointing to that gentleman) "said he always felt as if he had done a great part of the work, as he whipped out the piece of paper from the typewriter to read it over to the audience as the last word was uttered by the chairman."
"Do you think the Remington will ever be used as a reporting machine?"
"No. In the first place, it would worry a speaker to death to have the noise of it just below him; and, in the next place, it could never be a verbatim reporter. An operator could take down verbatim perhaps about three minutes of the time, but no longer than that."
Mr. McGurrin possesses a pleasing personality. He is tall and slight; his face is intellectual, and his expression kindly. A somewhat sad smile mingled with fun shows a character capable of appreciating a joke, and at the same time of sympathising with others. His hands are strong and nervous, his fingers and thumbs being abnormally long and supple. As he rests them on the keyboard he winds his fingers "back and forth"---to use his own expression---like the tentacles of an octopus. The effect of Mr. McGurrin's typewriting was like a gentle trickle of rain, or as a very enthusiastic lady said to me, like a lark singing with a cold in its head! He has been greatly assisted in these typewriting performances by Mr. Nicholson, M.A., Oxon., who has acted as reader and lecturer, and also as "copyholder," by standing in the latter instance behind the machine, in front of Mr. McGurrin, who looks straight ahead at his copy when typing. He deprecates the use of a "side" copyholder. He says that the head and eyes are strained by having to look rapidly from the machine and back again. Mr. McGurrin lays great stress upon the typing seat being of a proper height, so as to avoid lifting the hands above the level of the elbow. He also brings the machine forward over his knees, the indiarubber feet resting on the extreme edge of the front of the table. This position he says is very restful. He gave a great many valuable hints to an interested throng of persons interested in typewriting, among whom were distinguished operators on this side, as well as non-professionals. Such exhibitions cannot fail to productive of much good.
The Standard announced Friday morning that the verbatim report of the join debate would appear in Saturday morning's paper. The stenographers engaged by the Republican territorial central committee, Mr. Frank McGurrin and companion, were to furnish the report. Mr. McGurrin was waited upon Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City. He declared it was impossible to furnish the report that evening. Finally he faithfully promised that he would transcribe it and bring it to Ogden himself or send it on the early train, so that our readers would have an opportunity of reading the debate. He also promised to telephone regarding the matter during the day.
He failed to telephone, he failed to bring the transcription. Instead, he went to Park City on a special train from Salt Lake and sent no word. Consequently telegrams to Salt Lake failed to reach him.
Fortunately The Standard had its own stenographer there and he took Mr. Cannon's speech. However, as an official stenographer had been engaged the speech was taken by our stenographer more for practics than for use. Deciding to give our readers all that could be secured in the matter, he was asked to transcribe the speech to partly remedy McGurrin's failure. The speech is given below. In four instances, each of them marked, Mr. Cannon's quotations were not taken by the stenographer and owing to Mr. Cannon's absence they could not be supplied. Otherwise the speech is in full.
On the arrival of the train from Park City Mr. McGurrin was seen and reproached for his unprofessional conduct. Mr. McGurrin emphatically stated that when the special arrival in Ogden he had no time to bring the transcription before the train pulled out for Park City and paid a messenger to bring it to The Standard. Be that as it may, the messenger failed to come and The Standard is unable to give but one side of the issue.
Sheriff McQueen yesterday sold at public auction to satisfy an execution held by Frank McGurrin against John Beck ten shares of the capital stock of the State Bank of Utah, 10,000 shares of Sampson mining stock, 10,000 shares of Buckeye mining stock, and thirty-four shares of the stock of the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs Railway. The bank stock sold for $70 a share, Steve Hays of Bingham being the purchaser, and the mining stock for one-half mill per share. The railway stock was divided, Simon Bamberger buying twenty-five shares at $175 per share and Frank McGurrin taking nine shares at $9 per share.
A Lively Contest to Ensure for the Position, Under Judge Merritt.
It is not generally known, but it is a fact nevertheless, that there will shortly be a very lively scramble for the position of official stenographer of the Third District Court, which is now held by Frank E. McGurrin. In fact, considerable skirmishing has already been done, and a certain, at present unknown, contingent of aspirants for the office feel confident that they will get the present incumbent's scalp within thirty days after Colonel Merritt qualifies as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory. The position of course is a paying one, and while the most rapid writer often has to tax his skill to the utmost, the opinion seems to prevail in certain quarters that any ordinary man can fill it. The law provides that the official stenographer must be chosen by a competitive examination in which all aspirants may take part, but there is a difference of opinion as to whether the committee that examines the aspirants can name who shall fill the place or whether, in case two or more of the aspirants acquit themselves to the satisfaction of the committee, the Judge of the court can choose between them. Within a short time after Colonel Merritt qualifies, the competitive examination will be held and the official stenographer chosen. If a high rate of speed governs the test McGurrin will simply have a walkover, but if not it is probable that other local talent will come under the wire in fair condition. Mr. McGurrin was appointed to the position by Judge Zane in September, 1886, and has held it continuously since that time. He expresses himself as believing that the most competent man should fill it and says that if there is a more competent man in the city that wants it, he is willing to let him have it.
What the Allegations Against Mr. McGurrin Are - His Reply to Them.
The Tribune stated yesterday that a number of local stenographers were after the position of official stenographer of the Third Disctrict Court, now held by F. E. McGurrin, and that a certain contingent of lawyers were after Mr. McGurrin's scalp. It is now stated that the principal charge to be made against Mr. McGurrin is that he has permitted Judge Zane to change charges to juries after delivery in a manner prejudical to the attorneys and then certified that the opinion was the original one allowed. Mr. McGurrin was seen by a Tribune reporter last evening and in relation to the matter said:
"At Judge Zane's request charges to the jury were submitted to him for inspection before being delivered. The attorneys were always made aware of this fact, and were told that they would be furnished copy exactly as delivered if they so disired. No attorney ever claimed that Judge Zane made a material change in the charges except in two instances, the People vs. Benson, and Pratt vs. Parsons, and in those instances the attorneys were promptly provided verbatim copies of the charges as they had been delivered by the Judge."
Mr. McGurrin added that the changes were usually of words and grammar, and that sometimes attorneys would object, but when they examined the original they would withdraw all objections.
It Was Held Yesterday, With F. E. McGurrin Barred. The Letter in Which the Committee Ruled Out the Present Stenographer - Details of the Stenographic Contest - McGurrin Wants to Contest With the Successful Candidate - His Petition to the Court - Rumor That Politics Figured Against Him.
THOMAS MARRIONEAUX WINS.The examination of applicants for the position of official stenographer of the Third District Court, was held in the law offices of Sutherland & Howat yesterday afternoon. The examining committee consited of Judge Sutherland, Samuel McDowall and James A. Williams.
The applicants were Thomas Marrioneaux, I. C. Falconer, F. E. McGurrin, Fred McGurrin, C. M. Dull, F. W. Milverton, Miss B. T. McMasters, F. E. Barker, Miss Florence Hartley, A. J. McIntyre and A. H. Corvil of Salt Lake and J. T. Smith and G. D. Hodge of Ogden.
Prior to the inception of the examination F. E. McGurrin received the following letter:Frank E. McGurrin, Esq., Salt Lake City, Utah; - Dear Sir: - We are in receipt of your letter of February 12, 1894, relating to the examination of candidates for court reporter.It is understood, however, that Mr. McGurrin received a strong "hunch" from a member of the committee subsequently, to the effect that he was barred because of his politics. His name was already upn the list about the time he received the letter and the notation, "excluded by the committee," was placed opposite. Mr. McGurrin was also told that his assistant would be barred, but when he informed the committee that his assistant, Fred McGurrin, had never been appointed by the Court, the latter was allowed to enter the contest.
Under the statute court reporters are appointed by the Judge, and to hold office during his pleasure. You have held that place since 1886 by the pleasure of the Judges of the Third District Court. If it was the pleasure of the present Judge of this district to retain you as court reporter, no committee would have been appointed to examine candidates. You are at present the incumbent of that office; you need no certificate of qualification to hold it if it was the pleasure of the Judge to retain you. He has signified his pleasure to make a change. The committee therefore do not regard you as eligible. Other candidates only will be examined. Yours respectfully,J. G. SUTHERLAND, JAMES A. WILLIAMS, S. McDOWALL.
THE TESTS. The first test was by Judge Sutherland, who read very slowly from Kent's Commentaries for a little over two minutes. James A Williams was then sworn as a witness in an imaginary case and examined by Judge Sutherland. Samuel McDowall came next and read a charge ot a jury, delivered in a big mining case at Leadville, Colo., several years ago. Judge McDowall read rapidly about 200 words per minite for over three minutes, and then slowed up and read about five minutes. Later a chapter on corporations and an extract from Macaulay's "History fo England" were read, and the contestants were immediately requested to "stack" their notes in an adjointing room. The committee then called the applicants in, one at a time, and requested them to read their notes. Those who responded were Miss Florence Hartley, I. C. Falconer, F. E. Barker, Thomas Marrioneaux, C. M. Dull and F. W. Milverton, Fred McGurrin having withdrawn on account of the treatment accorded his brother.
Some of the applicants when called to read their notes did fairly well; others didn't do quite so well, and one or two fell down almost completely. Thomas Marrioneaux, however, came out of the ordeal with flying colors. His work is as near perfect as short hand work ever gets to be, and he read his notes from the greater part as readily, and almost as rapidly, as the members of the committee did when reading from the books. In view of this fact, the committee decided to grant Marrioneaux their certificate, and he will receive the coveted appointment from Judge Merritt, if the signs do not fall.
No one was found sufficiently competent, however, to hold down the position of assistant and it is probable that another examination will be held, for the purpose of appointing said assistant.
M'GURRIN PROTESTS. Frank E. McGurrin does not propose to submit to the "turning down" which he received yesterday at the hands of the committee appointed by Judge Merritt, to examine applicants for the position of official court stenographer, and filed the following petition in the Third District Court late yesterday afternoon, making the committee's letter, quoted above, exhibit B:The petition of Frank E. McGurrin respectfully shows to this court that he has been the phonographic reporter of said court for more than seven years last past. That he was appointed to such position by Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge of said court, and under the statute creating said office of phonographic reporter the appointee holds during the pleasure of the Judge making the appointment, and that therefore petitioner's term of office expired with that of said Judge Zane, since which time petitioner has been holding over, pending the appointment of a successor.
That shortly after the appointment of the present incumbent as Judge of this court, petitioner was informed said Judge desired a change, for personal reasons, in the reportership of said court. That thereupon, before the qualification of said Judge, your petitioner called upon him and informed him that your petitioner had been informed as aforesaid, adding that if such were the case your petitioner would refrain from taking part in any competitive examination to be held for said position, as said petitioner did not desire to be reporter in any court where he was personally objectionable to the Judge. Said Judge thereupon stated that your petitioner was not in any way objectionable to him, but that such competitive examination would be fairly conducted, and open to your petitioner as well as to all other applicants. Whereupon your petitioner stated that he would be an applicant for said position and would take part in the competitive examination.
That thereafter the Court appointed a committee consisting of J. G. Sutherland, Samuel McDowall and J. A. Williams, to examine applicants for the positions of phonographic reporter and assistant phonographic reporter of said court. That such committee were appointed on open court, and directed to give the clerk of the court notice of the time when such competitive examinations should take place, which notice was given for the 14th day of February, 1894, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the office of J. G. Sutherland, in the city of Salt Lake in said Territory. That neither when the order appointing the committee was made, nor at any other time, to the knowledge of petitioner, did the Judge of this court direct said committee to exclude from the contest any person. That the time fixed for said competitive examination was at a time when cases were set for trial in both branchs of said court, requiring the attendance of your petitioner and his assistant. That your petitioner was informed that it was the intention of said committee to examine applicants privately and separately, insted of publicly and all at the same time. That your petitioner thereupon addressed to said committee a letter, of which a copy is hereto annexed, marked exhibit A. That your petitioner delivered said letter in person to J. G. Sutherland, one of said committee, on February 12, 1894, and in a conversation then had with said Sutherland, said Sutherland stated to your petitioner that the proficiency and ability of your petitioner to fill said position were too well known to require any further test or demonstration, but on your petitioner stating to said Sutherland that he did not desire to hold said position on any past record, but only if hePROVED HIMSELF SUPERIOR to all other applicants at this time, said Sutherland suggested to your petitioner to get excused by the Court for the purpose of attending said examination, or, if that were not done, that the committee would pit your petitioner against the applicant passing the best examination. That at no time did Sutherland intimate that your petitioner was to be barred from such examination until as hereinafter stated.
That on the day get for said examination, and at the adjourning of the court for the noon recess, your petitioner asked permission of the Court to absent himself from court for the afternoon, clearly stating that such absence was for the purpose of competing before said committee for said position, whereupon the Court excused your petitioner as requested.
That your petitioner has attended said court as such reporter, in the department presided over by Hon. S. A. Merritt, Judge of said court, every day since the said committee was appointed, and since said Judge went upon the bench. That at no time has said Judge intimated or suggested to your petitioner that he was or would be barred, for any reason, from such competitive examination, or that in the event of his success in such examination he would not be appointed to such position.
That at the hour appointed by said committee for such examination, petitioner was present, prepared to engage in it, under the statute, which reads as follows:
"The examination in this section provided for shall be open to all persons furnishing satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and public notice of the time and place of holding of such examination shall be given, and the certificate shall only be issued to the person passing the best examination."
That thereupon your petitioner was invited by said committee into a room privately with said committee, and was handed by the chairman of said committee, J. G. Sutherland, a letter, a copy of which is herto annexed and marked exhibit B, which was the first intimation from anybody that petitioner had that he was to be barred from such examination. Tha in the conversation had in said room with said committee said J. G. Sutherland told your petitioner that the reason why he was not eligible as an applicant for said position was because the Judge of said court objected to petitioner for political reasons. That petitioner thereupon asked said Sutherland if he would put that statement in writing, to which said Sutherland replied that he would put nothing in writing further then said letter exhibit B.
That upon retiring from said room, when request was made for applicants to present their names for examination, petitioner presented his name, and it was written on the list with the others. That thereupon said J. G. Sutherland directed the writer thereof, T. Marionneaux, one of the applicants for said position, to strike the name of petitioner from the list, whereupon said Marionneaux wrote opposite petitioner's name the words: "Excluded by the committee."
That your petitioner was and is an applicant for the position of phonographic reporter of this court, and claims that he is unjustly, improperly and withou any warrant in fairness, and contrary to law, excluded from competing for said position.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that said committee or some other committee to be appointed by the Court, examine petitioner for the said position; and if the examination already held is closed, and some preson is recommended, that your petitioner and said applicant so recommended contest for such position. And your petitioner will ever pray.A BIASED COMMITTEE. It matters not what may be the outcome of the examination held yesterday for the purpose of testing applicants for the position of official court reporter, it is unfortunate that an unbiased committee could not have been appointed to conduct it, and that Mr. McGurrin was not allowed to participate in the contest. All three members of the committee, Judge Sutherland, Judge McDowall and James A. Williams, are warm personal friends of Mr. Marrioneaux, and of course were anxious to see him secure the appointment. The Tribune does not undertake to say that the contest was not fairly conducted, leaving out the matter of the committee's refusal to allow Mr. McGurrin to participate and that Mr. Marrioneaux did not pass a phenomenal examination, but it would have had a better look if at least one of the committee had not been a warm supporter of Marrioneaux and could have gone into the examination not caring who carried off the prize.
Judge Merritt Refuses to Hear McGurrin - Committee Report. Act two, of the comedy-drama, "The Official Reporter," was heard in the Third District Court yesterday morning. Immediately after Judge Merritt had taken his seat upon the bench, H. J. Dininny arose with the petition of F. E. McGurrin in one hand, and the following proceeding was had:
Mr. Dininny - If your Honor please -
The Court (interruping) - What have you to present?
Mr. Dininny - I have filed in this court a petition with reference to the appointment of the reporter for the court.
The Court - Just take your seat. Take your seat, Mr. Dininny. I will hear nothing on that subject at all.
Mr. Dininny - Will you allow me to take an exception to that, your Honor?
The Court - Anything you please. I will say as to this case that I have the power and it is my pleasure to make a change in this office. I shall do so and take all the responsibility. Further, Mr. McGurrin did ask me if I had any personal objection to him. I have none at all - none whatever. On the contrary, I have always employed him, both when I was City Attoney in the public business, and in private transactions since. That is not the question. There is no litigation here, and I don't see that any good can come from any talk. As I said before, I have the power. It is my pleasure, and that concludes the case.
Mr. Dininny - May I be allowed to say one word, your Honor?
The Court - What is it?
Mr. Dininny - It is that that is just where I disagree with your Honor.
The Court - Well, I have settled that. You don't need to say anything more about it.
Mr. Dininny - Of course, I cannot reply if your Honor will not permit it.
The Court - I will not. Take your seat.
THE COMMITTEE REPORT Deputy Clert McMillan then read the following from the examining committee:
Hon. Samuel A. Merritt, Chief Justice of Utah and Judge of the Third Judicial District: - The undersigned committee, appointed to examine candidates for reporter in said District Court, do hereby certify that after public notice given by the Clerk, the candidates for examination met on the 14th day of February, 1894, at the office of Sutherland & Howat in this city, and all such candidates, except Frank E. McGurrin, the present reporter of this court, were examined as to their qualifications for such office; and we certify that T. Marioneaux passwd the best examination and is duty qualified, and is a man of good moral character. We recommend him to the office of reporter.J. G. SUTHERLAND, JAMES A. WILLIAMS, S. McDOWALL.Upon the report being read, Mr. Dininny said:
"If your Honor will permit me, I wish to enter a protest to that. I object to the report of the committee, and to the appointment."
The Court - If you have got any legal status, you can commence a suit.
Mr. Dininny - I am going to do that all right, but I just wat to preserve all the rights we have.
The Court - I appoint Mr. Marionneaux reporter of this court. Let him be sworn.
Mr. Dininny took an exception to the order, and shortly thereafter the new appointee took the oath of office and entered upon the discharge of his official duties.
Sues F. E. McGurrin for Writing a Derogatory Letter.
IT CALLED HIM A SHYSTER.Attorney E. W. Tatlock filed a $10,000 damages suit against Frank E. McGurrin in the Third District Court yesterday. Mr. Tatlock alleges that he is a lawyer by profession and has been for the past twenty-five years, and that he is solely dependent upon the earnings of his said profession for the support of his family, which said facts were well known to the defendant. It is then alleged that in September, 1893, the defendant published of and concerning the plaintiff a certain printed circular, which said publication was malicious and willfully false, libelous, scandalous, slanderous, and was so published by the said defendant for the sole and express purpose of injuring plaintiff's fair name and fame and bringin him into disrepute. It is further alleged that by the publication referred to the defendant charged plaintiff with being dishonest in his professional conduct and character, and guilty of attempting to extort money from the Salt Lake Building & Loan Association; and also that he was guilty of perjury and subornation of perjury. The alleged libelous circular was as follows:
To the Stockholders of the Salt Lake Building & Loan Association; - A shyster lawyer in this city, named E. W. Tatlock, has for over a year past been endeavoring in every way possible to levy blackmail upon this association. His first attempt was as attorney for one Mabel A. Johnson, who had borrowed money of the association, giving therefor a trust deed upon real estate in this city. The association was compelled to sell the property under the trust deed, which it did in the regular way as provided by law. Tatlock filed a complaint in her behalf, setting forth the wildest falsefoods, among others that no sale of the property was ever lied. The party swearing to this under his direction, went on the stand as a witness, to swear the case through, but the Court promptly decided against him and in favor of the association. Tatlock's motive in bringin the case was shown by the fact that he made repeated offers to the board to dismise the case if they would pay him the amount of his fees, but the office were rejected with scorn, and Tatlock informed that he could not blackmail the association out of one dollar.Mr. Tatlock alleges, in conclusion, that by the writing and publication of the said libel he has been damaged and injured in his profession and business, held up to public contumely and odium, in the sum of $10,000, for which he demands judgment. Williams, Van Cott & Sutherland are Mr. Tatlock's attorneys. The charge of criminal libel against Mr. McGurrin in connection with the publication complained of has been investigated by two grand juries, but in each instance has been ignored.
Being completely defeated in this attempt, the enterprising Tatlock continued his efforts to levy blackmail upon the association, being now inspired with hatred as well as cupidity. He found a tool in a man named Davis, whose property the association had bee compelled to soil under a trust deed, for non-payment of dues and interest, in the regular way. Davis now brings an action, with Tatlock as attorney, similar to the Johnson case, alleging the same sweeping falsehoods, and in addtion showing his malice by making certain scandalous and lying charges against the officers of the association. There is no doubt but that to pay Tatlock his fees in this new case would procure his prompt dismissal, the name as he proposed in the Johnson case.
All of the books and records of the association are open to the inspection of any stockholder at all times and the closest investigation is invited. Notwithstanding the recent financial stringency, and the failing real estate market in this city for the past three years, this association, during the four years it has been in existence, shows a net earning of nearly double that of any similar organization in the city.
This attack on the board of directors being the result of its efforts to serve the best interests of the stockholders, and to save the money of the association from being wasted, the directors now appeal to the stockholders for support and approval of their action. But if, in the opinion of the stockholders, a change of officers is desirable, this board will cheerfully resign and give place to such officers as may be selected.BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Salt Lake Building & Loan Association.
David C. Dunbar has been appointed clerk of the Third District Court at Salt Lake City by Judge Merritt. Thomas Marrioneaux has been appointed court stenographer, the old reporter, Frank McGurrin, not being permitted to compete because the Judge desired a change.
Attorney E. W. Tatlock, of Salt Lake, has filed suit against Frank E. McGurrin, from whom he claims $10,000 for having published a libelous letter concerning him, calling him a "shyster lawyer."
Vicious Arraignment of Him for Alleged Unprofessional Conduct. Frank E. McGurrin filed his answer to the $10,000 libel suit of Attorney E. W. Tatlock in the Third District Court yesterday.
DENIES WILLFUL MALICE. Mr. McGurrin denies that the circular letter complained of by Mr. Tatlock, and which furnished the basis of his action, was maliciously or willfully false, or was false or libelous or scandalous, or that the same or any part thereof was published by him for the purpose of injuring the name or fame of the plaintiff, or for the purpose of bringin him into disrepute. Other allegations of the complaint are denied in a similar manner, and after setting up that the plaintiff in September, 1893, conspired with J. E. Blazer, a director of the Building & Loan Assocation of which the defendant is president, to injure and bring discredit upon the said association and for the special purpose of discrediting andBRINGING REPROACH upon the administration of the affairs of said corporation by its board of directors, it is alleged that a suit was instituted in which one J. C. Davis was plaintiff, and the plaintiff and Blazer to make various false and scandalous allegations concerning the affairs of the association and the conduct of its officers. It is also alleged on information and belief, that the plaintiff, before filing the said complaint in court and for the purpose of furthering his unlawful and malicious design against the said Building & Loan Association, by giving publicity to the charges contained in the complaint, caused the same to be placed in the hands of a reporter of The Salt Lake Tribune, and it was published the following morning. It is then alleged that the circular letter in question was printed and sent to the stockholders of the association for the purpose of counteracting the effect of the false, scandalous and malicious charges set forth in the said complaint, and for the sole and only purpose of setting forth the facts in relation to the suit of Joseph C. Davis.
SETS UP ITS TRUSH. Further answering the complaint, the defendant, as a further and separate defense, alleges that the publication complained of is true, and that the plaintiff is and has been since the year 1877, dishonest in his professional life and practice, and has been and is a shyster, and that the said Tatlock was judicially determined to be such by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, rendered in a cause wherein one Adye was plaintiff and Mr. Tatlock and his copartners, Hanna & Bird, were defendants, reported in the Forty-seventh Iowa reports, and also in the Twenty-ninth American reports.
The purported opinion of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa follows this allegation, in which the attorneys are scored for entering into a certain contract. The closing words of the said opinion, as alleged, are as follows: "The want of professional honor which would prompt a lawyer to make a contract of this kind, would be accompanied in most cases by those traits that would prompt them to interpose as a defense thereto its illegality."
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. Mr. Tatlock is then charged with unprofessional conduct in the divorce case of Annie T. Whitmaack vs. Ferdinand W. Whitmaack, it being alleged that he, while attorney for the plaintiff, arranged a settlement of the case with the defendant in consideration of the sum of $250 paid to him by the defendant, after which he procured the consent of the plaintiff to a dismissal of the case, and collected from her the further sum of $50, she not knowing that he had been paid any money the defendant.
It is further alleged that Prudence E. Fitzgerald placed in Mr. Tatlock's hands a claim in the sum of $645 for collection, agreeing to pay him $75 for making the same, and that he collected $230 of the amount and kep $75 as his fee, and has made no attempt to make a further collection from the creditor in question though often requested to do so.
Again, Mr. Tatlock is charged with representing to the Clerk of the Supreme Court that he had not received a certain sum of money for the payment of fees in the case of M. Rush Warner vs. the United States Mutual Accident Association, when the sum had been paid to him. Also, that he requested one Mrs. Snell, who was a copartner with him in the purchase of Louisiana State Lottery tickets, to procure an interview with Judge Anderson in 1891, and to find out whether or not the Judge could be corruptly influenced in a case which it was expected would be heard before him, in which Mr. Tatlock was interested, and if so to make a corrupt proposition to him.
Following are several additional charges of unprofessional conduct on the part of Mr. Tatlock, and in conclusion the defendant prays that he may be dismissed with his costs.
Frank E. McGurrin, trustee, filed an action against George A. Hill et al. in the Third District Court yesterday to collect $2000 on a promissory note secured by a mortgage.
Peter E. Wilson filed an action against Frank E. McGurrin et al. in the Third District Court yesterday to collect $2500 on promissory notes secured by a mortgage.
Frank E. McGurrin vs. Julia A. Maltese; decree of foreclosure by default.
F. E. McGurrin vs. Julia S. Maltese; for the plaintiff for $381.60.
Peter Wilson vs. Frank E. McGurrin et al.; dismissed.
Frank E. McGurrin vs. Julia S. Maltese et al.; application of National Bank of the Republic for surplus from sale submitted and taken under advisement.
Frank E. McGurrin has begun a suit of foreclosure against P. C. Jensen Jr., on a $800 promissory note secured by a chattel mortgage, given to James Thompson and by him transferred to plaintiff.
The Committee on Stenographer has practically decided to report in favor of the election of Frank E. McGurrin as the official stenographer of the convention. If elected, Mr. McGurrin expects to keep abreast of the convention proceedings in transcribing his notes, and his ability to do that is one of the considerations that influence the committee in his favor. It is estimated that the cost of the stenographic report will approximate $1200.
The committee on stenographer reported in favor of employing Frank E. McGurrin to report the proceedings at the rate of $10 for each day the Convention should be actually in session, and 15 cents per folio for transcribing his notes into long hand, the total cost not to exceed $30 for each day's session. It recommended that Mr. McGurrin be required to give a bond in the sum of $2000 for the faithful performance of his duties, and the delivery of the record complete within ten days after the adjournment of the Convention.
The special committee on stenography reported in favor of employing Frank E. McGurrin at the rate of $10 per day and fifteen cents per folio, the entire expense not to exceed $30 per day. There was a lengthy and involved discussion on the recommendation of the committee because of the high rate of payment per diem and for transcribing. But the committee justified their recommendation on the score of the superior fitness of the man recommended. There were nearly two hours consumed in debating the question, the occasion of so much discussion being the fact that there were competitors who proposed to do the work at a less compensation.
How the Ritchie Case Was Worked Up.
BLAZER WAS ON THE TRAIL.He Shadowed Ritchie, While O'Brien Shadowed Both Ritchie and Blazer, and McGurrin and Kinney Shadowed O'Brien - Trial of a Lawyer Charged With Criminal Libel - Called Mr. McGurrin a "Gorilla-Faced Boss."
For the alleged publication of a defamatory circular with reference to the Salt Lake Building & Loan Association, and Frank E. McGurrin, its president, in which Mr. McGurrin was called the "gorilla-faced boss," the officers of the association referred to as "the buzzards who boss it," and the association itself maligned and slandered by the representation, substantially, that it would soon be a thing of the past, Attorney Elmer E. Ritchie was placed on the stand in Judge Bartch's division of the Third District Court yesterday, on the charge of criminal libel.
The prosecution was conducted by Assistant United States Attorney Howat, while Mr. Ritchie was represented by George Sutherland, Judge Bennett and M. L. Ritchie.
Charles D. Savery, the first witness called, testified that he received one of the libelous circulars on August 25, 1894, through the postoffice.
O'BRIEN FOUND THEM. John C. Shipp testified that he was in the hallway leading into Ritchie's office, late in August, 1894, and met Joe O'Brien there. O'Brien said, "I want you to see me do something." He then entered Ritchie's office, and pulling open a drawer, drew out a number of the circulars, several of which he handed to the witness. There was no one in the office at the time.
RITCHIE WANTED THEM. Frank E. McGurrin testified that in company with C. S. Kinney he went into the postoffice shortly before 10 o'clock on the ight of August 24, 1894, and stationed himself at the southwest delivery window. While there, Ritchie entered the postoffice and deposited a large number of envelopes in the "city" slot. He and Kinney and Mr. Frasier, a postoffice employee, then went to the city slot and looked over the deposit. They found about 100 circulars there, one of which was addressed to Mr. Kinney and two to the witness. These were opened and read in the office. Mr. McGurrin also testified that the addresses upon the envelopes were written with a Remington typewriter, and that Ritchie formerly owned such a machine.
Mr. McGurrin was cross-examined by Mr. Sutherland, and in answer to interrogatories, testified that he did not know that Joe O'Brien was dishonest. He knew O'Brien was a detective, and supposed that he was not over-scrupulous. He had also talked to Blazer about the matter and got some information from him, although he was not employed by anybody. On one occation, at a director's meeting, Ritchie and he had a personal encounter. Ritchie called him some vile names, and he knocked Ritchie down. O'Brien was to get $50 for his services if he furnished satisfactory proof as to who was mailing the circulars. When the witness saw Ritchie mail them he was satisfied.
C. S. Kinney was the succeeding witness, and corroborated the previous witness concerning the finding of the circulars in the city box.
A. B. Miller testified that he went to Ritchie's office with O'Brien a few days prior to the alleged mailing of the circulars, and that O'Brien looked for circulars, but did not find any.
RITCHIE ON THE STAND. At this time the prosecution rested, and Elmer E. Ritchie, the defendant, was called.
With regard to the trouble between himself and McGurrin, Mr. Ritchie admitted that he used abusive language to McGurrin, but denied that McGurrin knocked him down. They clinched at the time, and Ritchie was on top when they were separated.
Mr. Ritchie denied emphatically that he had ever mailed any circulars of any character. He was at his office on the evening of August 24, 1894, but left about 10 o'clock. His brother was also in the office. When he left the office he went home with his brother, and was not at the postoffice at all during the evening.
On cross-examination Mr. Ritchie stated that Blazer told him after the second set of circulars was mailed, early in 1894, that he (Blazer) sent them out. The witness looked at the circulars as a joke. Mr. Ritchie was then shown a communication written by him to The Tribune, in which he referred to McGurrin as a "simian freak," and asked why he applied that epithet to McGurrin. His reply was that he thought McGurrin resembled a monkey mentally, and that he wasn't more than half a man. Blazer told him that he had the circulars printed in Illinois.
At 5 o'clock Judge Barch stated that he was compelled to take up another matter specially set down, and the further hearing of the case was postponed until this morning.
Richie Recommended to the Court's Mercy.
"We, the jury, impaneled in the above entitled case, find the defendant, Elmer E. Ritchie, guilty as charged in the indictment, and recommend him to the mercy of the Court."
This was the verdict in the case of the People vs. Elmer E. Ritchie, a member of the Salt Lake bar, charged with having criminally libeled Frank E. McGurrin, president of the Salt Lake Building & Loan Association, by the publication of a false and defamatory circular.
The closing arguments in the case were made yesterday morning by Judge Bennett for the defense, and Assistant United States Attorney Howat for the prosecution, and the matter was submitted to the jury at 12:30 o'clock. At 6 o'clock in the evening they returned their verdict and were discharged.
Judge Howat then stated that he would consent to the defendant being allowed his liberty pending further proceedings, under the original bond given, and an order to that effect was entered.
Mr. Ritchie's attorneys did not give notice of motion for a new trial, but it is presumable that they will do so in the near future.
Elmer E. Ritchie, recently found guilty of criminally libeling Frank E. McGurrin, was to have been sentenced at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but on account of the absence of George Sutherland, chief counsel for the defense, and upon the request of Judge Bennett, associate counsel, the matter went over until Friday next.
Attorney E. E. Ritchie, recently convicted of libeling Frank E. McGurrin, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Bartch to pay a fine of $100.
Mr. Lund, the chairman of the Committee on Accounts and Expenses, submitted a question that had arisen as to whether in the payment of Stenographer McGurrin, per diem should be allowed him for Sundays and other days when the Convention was not in session. The days in dispute were nine, and the amount, at $30 per day, $270. After a statement was made by Mr. McGurrin the Convension allowed his full claim for $1980.
Miss Lillian Myrtie Strong and Mr. John C. Shipp were married last evening. The ceremony took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McGurrin, 664 East First South street, and was witnessed by only a few relatives and friends.
Promptly at 9 p. m. Miss Sinclair struck the opening chords of the Lohengrin march, and the bride and groom descended the stairway and entered the parlor.
The alcove window had been changed into a bower of autumn leaves, relieved by cosmos and white roses. Under this canopy stood the Rev. Clarence T. Brown, and as the bride and groom stood before him he read the service making them man and wife.
It was a very pretty wedding. The white and green color scheme was carried out in all the decorations Smilax hung from the chandeliers and was entwined in the woodwork, while the white cosmos and white roses were used in great profusion.
The bride wore an elegant gown of Duchesse satin made very plainly, but en traine and with large puff sleeves. The neck was cut high and the trimmings were of Duchesse lace. The lace veil was worn clasped at the crown with a white rose.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howell F. Strong of South Bend, Ind., and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. McGurrin. The groom is a well-known young business man. Salt Lake will be their future home.
At the conclusion of the ceremony last night and after all had congratulated the young people, the guests sat down to a dainty wedding supper, covers being laid for sixteen. The table was beautifully decorated in white and green and lighted by many wax tapers. The menu was delicious, and merriment reigned supreme until a late hour.
The wedding presents were numerous and very handsome.
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Buy Notes, Water Scrip, Court Scrip, Warrants, etc.
Loan Money on Real Estate at lowest current rates.
Loans on Insurance Policies, Stocks and other collateral.
Students of All Hallows College Compete for Prizes.
Yesterday afternoon the annual contest in elocution took place at All Hallows college, the exercises beginning at 2 o'clock. Several of the friends of the contestants were present, and Messrs. H. J. Dininny, F. E. McGurrin and F. T. Sinclair acted as judges. The professors of elocution, other members of the faculty and all the students were also present. Two medals were offered, one to the senior and one in the junior class. Out of these two classes ten or twelve of the best had been selected to enter the competition. Each class was drilled on a certain piece, and each contestant declaimed a piece of his own selection according to his own interpretation. The result was an equal division of honors between Utah and Montana.
The senior class selection was "Marca Bozzaris," which was cleverly handed by J. Gallagher, S. Leonard, J. C. Lynch and H. Sullivan. The medal went to Simon Leonard of Drummond, Mont., whose own selection was "The Death of Arnold." J. Lyunch of Deseret Springs, Utah, got second honors, his selected recitation being "Arnold Winkelried."
The junior class piece was "The Rising in '76." There were six competitors, and the medal was taken by D. Murphy of Salt Lake, whose individual recitation was "Barbara Frietchie." The second award in this class was made to Edgar Shuvlin of Anaconda, Mont., who recited "Before the Line at Petersburg." At the close of the competition Mr. Dininny made an address congratulating the contestants upon their skill in declamation.
Geo. T. Shurtliff, arrested in this city Wednesday, charged with embezzlement alleged to have been committed at Salt Lake, has been taken to the capital city for a hearing. From what could be learned of the facts in the case yesterday, it appears that some time ago Shurtliff borrwed a small sum of money of F. E. McGurrin, giving a typewriter as security. Shortly afterwards defendant went to McGurrin and asked for the loan of the machine, claiming he had a great deal of work to do.
It is said he was allowed to take the typewriter, which it afterwards appeared was given as a security to another party for another loan. On hearing this McGurrin swore to the complaint and had Shurtliff arrested. The defendant was at one time employed in the office of Simon Bamberger at Salt Lake and at the time of his arrest he was night clerk at the Windsor hotel. His friends say that he had been drinking heavily and the misappropriation of the machine would never have occurred had Shurtliff not been under the influence of intoxicants.
The preliminary hearing of George T. Shurtliff who was arrested at Ogden on Wednesday at the instance of Frank E. McGurrin, and was brought back to the city, charged with embezzlement, was held yesterday afternoon before Judge McMasters. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge and the case was continued untill next Wednesday at 10 a. m., to give Shurtliff time to procure the presence of several material witnesses in his behalf. The defendant was released on furnishing bonds in the sum of $100.
A meeting of a dozen of ex-Senator Brown's admirers was held at the Knutsford yesterday afternoon. It accomplished the great work of arranging the details of a reception to be given the ex-Senator and Mrs. Brown upon their return from Washington. I. A. Benton, who was chairman of the temporary committee under which the idea of a reception crystallized, presided over the gathering, and there wer present A. H. Nash, Hoyt Sherman, Jr., Dennis Eichnor, Charles H. Post, Peter Lochrie, A. F. Doremus, E. H. Parsons, Alma Katz and Moroni Thomas.
Mr. Benton stated that the temporary committee, consisting of himself, E. B. Critchlow, F. E. McGurrin and Alma Katz, had telegraphed Brown, asking him if he would "accept" a reception on his arrival here, and that Brown had replied in the affirmative. Mr. Benton regretted that the gathering, as Mr. Critchlow had it in his possession, and Mr. Critchlow was not in attendance. Its purport, however, was that the ex-Senator did not expect to reach here until about March 20th, but that he was agreeable to the reception.
Trustee's sale. Notice of sale under trust deed. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Frank E. McGurrin, trustee, named in a certain deed of trust, executed May 28, 1897, and acknowledged and delivered June 1, 1897, wherein Elmer E. Crooks and Mary A. Crooks, his wife, of Salt Lake City, Utah, are parties of the first part, Frank E. McGurrin, trustee, of Salt Lake City, Utah is party of the second part, and Charles H. McGurrin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is party of the third part, filed for record on June 1, 1897, in the office of the Recorder of Salt Lake county, Utah, and recorded in book "4 G" of mortgages on pages 552-3-4-5 thereof and to which reference is hereby made, by the terms and provisions of which, said parties of the first part conveyed to the undersigned, Frank E. McGurrin, trustee, said party of the second part, the real estate therein and hereinafter described, in trust to secure the payment of the promissory note executed by said parties of the first part for the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00), bearing date May 28, 1897, due and payable June 1, 1899, to the order of the said Charles H. McGurrin, said party of the third part, with interest thereon, payable semi-yearly at the rate of eight per centum per annum, from date until due, according to the tenor and effect thereof, and of four interest notes thereto attached; principal and interest payable in United States gold coin; all principal and interest not paid when due to bear interest at the rate of one per centum per month from due until paid; in case default be made in the payment of any interest, after the space of thirty days, the principal sum thereof, and all unpaid interest, shall, at any time thereafter, at the option of the holder thereof, become due and collectible without notice; said promissory note being executed and delivered for an actual loan of money made to said parties of the first part, by said Charles H. McGurrin, party of the third part; and by the terms and provisions of which said deed of trust, it is provided that if default be made in the payment of any of said interest notes when the same, by the terms thereof, became due and payable, then, and in such case, the whole of said principal sum, together with all interest due thereon, should, at the option of said Charles H. McGurrin, party of the third part, or his assigns, become immediately due and payable without notice; and the said Frank E. McGurrin, trustee, party of the second part, might proceed to sell said real estate thereby conveyed, or any protion thereof, at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash, at the west front door of the county courthouse, Salt Lake county, Utah, first giving twenty days' public notice of the time, terms and place of such sale, and the property to be sold, by advertisement in some newspaper printed in the English language and published in Salt Lake City, Utah: and whereas the said Charles H. McGurrin, party of the third part, has heretofore duty assigned and transferred the said promissory note and the interest notes thereto attached, to Michael Quealy, who is now the legal holder and owner thereof; and whereas default has been made in the payment of the interest due upon said promissory note, as evidenced by the interest note thereto attached, for the sum of one hundred and one dollars, sixty-five cents ($101.65), which became due and payable on December 1, 1897, no part or portion of which has been paid; and whereas said Michael Quealy, the legal holder and owner of said promissory note and said interest notes thereto attached, having notified the undersigned of such non-payment of interest due and payable as aforesaid; and that he, said Michael Quealy, had elected to and did declare the entire amount of said promissory note and the unpaid interest thereon due and payable and has requested the undersigned tos sell the real estate conveyed by said deed of trust, in accordance with the provisions thereof, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness thereby secured, viz: The principal sum of the said promissory note, viz, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00), with interest at eight per centum per annum from December 1, 1897; the sum of one hundred and one dollars, sixty-five cents ($101.65), interest due December 1, 1897, as aforesaid, with interest thereon at the rate of one per centum per month; and the costs and expenses of this sale, including $125.00 attorneys' fee, as provided by the terms and provisions of said deed of trust.
Now, therefore, on Saturday, March 5, 1898, at the hour of 12 m. of said day, at the west front door of the county courthouse of Salt Lake county, Utah, situate in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purposes aforesaid, I shall sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cas, all the right, title and interest that the said Elmer E. Crooks and Mary A. Crooks, his wife, said parties of the first part, had at the time of the execution and delivery of said deed of trust, or have since acquired, or, in and to the premises therein described and thereby converyed, situate in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake county, Utah, and described as: Commencing at the southwest corner of lot two (2), block twenty-seven (27), plat "G," Salt Lake City survey; thence east forty-six and one-half (46½) feet; thence north one hundred twenty-seven (127) feet; thence west forty-six and one-half (46½) feet; thence south one hundred twenty-seven (127) feet to the place of beginning.FRANK E. M'GURRIN, Trustee.Date of first publication, Feb. 11, 1898.
McGurrin & McGurrin, Attorneys for Trustee.
F. E. McGurrin & Co. are suing Matt Ward Fitzgerald et al. to collect $801.25 on a promissory note, with $75 attorney's fees.
F. E. McGurrin vs. Nat Ward Fitzgerald et al.; demurrer overruled and five days to answer.
Miss Katherine L. Trumbo and Mr. Edward McGurrin were married at St. Mary's cathedral yesterday morning, Vicar General Kiely officiating. As the parties were to take the first train for the east, the ceremony was performed at an early hour, and the wedding was a very pretty one. The dim church was brilliantly illuminated with innumerable wax candles, and was decorated with a profusion of choice cut flowers. The bride was becomingly attired in a going-away gown and was attended by Miss May Kane as bridesmaid, while Fred T. McGurrin, the groom's brother, acted as best man. Only the relatives of the contracting parties and a few near friends were present, and after the ceremony hearty congratulations were tendered, and Mr. and Mrs. McGurrin left at once on their wedding trip. The Salt Lake Herald says: "The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Mary Trumbo and a sister of Colonel Isaac Trumbo. She was educated at the Sacred Heart academy here, and is one of Salt Lake's most beautiful and accomplished young ladies. She is well known in social and musical circles and will be remembered as one of the harpists at the last Eisteddfod. The groom is one of the most prominent of the younger members of the bar, and is a member of the firm of McGurrin & McGurrin, and a brother of Frank E. McGurrin, the banker."
Notice is hereby given, that under the terms and provisions of a chattel mortgage dated March 28, 1898, executed by W. A. Chapman and Eliza Fletcher Chapman, his wife, both of Salt Lake City, Utah, as mortgagors, to Frank E. McGurrin, trading as F. E. McGurrin & Co., as mortgagee, securing the payment of the promissory note of said mortgagors, dated March 28, 1898, for $130, due and payable in sums of $25 on April 1, July 1, October 1, 1898, January 1, April 1, 1899, and $5 on May 1, 1899, with interest at 2 per cent per month from date until maturity, which said note and chattel mortgage have been assigned and trasferred to Edward Home, and upon which said promissory note there is now due and owing sum of $127.50, with interest at 2 per cent per month from May 24, 1898, I shall on Tuesday, August 30, 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m., at Nos. 126-128 South West Temple street, Salt Lake City, Utah, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the property described in and conveyed by said chattel mortgage, namely: One cherry bedroom set, consisting of bedstead, dresser and washstand; one mahogany bedroom set, consisting of bedstead, dresser and washstand; two wire springs and two hair or wool mattresses; one single bed spring and mattress, two rugs, each about 10x12 feet, two rugs each about 5x6 feet; six oak dining chairs, cane bottomed; one "Splendid" baseburner stove; one cook stove; one sofa; one gasoline stove; three parlor chairs.EDWARD HOME,Dated August 12, 1898.
Assignee of Mortgagee.
McGurrin & McGurrin, Attorneys for Assignee.
F. E. McGurrin et al. vs. Agunes Brown et al.; demurrer argued and submitted.
F. E. McGurrin is suing Jennie B. Tennant et al. to collect $2080 on a promissory note secured by a mortgage.
A suit has been filed in the Third district court by D. P. Turple against Frank E. McGurrin, alleging that McGurrin and Darling gave their promissory note in the sum of $2,500 to Sarah A. Slauson and to secure the payment of the same, gave a mortgage on certain real estate. This plaintiff had some interest in certain other real property, which he conveyed to Crossman & Veatch, who conveyed to this plaintiff the premises which were mortgaged to Mrs. Slauson. It is then alleged that Crossman fraudulently inserted in the latter conveyance a provision to the efect that this plaintiff took the property subject to the mortgage, and that the plaintiff agreed to be responsible for any deficiency in case of foreclosure. It is then alleged that McGurrin acted as agent for Mrs. Slauson, and that he was also the agent of this plaintiff. Mrs. Slauson foreclosed on the mortgage, because the interest wasn't paid, and the plaintiff alleges that it was McGurrin's fault that the default in interest was made, the plaintiff having paid the same to McGurrin.
In the foreclosure suit of F. E. McGurrin vs. Jennie B. Tennant et al., Judge Hiles rendered a judgment and decree of foreclosure in favor of the plaintiff yesterday for the amount prayed, with $100 as attorney's fees.
F. E. McGurrin, investment banker, said he had made a study of handwriting. Had examined a number of Hedges's signatures and also the signature on the alleged forged note. His opinion was that they wer all written by the same hand.
Children Make Records on Typewriters.
WROTE WHILE BLINDFOLDEDAt St. Ann's Orphanage Yesterday Twelve Children Competed on a Typewriter for a Handsome Prize - Each Wrote for Two Minutes - Jennie Edwards, Aged 12 Years, Captured the Prize - She Wrote 58 Words in a Minute Blindfolded - Other Also Made Very Fast Time.
Twelve little girls and boys of St. Ann's orphanage, comprising the shorthand and typewriting class, competed on a typewriter yesterday afternoon for a prize.
The prize consisted of a handsome gold chain and locket, and the contest was one of unusual interest.
The children range in age from 10 to 15 years, and when it is considered that they have only been studying a few months, their performance yesterday was nothing short of phenomenal.
Each contestant wrote for one minute, while looking at the keys and one minute blindfolded.
JUST AS EASY. The prize was captured by Jennie Edwards, aged 12, a remarkably pretty little girl, whose tiny fingers flew over the keys so rapidly that the eye could hardly follow. In fact, Jennie's eyes didn't follow them, for after she had written fifty-four words in a minute while looking at the keys, a bandage was placed over her eye and she rattled off fifty-eight words in the same time.
WAS RAPID, TOO. Mary Cavanaugh, another twelve-year-old-girl, wrote seventy-three words in a minute before her vision was obscured, but when blindfolded she greatly lowered her average.
Maud Pattenson, aged 15, wrote sixty words while looking at the keys, but had some trouble when blindfolded.
OTHER RECORDS. Other minute records, with vision unobscured, were as follows: Peter McDermott, aged 12, forty-six words; Frank McDonough, aged 10, thirty-two words; Mary Glassett, aged 15, forty-eight words; Margaret Stuart, aged 13, sixty-four words.
Those whose records are given, together with Frank McMann, aged 14, Patrick McMann, aged 13, Eleanor Glassett, aged 15, Anna Creighton, aged 13, and Hilda Stuart, aged 11, comprised the class.
Bishop Scanlan was an interested spectator, and Rev. Father Kiely and F. E. McGurrin acted as timekeepers.
PRESENTED THE PRIZE. To the bishop fell the happy lot of presenting the prize to the happy little victor, and as he fasten the chain about her neck, he patted her curly head and predicted great things for her in the future.
F. E. McGurrin addressed the entire class briefly upon the importance of thorough practice, and Rev. Father Kiely complimented them highly upon the proficiency shown.
D. P. Tarpey vs. F. E. McGurrin, demurrer to complaint sustained and until July 1st allowed to amend.
D. P. Tarpey vs. F. E. McGurrin, second suit; motion to dismiss overruled.
Frank E. McGurrin has filed suit in the District court against J. W. Maxheld et al., to quiet title to one-fourth interest in the Rebecca lode mining claim in the West Mountain mining district.
Salt Lakers Will Push a New Invention. If half of what is claimed for the Harris carbonizer is true, the problem of disposing of kitchen garbage economically and efficiently and without odor has at last been solved. So sanguine are the promoters of the new idea of making a ten-strike with the public that they are already planning to show to the city council that there is no necessity whatever of having the public garbage crematory rebuilt at large cost and its consequent operation made a heavy drain on the municipal treasury.
The local organization intended to solve the problem of disposing of house garbage according to approved sanitary science is known as the Domestic Garbage Burner company. According to its articles of incorporation, filed yesterday with the county clerk, the company's capital stock is fixed at $200,000, in shares of $1 each, John W. Donnellan is president; H. M. Clay, vice president and general manager; H. W. Doscher, secretary; Frank E. McGurrin, treasurer, and Dr. J. C. E. King, the city's health commissioner, is the other director and incorporator. Salt Lake City is to be the company's headquarters.
The secret of the new method of disposing of house garbage is said to be in an automatic attachment with a piece of the stove pipe from the kitchen range, which carbonizes the debris, no matter how wet, and makes it ready to be used as fuel. The cheapness of the apparatus, it is declared, commends it to all housewives to give it a trial.
The intention is to commence at once to place the new garbage carbonizer on the market.
The case of Lizzie M. Margetts against F. E. McGurrin to recover damages for misrepresentation in a sale of real estate was argued and submitted in Judge Morse's court last night. McGurrin, by mistake, placed a sign on the wrong piece of property and the buyer was misled thereby.
The Commercial club of Salt Lake placed itself on record last night as opposed to the granting of any franchise by the city council, giving privileges to one railroad at the expense of anothers. A resolution to this effect was passed, which, while general in its terms, opposes the granting of the application of the Oregon Short Line for a track on the cast side of Fourth West street. This is the resolution:
"That pending the question of a union depot, the Commercial club requests that the city council refrain from granting any franchise that shall hinder or hamper such project; and that whatever franchise is granted shall not be exclusive or hostile to the interests of any railroad company now here or to come here."
A committee, comprising Charles Read, W. S. McCornick, John E. Dooly, F. E. McGurrin, George M. Cannon, O. W. Powers and William H. Penrose, was appointed to present the resolution to the city council at its meeting tonight, when the council committee on railroads will report favoring the grant of the franchise to the Oregon Short Line.
The meeting was called ostensibly to discuss the union depot question, but it resolved itself into a wrangle between the friends of the two leading railroads and the owners of business property to be affected by the particular location of the proposed or anticipated depot. It was found that many business men ar strongly opposed to a union depot anywhere and at any time, believing that the best interests of the city would be served by the erection of as many depots as possible.
The meeting was held at the Knutsford hotel, and was attended by about forty members of the club. President Nelden stated that he had called the meeting together in response to the requests of many citizens who thought the organization should register an expression of its views on the depot question for the guidance and instruction of the city council pior to the consideration by that body of the important question to come before it this evening.
Walter Lyne started a vigorous discussion by moving that the club be not in favor of a union depot. W. S. McCornick supported the motion in a terse speech, giving his reasons for favoring a multiplicity of railroad stations. He also stated that he did not consider it the province of the Commercial club to try to influence legislation on the subject.
"I do not hesitate to say," said Mr. McCornick, "that I am opposed to a union station and always have been. The more stations we have the better; they give the city more taxable property and provide employment for more men. Let us have all the stations we can get - it is better for us and for the railroads."
F. E. McGurrin began proceedings yesterday in the district court against John Coon and twenty other defendants for the purpose of quieting his title to certain lots in sections 23 and 26, township 1, Salt Lake county.
In the fall of 1897, the exchange had its calls under the Bank of Commerce. Business began to revive, and the sale of stocks increased steadily during the winter of 1897 and 1898, and during the year 1898. This activity lasted through the first half of the year 1899. So great was the interest had been engaged in real estate bought seats on the exchange, and the prices of the seats advanced from $16 in the fall of 1897 to more than $400 in the spring of 1899. This increased business led the officers and principal brokers to take steps toward the incorporation of the exchange, and on the 16th of March, 1899, the following gentlemen became the incorporators of the Salt Lake Stock & Mining Exchange: J. E. Jackson, E. H. Airis, D. H. Peery, Jr., Timothy Egan, William H. Tibbals, R. L. Colburn, M. S. Pendergast, Ben W. Luce and Herman Bamberger. The officers of the first year were J. E. Jackson, president; William H. Tibbals, first vice president; Timothy Egan, second vice president; Herman Bamberger, third vice president; C. E. Hudson, secretary, and Frank E. McGurrin, treasurer.
F. E. McGurrin & Co. have begun an action against Annie L. Silva, Matthew A. Daugherty and Emma C. Daugherty to have certain real estate in the city sold by the sheriff to satisfy a note for $2,700.
The Atlas block, at 34 west Second South street was burned at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. The building was owned by the S. S. Walker Estate company and was valued at $100,000. It was insured for $75,000. In the building were about 100 tenants, mainly professional men. On the ground floor were the Bank of Commerce and F. E. McGurrin & Co., bankers. At four o'clock the Salt Lake Hardware company, directly west of the Atlas block took fire. At that hour it spread eastward was behoved to be checked. - Herald
Logan, Oct. 7. - P. J. Moran of Salt Lake City today filed suit in the First District court against J. H. Bowman and Fred Hodder, co-partners, doing business as Bowman, Hodder & Co., and R. G. Wilson and F. E. McGurrin. Complainant asks for judgment in the sum of $1,899.29, said amount alleged to be a balance due on a contract of $7,000 with plaintiff to furnish defendants with material for the plumbing, steam heating and sewerage for the building of the large addition to the Agricultural college in 1901, together with interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum on the said sum, after deducting partial payments, from and after December 31, 1901, and for costs. R. G. Wilson and F. E. McGurrin are cited as bondsmen of the said co-partnership.
A sensation developed this afternoon in the case of G. E. Rice, charged with forging the name of S. W. Darling, a prosperous Nevada mining man, to a check for $1,500.
F. E. McGurrin and F. L. Conley, two of the best handwriting experts in Utah, testified that the check was written by Darling, according to all deduction that can be made from what is known of the science of individual characteristics in handwriting.
The non-"Mormon" organization took a further step when the committee designated to pass around the protest to congress announced the following divisions in its memberships:
First Precinct - W. J. Meeks, Samuel Hammel, Arthur Brown (not the ex-senator).
Second Precinct - J. N. Courtney, S. D. Chase, N. B. Corser.
Third Precinct - George Hancock, H. C. Lawrence, R. B. Hildebrand.
Fourth Precinct - R. S. Rives, H. W. Brown, Willard Hansen.
Fifth Precinct - Sam McDowell, F. E. McGurrin, W. F. Earls.
We publish today the report from a Michigan paper of an interview with F. E. McGurrin of this city. It will be found on another page. We reproduce it in full so that the people here may know what is said about them elsewhere by one who, from his log residence, should be able to tell the truth concerning local affairs.
If the statements he has made had appeared only in the paper from which we copy, verbatim, we might not have paid much attention to them. But the Denver Post had previously reported him in a similar vein and other papers had done the same, and it seemed as though he had made his trip to the east the occasion for venting his animosity and distributing his falsehoods about a people who have never done him any harm and with many of whom he has been on amicable business relations.
His first assertion is that Senator Reed Smoot is "a sworn enemy to the United States, who represents a body of men who have taken the oath of vengeance against the government and who declare themselves to owe no allegiance to the country." Whoever F. E. McGurrin may mean by this libel his assertion is utterly void of truth and brands his brow with a mark of burning shame. Reed Smoot represents the entire people of Utah and more particularly the party that elected him. Have the Republicans who voted for and supported Mr. Smoot taken such an oath as that alleged? We presume the man that made the assertion will say he didn't mean them. But his language covers the entire Republican party of Utah, for it is that party that Senator Smoot expecially represents.
If this position is evaded by the claim that the "Mormon" Church was meant by the libeller the assertion is equally untrue. Neither Mr. Smoot nor any other member of that Church has taken any such oath or obligation. On the contrary, they are by their religion pledged to support the Constitution and government of their country and to yield "subjection to the powers that be." F. E. McGurrin has placed himself on record by the side of those shameless known defamers of the Church who are dispised for "bearing false witness against their neighbors."
Next he states that "all mandates of the Church and State are divinely ordered. The Mormons believe it firmly!" If he is not as ignorant of the truth as the meanest cur on the streets of this city, he knows that this assertion is utterly false and inexcusable. The same as to the "blood curdling oaths" of "vengeance against the government," that he declares are taken by "every good Mormon who passes through the endowment house." He does not save himself, in repeating this oft-refuted calumny by placing it on rumor, but he makes the false statement his own. "Every good Mormon" is thus defamed by a man who lives among them and expects to do business with them; and they know now what his word is worth.
Does not F. E. McGurrin know that by his published statement that "the Apostles and Elders in the Mormon Church dictate to every mumber of the Chruch regarding his personal affairs, including politics, business and private matters." he exposes his own assininity as well as lack of veracity? How is such a thing possible with two or three hundred thousand people scattered over the area covered by the "Mormon" Church? And what excuse can he find for such a monstrous and patent absurdity? He cannot be ignorant of the fact, however dense he may be as to the "Mormon" question, that his own Church has been maligned on just the same lines as those on which he has misrepresented the "Mormon" Church.
We are pleased to know that the Catholic prelates and priests do not endorse such attacks, and that they recognize the similarity of the allegations against them and against the "Mormon" Church leaders. Nothing, however vicious, he has said about the latter exceeds the charges made against the former. Does he like them, as directed against his own faith and its expounders?
Is he not ashamed to face just men of eigher party or any persuasion, with the falsehoods he has put in print, that "the heads of the Mormon Church decided upon the appointment of Reed Smoot for United States Senator," and that "they walked in and gave the orders to the Utah Legislature and that settled it?" What fact can he adduce in justification of such a bold assertion, the latter part of which at least is known to be without the shadow of truth or reason? And why should the "unseating of Senator Smoot" cause "a split in the `Mormon' Church" or "result in breaking its power and authority?" Is the man daft as well as mendacious, or was he just "stuffing" the reporter at the expense of his fellow citizens at Salt Lake?
We might go on and expose other attacks on the majority of the people of this State made by one who should know and do better. But enough has been said to show his animus and unreliability. We desire to make a sharp distinction between F. E. McGurrin and other residents here with the same surname. We believe them to be honorable gentlemen who mind their own busness and do it well. We cast no reflection upon them. Neither do we attempt anything of the kind upon the author of the falsehoods which we have touched upon; he has done that himself.
What benefit can possibly accrue to Utah, or anybody in it, by the publication of such stuff and such stories as F. E. McGurrin has palmed off upon eastern papers, we cannot for the life of us percieve. The prejudices they create or foster do injury to the State and to business affairs. And they cause distrust and anger to arise among citizens whose interest it is to work together for the common good. While we may sincerely differ with each other on religion and politics and social conditions, and every man has the right to his opinions on either, no one is justfied in exhibiting his anger at persons who differ with him, by such vicious and mallcious falsehoods as those embodied in the F. E. McGurrin interview with a Michigan paper.
(Deseret News.) We publish today the report from a Michigan paper of an interview with F. E. McGurrin of this city. It will be found on another page. We reproduce it in full so that the people here may know what is said about them elsewhere by one who, from his log residence, should be able to tell the truth concerning local affairs.
If the statements he has made had appeared only in the paper from which we copy, verbatim, we might not have paid much attention to them. But the Denver Post had previously reported him in a similar vein and other papers had done the same, and it seemed as though he had made his trip to the east the occasion for venting his animosity and distributing his falsehoods about a people who have never done him any harm and with many of whom he has been on amicable business relations.
His first assertion is that Senator Reed Smoot is "a sworn enemy to the United States, who represents a body of men who have taken the oath of vengeance against the government and who declare themselves to owe no allegiance to the country." Whoever F. E. McGurrin may mean by this libel his assertion is utterly void of truth and brands his brow with a mark of burning shame. Reed Smoot represents the entire people of Utah and more particularly the party that elected him. Have the Republicans who voted for and supported Mr. Smoot taken such an oath as that alleged? We presume the man that made the assertion will say he didn't mean them, but his language covers the entire Republican party of Utah, for it is that party that Senator Smoot expecially represents.
If this position is evaded by the claim that the "Mormon" church was meant by the libeller the assertion is equally untrue. Neither Mr. Smoot nor any other member of that church has taken any such oath or obligation. On the contrary, they are by their religion pledged to support the constitution and government of their country and to yield "subjection to the powers that be." F. E. McGurrin has placed himself on record by the side of those shameless known defamers of the church who are dispised for "bearing false witness against their neighbors."
Next he states that all mandates of the church and state are divinely ordered. The Mormons believe it firmly. If he is not as ignorant of the truth as the meanest cur on the streets of this city, he knows that this assertion is utterly false and inexcusable. The same as to the "blood curdling oaths" of "vengeance against the government," that he declares are taken by "every good Mormon who passes through the endowment house."
THE MONEY YOU WANT to build a home is ready for you. You needn't have a lot even. We'll buy the one you want, and you won't miss the payments so much as you do the rent you're paying now, because you're buying a home for yourself.
Salt Lake Security & Trust Company, F. E. McGurrin, President. Security & Trust building, 32-34 Main street.
Tonopah Crown Point Mining Company. Main office, Security Trust Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. President, J. M. Healy; vice president; R. Harkness, secretary; F. E. McGurrin, Salt Lake City, Utah. Capital Stock, 1,000,000 shares of $1 each; 400,000 shares in tresury. Laws - Utah.
Frank E. McGurrin, trading as F. E. McGurrin and Co., filed suit in the District court this morning against Maude Sermon, John A. Sermon and the Granite Lumber company for a judgment for $797. The suit is brought on a note made October 19, 1904. The plaintiff also asks that the judgment may apply as a lien on the defendant's property.
Quite a number of Salt Lakers have made fortunes in mining opeartions at Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, since the camps were discovered a few years ago. Naturally, The Mining Review is interested in the success of Salt Lake men who are interested in Nevada camps, as well as elsewhere, and it is therefore pleasing to learn that the Tonopah-Crown Point company, in the development of its property, is seemingly on the highway to a realization of its hopes. This company is composed of men of high standing in Salt Lake and Tonopah. It is capitalized at a million shares of a par value of $1 a share, 400,000 shares of which are devoted to treasury purposes, a portion of which has been taken by the members of the company and their friends. James M. Healy is president of the company; Robert B. Harkness, vice president; F. E. McGurrin, treasurer, and these, with Key Pitman, J. W. Briggs and W. B. Pittman, of Tonopah, and W. H. Cunningham, of Salt Lake, comprise the board of directors. Edward Home is secretary for the company.
The will of Patrick Flood of Colton, who died at Salt Lake, March 2d, has been filed for probate, together with the petition of Frank E. McGurrin, asking that he be appointed executor as provied in the will. The estate consists of real property valued at $3500 and personal property valued at $1700. In his will he bequeaths all of his property to Bishop Lawrence Scanlan with the exception of five dollars each to the two sons of testator.
F. E. McGurrin of Salt Lake is in the city to-day closing up the details of a deal whereby Maple Hall, formerly the property of J. W. Carpenter, goes into his posession. After July 1st, the dance hall in the building will be conducted by a new management.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, are making a tour of the Pacific Coast, their itinerary including points between Alaska and Los Angeles. They are at present visiting Mrs. E. A. Kessler, of 1020 Jackson street.
Mr. Frank McGurrin President of the Salt Lake Security and Trust Co., and Mr. Berrill the Salt Lake real estate man were in Tooele on business this week.
F. E. McGurrin, a Salt Lake City banker, was in Price over Sunday. It is said he is figuring with others at Zion to erect a number of dwelling houses for rent in this city.
Mr. Sullivan, the local agent of the Hammond Canal COmpany is sending out invitations to all the water users on the canal to attend meetings that will be held next Tuesday, to discuss subjects of interest to the company and the farmers. A meeting will be held at Dewey at 10:30 in the morning, at Honeyville at 2 in the afternoon and at Brigham City in the evening at the Commercial Club. Dr. Woodruff, President of the Salt Lake Commercial Club who is als president of the canal company and F. E. McGurrin, secretary and treasurer will be at each meeting. It is expected that Dr. L. E. Merrill, the well known irrigation expert and J. Edward Taylor, State Horticulturist, will be presetn to give informal talks. The Canal officials are anxious to become acquainted with the people they are serving and the meetings will be interesting to all who attend.
F. E. McGurrin, President
32 Main Street Salt Lake City
On Sunday last a party of Salt Lakers makde up of officers of the Hammond Canal Company were in Brigham City making a trip of inspection over the canal and the lands of the Realty Bond & Share Company. Both of these companies are controlled by the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company. Mr. F. E. McGurrin, president of the Trust Company was in the party which also included R. C. Gemmell, general manager of the Utah Copper Company, who is a director of the company. The party went out over the canal and the lands owned by them and on the way back stopped at the new grounds of the Brigham City Golf Club out on the barrens. Messrs McGurrin and Gemmell are counted as about the best players in the state and have competed on the best gold links in the country. Both gentlemen were very much impressed with the links and were of the opinion that when the golfers of Salt Lake and Ogden became acquainted with the links here inter-city tournaments will be formed and great interest aroused in the game. Mr. McGurrin left a number of golf clubs and balls for the use of the local golfers and has promised to come up often and instruct them in the game.
When the stock held by Mr. D. C. Jackling in the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company was taken over last week by Lorenzo N. Stohl and those associated with him in the National Savings & Trust Company and which amalgamated the two concerns, one of the biggest and most important business deals that has occurred in the inter-mountain west in many years was consummated and under the new arrangement plans have been completed, looking to the building up of a financial institution that will occupy a place in the front ranks of the banking establishments of the west.
At a meeting of the directors, held during the week, the directors underwent some changes. D. C. Jackling, Edward McGurrin and Edward Home retiring in favor of James Mack of Ogden and A. B. Irvine and Joseph J. Cannon of Salt Lake. At the meeting held yesterday still further changes were made lookin to the consummation of the plans for broadening the scope of the bank's activities, chief among them being the election of George M. Cannon, for fourteen years cashier of Zion's Saving's Bank & Trust company, to be cashier, with Arthur C. Sullivan, who has been with the bank nearly ten years, as assistant cashier, and Joseph J. Cannon, for three years manager of the National Savings and Trust company, as secretary. The new officers assume their positions Monday and the new plans will be put in operation immedately.
The Box Elder County residents who were directors of the National Savings & Trust Company and who are now interested in the join concern which will be known as the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company are: Oleen N. Stohl, Peter M. Hansen, R. L. Fishburn Jr., David Holmgren.
The Salt Lake Security & Trust Company were the owners of the Hammond Canal and all the lands which the Realty Bond & Share Co., have been selling and offering the sale. All these holdings go into the amalgamation so that the local capital now becomes interested in these big local projects.
In outlining the policy of the institution under the new plans, Mr. F. E. McGurrin, who founded the institution and who will continue in the capacity of president, gave out the following:
"Under the plans to go into effect Monday, the Salt Lake Security & Trust company will undoubtedly rapidly forge ahead until it reaches a position among the leading savings banks and trust companies of the intermountain west. The securing of Mr. Cannon as cashier will enable us immediately to extend our operations and enlarge the scope of our savings department as we have planned to do. The experience Mr. Cannon has had in this line will enable him to build up this department to the point where it will rank among the leaders. The trust department also will be given special attention under the new plans, it being the aim to make this feature of our work meet every requirement of the people of the mountain states. Such functions as executor, administer, etc., will be made a feature of the work in the trust department, and in every possible manner the scope of this branch will be enlarged.To Guarantee Titles. "A special feature of the new plans calls for the extension of the work of the `guaranteed certificate of title' department. The work of this department is new to most people of the west and it will require some educational work to make known fully the merits of the `certificate of title' plan. The new method eliminates the old-fashioned cumbersome system of private abstracts and replaces it with the modern system whereby the bank will issue from its own complete abstract records a certificate of title that will be fully guaranteed and offer even greater protection to all concerned. There are but two complete sets of the abstarcts of Salt Lake county in existence and the Salt Lake Security & Trust company owns one of them. We intend to undertake a campaign of education at once to bring the merits of the new system to the attention of the people of this community.Will Erect Skyscraper. "The new plans also call for the erection of a modern seventeen-story skyscraper on the company's property at First South and Main streets. This will be erected as soon as the ground can be obtained from the present lessees, but at any rate as soon as the lease expires. When completed there will be no more modern or convenient banking quarters in the United States. The plans call for the most modern construction and the quarters of the bank, which will occupy the entire ground floor, will be up to the minute in every detail. The upper floors will be prepared for office use."
George M. Cannon, who assumes the position of cashier tomorrow, has for eight years been the head of the Geo. M. Cannon Real Estate company. In this capacity he has developed several important subdivisions on the east bench. For fourteen years he was cashier of Zion's Bank & Trust company and saw the deposits grow from $800,000 to nearly $5,000,000. For six years he was recorder for Salt Lake county. He was a member of the constitutional convention and chairman of two important committees in that body. When Utah became a state he was made president of the 1st state senate.
The other new members of the organizations are well-known in business circles throughout the west.
The officers of the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company are F. E. McGurrin, president; F. S. Bascom, first vice-president; John Hickey, second vice-president; George M. Cannon, cashier; A. C. Sullivan, assistant cashier, and Joseph J. Cannon, secretary. Other directors are E. D. Woodruff, Chairman of the Board, W. A. Wilson, R. C. Gemmell, James Mack of Ogden and A. B. Irvine.
F. E. McGurrin the "daddy" of the Sequoyah club was leading medalist in the first day of qualifying play for the Rheem cup at Sequoyah yesterday. McGurrin registered a medal score of 75.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Walter of Lerida avenue, Piedmont, were hosts to a family party of 10 today at their home, their guests including Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. McGurrin, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Howard Walter of San Francisco, who are their son and daughter-in-law, and the younger Mrs. Walter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Gay of San Francisco.
McGURRIN - In Oakland, August, 1933, Frank E., beloved husband of Jane D. McGurrin, loving brother of Edward of S. F. and Manus McGurrin of Grand Rapids, Mich. A member of Oakland Council No. 784 K. C. A native of Grand Rapids.
Funeral services for Frank E. McGurrin, 72, Oakland capitalist and sportsman who died Thursday night after a long illness, were held today from the family home at 9000 Sequoyah Road. followed by a requiem mass at St. Louis Catholic Church.
McGurrin was a native of Michigan. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1884 but did not practice. Interested in shorthand and typewriting, he developed such proficiency that he became national champion in both branches and was appointed official reporter for the United States court in Salt Lake City in 1886.
Subsequently McGurrin's interest turned to loans and investments and for many years he headed the Salt Lake Security & Trust Co. and was president of the Commercial Bank of Tooele, Utah. He was a vice-president of the American Bankers' Association.
Intending to retire from active business, McGurrin disposed of his interests in Utah in 1915 and came to Oakland. Here his activities included the development of the Sequoyah Hills project and establishment of the Sequoyah Country Club. He was an ardent golfer and had a large collection of trophies and was active in the development of the Oak Knoll and Castiewood Country Clubs and in furthering municipal golf for Oakland. He was a member of Oakland Council No. 784, Knights of Columbus.
Surviving are his widow, Jane Darling McGurrin, whom he married in 1886, and two brothers, Edward McGurrin of San Francisco and Manus McGurrin of Grand Rapids. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Clarence N. Cooper.
The international writing-machine speed contest for the championship of the world was held under the auspices of the Canadian Shorthand Society, in the Convocation Hall, education department, Toronto, Aug. 13, 1888. The report of the speed committee was as follows :-"Ten operators (five of whom used the Caligraph, and five the Remington) took part in the contest. Their names and addresses, with character of work done, are given below.
"Before the contest took place, the audience was challenged by the committee to question any of their actions, or to state that the contest was arranged in the interest of any machine.
"The contestants drew lots for positions, and wrote in groups of three. After drawing for positions, the operators were excluded, and not allowed to enter the room where the contest took place until their turn came; and after writing they had to remain until the close of the contest. During the time of writing, no person was allowed to enter, leave, or move about the room, or take shorthand notes.
"Each class of work was written for five minutes. Three copies of all work were manifolded; and before the paper was put into the machine it was stamped with the seal of the society, and signed by the operator and his or her reader.
"The matter in the law evidence and commercial letter was entirely new to the operators, and was fair average copy.
"The operators were allowed but a single trial, and were given about half a minute to look at the matter. At the word `Go' each group started, and finished simultaneously at the word `Stop.'
"At the conclusion of each test, the three copies manifolded, with the copy read from, which also bore the reader's and operator's signature, were pinned together, and immediately handed to the committee.
"All the work was examined by the committee with closed doors, and no person saw or had an opportunity of seeing the work up to the time of making the final award.
"On general writing - law evidence and commecial matter - Miss Mae E. Orr won the gold medal for the championship of the world. Mr. F. E. McGurrin won the silver medal in the same class.
"On the memorized sentence, `This is a song to fill thee with delight,' Mr. T. W. Osborne won the silver medal. This sentence was published for about two months, and was written just as it appears above.
"The prizes won, points made in each class of work, and words per minute are given in order of merit in each class below :-
GENERAL MATTER. Explanation. - After an operator's name [R] indicates Remington; [C] Caligraph; (a) Commercial Letter; (b) Law Evidence.
1. Miss Mae E. Orr, [R], (a) 2,451; (b) 2,484; total, 4,935 points = 98.7 words per minute. Prize, gold medal; value, $50.00.
2. F. E. McGurrin, [R], (a) 2,401; (b) 2,355.5; total, 4,756.5 points = 95.11 words per minute. Prize, silver medal; value, $20.00.
3. T. W. Osborne, [C], (a) 2,320; (b) 2,357; total, 4,677 points = 93.5 words per minute. Prize, $15.00.
4. Miss M. C. Grant, [R], (a) 2,219; (b) 2,242.5; total, 4,461.5 points = 89.22 words per minute. Prize, $13.00.
5. G. A. McBride, [C], (a) 2,141; (b) 2,173.5; total, 4,314.5 points = 86.29 words per minute. Prize, $12.00.
6. Miss Mamie G. McMannus, [C], (a) 2,091; (b) 2,098.5; total, 4,189.5 points = 83.79 words per minute. Prize, $10,00.
7. Mrs. A. J. Henderson, [C], (a) 1,907; (b) 2,071.5; total, 3,978.5 points = 79.57 words per minute. Prize, $8.00.
8. Miss Maud Berry, [R], (a) 1,908; (b) 2,018; total, 3,926 points = 78.52 words per minute. Prize, $7.00.
9. T. M. Snyder, [R], (a) 1,673; (b) 1,771.5; total, 3,444.5 points = 68.89 words per minute. Prize, $5.00.
10. A. J. Nicholas. No report.1
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1 Mr. Nicholas arrived late, and, as the matter was not written in accordance with the rules, a satisfactory report could not be given.
MEMORIZED SENTENCE. "The total number of words written in five minutes by each competitor, and the number of words per minute, are given below :-
Gross No. of Words. Net No. of Words. Words per Minute. 1. T. W. Osborne, Rochester, N. Y. 646 630.7 126.14 2. F. E. McGurrin, Salt Lake City, Utah, 637.9 613.3 122.66 3. Mrs. A. J. Henderson, Toronto, Ont., 621 606.3 121.26 4. Miss Mae E. Orr, New-York City 579.1 575 115 5. Miss M. C. Grant, New-York City 558 555.2 111.04 6. Miss Maud Berry, Toronto, Ont. 550.1 527.9 105.58 7. G. A. McBride, Ottawa, Ont. 547 524.7 102.54 8. Miss M. G. McMannus, New-York City, 522 517.6 103.52 9. Tom M. Snyder, Pottsville, Penn. 513 490 98 10. A. J. Nicholas, Youngstown, O. 522 483 96.6
MANIFOLDING. "In this contest, by mutual consent, the Remington and Caligraph were each represented by two operators, selected by the agents of the respective machines. Fifteen copies were made on linen paper, No. B 2, with semi-carbon. Both the Remington operators did their work without a ribbon, while those using the Caligraph kept the ribbon on. The first place was given to Mrs. A. J. Henderson (Caligraph), the second to Mr. McClain (Remington), the third to Mr. Osborne (Caligraph), and the fourth to Mr. McGurrin (Remington). All the work was of a most creditable character. Messrs. John Underwood & Co. donated all the linen paper and carbon which was used in the contest.
Thomas Pinkney, President, N. Stewart Dunlop, Secretary, C. E. Stanbury, W. W. Perry, Thomas McGillicuddy, Committee."
Stenographers of Note Give Exhibitions of Their Skill. A number of ladies and gentlemen assembled last night in the rooms of Walworth's Typewriting and Stenograph Institute, Johnston Bulding, Flatbush avenue, to witness some very wonderful performances on the caligraph. In opening the proceedings Mr. G. S. Walworth spoke at considerable length on the utility of type writing in modern life and urged as one of the resons why it should be studied that stenographers were long lived. He did not credit all the stories told about handsome tyyewriters getting married, because, as a rule, they were well off and did not care to change for bonds matrimonial. He read an extensive list of railway companies and public institutions to which he had furnished stenographers and then introduced Mr. Thomas Osborne, of Rochester, N. Y., who recently won a medal in the International Typewriting contest at Toronto. Mr. Osborne is a private stenographer, and in writing the memorial stentences, "This is how I do it," wrote with the caligraph 140 words a minute for five consecutive minutes. Not satisfied he gave a second exhibition of his powers, this time writing 142 3-5 words per minute. He then made a one minute test and wrote 179 words, and in half a minute 99 words. From dictation he wroter 98 words, including 39 capital letters.
G. A. McBride, stenographer in the Parliamentary buildings, Ottawa, Canada, gave a wonderful exhibition of his skill blindfolded, writing as many as 129 words correctly in a minute. These efforts were loudly applauded and then Messrs. Spence and Hewlitt delighted the audience with an excellent piano performance. Prestidigitator Knudson, of Franklin avenue, then gave a pleasing exhibition of his skill and amused and astonished his audience with his feats. Taken altogether the ladies and gentlemen present seemed well pleased with the evening's performance.
At the reunion of the shorthand and typewriting students of the G. S. Walworth Institute, corner Fulton-street and Fiatbush-avenue, Brooklyn, last night, quite an interesting exhibition of typewriting was given by Messrs. Thomas W. Osborne of Rochester, N. Y., and George A. McBride of Ottawa, Ontario. Osborne holds the championship for fast typewriting, having accomplished 126 words a minute at Toronto Aug. 13 last. During the exhibition last night he surpassed his performance (international contest) at Toronto. In a five-minute test he accomplished 142 3-5 words per minute, and in a single-minute test he wrote 179 words, and in a half-minute test 99 words. Mr. McBride wrote 129 words in a single minute blindfolded, and in a two-minute test he accomplished 120 words per minute. The Caligraph was the instrument used by both operators. They maintain that it is the fastest machine out, and we are advised that the speed attained last night exceeds anything that has ever been exhibited before. The Caligraph people have chosen a very pleasant and effective way of proving not only the superior speed of their machine, but the falsity of the reports widely published that writing blindfolded was not feasible on that instrument, for certainly the feats accomplished as reported above were done with apparent ease, and no desire was shown to color or exaggerate reports of the performance. The attendance was large and the entertainment was highly successful. - Exchange.
Heretofore, the very first requisite of the Telegraph Operator, has been rapid penmanship, but by a recent and novel invention, called the American Type Writing Machine, the operator is enabled to produce "copy" more rapidly, compact and legible than the very best penman. By the use of this instrument, the students of Porter's Telegraph College may become first class Telegraph Operators, without regard to their capability as penmen. This machine has been perfected, and is now being introduced on Telegraph lines, solely through the agency of the Pricipal of this Institution, a separate department having been fitted up for this especial purpose.
I remain, very truly and respectfully yours,E. Payson Porter,We would be glad of more information on so important a subject. Will Mr. Porter enlighten us. - Ed.
Pricipal Porter's Telegraph College.
No. 126 Washington Street, The most complete Telegraph School in the country, having Five Departments. Each Department complete in itself, viz: Primary, Penmanship, Type Writing, Air-Line Telegraph, Lectures.
(Court House Square.)
CHICAGO, ILL.
The Chicago City Telegraph Line in connection with this Institution is Forty Miles in extent, and supports Fifty Offices wherein students may earn their board after two months' practice, and before graduating may earn back their entire Tuition.THE AMERICAN TYPE WRITER. By touching keys like a Piano this machine produces letters faster than the most rapid penman. Its use in this College enables Students to become expert Telegraphers without regard to their penmanship.
Competing Telegraph Lines are increasing the demand for Operators. Young Men and Ladies should consider the advantages of a Telegraphic Education.
For Type Writer and College Circulars, addressE. PAYSON PORTER,
Pricipal Porter's Tel. Col., Chicago, Ill.
Nixon's Exchange, first door East of Chamber of Commerce,
Office, Room 9, Entrance on Washington St.THE ONLY COLLEGE IN AMERICA FOR THE
EXCLUSICE STUDY AN PRACTICE OF TELEGRAPHY,
The Metropolitan Telegraph Lines connect directly with this College, affording facilities
for completing a Telegraphic Education unequalled by any other Telegraph School.
The American Type-Writing Machine having been introduced in this Col-
lege, Students are enabled to become First-Class Telegraph Operators
without regard to their abilities as penmen. Competing Tele-
graph Lines are now calling for a large force of Operators,
and Ladies and Gentlemen entering the Telegraph College
are guaranteed assistance in procuring eligible situations upon graduating.E. PAYSON PORTER, Principal.
"Mr. Sholes, the chief inventor of the typewriter, has called my attention to an article in your number for July last, which in my hasty reading, I had previously overlooked, the article headed "A Boon to Telegraphers." In the article occurs the following paragraph:Mr. Butler informed us that he was the first operator to adopt this method of receiving from the telegraph direct on the typewriter and said that it came from a suggestion made by Mr. Erastus Wiman, one of the proprietors of the Mercantile Agency, and well-known in commercial and telegraph circles. It was in 1875, when the machine was in its infancy, that this experiment was made by Mr. Butler. He said:The pith of the foregoing quotation is, aside from its tribute to the great value of the typewriter, that R. G. Dun & Co., besides a certain department of the Western Union General office, is using the typewriter to copy messages received by ear from the telegraphic sounder, and that the manager, Mr. Butler, claims to be the first operator to do that feat.`At first it looked futile. The noise of the sender, and the tintinnabulation of the (then) imperfect typewriter, when combined was well calculated to frighten the average telegrapher, at even an attempot to produce an intelligent result, Yet it was one of the old original machines that until lately has been in daily use at this office for many years, and it did not take long to assert, even in its imperfect shape, that it was much more practicable than the wearisome pen, The large amountof business transacted daily at this office, in answering in part the requirements of hundreds of subscribers, the ability to serve with the present efficiency is largely due to the typewriter adoption in receiving. The present perfected and comparatively noiseless Remington No. 4, simply defies the speed of abbreviated telegraphy, and while it may be impossible to reduce the number of characters in the letters of the Morse telegraph, it calls for the invention of some shorthand form of sound-transmission, in order to keep pace with the speed and ease of the telegraph-typewriter manipulator, The type-writer offers to and should be to the telegraph fraternity with its advantages and ease, speed and general comfort, what is enjoyed by stenographers.'
A year ago, or thereabouts, the newspapers were full of the story of an Elmira telegraphic operator who claimed for himself the honor and glory of being the first to use the typewriter to copy messages from the telegraph sounder.
With all these stories you cannot say half enough in praise of the merits of the typewriter; but for the sake of the "truth of the history," I must dispel these illusions, and tell who was the first to copy with the typewriter messages received by ear from the telegraph sounder.
Mr. E. Payson Porter, who Gen. Anson Stager once said was the finest, quickest, and most accurate reader from the telegraph sounder of any operator he ever knew, carried on a telegraphic college from 1868 and before, up to 1872, and perhaps after. Like myself, he became enamored of the typewriter, when he first learned of the conception of the idea, and before the machine was born. He bought and paid the expense of making several of the first crude attempts at machines and gave us his cordial an enthusiastic sympathy and help in all ways. In the autumn of 1872, we got up for him one of our then latest experimental machines, and as soon as it was done, I set for him to come over to Milwaukee and examine it. He came, and, as was his custom, he was exuberent in the overflow of his appreciation and gratification at the progress made.
"Now, Porter," said I, "if you will take that machine into Gen. Stager's office and get him and the Western Union folks to say it is a success, I will make you a present of the best typewriter that money can hire made, when we get into regular manufacture."
"I'll win that machine, as sure as you live," was his instantaneous reply.
He took the experimental machine home with him. He practised with it some two or three weeks or more, to become entirely familiar with the key-board. (It is proper to observe here that in getting up our experimental machines of which we made nearer fifty than half that number, we never made two alike, and never put the same key-board on two successive experiments. Hence, every time he got a new one, he had to learn a new key-board).
After he had practised till he felt sure of his familiarity with the new key-board, he went into Gen. Stager's office one day and said he wanted to bring over the typewriter, and have the general examine and test its merit.
"Very well, " said the general, "bring it over at once."
The machine was brought over immediately. The general's office was then in a room directly under the upper and great operating floor of the Western Union building in Chicago, and in it there were arranged two tables, one at each end, with a telegraph instrument on each, and a coil of many miles of wire between. Porter, with the typewriter, sat down at one table, and the general at the other. In his youth the general had been a first-class operator, but he was then no longer young, and had been out of any but amateur practice for many years, but he took a newspaper and prepared himself to "send" a paragraph to Porter. Porter attached the "sounder" to the typewriter, and cried out:
"Ready, General!"
The general began to "send" very slowly, as if sure that Porter would be unable to "receive" unless he did so; but before the first line was written; Porter called out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then sent faster, but immediately Porter again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then "put in his best licks," but Porter directly again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
Then the general stopped, and struck his page-bell. When the page appeared, the general said to him:
"Send Smith down here."
Smith was an expert telegrapher of the operating room above. The boy departed, and directly Smith ushered himself in, and, Stager said to him:
"Smith, sit down here and `send' for Porter."
Smith sat down, and began "sending" in a common way; but almost directly, Porter called out:
"A little faster, Smith."
Then Smith began to make his best exertions; but directly Porter called out again:
"A little faster!"
Whereupon Smith did the very best he could; but Porter directly called out:
"A little faster!"
Then Stager again struck the page-bell, and when the page appeared again, the general said,
"Send Jones down here."
Jones came, and was directed to "send" for Porter as Smith had been doing. Jones obeyed; but Porter, as usual, soon cried out:
"Faster, Jones!"
Jones increased his speed but directly Porter again called out:
"Faster!"
Then Jones "sent" with his utmost speed; but Porter again cried:
"Faster!"
Then Gen. Stager said:
"That is enough. Porter, I know about that machine just as well as if I had tried it a year. It's a success!"
Thus, Porter had won the machine; and since the No. 2 has been developed into present condition of progress, the promise has been cheerfully redeemed.
Shortly after the test, Stager employed Porter to come over and take press dispatches with the typewriter for the Chicago Tribune Porter notified us of this fact, and Mr. Sholes and I immediately went over to Chicago, and paid a visit in the evening to the operating room of the Western Union Telegraph office to witness Porter's work.
To me, it seemed a wonderful thing. There was a large room, covering the upper floor of the entire building, in which were seventy-five to a hundred telegraph instruments in active, simultaneous use by as many telegraphers, and it seemed to me impossible for the operators themselves to understand what they were doing in such a din; but I was told that there was no confusion, and no chance for any - that, in practical fact, each operator heard nothing but the click of his own individual instrument.
Amid the crowd, and somewhat near the middle of the room, was Porter and the typewriter. He sat in a big arm-chair before a small table, on which were nothing but the type-writer and a telegraph sounder. He was `receiving' press dispatches. He seemed to have very little to do. He seemed to write very slowly; and yet he told us that the `sender' from whom he was `receiving' was an excellent, first-class operator. He would first write several lines with one had, and then write as many more with the other hand. It was perfectly easy for him to `receive' with one hand, and even at that, to the onlooker, the work seemed slow.
The chair he sat in, happened to be quite a high-backed one, and at one moment he leaned back with his head resting on the chair-back, with one hand and arm hanging carelessly down beside the chair, while he was writing with the other hand, and exclaimed:
"Boys, if I had a pillow now, under my head, this would be luxurious and all right!" - the operating hand, all the while, constantly at work, though seemingly slowly.
Porter followed that employment after that, for half a year or more, and demonstrated perfectly the unqualified practicability of receiving from the telegraph instrument with the typewriter, and that demonstraton was of much advantage to me and the enterprise.
At the time, Gen. Stager, and the Directors of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, of which he was president, and Mr. Elisha Gray, of telephone fame, was superintendent, felt quite sure of the practicability of introducing the typewriter as a receiving instrument in telegraphy; and they were so much pleased with the machine, and this conviction was so strong with them, that they were induced to take the selling agency for a large territory for which Chicago was the centre, and to advance $10,000 to inspire confidence in the manufacture.
They failed at that time, to get other telegraphers to learn to use the typewriter, and, as otherwise the typewriter enterprise was somewhat incompatible with their electric manufacturing business, they were induced to release their contract and agency, and thereby they separated themselves from the business.
Thus is was not Mr. Butler, nor the Elmira man, nor any one else but Mr. Porter, who first demonstrated the entire feasibility and unqualified success of using the typewriter for receiving telegraph dispatches. And the day will soon come when operating telegraphers will of necessity be required to use the typewriter for that purpose.
I can remember when, some thirty years ago, all such messages were received by, and copied from the dots and dashes impressed by the telegraph instrument itself on a paper-ribbon; but about that time, or not long before, some sharp operator discovered he could read the instument by ear, and forthwith the whole machinery of the paper-ribbon was dispensed with; and all telegraphers too old to learn to read by sound had to retire, and give place to the younger generation who could.
And the time will soon be at hand when the telegrapher who will be too conservative to use the typewriter in receiving and copying will be compelled to give way to those younger and more alert who will be adequate to the demand for the better way."James Densmore.No. 345 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburgh, N. Y. Aug. 14, 1886.
The firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, organized last August, are doing a rushing trade in type-writers, - the sales being confined almost exclusively to the number two "Standard." Mr. Seamans is the resident representative, and manages the manifold details of an intricate business with marvellous tact, promptitude and exactness. It would have been but little trouble "to make an editor outen o' him," for he possesses in a marked degree the necessary "cheerfulness, courage and vim," besides being able to "keep things in apple-pie order, and do half a dozen at once." He keeps three lady "typers" busily engaged with dictated letters, circulars, etc., and yet personally supervises all the details of sales, shipments, repairs, etc. Looking at a photograph taken a year ago we should judge him to be a man of thirty-five, but since then he has stepped back into lite half a score of years apparently, owing to the sudden and unaccountable loss of every vestige of hair from his face. The doctors are puzzled over the case, having never seen anything like it, but Mr. Seamans does not seem to worry over it. Mr. Wyckoff and Mr. Benedict are now, as they have been for many months, busily engaged in organizing their American agencies. Mr. W. is a man of the jovial type, with immense powers of endurance. His manner is very affable, and his organizing faculty peculiarly strong, hence the great success with which he met in his profession as stenographer, from which he has now retired in order to give his whole time and attention to the type-writer in Central New York while resident in Ithaca, and made more sales by far than any other agent. The story was told us last summer that at Remington's headquarters a complete model of a type-writer on an altogether new plan had been put out of harm's way on the shelves of the establishment. There seems to be no foundation for this story. All the suggestions that have been made for the improvement of the type-writer have been adopted when found really valuable, and though there are other machines in course of invention which introduce new applications of principles, the type-writer of to-day may be taken as the sum of practicable invention in this direction to date. In this connection we may add that several improvements were first tested and then suggested Mr. Wyckoff, and incorporated with the machine now on the market.
The Remington Standard Typewriter had passwd wholly out of control and ownership of the Remingtons some time before their million dollar failure, so that although it may be known for many years to come as the "Remington Standard," the have no further interest in it. It has been sold, along with the factory, machinery, patents, improvements, etc., to the firm who have really been the makers of its marvelous success, Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who have been its exclusive selling agents for years past, and whose name has already become inseparably associated with that of the Remingtons in connection with the typewriter. The three members of this firm had been in the employ of the Remingtons in the interests of the typewriter long before the formation of their co-partnership, and as a natural outcome of their ability, experience and pecuniary success, they were ready, when the opportunity came, to buy and pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for the typewriter business, which had its beginning not many years ago, but which to day aggregates a sale of upwards of three-quarters of a million dollars a year. They will still retain their main office at 339 Broadway, New York, their factory office at Ilion, N. Y., and branch offices throughout the world.
Final Requests and Instructions of the Late James Densmore. The will of James Densmore, who died September 16, at 961 Bedford avenue, was filed to-day in the Surrogate's Court. He left a widow, Adella R. Densmore, a son, D. J. Densmore and a daughter, Tina Delehanty. To his widow he leaves the Bedford avenue house with all it contains, including jewelry, in lien of dower, except as afterward specified. To Joel Densmore and his wife Carrie, of South Bend, Ind., he leaves real estate in St. Joseph County in that State. To Samuel Bush and wife, of Lakeland, Washington County, Minn., he leaves all his property in that county, and the remainder of the real estate to his son, D. J. Densmore. His trustees are to continue an arbitration with George W. N. Yost, of Hartford, Conn., respecting stocks held by the testator in the Typewriter Company, of New York. To his daughter, Tina, he leaves $5,000; to Daniel C. Roundy, $2,500; to his stepson, Ernest Ryan Barron, $15,000. He then disposes of the stock in arbitration, if it should be decided in his favor, making further provisions in that case for the legatees named. He confirms an arrangement for the payment of a debt of $68,000 to his brother Amos. He next gives instructions as to the conduct of various business matters, including sundry investments. His executors nad trustees are Clarence W. Seamans, Ernest R. Barron and Daniel C. Roundy. The will is dated August 3, 1889.
STEPS, IT IS SAID, ARE ABOUT COMPLETED FOR THE COMBINATION. Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 16 - It is stated here on good authority that a typewriter trust is nearly completed, and that all the leading manufaturers are in it. It is understood that C. C. Fowler, a New-York broker, has secured two-thirds of the stock of the Remington Company, and also secured a controlling interest in the Caligraph, the Hammond, the Franklin, and the Yost, manufactured in this city.
It is understood that the Smith Premier, manufactured at Syracuse, holds out and will not come into the deal, but that negotiations were to be closed Saturday. It is said Mr. Seamans of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, the Remington people, will be President of the new combination, and C. C. Fowler, who is manipulating the deal, will be Treasurer.
The holding out of the Smith Premier Company has been the reason of the delay in organizing the combination.
The Articles of Agreement Will Be Signed in a Few Days. A trust composed of the principal typewriting machine companies is now in process of formation in New York. With in a few days the articles of agreement will have been signed by the parties and the new corporation, with a capital stock of millions, will have been incorporated either in New Jersey or in New York.
For many years such a combination has been contemplated. The competition between the rival concerns, each controlling valuable patents, has been expensive, and the combination is expected to increase profits and to control the typewriter market. Though the price of the machines may not be increased, the inducements to individual buyers in the way of instalment plans and rebates undoubtedly will be donw away with, together with the great advertising expenditures.
C. N. Fowler, President of the Equitable Mortgage Company, of No. 40 Wall street, has engineered the goal. Directors and officials of the chief companies are now in town and confident that the trust will become an accomplished fact. All that remains to be settled is the assessed valuation of the various companies.
It is believed this can be arranged satisfactorily. President White, of the Yost Company, and Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who control the Remington, are said to be Mr. Fowler's chief aids in the formation of the trust. It is asserted that every company asked to join has acquiesced.
President White, of the Yost Company, said yesterday: "It is true that the corporation is being formed. You can assure the public that the machines will be cheaper rather than dearer. It is merely a combination to do away with excessive competition.
"I do not know what the name of the new corporation will be. Of course I hope our name `Yost' will be continued, but it is too soon to talk about that. I am not prepared to go into full details as to the plans, but I am inclined to think that the new concern will be incorporated in New York.
"The companies in the coalition, as I understand it, are the Remington, Yost, Caligraph, Densmore, Smith-Premier, Crandall, and Brooks. Mr. Hammond, who owns a controlling interest in the Hammond typewriter, is now cruising on a yacht somewhere in the South and we have not been able to reach him. The Franklin Company has not been asked. The Franklin people use a number of patents that are in dispute and liable to litigation, and their machine, which sells at $50, is not in competition with the $100 machines."
It is said that Mr. Seamans will be President of the new corporation. When asked if he expected the honor he said it was too soon to talk about it. The published story that the plan has been pushed by Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict because the Remington patents are about to expire and because Mr. Wyckoff is getting old and infirm, Mr. Seamans says is absurd.
"Mr. Wyckoff is in perfect health and not yet sixty years old." Mr. Seamans declared. "A combination is being formed, but the final arrangements have not yet been made, and will not be for several days. Mr. Fowler is the man to see. I think the incorporation will be in New Jersey. Most great corporations are incorporated there now, as you doubtless know, and when
"The papers are filed with the Secretary of State. Of course the newspapers will find out all about it. This plan has been tried a number of times, but it has never approached so near success as at present. Every company asked has expressed willingness to join, and the statement that the Smith-Premier is holding out is erroneous. I regret that I cannot tell you all about it."
At the Caligraph offices, No. 237 Broadway, it was learned that the officers and directors of the company are in town and that the President is stopping at an uptown hotel. The manager of the Densmore Company, at No. 202 Broadway, said he understood his company would be in it if the others were, and that as far as he knew the only possible hitch to prevent a quick closing of the contract was the price.
THAT'S THE EXPECTATION OF THE TYPEWRITER TRUST PEOPLE. It was stated yesterday by one who is interested in it that the typewriter trust would in all probability be in active operation by the 10th of February. All the preliminary steps, he said, such as purchases and the obtaining of consents had been perfected. The combination would begin with eight companies engaged in the manufacture and selling of type machines. Seven of those companies had agreed to the terms of the combination, the promoters of which had also secured a one-third interest in the Hammond Company. Mr. Hammond was in Florida for his health, but it was known that he was in sympathy with the movement, and it had been arranged that the company of which he held the controlling interest should have six months in which to ally itself with the trust.
Experts were working night and day, it was said, in Washington, proving and searching out the validity of the patents, while other experts were engaged in the factories in this State and in Connecticut and Massachusetts, verifying the inventories of plant, tools, and machinery, and eminent lawyers were looking up the titles of the real estate held by the several companies which ere to constitute the trust.
As soon as these details had been attended to, the American Writing Machine Company would be incorporated.
A typewriter trust, to be known as the Union Typewriter Company, with a capital of $20,000,000, has been formed, and articles of incorporation were filed yesterday in the office of the secretary of state at Trenton.
The incorporators are John F. Kehoe of Newark. Charles A. Winter and J. Warren Botts of New York and Edward H. Coffin of Brooklyn. The capital stock is divided into $1,000,000 of first preferred stock, $6,000,000 of second preferred stock and $10,000,000 of common stock.
INCORPORATED IN NEW JERSEY WITH A CAPITAL OF $20,000,000. Trenton, N. J., March 30. - A typewriter company, with a capital of $20,000,000, has been formed, and articles of incorporation were filed yesterday in the office of the Secretary of State. The corporators are John F. Kehoe, of Newark; Charles A. Winter and J. Warren Botts, of New-York, and Edward H. Coffin, of Brooklyn. The principal places o business will be at Ilion and Syracuse, N. Y.; Bridgeport and Hart- ford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. The capital stock is divided into $4,000,000 of first preferred stock and $6,000,000 of second preferred stock, and $10,000,000 of common stock.Concerning the new company, the corporators and others known to be interested in the enterprise would give no information yesterday. John F. Kehoe, whose name heads the list of corporators, said that he could only say that the company had been formed. Its scope, he said, was immense. He intimated that it would include all the large manufactories of type- writing machines, and that it would probably be in the nature of a trust.
At the office of Hobbs & Gifford, No.58 William-st., the attorneys for the new corporation were not prepared to give any information concerning the plans and purposes of the "trust." The concern, it was said, had not matured its plans sufficiently to warrant their publication.
At the office of the Remington Typewriter Co., No. 327 Broadway, Mr. Seamans, of the manufacturers, Wyckoff, Seamans, &: Benedict, said that there was absolutely nothing to say in regard to the new corpration.
Trenton, N. J., March 30. - The Typewriter Trust, with a capital of $20,000,000, about which information was given in The New-York Times early in January, has been formed. Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday in the office of the Secretary of State.
The incorporators are John F. Kehoe of Newark, Charles A. Winter and J. Warren Botts of New-York, and Edward H. Coffin of Brooklyn. The principal places of business will be at Ilion, N. Y.; Syracuse, N. Y.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. The capital stock is divided into $1,000,000 of first preferred stock, $6,000,000 of second preferred stock, and $10,000,000 of common stock.
New York, April 4. - The Union Typewriting company, organized under the laws of New Jersey, has purchased the plants, factories, good will, etc., of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, the American Writing Machine company, the Yost Typewriter company, the Smith Premier Typewriter company and the Densmore Typewriting company. Clarence W. Seamans is mentioned as the probable president, Charles N. Fowler for vice president and H. H. Benedict for treasurer.
Edward G. Wyckoff This City Inherits Nearly Half a Million. HIS FATHER'S WEALTH DIVIDED
It Aggregates Nearly $800,000, and Two Sons, Edward G. and Clarence F. Wyckoff, Are Heirs to the Entire Amount.
By the recent death of his father, William O. Wyckoff, at his St. Lawrence home, Edward G. Wyckoff, the bookseller in the Bastuble block, comes into a fortune of nearly $500,000. The estate left by the late William O. Wyckoff amounted to $758,000, of which $58,000 represented real estate and the balance personal property. There are only two heirs for the fortune, the sons of the elder Mr. Wyckoff, Edward G. of this city and Clarence F. of Carlton Island, who is yet a minor, being 19 years of age. E. G. Wyckoff, the elder son, yesterday petitioned for letters of administration of the estate before Surrogate Ross C. Scott of Watertown, the estate being the largest ever presented for adjudication by the probate court of Jefferson county.
The late William O. Wyckoff died at his palatial home on Carlton Island on July 11, 1895, his wife having died about a month previous to his own demise. The value of Mr. Wyckoff's estate, as set forth in the petition for letters of administration, is fixed at $700,000, which consists of stock in the Union typewriter company, promissory notes, mortgages, bonds and other securities. The value of the real estate is fixed at $58,500 and it consists of the Carlton Island property and land in Tompkins county, where Mr. Wyckoff resided most of the years of his life, his residence being at one time in Ithaca. The state will receive an inheritance tax of $8,000 from this estate.
Edward G. Wyckoff was appointed administrator of the estate and under section 2,605 of the ends of civil procedure Surrogate Scott entered an order that $500,000 of the certificates of stock of the Union typewriter company and other securities he deposited with County Treasurer A. Upham, and the order also provided for the appointment of Edward G. Wyckoff as the administrator of the remainder of the property, which amounts to $200,000. The administrator was required to give bonds in double that sum and his securities are Lyman C. Smith of this city and Clarence W. Seamans of Brooklyn, both of whom testified that they were worth $400,000.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST R. BARRON, DANIEL C. ROUNDY, AND CLARENCE W. SEAMANS, EXECUTORS OF JAMES DENSMORE, DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,621. dated May 5, 1896.
Application filed February 18, 1890. Serial No. 340,922 (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefull Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
A circular has been sent to the stockholders of the Union Typewriter Company by President Clarence W. Seamans, to the effect that the Directions have voted to offer $1,000,000 of the $1,985,000 of second preferred stock now in the treasury to stockholders of all classes at 102. The allowance is as follows. Holders of 15 shares or less may subscribe for one share of new stock; holders of 16 to 35 shares, two shares; holders of 36 to 55 shares, three shares, and holders of 56 shares and over may subscribe for one share for each eighteen of their present holdings. Subscriptions must be turned in on or before Oct. 15.
ROCKPORT, Mass., May 30 - Clarence W. Seamans of New York, a prominent typewriter manufacturer, died today at his country estate, "The Elms," at Pigeon Cove. He organized the business of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, Incorporated as the Remington Typewriter Company in 1882, and later became president and chairman of the board of directors of the Union Typewriter Company.
It being provided by a late act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory, that an election for Delegate to Congress shall take place on the first Monday of August next, we, the undersigned, citizens of the Territory of Wisconsin, believing that in the selection and election of a candidate for this highly important and responsible station, there should be some mode of reconciling conflicting opinions, in relation to the merits or claims of those who may come before the public; that there should be a general understanding and unity of action on the subject, would respectfully suggest to our fellow-citizens the propriety of an immediate attention to the matter, and would recommend that meetings be held throughout the several countries in Wisconsin, for the purpose of appointing Delegates to attend a Territorial Convention, to nominate an individual, who, while he will be likely to receive a united support, will be the proper person to represent the People in Congress.
It is useless to adduce argument in support of the propriety of this suggestion. The history of the past has proved, that unless a course of this kind be pursued, there is a probability, at least, of some individual being saddled upon us, who, while he may not receive the vote of the majority, may by a plurality vote, in consequence of the divisions and dissensions among the people, be the successful aspirant. If the people wish to elect, it is important that they should step forth and make their nomination; and this can be done only through the agency of a Territorial Convention.
The undersigned would suggest, as the proper place, and time for holding a Territorial Convention, Madison, and the 18th June next, 1839.PETER WHITE, J. S. FISK, CHAS. C. SHOLES, G. CHILDS, O. P. KNAPP, LUTHER WHITNEY, Jr., W. W. JONES, GEORGE WILLIAMS, H. JACKSON, J. JACKSON, RENSSELAYER PROSE, THOS. W. CALL, WM. D. COLBURN, E. HART, D. W. KING, W. J. NELSON, THOS. BENNETT, L. W. DICKINSON, C. L. AMIDON, C. W. ATHEY, A. H. CLARK, N. C. KING, WM. C. DISRROW, H. E. BRIGGS, W. W. MATTHEWS, JOHN F. MEADE, D. M. WHITNEY, J. V. SUYDAM, J. G. KNAPP, T. CHAS. MORGAN, CHARLES CHAPMAN, LUTHER HAGEDON, J. W. CONROE, C. LATHAM SHOLES, S. W. CALDWELL, WM. W. BARSE, JOHN CATLIN, LAFAYETTE KELLOGG, WM. N. SEYMOUR, WM. T. STERLING, JOHN T. WILLSON, GEORGE VROMAN, A. A. BIRD, I. M. PALMER, ABEL RASDALL, EDWARD HOFFMAN, PIERCE BRADLEY, SAMUEL CHAPEL, THOS. G. PERRY, G. P. DELAPLAINE, DARWIN CLARK, EBEN PECK, H. O. FELLOWS, HENRY FAKE, THOS. JACKSON, JOHN GALLARD, WM. HOADLEY, DAVID HYER, J. S. POTTER, GEORGE HYER, J. C. UTTER, J. LYMAN, Jr., SIMEON MILLS, R. L. SLAM, W. W. WYMAN, ZENOS H. BIRD.
C. C. Sholes, the proprietor of this paper, being absent, is consequently, at present, not engaged in conducting it.
In our absence the two first numbers of the Southport Telegraph, a neatly printed sheet published at Southport, Racine county, have come to hand. The paper is conducted by C. Latham Sholes, Esq., and its appearance is highly creditable to the editor, and honorable to the flourishing town where it is established.
TO THE PUBLIC. Although since the commencement of this paper it has made its appearance with the name of C. C. Sholes under its head as editor and proprietor, it is presumed that it was generally known that he was not engaged in conducting it. His name was placed at its head under the impression, although he was not then present, that he would shortly assume the duties of its editor; but from a letter of recent date, we learn that circumstances arising over which he had no control, will prevent him from so doing. In consequence of this, the paper, which has been in the charge and under the control of the undersigned since its commencement, will in the future make its appearance under the joint editorial control of M. Frank, Esq. and the undersigned. In announcing the name of the former gentleman in connection with the editorial department, it is believed that it will leave but little to regret on the part of the public, that the intentions of the original proprietor were not carried out, and the undersigned is happy in securing to the assistance of his own inablility and inexperience that knowledge and experience which is necessary to make the paper what it should be, and adapt it to the growing energies of the community in which it is.
It being necessarily required that a large share of time should be devoted to the mechanical department of the paper, and this having, heretofore, been principally in charge of the editor, it has been impossible to devote that time to other matters, which their nature required and in addition to this, the want of an exchange list, whilst it has added much to the labor of publication, has rendered it difficult to make the paper such as we would like, and such as under the new arrangement, when this latter deficiency is supplied it is confiuently hoped to make it.C. LATHAM SHOLES.
At Green Bay, on the 4th Feb. inst. by the Rev. Jeremiah Porter, Mr. C. Latham Sholes, one of the Editors, and Proprietor of this paper, to Miss Mary Jane McKinney of that place.
At Green Bay, on the 4th of February ult., by the Rev. Jeremiah Porter, C. Latham Sholes, one of the Editors, and Proprietor of the Southport Telegraph, to Miss Mary Jane McKinney, of Depere.
C. Latham Sholes, junior editor of the Southport Telegraph, now at Madison as one of the clerks of the House of Representatives, has been making himself quite notorious of late in slandering the officers of the Territory thro' the medium of the Telegraph. The Express handles him in a very proper manner, and reads the fellow a chapter that will be of service to him, if, indeed, he is not beyond the reach of all proper feelings.
A variety of causes have delayed the issuing of this number of the Telegraph, until one day after the usual time. It is the first time it has occured for two years, and it probably will not again soon occur.As will be seen by the following notice the charge of the Telegraph passes from the hands of the undersigned with the present number. The business of the office will be settled by the undersigned. The principal part of this year's accounts remain unpaid, in consequence of which debts have been contracted for the proper issuing of the paper. These debts must be paid, and to do it the outstanding dues of the office must be collected; and it is hoped and expected, as a matter of justice, that all indebted will be prepared to make prompt settlement.
C. L. SHOLES.
TO THE PATRONS OF THE TELEGRAPH. The second volume of the Telegraph closes with the present number of the paper. The Telegraph will be published the ensuing year under the direction of the present senior editor, and Charles C. Sholes, late of the Wisconsin Enquirer. No effort will be spared to render the paper worthy of public patronage. The Telegraph will be the same politically hereafter, as it has been during the past year; no material change is contemplated except that a larger amount of matter pertaining to the Territory will hereafter be published in its columns. For the accomplishment of this object, pains will be taken to collect facts in relation to the history, settlement, progress of improvement, and present condition of the most prominent towns in the Territory. Arrangements are made for procuring information of the aforementioned character from different portions of the Territory, and every exertion will be made to render the Telegraph a useful channel of intelligence, to those who desire a more extensive acquaintance with this portion of the great west.
N. B. In consequence of arrangements, which it is indispensably necessary should be made in the affairs and condition of the office, no paper will be issued next week. The first number of the third volume, will be issued on the 28th inst., and the succeeding numbers may be regularly expected thereafter.
To keep pace with the spirit of improvement every where manifest around us, it is intended to commence the next volume of the Telegraph in a larger and improved form. It will be made equal in size to the largest papers now published in the Territory, and be printed almost exclusively with new type. As abroad, the importance of a town (to a great extent) is inferred from the character (both as to size and matter) of its papers, it is thought the present and increasing importance of Southport warrants and demands this improvement.
The energies of the paper, as heretofore, will be principally directed to further the general interests of the territory, and of the section in which it is located, by diffusing abroad that kind of information, the tendency of which is to encourage immigration, thereby causing the development of our resources and increasing our wealth and prosperity.
Its political character will remain unchanged - finaly and decidedly democratic; and without here entering fully into an exposition of the principles of the Democracy, we wish to be understood as belongin to, and entering fully into the spirit of the great Democratic party of the Union. The principles of this party will be advocated with reference solely to their intrinsic importance and we shall avoid as much as possible the contests with regard to men, which it is thought have had too much influence in our party contest. However our opponents may choose to be known, it shall be our efoort so to keep paramount the great principles of the party, that as Democrats and the Democratic party alone we shall be known.
Whilst we shall advocate firmly and decidedly the measures of the party, it shall be our effort by a spirt of fairness and candor so to conduct discussion, that the tendency shall be to elevate the character of party strife by making it subserve the great end of Truth, rather than by harsh and unmeaning epithet to engender bitterness and degrade that which should be noble.
In the enlarged form of the Telegraph we shall be able to publish a large quantity of reading matter. This matter will be selected with a strict regard (so far as we are able to judge) to the taste of our readers; and it is hoped that much, both useful and amusing, will be found in the columns of the Telegraph.
In enlarging the paper, that it may truly represent the growing importance and prosperity of our town and country, much expense has been incurred; and it is our desire as it shall be our effort so to conduct it, as to give general satisfaction. To those who deem the enterprise worthy of encouragement, we appeal for support; and particularly do we hope that our democratic friends, both in the town and country, by their patronage, and by their assistance in increasing our circulation, will lend us a helping hand.TERMS. We have concluded some what to alter our terms. It will be seen that although we enlarge the paper, the terms for advance payments have been lowered; and we earnestly hope that where it is possible our subscribers will improve the advantage offered by making payment in advance, for it is not only to our advantage but it is absolutely necessary to sustain us, that this should to a considerable extent be done.
One copy, in advance, $2 00 Before the expiration of six month, 2 50 If payment be delayed until the close of the volume, 3 00 C. L. SHOLES.June 19, 1843.
We have received the first number of the Tri-Weekly Telegraph published at Southport by C. L. Sholes. It is a very neat looking sheet, about the size of the Evening Courier, and edited with fact and ability. Racine and Southport each rejoices now in a Tri-Weekly.
With the present number ceases the connection of Mr. Guild with this paper, and with the next, which will be "No. 1, Vol. 8," C. L. Sholes, the proprietor of the establishment, resumes the management and control of affairs. The improvement which may have been observed in the Telegraph, during the past few weeks in size, amount of reading matter, typographical appearance, &c., will give the public some idea of what may be expected the coming year. The paper is now second in size to none published in the Territory, and the present conductor will exert all the ability he possesses to prevent its being second in any other respect. It will be his desire, as it is his interest, to make an interesting and useful sheet; and he has determined to spare no pains or labor to accomplish this end. He feels a confidence, under the circumstances, in recommending the Telegraph to the public of this section as worthy of their support.
O. F. Dana, Esq., has been appointed Post master at Southport, in place of C. L. Sholes, resigned.
The Democrats of the Sixteenth Senatorial District, comprising the towns of Southport, Pike, Pleasant Preirie, Paris, Bristol, Brighton, Salem and Wheatland, in the County of Racine have nominated C. Latham Sholes, Esq., Editor of the Southport Telegraph, for Senator. Mr. Sholes would be a strong candidate, were it not for an unlucky division that has sprung up in his district resulting in the nomination of a second democratic candidate for the same office. His democratic competitor is Levi Grant, Esq.
State Senator, 16th Dist. † † Pleasant Prairie made no return of votes for Senator.
Latham C. Sholes, dem., 594 John W. McCoy, whig, 374 Charles Clement, ab., 89 John McCoy, ab., 14 Blank, 1
Wheatland has made no return at all.. - Racine Advocate.
We subjoin a list of the members elect of the two branches of our State Legislature. The members of the Assembly are chosen for one year. - The Senators from the even numbered Districts are chosen for two years and those from the odd numbered Districts for one year. A new election for Assemblymen and for one half of the Senate will be held in November next.THE SENATE Total 3 Whigs, 16 Locos.
First District Brown &c. H C Hobart Second `` Columbia &c. Henry Merril* Third `` Crawford &c. D G Fenton Fourth `` Fond du Lac W Chase Fifth `` Iowa H M Billings Sixth `` Grant G W Lakin* Seventh `` Lafayette Eighth `` Greene E T Gardner Ninth `` Dane Simeon Mills Tenth `` Dodge Wm M Dennis Eleventh `` Wasington F W Horn Twelfth `` Jefferson M B Williams Thirteenth `` Waukesha J Turner Fourteenth `` Walworth J W Boyd Fifteenth `` Rock Otis W Norton* Sixteenth `` Rachine C L Sholes Seventeenth `` do Philo White Eighteenth `` Milwaukee Asa Kinney Nineteenth `` do Riley Messenger
The Chicago Tribune renders a warm and well-deserved compliment to C. L. Sholes, the Senator elect from the Southport district. Mr. Sholes' devoted advocacy of Progress and Reform, shows that he is thoroughly imbued with the liberal principles of the age. As he is one of "the profession," we cannot but hope that his legislative career will be alike useful to the People, and honorable to himself. - Wisconsin of Tuesday.
We are glad to see the Wisconsin endorse Mr. Sholes. Mr. S. is the author of that "slander upon Wisconsin" about the "hooting down" of a "Free Territory" resolution in the Loco Foco State Convention. The fact was first stated, and has since been re-iterated in his paper, the Southport Telegraph; for which offence the Wisconsin set it down as one of our "affiliated presses." We wish that there were a few more such able, and honest "democratic" papers in Wisconsin.
All of which is respectfully submitted.JOHN B. SMITH, Ch'r.
C. LATHAM SHOLES.
We learn from the Express and Argus, and the statement is confirmed by a private letter from Madison, that Mr. Senator Sholes was promised the job of printing the Revised Statutes, even before the bill for that purpose passed the Legislature, and that the State contracts to take 4000 copies from him at $1.75 each, and that he is privileged to charge four dollars a copy for whatever number he may print and sell over and above those sold to the State. This is "cutting it rather fat." Who would suppose, in view of these facts, that the following clause is to be found in our State Constitution:
"Act IV. Sec. 25. - The legislature shall provide by law that all stationery required for the use of the state, and all printing authorized and required by them to be done for their use, or for the state, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder; but the legislature may establish a maximum price. No member of the legislature or other state officer shall be interested either directly or indirectly in any such contract."
Can it be possible that the people will look on quiet, unconcerned, and unavenging, upon these repeated, palpable, and audacious violations of the Constitution?
The Printing Job. - Mr. Sholes, editor of the Southport Telegraph, and Member of our State Senate, who has obtained the copy right for the publication of the Revised Statutes of Wisconsin, under very questionable circumstances, as to himself, and in virtue of a direct, flagrant, and inexcusable violation of the Constitution, on the part of the Legislature, publishes in his last paper a brief card, which, as containing his version of the matter, we herewith subjoin.The Printing of the Statutes. The Madison Argus, Democrat and Express, and some other sheets in the State, in reference to this matter, have attacked me with no small degree of bitterness. I will say but a word on the subject. The bill providing for the publication of the Revised Statutes, passed the Senate unanimously, was concurred in by the House by a vote of more thad two-thirds; was kept by the Governor the full constitutional time, and returned with his approval. I am accused then of seducing or deluding from their duty, for my own benefit, the legislature with a singular degree of unanimity, and also the Executive of the State. The absurdity of such an accusation need not be noticed at length. As to my appointment to do the work, after the bill passed, a large majority of both branches of the Legislature requested it, upon the supposition that I was quite as well qualified for the work as any other person, which request, no doubt influenced the revisors to make the appointment.
If the Legislature have passed an unconstitutional bill, the fault is not more mine than any other member, and with them I am willing to share all the odium which belongs to such an act.
As to the motives which induced the Legislature to endeavor to secure the printing of the Revised Statutes by some other mode than by contract, I have no opportunity of knowing better than many other persons. Doubtless they had reasons satisfactory to themselves.
In conclusion, I will say, that the Legislature is probably as good a judge of the unconstitutionality of its acts, and their bearing upon the interests of the State, as there disappointed and envious sheets, and will doubtles guard the constitution and interests of the State, quite as jealously and safely.C. LATHAM SHOLES.
The Printing Job. - As we have commented pretty freely, both upon Mr. Sholes, and the "democratic" majority of the Legislature, for that rare specimen of "special legislation" whereby the printing of the Revised Statutes has been given to Mr. S. in direct and flagrant violation of the Constitution, we think it but fair to give the party most immediately interested a chance to be heard in his defence. Weaccordingly copy from the Wisconsin, the letter addressed by Mr. Sholes to the editor of that paper. It does not in our judgment relieve either the Legislature or Mr. Sholes from the responsibility of having committed a flagrant wrong upon the People of this State. But we are not among those who think that the whole odium of this transaction should be cast upon Mr. Sholes. He, indeed, took the job, but it was the democratic majority of the Legislature, which carved it out. It was, moreover, as Mr. Sholes tells us, by the unanimous request of the "democratic portion of the Senate, and a large majority of the House," that he was selected by the Revisors to do the prescribed work. To them, therefore, the blame properly attaches. It was at their hands that the Constitution required the first blow, in the passage of the Act in question, and at their request that a second violation of this instrument was committed by the selection of a member of the Legislature to take the contract. We again copy the provision in our State Constitution relating to this subject. It is so plain that he who runs may read: Act IV. Sec. 25. - The Legislature shall provide by law that all stationery required for the use of the state, and all printing authorized and required by them to be done for their use, or for the state, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder, but the Legislature may establish a maximum price. No member of the Legislature, or other state officer, shall be interested, either directly or indirectly in any such contract.
Is there a single man in the State, who, after reading the above, will pretend to deny that this Printing Job is a gross, palpable, inexcusable violation of the Constition?Letter from Mr. Sholes Dear Sir, - I perceive you have not been slow upon the assertion of the Madison Argus, and other Madison papers, to accuse me of divers heinous offences, with reference to the matter of printing the Revised Statutes, and therefore ask as a matter of justice, that you publish the brief statement which I append.
It was not originally my intention to have said a word upon the subject, being willing to trust to time to either vindicate or condemn my own course and that of the Legislature in the matter; and I am only driven from my purpose by the peculiar vindictivemess of the attacks upon me. I can excuse the Madison Argus for the malignity it manifests. It was my duty during the past winter to convict its editor (H. A. Tenney) of perjury, and to curtail to some extent his plunder of the public funds, for which I do not expect to be forgiven by him either under his own proper name or his alias of "David T. Dickson;" but I had hoped and still hope that those who have no offence of the character to lay to my charge, will not allow any error they may feel at the good fortune which they suppose has fallen to my leg to instigate them to do me injustice. But to the subject.
It was the desire of the Legislature, manifested by individual members, to avoid, if possible, the letting out of the printing of the Statutes to the lowest bidder. All experience had thus far demonstrated that the interests of the State would suffer by such a course. It was an important work designed to be permanent in its character, and it was an important consideration to have it well and properly done. This desire originated the bill in question, and members in sustaining felt that they were subserving the best interests of the State in so doing. - Is it not preposterous to suppose, that any desire for my benefit could induce the Legislature and Executive Department of the Government to sacrifice the interests of the State, and violate the Constitution. What motive could these men have had for their course, except a desire to advance the public good. They may have erred; we are all liable to err, but I am satisfied when the matter comes to be fully understood, and the work is finally completed, that all unprejudiced minds will admit the wisdom of the Legislature in passing the act.
As to my agency in the matter, I will state: I didi not originate the idea of the bill, or a single important feature it contains. It is true I drafted it, but at the suggestion and under the advice of other Senators. I did not ask for the job until asked by others to do it. It is true, it was porposed by others to give thework to me in my own name, from which I dissented. It is true, I suggested the plan of anthorizing the Revisers to appoint; and it is also true that at the request of others, and by my own volition I solicited the job both before and after the bill passed. It is true, also, that after the bill passed, the democratic portion of the Senate, who were at Madison, unanimously, and a large majority of the House, asked my appointment; and it was upon this request that my appointment was finally made. My traducers have spared no falsehood to injure me in this respect, but I trust my character will be a sufficient guarantee of the truth of what I state.
The assertion that the State has been plundered and fleeced in the matter is dwelt upon. It comes with an ill grace from men who have made fortunes by stealing from the public treasury; nevertheless I will allude to it. The State pays the sum of $1,75 for each copy of the work, provided it does not make over 700 pages and for every hundred pages of excess over 700, it pays 25 cents additional. The work has to be well printed, on good paper, bound in best style, and in calf binding. Besides I have to pay about $1000 for copying and superintending, and under the circumstances I will leave it to any unprejudiced man to say whether the State is fleeced. I venture the prediction that not a State in the Union, will get its Statutes as cheaply done as will Wisconsin. Missouri has recently printed hers, at an expense of $5 per copy for 5000 copies; and every man knows that such a work cannot be purchased at any book store for a less sum than $5. I will admit that it might be done in the Madison style for much less, but I believe no candid man will say the work can be well done for less than the sum proposed. The only chance for speculation is on the extra copies which the publisher may sell, and these are restricted in price to $4; so that the interests of both the State and its people are really well protected.
As to the consitiutionality of the bill it is a matter about which people will differ, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that those who fell that their interests have been affected by it. will think or speak favorably of it. The whole legislative power of the State were of the opinion that the bill was consitutional, which is quite as good authority as has yet been brought to disprove it.
As to my eligibility to do the work. If the bill be consitutional, then it is not such a contract, as in the eye of the Consitution would render me ineligible, and if it be not consititutional, then no contract exists.
As to any violation of the contract of the State printer, the idea is preposterous. The printer took the contract based on certain specifications in the Secretary's office, which had as much reference to the work required as to the Koran. There may exist a right, under his contract, for the State printer to claim, that he has a right to print all the laws in pamphlet form, but admitting that, by what right he claims the printing of the Revised Statutes, which do not embrace all the laws, and not to be published in that form, is not clear. Moreover, it is well know that H. A. Tenney (alias D. T. Dickerson) stated repeatedly before the bill originated that he did not consider the worrk included in his contract; that he could not do it under his contract, and he did make bids for the work, independent of his contract, before the bill in question originated. Under his contract if he did the work honestly, which is hardly supposable, he would get some $2500 for it, when every man knows that it cannot be well done for less than from $5000 to $7000 - The honesty of the man in howling over the violation of his contract can be estimated.
In conclusion, every editor in Madison was acquainted with the bill and its character before it passed the Legislature, and they all had opportunities of commenting upon it before it passed; but not one of them breathed a syllable. As soon as it did pass, they all either by themselves or proxy, made desperate efforts to procure the work, and it was only after their failure that they discovered the objectionable character of the bill and my own offences, with preference to it.
I do not expect much money at the hands of my brother craftsmen. Doubtless they all feel as if they had been plundered of a good job, and will express themselves accordingly, and as I am the only tangible subject upon which they can lay hold. I shall undoubtedly suffer some, but I would ask the public to hold on for the finals, and if I do not do for the State all in the premises, that can reasonably be expected of me in the matter of getting up the work, I will submit to ther disapprobation.Yours, C. Latham Sholes.
We received by last night's mail, a copy of the Wisconsin containing a communication from C. L. Sholes, in relation to the recent corrupt of the revised statutes. As a matter of course it is a mere evasion of the points charged - a violation of the constitution - a violation of the law - and a violation of a public contract. The charges we brought against this man were
1st. That he drew a bill giving himself this work by name.
2d. Finding this would not take, that he obtained a pre-pledge from two of the revisers to give him the work if he got the bill through.
3d. That having got this pledge, he set to work to accommodate different characters and dispositions thus: To some democrats he pretended that he would leave the free soil party; to others that he would use his free soil influence to advance their political prospects; and to others that he only wanted to throw the matter open to competition, so as to give the press at a distance, and especially George Hyer, a chance to bid. With the whig members his plea was, that it would divide and distract the democratic party and therefore it was for their interest to go for it. And with the free soil men, that he was the first editor in the state who bolted the democratic nomination last fall, and ought to have pay for such sacrifice.
4th. That having thus successfully got the matter to brewing, he fixed the price of the work at more than three times that usually paid, and more than five times the contract price.
5th. That he with 11 others, being all there were in town, then voted for the act, thus voting a public contract into his own hands.
6th. That while this iniquitous game was on foot, he put afloat and caused to be circulated among members a report, that the public contractor refused to do this work under his bid, which report he knew to be false.
7th. That the passage of this act in the assembly was accompanied with th burning of the Argus, a measure which he took every means privately to foment and encourage, in order to make capital against us in advance.
8th. That as soon at the act was approved, (which approval it was boasted by the friends of Mr. S., the had certain knowledge would take place, in advance.) Mr. S. hastened by special express to Janesville to get the signature of Mr. Jourdon before any one else could see him.
9th. That he returned with equal expedition getting his bond filed before even Mr. Baker, one of the Revisors, knew anything about it.
10th. That the state is swindled out of from $8 to $10,000 by the transaction.
We leave this matter here, hoping that Mr. Sholes' new "card" will at least refer to the points at issue. - Madison Argus.
MARRIED, at a recent Locofoco caucus in Madison, by Hon. Garren Chase & Co., Mr. LEWIS CASS. HUNKER, to Miss MARTIN VAN BUREN BARNBURNER, all of Wisconsin.
The only printer who receives Cake on the occasion of the above marriage is Sholes of the Southport Telegraph, who receives a large slice, which, however, was stolen from the Argus office in Madison. This may prove a happy union, but we are inclined to the opinion that if the spouse does not before the end on one year, "kick her liege lord out of bed". she will be very apt to "kick the kiver off" if nothing more. - Min. Pt. Tribune.
Rumor. - It is currently reported that the State officers, as in duty bound, think the late law, giving the printing of the statutes to Senator Sholes, is unconstitutional, and intend to leave the job in the hands of the regular contractor.
Is this so? - The Madison Argus has a letter from Mr. Frank, in which he denies that there was any bargaining about the Sholes printing business, to which it appends the following remarks. The idea conveyed by them is not very clear, but it is certain that there was wickedness both in the conception and carrying out of a plain, palpable violation of the Constitution:
"After the bill was signed, a proposition was placed in the hands of Col. F., adequately backed, offering $1,000 for the copyright. This offer was increased to $1,500. While this was under consideration(!), Mr. Sholes suddenly left town for Janesville, on horseback, and in a prodigious hurry, to secure Mr. Jordan's signature. Did Col. F. notify him privately that there was competition? On his return in equal haste, the paper was signed by Col. F., Mr. Baker knowing nothing of it until after the matter was all adjusted. Now we submit it to the public to judge whether Col. Frank gave up to Mr. Sholes this $500, which he could have readily got - and which share was afterwards increased by subsequent offers to the value of $1,000 - without any consideration? Is it probable? The profits of the job being from 8 to $10,000, we have reason for believing, and do believe, that the Col. is to be well paid for the part he took in the affair; and it is totally immaterial whether the undestanding was effected before or after the bill was passed. Petitions, we imagine were of little account in influencing the decision."
We learn, by a letter from the editor of this paper, dated at Albany, June 1st, that Chas. Van Benthuysen, publisher of Law Books at that city, is engaged in printing "that job" for Mr. Sholes. He is going to make a very handsome volume of our new Statutes, and does the work both cheaply and well.
Our Revised Statutes. - While in Albany a few days since we had an opportunity of examining some of the proof sheets of the Revised Statutes of our State, now in process of publication under the contract between the State and Senator Sholes. This contract has been sub-let to Mr. Charles R. Van Benthuysen, of Albany, a good printer and very clever fellow. The Laws will make a volume of about 900 pages. They are well printed, on excellent paper, and will be substantially bound. The job will be completed and the book (6000 copies) delivered in all next month. Senator Sholes will clear some thousands of dollars by the operation - pretty fair considering that it is in direct and flagrant violation of the Constitution.
The Revised Statutes. - The bill to pay Mr. Sholes $6,000 for the four thousand copies of his Revised Statutes, subscribed for by Gov. Dewey, passed both branches of the Legislature and became a law. This is probably not much more than the actual cost of the work.
As amatter of justice to the Editor of the Southport Telegraph, Mr. C. Latham Sholes, the contractor for printing the Revised Statutes, we copy the following statement, from his paper of last week, in regard to the price agreed upon for the work:Gov. Dewey---Ourself---The Statutes. We intend neither to complain of, condemn, or abuse any one. We design to make a brief statement of facts, and then, so far as mere talk is concerned, hold our peace.
Last winter the representatives of the people passed an act providing for the publication of the Revised Statutes, which act was deliberately considered and deliberately signed by the Governor, and became law. Under it, we had a right to apply for the work, did apply for it, and got it. Our bond was accepted and approved by the Governor. The copy of the laws was given us, we went on, done the work and delivered it. It was pronounced by the Governor to correspond with the requirements of the law, was accepted by him, and put at once to the use of the state. So much for this part of the statement.
With reference to the law but one opinion was entertained throughout the state, and that was that the price was fixed at the maximum there stated. Others applied for the work, and we applied for it under that impression, and the Governor knew it, and he accepted our bond which compelled us to publish and deliver the work, knowing such to be our impression. He never intimated to us directly or indirectly that he entertained a different view. He permitted us to go on, to contract heavy obligations, to do the work, to deliver it, and in his annual message, for the first time, one month after the work has been delivered to him and has been partially used, he tells us and others that he conceived it his duty under the law to fix the price, and he accordingly had fixed it at one dollar and fifty cents a volume; a sum absolutely less than the work cost us, indeed but a trifle more than the cost of the material used in its construction. Is comment required?
It is but justice to a majority of the Legislature to say that they would in all probability have done us full justice, had it not been for the position taken by the Governor, yiz: that although he had not said a word to us, yet when he accepted our bond he had made a sort of a mental reservation with reference to the price - that is, he had fixed it in his own mind, and hence to allow us more would be to violate that clause of the constitution which prohibits any extra compensation to a public contracter after the work has been performed, thus leaving the inference that he could not sanction such approbation.
Doubtless the Governor has reasons for his course satisfactory to himself. We do not condemn his motives, for we do not know what they were. We wish only to ask, in view of the facts, if he has properly represented in this matter, the spirit of justice and magnanimity of the people of Wisconsin, in their transactions with a private individual.
Has now a distinct, palpable, tangible, real existence. Her city officers, under the new charter, have been elected, we suppose have qualified, and are organizing for the discharge of their duties. Be it known then to all concerned that the former village of Southport, in the county of Racine, on the western shore of lake Michigan, is now the City of Kenosha in the county of Kenosha, same geographical location.
We much regret that this gentleman could not have made it convenient to visit Milwaukee, so that our citizens might see, and listen to the voice of, a man who is an honor to humanity in general, and a living evidence of what may be effected by the American laborer.
Mr. Burritt lectured in Chicago, to the delight of all who listened to him, on the subject of Peace, and the Brotherhood of Nations, and was eloquent upon the prospects of the friends of harmony, and the may causes at work, rapidly bringing about the general fraternization of all people. Delegates from Illinois were appointed by the Convention to represent the State at the proposed Peace Congress to be held at Frankfurt-on-the-Maine.
On Tuesday last, according to previous notice, a State Peace Convention for Wisconsin, convened at Kenosha. The attendance of citizens was large, but the weather and other causes prevented many from abroad being present.
Mr. Berritt spoke two hours upon the subject of his self-imposed mission, and left a deep impression upon the minds of his hearers. Two Delegates at large were appointed to the great Congress, viz. Charles Durkee and our fellow citizen, E. D. Holton. C. L. Sholes was appointed for one of the Congressional Districts. It is supposed that Mr. Durkee will attend, and we trust that he will see to it, that M. Victor Hugo, President of the Peace Convention which assembled at Paris last year, is properly censured for his vote in the French Assembly in favor of the war with the Provinces of the La Plata.
The connection of the undersigned with the publication of the Telegraph ceases with the present number. Mr. C. L. Sholes, the former publisher will resume the charge of it. In retiring we wish to tender our heartfelt thanks to the many friends who have expressed to us from time to time, hopeful and encouraging words in approval of the sentiments we have endeavored to diffuse in regard to the interests of the great Brotherhood.
Those interested to know our location will find us at the Telegraph office for the present.C. CLEMENT.
The Knockings. - Mr. C. L. Sholes, of the Kenosha Telegraph, whose name is affixed to the card published in the Free Democrat, ascribing great mystery to the knockings, since his after experience and return home, says in his paper.
This is a matter which generally interests us and hearing some time since of these demonstrations we took the first opportunity which presented itself, to look in upon them. We confess to having been at first, somewhat humbugged in the premises, but aided by others who felt a desire to know the truth in the matter of a second visit we satisfied ourselves very fully, that all we heard and witnessed on that occasion was deception. The rapping instead of doing from disembodied souls, came very capably from the soles of the shoes of the party, a fact we satisfied ourselves of beyond question; and we were equally well satisfied that the living of material objects was entirely through material means. It is a shallow humbug, and when the more convenient location is obtained and the rappings are again started, we advise our neighbors to use their eyes and ears, when the spirits will stand revealed beyond question.
Milwaukee Rappings. - In justice to Mr. Sholes of the Kenosha Telegraph, whose name was signed, without authority, to the "Report" of the Committee on the rappings in this city, we copy the following from his paper:
We find our own name appended to the report of the committee alluded to, put there however, by some one without our knowledge or consent. We had a couple of sittings with the spirits, and while we are not certain that what we heard and witnessed the first time might not have been done by the parties themselves, we are quite certain that it was so done at the second sitting. Not a sound was made or and article moved, but was manifestly made and done by the feet and limbs of the parties, added to which, one of our parties, who had slipped his hand, without being perceived along under the bottom of a lounge, where the demonstrations seemed most powerful, received in his open palm a rap from the heel of the medium, which beyond question was inteded for a spiritual demonstration on the aforesaid lounge. Whether this little girl could be rapping away day after day with her heels and toes, seeking at the same time to make people believe it was something very difficult, and the rest of the family know nothing about it, we think quite doubtful. As to the involuntary theory; that is that the little girl cannot help but rap, we do not subscribe to it, for the reason that it has one voluntary feature which quite overthrows it that of stopping when people scrutinize it too closely.
Extra Allowances. - The Senate, on the 3d instant, rejected (9 to 6) the bill to pay D. T. Dickson, State Printer, $2000, as damages for not getting the Revised Statutes to print. The Assembly, on the same day, rejected (40 to 20) the bill to pay Mr. Sholes $3000 additional compensation for printing them. Mr. Sholes received $6,250 for the job, which he insists was much less than the price the State contracted to pay. The Legislature appear to think differently. The Argus promises an interesting expose of the whole matter.
All connection of the undersigned with this paper ceased with the thirty-fifth number, Mr. C. Clement at that time entering upon the sole charge of it. In thus severing his connection with this paper, he cannot forbear to express the hope that his labors have not been entirely useless for good. That enemies have been made, is probable; that friends also have been made, he trusts. Conscious of a desire only to benefit those with whom he has been in weekly converse, friendships and enmities are both immaterial.
The same principles that have heretofore been advocated, will continue to find in Mr. Clement an able and fearless defender, and he recommends him cordially to the patronage of all who are friendly to those principles, or to a candid and honest discussion of all questions.C. LATHAM SHOLES.March 13, 1851.
C. Latham Sholes has issued a prospectus for a paper, to be published in Kenosha to be called the Truth Seeker, Mr. C. C. Clement again takes the place of Mr. Sholes in Telegraph.
Kenosha County. - The Free Soilers of Kenosha County have nominated for Senator, H. S. Thorp, of Bristol, for Tresurer, C. Clement, of Kenosha Telegraph, and for Coroner, John Erickson. The Hunkers were out voted in Convention, and withdrew to form another ticket.
Messrs. C. L. Scholes and Isaac W. Webster are independent candidates for Assembly in the Eastern district.
The Whig County Convention meets on Saturday the 25th inst. to make niminations, at the house of L. Dutton, in the town of Paris.
Kenosha, Oct. 24 - 5 P. M.Henry K. Elkins, Esq., was nominated to-day as the Whig candidate for Assembly man in the Kenosha District.Kenosha, Oct. 24Editors Sentinel:-
C. L. Sholes was nominated to-dad as the Free Democratic Candidate for Assembly in the Kenosha Dist.
C. Latham Sholes, Free Democratic candidate in the Kenosha Assembly District, has issued a very able address to the electors of his District. He pledges himself, if elected, to endeavor to procure the passage of a General Banking law, as near like that of New York, as the circumstances of our State will admit of. We shall try to find room for it, soon.
Farwell's majority in Kenosha Co., is 443.
Sharpstein, regular loco Senator has 30 majority over Thorp, Free Soil; 100 over Johnson, Whig.
C. L. Sholes, Free Soil, is elected to the Assembly in the Eastern District, over Webster, Loco.
Herrick, Whig, is elected to Assembly in the Western district by 9 majority.
Since almost all the candidates who had been spoken of for Speaker have not been elected, and some have been elected who had not been spoken of, we beg leave to suggest the name of C. L. Sholes, for this honor, as a person who is admirably qualified, in every respect, to discharge the duties of this office. - Kenosha Telegraph.
General Laws of Wisconsin - We are indebted to the publisher, C. L. Sholes, of Kenosha, for a copy of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes, just issued, containing all of the general laws passed by the Legislatures of this State from the revision of the Statutes to the close of last session. Of course it will meet with a welcome from great numbers of the people, who have been waiting patiently to learn what our law are, and what ones were altered or amended by the last legislature.
Kenosha, Oct. 16.C. L. Sholes was nominated this P. M., for the Assembly, by the Free Democrats of Kenosha, Eastern District.
The undersigned gives public notice to all who are indebted to him, that they can settle with him in person, if they wish to, during the next three weeks. Those who prefer to settle with a Justice of the Peace, can have that pleasure after that time. The fact is, the undersigned has been roasting on the gridiron of the credit system just as long as he intends to. Those who owe him for Newspapers, Job Work, or Advertising, or any thing else, if it is only for one paper, will find him ready to settle. - Those with whom he has running accounts are requested to present them, and if he owes any thing he will pay up, and he will expect the same compliment in return. Advertising and subscription accounts will be made out to the middle of the 13th Volume. He is anxious to settle with every body without any delay.C. CLEMENTKenosha, Nov. 25, 1852.
The undersigned gives public notice to all who are indebted to him, that they can settle with him in person, if they wish to, during the next three weeks. Those who prefer to settle with a Justice of the Peace, can have that pleasure after that time. The fact is, the undersigned has been roasting on the gridiron of the credit system just as long as he intends to. Those who owe him for Newspapers, Job Work, or Advertising, or any thing else, if it is only for one paper, will find him ready to settle. - Those with whom he has running accounts are requested to present them, and if he owes any thing he will pay up, and he will expect the same compliment in return. Advertising and subscription accounts will be made out to the middle of the 13th Volume. He is anxious to settle with every body without any delay.
After that time the Establishment will pass into the hands of Messrs. Sholes & Frank, who will fulfil all the unperfected contracts made by me.C. CLEMENTKenosha, Nov. 25, 1852.
On the 18th of December next (the beginning of the last half of the present volume) the establishment of the Kenosha Telegraph, will pass into the exclusive control, as Editors and Proprietors, of the undersigned.
In making this announcement, we do not deem it necessary to make any pledges, in respect to the political measures which will be advocated, or the particular course of policy which whill be pursued; - Suffice it to say, that the paper while under our control will aim to be on the side of Freedom, Justice, and Right - acknowledging no allegiance to Platforms, or sympathy with Comprotaises which restrict the progress of Free Government, and tend to perpetuate the oppression and enslavement of Humanity.
In the discussion of political and other subjects of public interest, whilst we speak freely, we shall aim to speak candidly and fairly, and endeavor to avoid all unkindness or uncharitableness towards those who maintain an honest difference opinion.
Situated as we are, our interests are identical with those of the people of this section of country. Their prosperity is ours, so also is their adversity, which guarantees that we will spare no effort to advance, so far as a paper is capable of doing it, the general interests of the community.
One of the editors of the paper will be at Madison during the coming session of the Legislature, and will keep the readers of the Telegraph apprised of the doings there, whilst all of interest transpiring at Washington and elsewhere will be faithfully attended to at home.
Now material has been ordered, which, should no untoward cause prevent its coming, will enable the paper to appear, at the time mentioned, in an entire new dress.
As it is our fixed purpose, so far as we have the ability, to make such a paper of the Telegraph as the best interests of the community, in all its departments require, may we not ask friends to assist us in the effort by increasing our subscription list. The Telegraph has now much the largest list of any paper in the country, but it is by no means so large, that it may not be; we are quite confident, much increased. Is it then asking too much of our friends, and the friends of liberal and correct principles, in the several towns of this county, or elsewhere, to bestow a little effort on this matter and assist us in carrying out our purpose of making a paper which shall benefit themselves and us. We hope to hear from them.C. L. SHOLES,Kenosha, December 2, 1852.
M. FRANK.
The Kenosha Telegraph has also undergone a change. Mr. Clement, a very worthy and capable man, retires and is succeeded by Messrs. C. L. Sholes and M. Frank. Under the new auspices, as under the old, the Telegraph will do battle manfully for the distinctive principles and measures of "Free Democracy."
New York, September 3d.Several conventions are in progress here. One, the "Whole World's Temperance Convention," adjourned last evening, after a two day's session. It was attended, and the proceedings, discussions, &c., participated in, both by women and men. - Among the delegates and speakers from Wisconsin, I noticed Messrs. Sholes and Booth. A Woman's Rights Convention meets next Monday, at which all the female and some of the male speakers, who figured yesterday, are expected to holds forth again.
New Paper at Madison. - Messrs. James Densmore and C. L. Sholes announce their intention to start an independent paper at Madison, to be called the State Democrat, commencing next month. It will be published weekly at $2,00 a year to single subscribers and $1,50 for Clubs. We will endeavor to find room for their prospectus in our next. The new paper will reflect, of course, the peculiar views of Messrs. Densmore & Sholes, both of whom have long been connected with the Press of this State. We do not hesitate to predict a prosperous and useful career for the "State Democrat."
October 6th, 1853.To the friends of Free Democracy:- A Prospectus has been issued stating that the undersigned, in connection with C. Latham Sholes, would commence the publication of a newspaper, at Madison, during the present month. Complete arrangements had been made for the consummation of this project. But Mr. Sholes having receded from those arrangements, an obstacle is thereby thrown in the way, which makes it necessary to postpone the enterprize.
Thanking fervently, the kind notices and courtesies of the brethren of the Wisconsin Press, an opportunity to reciprocate is hoped for.Respectfully, JAMES DENSMORE.
Kenosha, Oct. 25th, 1853.Friend Booth:- It gives me pleasure to decline the nomination for Secretary of State, tendered me by the Free Democracy, in favor of the candidate on the People's Ticket.
I think all men and parties, who really esteem the best interests of the State of paramount importance, should unite in opposition to the present dominant party, under whose rule the State has suffered so much, and therefore beg leave to withdraw my name from the canvass - to aid, so far as possible, that end.Yours, C. L. SHOLES.
Declined. - We learn that Mr. C. L. Sholes, of Kenosha, the Free Soil Candidate for Secretary of State, has declined the nomination and will cordially support the People's Ticket.
Kenosha, Oct. 25th, 1853.Friend Booth:- It gives me pleasure to decline the nomination for Secretary of State, tendered me by the Free Democracy in favor of the candidate on the People's Ticket.
I think all men and parties, who really esteem the best interests of the State of Paramount importance, should unite in opposition to the present dominant party, under whose rule the State has suffered so much, and therefore but leave to withdraw my name from the canvass, to aid, so far as possible, that end.Yours, C. L. SHOLES.
James Densmore will hereafter be associated with the undersigned in conducting this paper, in the place of Col. Frank, who for some time past, in consequence of other duties, has had no active connection with the establishment.
We introduce our new associate to our readers and the community in which he proposes to make his home, with confidence that they will be pleased with him, both as an editor and as a man. Whether he can fill the place made vacant by the withdrawal of our universally esteemed late associate remains to be seen. He has had experience in editorial life, and will try.C. L. Sholes
We owe an apology to friend Densmore for forgetting to notice that he has become assocated with C. L. Sholes, in editing the Kenosha Telegraph. The Telegraph was an excellent paper before, and we expect now to see it still more so.
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between the undersigned, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Densmore is authorised to collect and receive all moneys due the firm, and will pay all debts contracted by the firm.C. LATHAM SHOLES.January 1st, 1855.
JAMES DENSMORE.Mr. James Densmore is authorised to receive subscriptions and other patronage, for the Tribune and Telegraph establishment.
C. L. SHOLES,January 1st, 1855.
S. S. SCHOFF,
J. A. BUTTS.
In Kenosha, on Saturday evening, the 7th inst., LEON, aged seven months, son of Mary and C. L. Sholes.
Our treasures are taken upward that our thoughts may be turned from earth to heaven. - Tribune & Telegraph.
Madison, Feb. 12, 1856.This morning in Senate, Mr. Sholes presented the petition of 1800 citizens of this State, for equal suffrage to colored persons, are moved a select committee. These names have been procured through the unwearied efforts of Mr. C. J. Russell. Mr. Sholes moved a select committee, and Messrs. Sholes, Hadley and Sutherland were appointed, but Mr. Hadley declining, Mr. Dunn was placed on the committee. I was sorry to see Mr. Hadley decline. A glance on his part at the 500 names of some of the best citizens of Milwaukee would influence him to give hearty aid to a good movement.
Kenosha, May 31.To the Sentinel,
C. L. Sholes and W. Orleage are the Delegates chosen to represent this Assembly District in the Republican State Convention.S.
The connection of the undersigned with the Tribune & Telegraph, (which for several months past has been but partial) ceases with the present number. The reason for it is simply that whilst three proprietors are by no means necessary to the establishment, it will not yield to so many an adequate remuneration for the labor required.
Whether the connection now severed, so long maintained certainly not without pleasure and advantage to me, and I trust not entirely without profit to those addressed, shall be again renewed is uncertain. But whether the battle of life is renewed here or elsewhere, in this or other fields, I shall ever cherish a most lively gratitude for the uniform and marked kindness which has ever attended my labors in this section, and hereafter as heretofore shall cherish no wish and knowingly perform no act, hostile to the interests in all respects of its people.C. L. SHOLES.
An Editor Retired. - Mr. C. Latham Sholes, in the last number of the Kenosha Tribune and Telegraph, announces his retirement from the post of editor of that paper. Mr. Sholes is one of the veteran editors of Wisconsin, and has always sustained himself ably and courteously, winning the respect and esteem of the fraternity generally. We regret to lose im from our number, but do not doubt that his influence will be feit for good in whatever position he is placed, and in any position, he has our best wishes for his success.
Milwaukee Cosmopolitan Society. - This is the name of a new Library Association which has lately been organized in this city. The object of the Society is to sustain lectures, discussions, and a library on the cosmopolitan idea, and one that shall be in harmony with the progress and developement of the age.
The officers are:
President - A. J. Langworthy.
Vice President - C. L. Sholes.
Cor. Secretary - E. M. Joslin.
Rec. Secretary - D. S. Kelly.
Treasurer - John Sidebotham.
The members of the Senate of 1856 to whom bonds or stock was assigned by the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company, were as follows:Of these it appears that Sholes did not accept the amount.
S. W. Barnes, Bonds $10,000 C. Clement, do 10,000 George E. Dexter, do 10,000 Ed. Gernon, Stock, 10,000 W. J. Gibson, do 10,000 B. G. Gill, Bonds, 10,000 Jackson Hadley, do 20,000 E. B. Kelsey, do 20,000 J. C. Mills, do 10,000 E. O'Neil, do 10,000 S. L. Rose, do 20,000 B. S. Weil, ($5,000 for son.) Stock, 25,000 C. L. Sholes, Bonds, 10,000 Total, $175,000 - Madison Journal.
An Acession. - The Free Democrat of last evening announces that Mr. C. Latham Sholes has removed permanently to this city, and will henceforth be associated in the editorial management of that paper. Mr. Sholes is a veteran editor and will prove a valuable accession to the Free Democrat.
C. Latham Sholes, well known to the people of this State, and to whom much of the interest of the Free Democrat for the past year is due, has become, for the present, a resident of this city, and will devote his time for the coming year at least, to aiding us in the editorial department of this paper. But his arrangement we expect to make the Free Democrat more worthy than ever of the patronage of the public.
New-paper Change. - It is rumored that S. M. Booth is about to dispose of his interest in the Free Democrat. We are not advised as to who his successor is to be, nor are we certain that this rumor is correct, but merely give the report as we heard it, for what it is worth. We presume that Mr. Sholes, the present acting editor, will continue his connection with the paper. If so, the Free Democrat will maintain in the future the reputation which it has justly gained as an able and independent journal.
Newspaper Change. - We learn from an announcement in the Free Democrat of last evening, that the connection of Mr. S. M. Booth, as editor and publisher, ceased yesterday, and that the business of the establishment will henceforth be conducted by Messrs. C. L. Sholes and L. L. Crounse. These gentlemen have been associated with the management of the Free Democrat for some years past, and have done much, as they will do more, to sustain its character, as an able, outspoken and influential Republican journal.
Good Appointments. - It is confidetially reported that Mr. Robert Menzies, of this city, is to have the post of Second Assitant in the Bank Comptroller's office, and Mr. C. L. Sholes, of the Free Democrat, that of Auditing Clerk in the office of Secretary of State. Both appointments are good ones.
Wisconsin Editorial Association - The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Editorial Association will be held at Green Bay, on Wednesday, June 16th, at 12 M. An address will be delivered by Hon. C. L. Sholes, and a poem by Prof. J. W. Hoyt. D. W. Ballon, Esq., will deliver an eulogy on Van B. Smead; and A. Holly, Esq., will pay a proper tribute of respect to the memory of the late Marcus A. Mallo.
It is hoped that every editor in the State will be present.LU. H. DRURY, Cor. Sec'y.Madison, May 1, 1860.
Personal. - C. L. Sholes, of the Free Democrat, has accepted a position in the Secretary of State's office, and is already filling that position.
C. Latham Sholes, esq., of the Free Democrat, is now engaged as clerk in the office of the secretary of state. The Patriot says that the presence of a practical printer in that department will be found advantageous in preparing copy for, and superintending the publications of laws, and other printing required by the state.
Messrs. Crounse & Fitch have withdrawn from the Milwaukee Free Democrat. The paper will hereafter be published by Messrs. C. C. Olin & Co., Mr. C. Latham Sholes, continuing to hold the position of Editor-in-Chief.
We saw this morning a very simple and effective machine for addressing newspapers and wrappers. Mr. C. L. Sholes is one of the proprietors of the patent and has had the machine manufactured in this city. It is neat and portable, and is capable of directing newspapers as quick as they can be picked up. A galley of names and any other required figures is placed in a groove in the machine. A treaddle is moved with the foot and this acts upon an instrument which shoves up one of the lines of names and in coming against the next line draws the galley forward. The paper is placed under a stamper which descends on it simultaneously with the rising of a line against it through a space of its exact size in a thin brass plate.
We regard it as an invaluable invention to newspaper proprietors, and one that will save much time and labor in performing a tedious work with unfailing accuracy.
This ingenious machine must come into general use, as its cost is moderate and its execution perfect. We are glad that a Wisconsin men has had something to do with the inventing and patenting of such a useful and crediable machine. Mr. Samuel Soule, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Geo Godfrey, Commercial Editor of the Milwaukee News, have interests in this successful invention.
Newspaper Addressing Machine. - We saw this morning a very simple and effective machine for addressing newspapers and wrappers. Mr. C. L. Sholes is one of the proprietors of the patent and has had the machine manufactured in this city. It is neat and portable, it is capable of directing newspapers as quick as they can be picked up. A galley of names and any other required figures is placed in a groove in the machine. A treaddle is moved with the foot and this acts upon an instrument which shelves up one of the lines of names and in coming against the next line draws the galley forward. The paper is placed under a stamper which descends on it simultaneously with the rising of a line against it through aspace of its exact size in a thin brass plate.
We regard it as an invaluable invention to newspaper proprietors; and one that will save much time and labor in performing a tedious work with unfailing accuracy.
This ingenious machine must come into general use, as its cost is moderate and its execution perfect. We are glad that a Wisconsin men has had something to do with the inventing and patenting of such a useful and crediable machine. Mr. Samuel Soule, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Geo Godfrey, Commercial Editor of the Milwaukee News, have interests in this successful invention. - Madison Patriot.
The Marquette Express suggests C. L. Sholes of Milwaukee, as a proper candidate for Governor. So far as any danger of his being made a candidate is concerned, it is not necessary we should say a word; but as he is the only person yet mentioned for that place, with whom we are on such terms of intimacy, as enables us to speak our mind freely without fear of offense, we cannot forbear to say that he is about as fit for the place mentioned, as he would be to command an army in battle, or a ship in a gale of wind; the force of wich illustrations those who know hime will readily appreciate.
First and Seventh Ward Republican Caucus. - The adjourned meetings of the Republicans of the First and Seventh Wards, met pursuant to adjournment.
Moved that the convention proceed to ballot for delegates to represent said district in the State Republican Convention at Madison, on the 25th, and the delegates be chosen one at a time. Carried.
Mason G. Smith and D. G. Rogers were appointed tellers.
C. L. Sholes having a majority of the votes cast, was declared duly elected.
Another ballot was had, and Gen. James H. Paine having received a majority of all the votes east, was declared elected.
On motion the delegates were declared unanimously chosen.
On motion, the delegates elected were requested to endeavor to obtain tickets over the railroad for those who desire to attend the Convention, at half fare.
Remarks were made by Messrs. Tweedy, Paine, Starkweather, M. G. Smith and Sholes.
On motion, the meeting adjourned, sine die.C. L. Sholes, Chairman.
B. Domschke, Secretary.
State Printing - Carpenter & Hyer, of Madison, were the lowest bidders for the state printing for two years from the 1st of January next. They bid 63 per cent below the maximum rates; Atwood & Ruble 51, Chas. Clement 52, C. L. Sholes 40, and H. M. Hulatt of Racine 45 per cent below.
Change of Post Masters. - The rumor was current yesterday in the streets, that the present Post Master, John Lockwood, Esq., had been removed, and C. L. Sholes, Esq., appointed in his place. We have been unable to trace the rumor to its source, although its truth did not seem to be doubted. One of the parties, at least, chiefly interested, had not heard of it in any official or unofficial manner.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin of yesterday says:New Postmaster. - A regular bomb-shell was thrown into the streets this morning, in the shape of a rumor that Mr. C. L. Sholes, who has for a year or two past been engaged as pricipal editor of the Sentinel, and is also deputy collector of this port, had superseded Mr. John Lockwood, as postmaster.We do not believe this can be true, because Mr. Lockwood has the reputation of being a good postmaster, attending faithfully to his business. We do not see why, therefore, a change should be made by which the public would gain nothing in efficiency or faithfulness.
We therefore do not credit the rumor. It will hardly be presumed that the administration would make so important a change when there is no apparent justification, by a sudden removal, at the instigation of malice or enmity, without giving Mr. Lockwood an opportunity to meet whatever changes had been made against him.
Postmaster. - We learn that Mr. C. L. Sholes, yesterday received his commision as postmaster of Milwaukee.
A telegram was received in this city yesterday stating that C. L. Sholes had been appointed and confirmed by Senate, Collector of the Port of Milwaukee, vice Edwin Palmer, lately deceased.
Mr. S. happening on 'Change during business hours, was called out by the President and some gentlemen of the Board, when he addressed them in a brief speech, referring to the preference of the Board for another, the circumstances under which he was appointed, the motives which should govern him, and the course he hoped to pursue in the administration of his duties, &c. The remarks of Mr. S. were well received and evidently created a favorable impression on the Board. We are satisfied the commercial community will find in the new appointee a courteous and obliging gentleman, and the government a faithful and efficient officer.
Appointment of Collector. - Hon. C. L. Sholes yesterday received his commission as collector of this port, to fill the place made vacant by the recent death of Edwin Palmer. We learn that Mr. Sholes has already been confirmed by the Senate.
It was proper that him appointment should be made. For several years Mr. Sholes has acted as assistant collector, and in addition to his other first class qualifications is of course thoroughly familiar with the business of the office. - News.
Collector of Milwaukee - We notice with pleasure, the appointment of C. L. Sholes, Esq., of the Milwaukee Sentinel, to the office of Collector of the port of Milwaukee, made vacant by the sudden death of Hon. Edwin Palmer. Mr. Sholes is an old and well known resident of the State, and not only posseses the Jeffersonian qualifications of honesty, and capability, but by his long and efficient services in favor of justice and humanity, is justly entitled to any position which the people of the Government can bestow.
SAMUEL W. SOULE AND C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORS TO C. L. SHOLES. PAGING-MACHINE
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,488, dated September 27, 1864; antedated March 27, 1864.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, Samuel W. Soule and C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Paging Books; and we hereby declare the following to be a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making them a part of these specifications.
A Washington correspondent of the Madison Journal thus alludes to a new invention, that, if successful, will be of great value.
C. Latham Sholes, Esq., of Milwaukee, has lately taken out a patent for an improved machine for paging blank books, which it is believed will prove to be a valuable invention. A gentleman, who is acquainted with mechanics, and who has seen all the models in the Patent Office says it is decidedly the best machine invented for the object for which it is intended.
C. F. J. MOLLER AND C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVED SHOE-BRUSH.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,168, dated August 14, 1866.
To all whom it may convern:
Be it known that we, C. F. J. Moller and C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement on the Shoe- Brush now ordinarily in use; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, wherein -
A represents the blade or scraper, and B the brush with the blade or scraper attached, making part of this specification.
SAMUEL W. SOULÉ AND C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN NUMBERING-MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,675, dated November 13, 1866.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, S. W. Soulé and C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Machine for Duplicate and Consecutive Numbering, the object of which is to print the numbers on bank notes, drafts, theater and railroad tickets, coupons, &c.; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
Letters Patent No. 64,875, dated April 30, 1867.MACHINE FOR PRINTING NUMBERS.
The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Be it known that I, C. L. Sholes, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Machines for Printing Numbers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.
On a Cruise. - The revenue cutter Andrew Johnson has sailed on a two weeks' cruise in the direction of Green Bay, Escanaba, Mackinac, etc. Collector Sholes is on board.
Removal of Collector Sholes. - Our citizens were surprised to learn yesterday of the removal of Collector Sholes, of this port. It seems that the workmen engaged in carrying on the repairs in the Custom House have driven him out of his office, and he has been compelled to take temporary refuge in the office of the pension office, opposite his old quarters.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, CARLOS GLIDDEN, AND SAMUEL W. SOULE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,265, dated June 23, 1868.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule, of the city of Milwaukee, and county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which -
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machines; Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9, views of detached parts thereof; Fig. 7, a view of a longitudinal vertical section thereof, and Fig. 8 a view of the rear elevation of the same.
The invention is of improvements to an invention of a type-writing machine, an application for a patent for which we filed October 11, 1867. Its features are a better way of working the type-bars, of holding the paper on the carriage, of moving and regulating the movement of the carriage, of holding applying, and moving the inking-ribbon, a self-adjusting platen, and a rest or cushion for the type-bars to follow.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, CARLOS GLIDDEN, AND SAMUEL W. SOULÉ, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,868, dated July 14, 1868.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. L. Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and S. W. Soulé, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Writing or Printing Correspondence; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.
Milwaukee Appointments. - The President yesterday appointed Samuel Hooker, Esq., Collector of the port of Milwaukee, vice C. L. Sholes.
Board of Public Works. - Two of the Commissioners of the Board of Public Works - Messrs. Millman and Reynolds - qualified yesterday, and Mr. Sholes is expected to follow their example to-day. A Joint convention of the Common Council will be held either this or to-morrow eventing, to accept their bonds in order that they may enter upon their duties immediately.
The Board of Public Works. - The first official meeting of the Board of Public Works was held at City Hall yesterday morning. Commissioner Millman was elected President and Commissioner Sholes Secretary. A resolution was adopted fixing the hours of business from nine to twelve in the morning, and from two to four in the afternoon. We would announce the fact that an assistant secretaryship is at the disposal fo the Board were, it not fair for a fear that its initial proceedings would be considerably retarded by the "noble army of applicants" such a notice would call forth.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. Letters Patent No. 91,277, dated June 15, 1869; antedated June 4, 1869.
IMPROVEMENT IN PAGING-MACHINES.
The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.
To all wom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Printing Numbers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which -
Figure 1 is a side view of the machine;
Figure 2, a top plan view;
Figure 3, a view of the cam; and
Figure 4, a view of one of the printing-disks.
Writing by Machinery. - A search of the Patent Office will reveal the fact that a great amount of inventive genius has been expended in the direction of machinery for writing. Inasmuch, however, as no machine for writing is in general use, it is quite safe to conclude that these efforts thus far have been total or partial failures. But, as a general thing, persistent effort in any direction is significant of a want in that direction, which, sooner or later, this effort may be expected to supply. In fact, we are not sure but this success has been already achieved by a machine invented by the joint efforts of two or three gentlemen of this city, of inventive turn of mind. We have before us a very neat and legible manuscript - if that may be called manuscript which is printed in Roman capitals - the production of the machine in question. We have also seen the machine and witnessed its operation, and are very certain it will solve the problem of writing by machinery, for most assuredly if writing in that manner is ever to be done, this machine will do it. We make this assertion because we perceive at a glance that it is quite impossible to make a machine more simple and effective for the purpose. A person familiar with type and their uses seeing only the results produced by this machine, would conclude that it must necessarily be ponderous and complicated in its character, and yet a piano is not more simple nor less liable to get out of order. Its simplicity, in view of the work it does, is its wonderful feature and entities it to rank among the most ingenious productions of this ingenious age. We will not attempt to describe it any further than to say it has a key-board, like a piano, in which every character used (in this machine twenty-eight) is represented by a key. It is also manipulated like a piano, each key struck evoking a letter of the alphabet instead of a note of music. It works fully as easily as a piano and its keys are susceptible of being as readily manipulated as those of a piano. Sixty words per minute are assumed as being attainable on this machine, and we see no reason to doubt the assumption.
The motive power is a weight which is wound up about every forty lines the weight does all the work of moving the paper, both for spacing the letters and shifting the lines, as each line is written out so that the operator has nothing to du but to place his paper, and, as the late lamented would say "peg away" until his paper or his subject exhausted.
The machine is certainly one of the most ingenious products of this ingenious age, and we are not sure but it will prove as useful as it is curious.
The News of yesterday announces that the establishment is about to pass into the hands of a company organized under the general laws of the state. George H. Paul, Esq., is president of the new organization and Messrs. C. L. Sholes and Sylvanus Cadwallader directors. The paper will soon appear in a new dress, and probably in another form.
In the reorganization of the Board of Public Works, required to be done annually by law, and made especially necessary this year, by the introduction of two new members, Commissioner Veltes was elected President of the Board, (the position formerly held by Commissioner Millman), and Commissioner Sholes continued as Clerk.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANICAL TYPOGRAPHERS
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,491, dated August 29, 1871.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improved Type-Writer.
The nature of the invention is manifold, as follows: First, a combined revolving cylindrical platen and paper-carriage. Second, a bail, combined with a revolving cylindrical-platen paper-carriage in a groove lengthwise in the periphery of the cylinder, to hold the paper firmly in its place. Third, two vibratory ratchets, combined with two ratchet-wheels on the axle of a revolving cylindrical-platen paper-carriage, to give a letter-space movement to the paper. Fourth, a vibratory ratchet, vibrating in a direction across the axle of a revolving cylindrical-platen paper-carriage, combined with a ratchet-wheel on the said revolving axle, to give exactitude to the letter-space movement of the paper. Fifth, a screw-cam, attached to a revolving-platen paper-carriage, combined with a series of pins or cog-teeth, to give a line-space movement to the paper. Sixth, a wide notch or space between the teeth of a ratchet-wheel on the axle of a revolving-platen paper-carriage, combined with a screw cam attached to the said platen paper-carriage and with a series of pins or cog-teeth, to give exactitude to and fix the poing of the line space-movement of the paper. Seventh, two pulleys, on the axles of two ribbon-spools, combined with a cord and weight, to move the inking-ribbon in either of two opposite directions.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WIS., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES DENSMORE. IMPROVEMENT IN NUMBERING-MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,978, dated September 12, 1871.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Numbering-Machines.
The invention is an improvement on my previous numbering-machine inventions, patented, the first April 30, 1867, and the second June 15, 1869.
Among the curiosities of the St. Louis fair was a peculiar machine denominated "the American Type Writer." It is an instrument for making copy in the form of print, and its operator to produce the desired effect simply manipulates a set of keys like those of melodeon or piano. It is claimed for it by its inventor that it can be used for all kinds of rapid writing, and that it is especially adapted for commercial correspondence as well as for the use of clergymen, phonographers, authors, editors and lawyers, and all who are accustomed to much writing. Specimens of the peculiar writing were distributed to the curious during the day, and were carried home as remembrances of the great exposition.
An ingenious machine for rapid writing, invented by Mr. C. L. Sholes, of this city, is attracting much attention in various parts of the country. The demand for them has become so great that an establishment for their manufacture has been opened on the race.
The shop on the canal for the manufacture of the rapid writing machine, in the invention of which Mr. Carlos Glidden has been concerned, is already in operation. It is believed that the facilities will be adequate to supply the demand, which in large, for this ingenious and useful article.
The instrument, in its present practical form, was patented by Mr. C. L. Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wis., under date of October 29, 1871, applications, however, for other patents on further improvements being still pending.
Those of our readers desiring further information should call upon or address Messrs. Roudebush, Densmore & Co., No, 4 Hanover street, New York city.
Hon C. Latham Sholes, Commissioner of Public Works, has returned to his post after an absence of two weeks. His visit to several of the leading cities of the East has placed him in possession of facts that may prove of service to our city in its prosecution of public improvements.
The Governor has appointed Hon. C. Latham Sholes, Milwaukee, an additional Commissioner for Wisconsin to attend the Vienna Exposition.
Hon. C. L. Sholes has been engaged to act as the correspondent of the Sentinel at the Vienna Exposition. A series of excellent letters may be anticipated.
By the appointment of Mr. W. A. Nowell to a position on the Board of Public Works, C. Latham Sholes, Esq., retires to the pursuits of private life. It is due this gentlement to say that he has for several years discharged the duties of Secretary of the Board with marked ability and a fidelity to the interests of public worthy of all commendation. To the future avocations of life he will carry with him the best wishes of those with whom he has come in contact, in the courteous discharge of this official duties.
The Remington Arms Manucatory - Sewing and Other Machines. Milwaukee Inventions and Inventors - A New Steam-plow.
Ilion, N. Y., June 11th, 1873.Editor Sentinel:- Your correspondent has been spending a few days in the village at which this epistle in dated. Its clean streets, shady walks, handsome and pleasant scenery, and its general air of thrift, and absence of all evidence of poverty and vice, ought to give it something more than a mere local interest, were there nothing eles to introduce it to general attention. But it has something of a national reputation as the location of the Remington Arms Manufactory. Wherever the senatorial struggle over the sale of arms by our Government to France in the late Franco-Prussian war, gained attention, which it is quite safe to say, was everywhere, Ilion and the Remingtons became as familiar as household words. Some fifty or sixty years ago, more or less, E. Remington obtained something more than a local reputation in the valley of the Mohawk, as a maker and mender of the small arms which the hardy settlers of that period were wont to hunt the wild game, and occasionally the still wilder Indian with. From that beginning we have now the arms manufactory of E. Remington & Sons; probably the largest private manufactory of the kind in the world, and possibly not excelled by any public ones. The founder, E. Remington, passed some time since to the sphere where it is not probable he found any scope for his peculiar talent, but the sons remain. There are three - one of whom is in Europe looking after the interests of the concern, another in this country looking after his health, and a third, and the oldest, Uncle Philo, at home, managing the immense concern. The livliest, and perhaps the best times, ever experienced by the concern, was when it was filling orders from France, during the war alluded to. At that time it turned ourt every twenty hours, 1,300 finished breech-loading rifles from the crude iron. This is a trifle over one per minute, and perhaps yor readers can imagine the amount of machinery, and the number of men required for such an achivement. I may say, in general terms, that I think it probable the several floors of the institution merged into one, would cover about five acres of ground. These floors are all packed just as full of machinery as it is possible to place it, leaving only room enough for the army of operatives to fulfill their functions. This machinery is of a character which takes the crude gun barrel as it comes in short lengths from Europe, none being made in this country, and turns it out before letting it go, a complete and finished breech-loading rifle. So complete and perfect is this machinery, that the operator has little or nothing to do, except to guid the various pieces as they come to his hand, through the machine he superintends. In fact, the machinery is much the most intersting object to study, compared with the thing it makes.
The concern also makes cartridges, which is a distinct branch of business, employing its own peculiar machinery. It is highly interesting to watch the heavy brass fed into the appropriate machine, and finally passed from hand to hand, among the operatives, coming out the thin attenuated brass cartridge, which makes the effectiveness of the breech-loading rifle. This work is chiefly done by girls, the machinery being of a character which needs little other skill to finish the work than simply to feed it to the appropriate machine.
But the manufactory is not confined exclusively to the construction of implements of destruction. There is a separate department, in which is made the Remington Empire Sewing Machine, and which turns out fifty per day, in itself a very respectable achievement for a single concern.
I meant to have said in the proper place that the Remingtons have never had any contracts from our Government for arms, their sales being to foreign Goverments in all parts of the world. Our Government manufactures its own arm, the Springfield rifle, at its own foundry. Once in a while, under the pressure of outside inventors, it makes a test of the various guns presented, generally ending in going back to work at the Springfield rifle. Recently such a test was ordered at the Springfield Armory, on which occasion some fifty or more different guns were presented in competition. Among the number was a recent invention ofJAMES LEE of Milwaukee, the gun being manufactured under his supervision, at the Remington Works. The gun was very highly commended, but no change was made in the Government practice. This tenacity of the Government in adhering to this old arm, is probably not to be referred to any indisposition to adopt improvements, but because there is so little difference between their own and the multitide of other guns presented, as to make it not worth while to take any new departures. The Government is still pursuing its investigations in this direction.
And, speaking of Milwaukee inventions, reminds me to say that the manufactory has a contract to manufacture an indefinite number of "Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer," a machine of which you have heard, it having been invented, and a number manufactured, at Milwaukee. They have already got done the pattern machine, by which the rest are to be manufactured, and if the utility of the machine shall equal the finish, beauty, and perfection with which this one gotten up,then assuredly will the sanguine hopes of its projectors, that it is to bring to them untold pelt, and to the locality of its birth undying fame, be realized. But the beautiful things are not always the most useful, and this will have to wait for other and severer tests to determine its merits and success.
There is also an agricultural department connected with the manufactory, in which is just now being constructed a machine, possibly of more importance to the world than any thing I have yet mentioned. This is a steam plough, or spader rather. It is the invention of a gentlemen, known as Uncle Gibbs, who is engaged in its construction. It is not unlike the Comstock & Glidden spader, invented and manufactured at Milwaukee. In fact it its exactly like it, in the results at which it aims. Uncle Gibbs claims to have ante-dated for. Comstods in his inventions in this direction, and to have finally achieved a thoroughly successful spader, to run by steam, and to revolutionize, especially on the broad Western prairies, the work of the plough. This machine is about ten feet long by six broad, and five high, weighing about three tons. Its spades are its driving mechanism, but it has bearing wheels six feet in diameter with six-inch tire. The spades are two feet in diameter and cut a width of four feet six inches. Its projector claims that it will run about for miles an hour and plough twenty acres per day. The coad required will be half a ton per day, and one man and a boy are sufficient to tend it. Should it be manufactured systematically, it is calculated that it will cost about $3,500. It will be ready for work within a month, when we shall probably find out to what extent these expectations of the sanguine inventor shall be realized. No person, I calculate, but will wish aim thorough success, for there is no more important field for invention.
All small villages get their general impress from the chief industry carried on in their midst. Here the talk is chiefly gun talk, and pretty much all things are of the gun, gunny. The "soft notes of the pistol," are the chief music, and now then a discharge as if from about a dozen mitrailleuse all at once, startles the unsophisticated stranger with the idea that a powder mine has exploded somewhere in his vicinity. This is the process of testing the arms as they are completed and getting ready for shipment. A whole pile or gang of guns, are loaded almost to the muzzle, with-powder and lead, and discharged in a closed room. Those that stand the test are again discharged with a little less of a load, the survivors of which are ready to be sent to customers.
A great deal of private testing of arms is also going on continually. The discharges are generally from the armory into a gravel bank opposite, where some antiquarian in the future, when the memory of guns and pistols shall have passed from human recollection or tradition, will find a lead mine of a very pure and unadulterated character. Sometimes there is wild shooting in these tests. This morning a stray ball found its way to the top of the bank, and there gouged out the eye of a favorate sorerl horse, worth about $500, the property of Uncle Philo. It is generally thought this will hasten the construction of a closed shooting gallery, which has been contemplated for a long time.
Any of your readers fond of quiet walks and drives, and interested in machinery in its most wonderful development will ind most confortable quarters in the hotel of the Brothers Small, and will also find enough to give them profitable study and investigation for a month.
Yours,s.
Hon. C. Latham Sholes has accepted the position of editor-in-chief of The Daily News.
One of the "Sholes & Glidden" type-writers, a Milwaukee invention, now being manufactured at the celebrated arms works of the Remingtons, at Ilion, N. Y., may be seen at the establishment of the Wisconsin News Company. It is a splendid piece of workmanship, and certainly a most ingenious and efficient machine so far as doing the work of writing is concerned. Our brethren of the press, now in our midst, will be especially interested in its examination, as it is something directly in their line. It is one of the most curious, as it may possibly prove, one of the most useful inventions of the age.
Col. E. A. Calkins has retired from the position of editor-in-chief of The News and Hon. C. Latham Sholes has assumed the responsibilities of the position.
Hon. C. Latham Sholes has retired from the position of editor-in-chief of The News. Charley George figures ad interim.
Mr. C. L. Sholes is spoken of as a probable member of the Board of Public Works.
Appointing Hon. C. Latham Sholes Commissioner of Public Works, in place of Mr. Nowell, whose term had expired.
Mr. Wolf regretted that he was obliged to differ with the Mayor so soon. The office required a younger and more active man. Mr. Sholes would do for a city of 50,000 people, but not for a city of 100,000 souls.
Mr. Shaughnessy sustained the appointment, because Mayor Butler would not have appointed Mr. Sholes had he not thought him competent for the position.
Mr. Schnengel followed in the same vein.
Mr. Wechselberg would not vote for the nominee. Mr. Sholes was not the man for the place.
Mr. Wall complimented Mr. Nowell, but declared that he would vote for the nominee, as the Mayor would not have made the nomination if incompatible with the interests of the people.
Mr. Wolf replied that the Mayor had made an appointment for one class of people - the Democratic class - which was not courteous and considerate, to say the least, since the people, irrespective of party, had elected him to position. The speaker declared that Mr. Sholes was a good man - so was the speaker's father - but both were unfit to serve for Commissioners of Public Works - they had passed their usefulness.
Mr. Schnengel was spurred into a forcible speech by the gentlemen from the Fifth. His bluster amounted to nothing.
Mr. Wechserberg said the gentlemen always had a confused notion of affairs.
The nomination was confirmed by a vote of 25 to 12 as follows:
Ayes - Anger, Basse, Coe, Dunck, Eigel, Fahsel, Fass, Fixter, Hobart, Holbrook, Kittridge, Ludwig, O'Brien, Porth, Riemer, Schmitz, Schroeter, Schnengel, Shaughnessy, Shea, Stoltz, Wall, Swain and Benjamin - 25. Noes - Collins, Ernst, Fischer, Graves, Milbrath, Shaw, Simmerling, Tibbits, Tornow, Wechselberg, Wolf and Wood - 12.
The appointment of Hon. C. L. Sholes as Commissioner of Public Works is a gratifying one on every account, that is if we leave partisanship out of the question. It is an assurance on the thresholed of Mayor Butler's administration that he has the discernment to recognize the purposes of the contractors, the ward politicians and the rings, and the firmness to balk them. Again, Mr. Sholes is a man of approved integrity, who has had experience in the position, and who will not fail to protect the interests of the people and promote the welfare of the city.
Commissioner Sholes will enter upon the duties of his office as soon as his bond is approved by the Common Council.
Commissioner Sholes is not to blame for that school of fish in the reservoir. He says he issued permits to fish off that pier until it seemed to him that the anglers fairly outnumbered the finny tribe of the bay.
C. LATHAM SHOLES AND MATTHIAS SCHWALBACH, OF MILWAUKEE, WIS., ASSIGNORS TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK CITY. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,511, dated September 19, 1876; application filed March 30, 1872.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. Latham Sholes and Matthias Schwalbach, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The invention relates to that class of type-writing machines which, by depressing and releasing a series of pivoted key-levers one after another, and thereby vibrating a series of pivoted type-bars and throwing the types thereof against an inking substance and the substance to be written on, and, after each type-bar has been thrown against it, and while the key-lever and type-bar are going back to place, moving such substance written on a type-space distance, will write or print one letter or character at a time.
It was Commissioner Sholes' turn to pour the sweet balm of sympathy upon the injured feelings of average tax-payers yesterday afternoon.
Hon. C. L. Sholes is still seriously indisposed.
Commissioner Sholes, of the Board of Public Works, is improving rapidly.
C. L. Sholes is suffering from another attack of hemorrhage of the lungs.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,382, dated January 22, 1878; application filed January 2, 1874.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented Improvments in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The nature of the invention is in combining a type-bar of a type-writing machine, which type-bar has a trunnion or journal on each side, with an annular circular disk, which disk has a journal-bearing groove in its upper surface, and a radial vertical slot through its inner periphery or inner edge; and in combining a type-bar of a type-writing machine, which type-bar has a trunnion or journal on each side, with an annular circular disk, which disk has a journal-bearing groove in its upper surface, and a radial vertical slot through its inner periphery or inner edge, and with a partition or stop across the journal-bearing groove of such disk.
C. LATHAM SHOLES AND CARLOS GLIDDEN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No 200,351, dated February 12, 1878; application filed January 16, 1874.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The nature of the invention is as follows: In combining two ratchets, attached together side by side, pointed practically in the same direction, and pivoted so they may vibrate in the same plane in one direction, but one pivoted separately, so it may vibrate independently in a plane at a right angle to that of the joint vibration, so they may vibrate in parallel planes in the reverse direction, with only one series of ratchet-teeth an notches, and with the key-levers, vibratory frame, paper-carriage, and platen of a type-writing machine; and in combining a horizontal bar, attached and pivoted so it may vibrate across in front of the key-levers, with the vibratory frame and letter-space ratchets of a type-writing machine.
In a communication the Mayor presented the resignation of C. L. Sholes as a member of the Board of Public Works, and appointed Wm. P. O'Connor to fill the vacancy. The resignation was accepted and the appointment confirmed. Subsequently Mr. O'Connor's bond was approved.
Hon. C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, a well-known and popular journalist, is lying at the point of death at Colorado Springs, whither he had gone with the vain hope of being restored to health. - Chicago Tribune. A letter from Mr. Sholes denies that he is dangerously ill. On the contrary, his health has greatly improved during the past two weeks and he is now able to start for home. He will leave Colorado Springs this week, for Milwaukee.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,557, dated August 27, 1878; application filed April 19, 1878
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The invention relates to the type-bars of type-writing machines; and its nature is in combining a type-bar which has two trunnion-like journals with a bifurcated adjustable hanger in one piece, which has a journal-bearing in each fork, and in combining a type-bar which has two trunnion-like journals, which have cone-like points on their ends, with a bifurcated adjustable hanger in one piece, which has a journal-bearing in each fork, adapted to receive and fit a cone-like pointed journal, and which forks are elastic.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,558, dated August 27, 1878; application filed March 27, 1878.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The invention relates to the type-bars of type-writing machines; and its nature is in combining a type-bar which has two trunnion-like journals with a circular annular disk which has a radial slot through its inner periphery, and a straight journal-bearing groove in its upper surface on each side of said slot, and in line parallel with the chord of an are of said disk; in combining two series of type-bars, those of one series longer than those of the other, and of which each has two trunnion-like journals, with a circular annular disk which has a series of radial slot through its inner periphery, and two concentric series of pairs of straight journal-bearing grooves in its upper surface, one series around the other, and each pair in line parallel with the chord of an arc of said disk, and one of each pair of each series on each side of every alternate slot; and in combining two series of type-bars, those of one series longer than those of the other, and of which each has two trunnion-like journals, with a circular annular disk which has a series of radial slots through its inner periphery, and two concentric series of pairs of straight journal-bearing grooves in its upper surface, one series around the other and in a higher or lower plane, and each pair in line parallel with the chord of an arc of said disk, and one of each pair of each series on each side of every alternate slot.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE TYPE WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,559, dated August 27, 1878; application filed March 8, 1875.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, C. Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification:
The invention relates to that class of type-writing machines in which the successive depression and release of a series of keys, one afgter another, vibrate and throw a series of types against an inking substance and the substance to be written on, and after each depression and release of any key, and while type and key are going back to place, move the latter substance a type-space distance, and thus make impressions or print or write one letter or character at a time;
C. Latham Sholes, who is now in New York, has written a friend here a handsome endorsement of Capt. O'Connor's course while a member of the Board of Public Works, and expresses hope of his re-appointment.
Mr. C. L. Sholes, a former member of the Board of Public Works, has amused himself during confinement to his house, with the problem of removing the river nuisance. His having been a member of that board may not be regarded as qualifying him to find a solution fo the problem, but he has certainly demonstrated the possession of qualifications which made his studies of this subject highly valuable. His invention and perfection of the type-writer and other practical instruments shows that he is competent to take hold of a problem in a practical and matter-of-fact way. His plan for the sewerage difficulty is the simplest yet advanced and it requires higher knowledge of engineering to find any difficulty with it. It would be well for the gentlemen who are most interested in this consult with Mr. Sholes and submit his plan to the consideration of competent engineers. If their approval is obtained and the plan successfully adopted, it would save the city millions of dollars for flushing and pumping and the removal of the source of water supply, while at the same time it would meet every requirement of the situation. The members of the Board of Public Works and of the Common Council should certainly investigate Mr. Sholes' plan - it can do no harm and may be the means of disposing of the whole subject.
Col. E. A. Calkins, late of the Sunday Telegraph, will go East in a few days to push an invention for the rapid distribution of type, in which he has become interested, together with C. Latham Sholes, Geo. H. Paul and others.
To C. Latham Sholes belongs the credit of starting the first paper published in the state, The Green Bay Intelligencer. He was also at one time editor-in-chief of The Sentinel, and afterwards held the same position on The News. He was then appointed a commissioner of public works, and is now too old to do any active work. He still resides in the city. Some time ago, in company with a Mr. Glidden, he invented a type-writer, and has also invented several other valuable mechanical devices.
"Mr. Sholes, the chief inventor of the typewriter, has called my attention to an article in your number for July last, which in my hasty reading, I had previously overlooked, the article headed "A Boon to Telegraphers." In the article occurs the following paragraph:Mr. Butler informed us that he was the first operator to adopt this method of receiving from the telegraph direct on the typewriter and said that it came from a suggestion made by Mr. Erastus Wiman, one of the proprietors of the Mercantile Agency, and well-known in commercial and telegraph circles. It was in 1875, when the machine was in its infancy, that this experiment was made by Mr. Butler. He said:The pith of the foregoing quotation is, aside from its tribute to the great value of the typewriter, that R. G. Dun & Co., besides a certain department of the Western Union General office, is using the typewriter to copy messages received by ear from the telegraphic sounder, and that the manager, Mr. Butler, claims to be the first operator to do that feat.`At first it looked futile. The noise of the sender, and the tintinnabulation of the (then) imperfect typewriter, when combined was well calculated to frighten the average telegrapher, at even an attempot to produce an intelligent result, Yet it was one of the old original machines that until lately has been in daily use at this office for many years, and it did not take long to assert, even in its imperfect shape, that it was much more practicable than the wearisome pen, The large amountof business transacted daily at this office, in answering in part the requirements of hundreds of subscribers, the ability to serve with the present efficiency is largely due to the typewriter adoption in receiving. The present perfected and comparatively noiseless Remington No. 4, simply defies the speed of abbreviated telegraphy, and while it may be impossible to reduce the number of characters in the letters of the Morse telegraph, it calls for the invention of some shorthand form of sound-transmission, in order to keep pace with the speed and ease of the telegraph-typewriter manipulator, The type-writer offers to and should be to the telegraph fraternity with its advantages and ease, speed and general comfort, what is enjoyed by stenographers.'
A year ago, or thereabouts, the newspapers were full of the story of an Elmira telegraphic operator who claimed for himself the honor and glory of being the first to use the typewriter to copy messages from the telegraph sounder.
With all these stories you cannot say half enough in praise of the merits of the typewriter; but for the sake of the "truth of the history," I must dispel these illusions, and tell who was the first to copy with the typewriter messages received by ear from the telegraph sounder.
Mr. E. Payson Porter, who Gen. Anson Stager once said was the finest, quickest, and most accurate reader from the telegraph sounder of any operator he ever knew, carried on a telegraphic college from 1868 and before, up to 1872, and perhaps after. Like myself, he became enamored of the typewriter, when he first learned of the conception of the idea, and before the machine was born. He bought and paid the expense of making several of the first crude attempts at machines and gave us his cordial an enthusiastic sympathy and help in all ways. In the autumn of 1872, we got up for him one of our then latest experimental machines, and as soon as it was done, I set for him to come over to Milwaukee and examine it. He came, and, as was his custom, he was exuberent in the overflow of his appreciation and gratification at the progress made.
"Now, Porter," said I, "if you will take that machine into Gen. Stager's office and get him and the Western Union folks to say it is a success, I will make you a present of the best typewriter that money can hire made, when we get into regular manufacture."
"I'll win that machine, as sure as you live," was his instantaneous reply.
He took the experimental machine home with him. He practised with it some two or three weeks or more, to become entirely familiar with the key-board. (It is proper to observe here that in getting up our experimental machines of which we made nearer fifty than half that number, we never made two alike, and never put the same key-board on two successive experiments. Hence, every time he got a new one, he had to learn a new key-board).
After he had practised till he felt sure of his familiarity with the new key-board, he went into Gen. Stager's office one day and said he wanted to bring over the typewriter, and have the general examine and test its merit.
"Very well, " said the general, "bring it over at once."
The machine was brought over immediately. The general's office was then in a room directly under the upper and great operating floor of the Western Union building in Chicago, and in it there were arranged two tables, one at each end, with a telegraph instrument on each, and a coil of many miles of wire between. Porter, with the typewriter, sat down at one table, and the general at the other. In his youth the general had been a first-class operator, but he was then no longer young, and had been out of any but amateur practice for many years, but he took a newspaper and prepared himself to "send" a paragraph to Porter. Porter attached the "sounder" to the typewriter, and cried out:
"Ready, General!"
The general began to "send" very slowly, as if sure that Porter would be unable to "receive" unless he did so; but before the first line was written; Porter called out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then sent faster, but immediately Porter again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
The general then "put in his best licks," but Porter directly again cried out:
"Faster, General!"
Then the general stopped, and struck his page-bell. When the page appeared, the general said to him:
"Send Smith down here."
Smith was an expert telegrapher of the operating room above. The boy departed, and directly Smith ushered himself in, and, Stager said to him:
"Smith, sit down here and `send' for Porter."
Smith sat down, and began "sending" in a common way; but almost directly, Porter called out:
"A little faster, Smith."
Then Smith began to make his best exertions; but directly Porter called out again:
"A little faster!"
Whereupon Smith did the very best he could; but Porter directly called out:
"A little faster!"
Then Stager again struck the page-bell, and when the page appeared again, the general said,
"Send Jones down here."
Jones came, and was directed to "send" for Porter as Smith had been doing. Jones obeyed; but Porter, as usual, soon cried out:
"Faster, Jones!"
Jones increased his speed but directly Porter again called out:
"Faster!"
Then Jones "sent" with his utmost speed; but Porter again cried:
"Faster!"
Then Gen. Stager said:
"That is enough. Porter, I know about that machine just as well as if I had tried it a year. It's a success!"
Thus, Porter had won the machine; and since the No. 2 has been developed into present condition of progress, the promise has been cheerfully redeemed.
Shortly after the test, Stager employed Porter to come over and take press dispatches with the typewriter for the Chicago Tribune Porter notified us of this fact, and Mr. Sholes and I immediately went over to Chicago, and paid a visit in the evening to the operating room of the Western Union Telegraph office to witness Porter's work.
To me, it seemed a wonderful thing. There was a large room, covering the upper floor of the entire building, in which were seventy-five to a hundred telegraph instruments in active, simultaneous use by as many telegraphers, and it seemed to me impossible for the operators themselves to understand what they were doing in such a din; but I was told that there was no confusion, and no chance for any - that, in practical fact, each operator heard nothing but the click of his own individual instrument.
Amid the crowd, and somewhat near the middle of the room, was Porter and the typewriter. He sat in a big arm-chair before a small table, on which were nothing but the type-writer and a telegraph sounder. He was `receiving' press dispatches. He seemed to have very little to do. He seemed to write very slowly; and yet he told us that the `sender' from whom he was `receiving' was an excellent, first-class operator. He would first write several lines with one had, and then write as many more with the other hand. It was perfectly easy for him to `receive' with one hand, and even at that, to the onlooker, the work seemed slow.
The chair he sat in, happened to be quite a high-backed one, and at one moment he leaned back with his head resting on the chair-back, with one hand and arm hanging carelessly down beside the chair, while he was writing with the other hand, and exclaimed:
"Boys, if I had a pillow now, under my head, this would be luxurious and all right!" - the operating hand, all the while, constantly at work, though seemingly slowly.
Porter followed that employment after that, for half a year or more, and demonstrated perfectly the unqualified practicability of receiving from the telegraph instrument with the typewriter, and that demonstraton was of much advantage to me and the enterprise.
At the time, Gen. Stager, and the Directors of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, of which he was president, and Mr. Elisha Gray, of telephone fame, was superintendent, felt quite sure of the practicability of introducing the typewriter as a receiving instrument in telegraphy; and they were so much pleased with the machine, and this conviction was so strong with them, that they were induced to take the selling agency for a large territory for which Chicago was the centre, and to advance $10,000 to inspire confidence in the manufacture.
They failed at that time, to get other telegraphers to learn to use the typewriter, and, as otherwise the typewriter enterprise was somewhat incompatible with their electric manufacturing business, they were induced to release their contract and agency, and thereby they separated themselves from the business.
Thus is was not Mr. Butler, nor the Elmira man, nor any one else but Mr. Porter, who first demonstrated the entire feasibility and unqualified success of using the typewriter for receiving telegraph dispatches. And the day will soon come when operating telegraphers will of necessity be required to use the typewriter for that purpose.
I can remember when, some thirty years ago, all such messages were received by, and copied from the dots and dashes impressed by the telegraph instrument itself on a paper-ribbon; but about that time, or not long before, some sharp operator discovered he could read the instument by ear, and forthwith the whole machinery of the paper-ribbon was dispensed with; and all telegraphers too old to learn to read by sound had to retire, and give place to the younger generation who could.
And the time will soon be at hand when the telegrapher who will be too conservative to use the typewriter in receiving and copying will be compelled to give way to those younger and more alert who will be adequate to the demand for the better way."James Densmore.No. 345 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburgh, N. Y. Aug. 14, 1886.
C. LATHAM SHOLES. One of the pioneers of Wisconsin journalism is C. L. Sholes. For the past eight or ten years he has been in ill health and confined to his house on Racine street. He is afflicted with insomnia sometimes getting but three hours' sleep out of the twenty-four. Although but 68 he looks much older than many other of the pioneers more advanced in years. His hair and beard are almost snow-white.
"I arrived in Green Bay in May, 1837," said Mr. Sholes, "coming by the Sheldon Thompson. It was the first boat to get through, and you might say that navigation opened later in 1837 than it ever has during the fifty years since. In that year there was strong west winds continually, which drove the ice into Buffalo harbor, so that it was impossible for any boats to get in or get out.
"I don't know as I can tell you much about The Sentinel when O'Rourke had it. We received it of course at our office in Green Bay, but I don't recall any particular incidents of the time, but I have followed the various changes which have occurred. It used to amuse us greatly to see The Sentinel boast of the advantages and prospects of Milwaukee was as far behind Green Bay as Green Bay is now behind Milwaukee, and we thought the editorials about Milwaukee's commercial importance absurd. We thought it preposterous to Milwaukee to talk of rivaling Green Bay. At that time we had all the important offices and courts in the territory, and all the federal officals having business in Wisconsin made their headquarters in Green Bay.
"A good many things have been told of Judge Frazier, and much has been published concerning him. I had a little personal experience with him, while aiding my brother in publishing The Wisconsin Democrat at Green Bay. As everybody knows, Judge Frazier was very intemperate, and was drunk as an owl the most of the time. We printed a paragraph about fact that `the judge was well red by his experience at the bar.' Frezier was furious when he saw it, and came into the office as though he would demolish everything and everybody. He calmed down after a while and protested that he intended to reform. So we `stopped the press' and took out the offensive item.
"I was once connected with The Sentinel and was its editor for awhile. There were with me Jonas M. Bunday, afterward of The New York Mail, and `Nym Crinkle.' W. J. Langson, secretary of the chamber of commerce, was the city editor. I was collector of customs at the time and didn't attend to the paper as I ought to have done. I was succeeded by Chas. W. Willard, brother-in-law of A. C. May. He tried to buy it, but couldn't come to terms with Jermain & Brightman.
"I passed through Milwaukee in 1840, going to Kenosha. At the time I noticed innumerable frongs in what is now the Third ward, which was rather marshy. The boats in those days anchored out in the bay, and the passengers came ashore in a lighter. I took the manuscript of the proceedings of the first Wisconsin legislature to Philadelphia to be printed. We did not have at Green Bay the proper facilities for doing it as well as we desired. It was finished late in the fall, just in time to enable me to take the last boat for home, otherwise I would have been compelled to remain in Philadelphia till the following spring. I recollect well the building of the Michigan Central to New Buffalo on the lake shore. The railroad company would damp their passengers on the piers and the steamers would take them across the lake to Milwaukee and Chicago. The Central then believed New Buffalo to be as far west as the road would ever need to be run, and that there would never be any occasion for a line to Chicago. New Buffalo is now a pile of sand. I always took great interest in railroads and steamboating, and knew all the vessel officers upon the lakes in those early days."
The Southport (Kenosha) Telegraph, established in June, 1840, C. L. Sholes editor and later Frank and Sholes, is still printed as a weekly, and the paper has the same editor it had in 1840 - M. Frank.
After a long period of ill health, Mrs. C. Latham Sholes passed into rest yesterday morning. She had been a resident of Wisconsin for fifty years, having reached Depere when a young girl in 1837. In 1841 she was married to Mr. Sholes, the pioneer journalist and legislator, who had been one of her schoolmates in Pennsylvania. For some thirty years they have lived in this city surrounded by many children and friends. Mrs. Sholes was a woman of extraordinary sweetness of character and gentleness of life, and although and invalid for many years her devotion and helpfulness as wife and mother was unvarying. She possessed the affection of friends in a rare degree.
SHOLES - On Monday morning, Jan. 9, at the residence, 833 Racine street, Mary J. Sholes, wife of C. Latham Sholes.
Funeral private, Wednesday morning, at 11 o'clock. Friends will please omit flowers.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,239, dated December 31, 1889.
Application filed July 16, 1887. Serial No. 244,472. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.
My invention relates to type-writing machines, and belongs to that class of such machines wherein the type are all set in motion at once to bring the desired character to the printing-point where said character is impacted by a suitable mechanism to produce an impression, this style of machine being contradistinct to those havin the type carried singly or in pairs on separate levers that are independently actuated to produce the above result.
One of the Early Settlers Finds His Rest.
THE INVENTOR OF THE REMINGTON TYPEWRITING MACHINE.
One of Wisconsin's Oldest Editors.
A Member of the Legislature, a Collector of Costoms, a Postmaster and a Commissioner of Public Works. After an illness of nearly fourteen years, Christopher Latham Sholes, one of the early settlers of Wisconsin, one of the earliest of Western newspaper men, a state senator, a member of the assembly, a former collector of this port, a postmaster at Kenosha and at Milwaukee, a member of the Board of Public Works of this city, and the inventor of the first successful typewriter, died at his residence, 833 Racine street, yesterday morning. For three or four years Mr. Sholes was unable to leave his bed, but in that time he perfected a new typewriting machine. His disease was slow consumption, for which he had spent some time in Colorado and Florida. For several weeks he had been sinking and his death was expected at any time.
AN INTERESTING CAREER. Mr. Sholes is best known as the inventor of the Remington typewriter, although the early residents of Wisconsin have known him as a man of unusual education and as singularly devoted to every idea for the humanization of the world. His secluded life favored the growth of such ideas, and he was perhaps the most hopeful of men in regard to the realization of such dreams as those of Mr. Bellamy. He was born Feb. 14, 1819, in Columbia county, Pa., and was 71 years and a few days old at his death. His ancestors were New Englanders, and served with distinction in the Revolutionary army, and his grandmother was a descendant of John Alden. When only 14 years old, Mr. Sholes was apprenticed to the editor of The Danville (Pa.) Intelligencer to learn the printing business. In May, 1837, he followed his brother, Charles C. Sholes, well known in the early politics of Wisconsin, to Green Bay, where they conducted a newspaper. In 1838, when only 19, Mr. Sholes took charge of the house journal of the territorial legislature and carried it to Philadelphia to be printed. In 1839 he went to Madison and took charge of The Wisconsin Inquirer, owned by his brother Charles, and in 1840, when 21 years old, he went to Kenosha, where with Col. Frank, he edited The Southport Telegraph (now Kenosha Telegraph). At Kenosha Mr. Sholes served as postmaster, and he was afterward postmaster of Milwaukee.WITNESSED A NOTABLE TRAGEDY. In 1848 and 1849 he was a state senator from Racine county, and in 1856 and 1857 he was a state senator from Kenosha county. In 1852-3 he represented Kenosha in the assembly. It was while he was a member of the council that he witnessed the tragedy made familiar to the world in Dickens' "American Notes" - the shooting of Charles C. P. Arndt, of Green Bay, by James R. Vineyard, of Grant county, both members of the council. The account given by Dickens was taken from The Southport Telegraph, Mr. Sholes' paper. It is about thirty years since Mr. Sholes came to Milwaukee, and until he was attacked by consumption he held many positions of public trust - having been postmaster, collector of customs, commissioner of public works and editor of The Sentinel and of The Milwaukee News (consolidated with The Sentinel eight years ago). He resigned from the Board of Public Works in order to seek relief from disease in Colorado.INVENTION OF THE TYPEWRITER It was while he was collector of customs, under President Johnson, that he became interested in the efforts to perfect a typewriting machine, and in 1873 the first crude instrument was made in a small shop on the canal slip, and in 1873 it was so far perfected that its manufacture was undertaken by the works of Remington & Sons, at Ilion, New York. For a long time the financial returns were small, and Mr. Sholes, who was to receive a royalty on each machine, disposed of his rights for a comparatively small sum. Later, he invented several improvements which, which an excess of conscience characteristic of the man, he gave to the persons in control of the manufacture.
In the past two years he invented two new machines for typewriting, and many improvements on established machines. His latest typewriter was completed and patented a few month ago, and will soon be placed on the market by his sons and Mr. William Plankinton of this city. His last machine was more satisfactory to Mr. Sholes' thant its predecessors, and he was well convinced that it must prove the most popular of all in use.MR. SHOLES' POTLITICAL BELIEFS Although always interested in politics, Mr. Sholes was never a strictly party man. He was raised a Democrat, but in 1848 he joined in the Free Soil movement. He was a strong Abolitionist. He joined the Republican party on its organization and acted with it until the Liberal movement of 1872. His sympathy was with the Greenback party more because of its principle of centralization than because of its immediate purpose, and in late years he was strongly disposed in favor of the Labor party.
Known and liked by all the old citizens of Wisconsin, Mr. Sholes' most intimate friend was Mr. Z. G. Simmons, of Kenosha. He leaves a family of six sons and four daughters, Mrs. Sholes having died less than two years ago. Mr. Sholes was remarkable as a delightful conversationalist. His mind was active until a few days before his death.
In the death of C. Latham Sholes, Wisconsin loses a citizen who was active in public affairs even in the Territorial days - an accomplished newspaper writer and an eminent inventor, whose typwriting machine (the Remington) has made a revolution in business arrangements. Mr. Sholes came to Wisconsin fifty-three years ago, when Milwaukee was a village of a thousand souls. It is interesting to consider that to reach early days he came by way of New York, up the Hudson to Albany, thence by canal to Buffalo and thence by way of the lakes. During his years in this state Mr. Sholes was the editor of an early newspaper at Green Bay, of The Wisconsin Inquirer at Madison, of The Southport (now Kenosha) Telegraph, of The Milwaukee Sentinel, and the old Milwaukee News. He served in the state senate and in the assembly, was postmaster at Kenosha and at Milwaukee, was collector of customs at this port and a member of the Board of Public Works of this city.
Mr. Sholes, a sketch of whose life is given in another column, was on all accounts an unusual man. He was very fond of the best literature and few men are able to command as ready and polished words as those which made his conversation a pleasure. Carrying social and political views at variance with those of most practical men, he was without violence of assertion and was absolutely free from pettiness and malice. A man more considerate and courleous toward those who declined to accept his views never lived. And his views, however Utopian, were all toward the reign of fraternalism on earth and the amelioration of the unhappy conditions of life. He had an abiding faith in the final realization of the dream of Mr. Bellamy, which he had entertained for years. He was a man of excessive tenderness of conscience, viewed from the usual business point of view. It was because of this that he did not become a many-millionaire as the result of his invention of the first successful type-writing machine. For several years prior to his death he had been near the grave and he faced the end calmly and without fear, sustained by the faith that his hereafter would be according to his deserts. He believed in the immortality of the soul and the eternal goodness of God, although his peculiar and poetical mind could not conform to the demands of ordinary creeds.
As a newspaper man he will be remembered as exceptionally free from personal controversies and as a polished and carefull writer. The honorableness of his private life, the courtesy and kindliness of his social manners, were carried into his public places. He had the courage of his convictions, yet was without offense to those who failed to agree with him in political ideas. He has left a memory that will be kindly to all who knew his character and his services. His work on earth was completed with the invention of his last typewriting machine, the work of weary hours in his chamber of sickness.
The funeral of the late C. Latham Sholes will take place from the residence, 833 Racine street, at 11 o'clock this morning.
The funeral of the late C. Latham Sholes took place from the residence on Racine street yesterday morning. The Rev. Judson Titsworth paid a feeling tribute to the dead journalist, legislator and inventor, and drew from his useful life the evidence that life is worth living. The services were simple, according to the desire of Mr. Sholes. Many of his old friends and former business and official associates were present to pay their last respects. The pallbearers were the six sons of the deceased, who acted in a similar capacity at the funeral of their mother two years ago.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN; GEORGE B. SHOLES EXECUTOR OF SAID CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,902, dated December 8, 1891.
Application filed January 29, 1889. Serial No. 297,943 (No model.)To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines; and I do here by declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description there of.
My invention relates to type-writing machines; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, to be hereinafter described wich reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.
GEORGE B. SHOLES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, EXECUTOR OF CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,903, dated December 8, 1891.
Application filed December 24, 1890. Renewed August 3, 1891. Serial No. 401,493. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, George B. Sholes, of Chicago, Illinois, executor of the estate of Christopher Latham Sholes, deceased, late of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, who did during his lifetime invent certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, do declare the follwing to be a full, clear, and exact description there of, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.
The invention relates to type-writers; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts to be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST R. BARRON, DANIEL C ROUNDY, AND CLARENCE W. SEAMANS, EXECUTORS OF JAMES DENSMORE DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patenet No. 558,428, dated April 14, 1896. Application filed December 31, 1881. Serical No. 49,127 (No model.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST R. BARRON, DANIEL C. ROUNDY, AND CLARENCE W. SEAMANS, EXECUTORS OF JAMES DENSMORE, DECEASED. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,621. dated May 5, 1896.
Application filed February 18, 1890. Serial No. 340,922 (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefull Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, OF NEW YORK. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,755, dated May 5, 1896.
Application filed February 18, 1890. Serial No. 340,920. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to type-writing machines; and it consists in various features, details, and combinations hereinafter set forth, having for their object the simplification and improvement of the machine, and particularly increase in efficiency.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, OF NEW YORK. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,756, dated May 5, 1896.
Application filed February 18, 1890. Serial No. 340,921. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the follwoing is a specification.
My invention relates to that class of type-writers in which a platen or paper roll is caused to travel past a priting-point at which all the characters are printed; and it consists in a variety of novel features and in various new combinations of parts hereinafter fully set forth.
Prominent amont ghe new features of the machine may be mentioned a platen or paper roll carried by a guiding and supporting bar, which passes longitudinally through the platen, and which, with the platen, may be rocked or partially rotated, so as to carry to a convenient position for inspection the line being printed; in means for holding the roll in its normal position and for throwing it therefrom to the position for inspection of the work; in spacing-dogs carried by the platen, and in a pointer or indicator, which points to and locates the spot at which a character will print when the platen is thrown back to its normal position. Various other features and details of greater or less importance will be explained in the follwing description.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, OF NEW YORK. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,630, dated September 29, 1896.
Application filed September 11, 1889. Serial No. 323,589. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Christopher Latham Sholes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to type-writing machines; and it consists in a variety of features, details, and improvements which will be hereinafter fully set forth.
GEORGE B. SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, EXECUTOR OF CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, OF NEW YORK. TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,156, dated May 25, 1897.
Original application filed February 18, 1890, Serial No. 340,920. Divided and this application filed September 2, 1892. Serial No. 444,925. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that Christopher Latham Sholes, now deceased, but during his life-time a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, did invent certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to type-writing machines, and more particularly to the inking-ribbon carrier, as hereinafter pointed out.
In a patent dated April 14, 1896, and numbered 558,428, Christopher Latham Sholes has broadly claimed an inking-ribbon and means for moving the same in two directions, one crosswise to the other, to utilize substantially the entire surface of the ribbon. In the particular embodiment of his invention therein illustrated the movement of the ribbon in one direction takes place with or is effected by the paper-carriage, and specific claims are also made in said patent directed to or based upon that particular fomr or embodiment. The present embodiment of his invention contemplates a ribbon supporting and shifting mechanism distinct from the paper-carriage or mounted in the frame of the machine and not bodily movable with the carriage, but capable of automatically moving the ribbon ransversely to the line of printing during the travel of the carriage, and also capable of automatically moving it longitudinally. SO far as advised this is the earliest instance of an automatic ribbon-moving mechanism of the character set forth, and hence it is intended herein to claim it broadly.
Newspaper Addressing Machine. - We saw this morning a very simple and effective machine for addressing newspapers and wrappers. Mr. C. L. Sholes is one of the proprietors of the patent and has had the machine manufactured in this city. It is neat and portable, it is capable of directing newspapers as quick as they can be picked up. A galley of names and any other required figures is placed in a groove in the machine. A treaddle is moved with the foot and this acts upon an instrument which shelves up one of the lines of names and in coming against the next line draws the galley forward. The paper is placed under a stamper which descends on it simultaneously with the rising of a line against it through aspace of its exact size in a thin brass plate.
We regard it as an invaluable invention to newspaper proprietors; and one that will save much time and labor in performing a tedious work with unfailing accuracy.
This ingenious machine must come into general use, as its cost is moderate and its execution perfect. We are glad that a Wisconsin men has had something to do with the inventing and patenting of such a useful and crediable machine. Mr. Samuel Soule, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Geo Godfrey, Commercial Editor of the Milwaukee News, have interests in this successful invention. - Madison Patriot.
SAMUEL W. SOULE AND C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORS TO C. L. SHOLES. PAGING-MACHINE
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,488, dated September 27, 1864; antedated March 27, 1864.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, Samuel W. Soule and C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Paging Books; and we hereby declare the following to be a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making them a part of these specifications.
SAMUEL W. SOULÉ AND C. LATHAM SHOLES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN NUMBERING-MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,675, dated November 13, 1866.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, S. W. Soulé and C. Latham Sholes, of the city and county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Machine for Duplicate and Consecutive Numbering, the object of which is to print the numbers on bank notes, drafts, theater and railroad tickets, coupons, &c.; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, CARLOS GLIDDEN, AND SAMUEL W. SOULE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,265, dated June 23, 1868.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule, of the city of Milwaukee, and county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which -
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machines; Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9, views of detached parts thereof; Fig. 7, a view of a longitudinal vertical section thereof, and Fig. 8 a view of the rear elevation of the same.
The invention is of improvements to an invention of a type-writing machine, an application for a patent for which we filed October 11, 1867. Its features are a better way of working the type-bars, of holding the paper on the carriage, of moving and regulating the movement of the carriage, of holding applying, and moving the inking-ribbon, a self-adjusting platen, and a rest or cushion for the type-bars to follow.
C. LATHAM SHOLES, CARLOS GLIDDEN, AND SAMUEL W. SOULÉ, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,868, dated July 14, 1868.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, C. L. Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and S. W. Soulé, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Writing or Printing Correspondence; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.
To the Editor of the Cosmopolitan Shorthander, Toronto, Canada.
Dear Sir, - I have read the challenge published in the last number of your paper, issued by Mr. Frank McGurrin of Salt Lake City, and as you seem anxious that some one should accept this challenge, I wish hereby to signify my readiness to do so. Mr. McGurrin's challenge is in the main fair, still I wish to modify it as follows:
First, instead of making the test of one half hour's duration, I propose it be at least three hours.
Second, I would insist that the dictator be chosen by each contestant, and that the matter to be dictated be of a character that will secure a fair test of speed.
Third, I will under no circumstances consent that Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict or any other manufacturers of writing machines shall become the stakeholders, or be in any way, directly or indirectly, connected with the test, since I propose that this shall be a fair and impartial test of speed.
If this be satisfactory to Mr. McGurrin, I stand ready to make the necessary deposit and proceed further with the preliminaries of the contest.
Very respectfully yours,Longley's Shorthand and Typewriting Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Louis Traub.
May 27th, 1888.
Contest for a Prize of $500 - The Remington Operator Wins the Battle. Two young men sat yesterday morning before two white-keyed writing machines in a cool, breezy room way up in the Palace Hotel Building. The young men's fingers flew over the white-keyed instruments with the rapidity of a Hans Bulow improvising a staceato composition. The clicking of the two machines made a metallic chorus, the tinking bell on each machine doing a solo before a line was finished. The rooms were crowded with stenographers, typewriter operators and reporters. For a long time there has been an intense rivalry between the expert operators who work upon the two standard types of writing machines, the Remington and the Caligraph. The rivalry culminated last fall in a challenge issued by Mr. F. E. McGurrin, a marvelously rapid operator on the Remington machine, to any typewriter operator in the world.
Mr. McGurrin is a celebrated stenographer from the breezy West, hoding an official position in the Salt Lake City Courts. Mr. Traub accepted the challenge, and the stakes, $500, were promptly posted. Yesterday morning the two young men met to fight their battle in a room in the Bradford Building. Mr. McGurrin operated a Remington machine, a brand new instrument, with glistening mountings that worked with the rapidity and precision of a chronograph. Mr. Traub worked on a caligraph. Both young men removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony.
Dictation was the first test. At the word go, the young men started and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutes each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin in copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of blind Tom at a piano. Mr. Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words, his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the caligraph Mr. Traub wrote in the ninety minutes allotted, 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words.
Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges, Messrs. Dean, Cook and Perin, stenographic Court reporters, awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin.
It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long-disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter.
Mr. McGurrin will give an exhibition this morning at 11 o'clock in the Palace Hotel Building Room 21, writing blindfolded on the Remington from dictation.
The First Professional Contest on Record. The first professional type-writing match that has ever taken place in this country occurred at Graham's Cincinnati Phonographic Academy in the Bradford Block yesterday morning. The contestants were Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who is the official stenographer of the Federal Court there, and Louis Traub, of this city, who is considered the most expert caligraph operator in this locality. The question as to the speed which could be attained in type-writing has never been fully decided until yesterday, and type-writers all over the country are interested in the result of this contest. The mach was for a purse of $500, one-half of which was put up by each contestant. The conditions of the match were that the whole time to be occupied in writing was an hour and a half, forty-five minutes of which was devoted to writing from dictation and forty-five minutes to writing from copy read by the operator.F. E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Beats Louis Traub, of This City.
The Winner Writes Nearly Nine Thousand Words in One Hour and a Half.
It was forced that the matter to be written should be the ordinary Court proceedings, selected by the Judges and new to both operators. TheJUDGES CHOSEN TO DECIDE THE RESULT Of the contest were Norman F. Dean, Edwin M. Williams and Buchanah Perin, well-known Cincinnati stenographers and type-writers. The struggle began at ten minutes of ten o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. McGurrin won the choice and chose dictation first, while Mr. Traub, who was in a separate room, wrote from copy. The Judges also acted as time-keepers. Mr. McGurrin used a Remington machine, while Mr. Traub operated the caligraph. It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. It was evident that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and he was to that extent placed at a disadvantage.
Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvelous speed and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested fourteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. The men finished at twenty minutes of twelve. At the end Mr. McGurrin had written from dication 4,294 words; or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 83.26 per minute; from copying 3,191 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.AN ANALYSIS OF M'GURRIN'S WORK Shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin a wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of The Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving but a letter, character, space or capital; striking a letter or character oftener than necessary. Mr. F. E. McGurrin, the winner of the contest is probably the fastest type-writer in the United States. He is twenty-seven years of age, and a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. He began type-writing about eleven years ago and is also an expert stenographer. His next trial of skill will be at a contest under the auspices of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association at New York City, the 1st of next month. He is also entered for the International Type-writing Tournament at Toronto, Can., on August 13th next. Mr. Louis Traub, who made such a credited his showing has only been in the United States five years, and when he came here did not understand a word of English. He has not only mastered the language, but he has already attained distinction as a stenographer and type-writer. It is probable that no man in the West except. McGurrin can beat him in a contest similar to that of yesterday.
Mr. McGurrin will give an exhibition this morning for the benefit of the type-writers of the city, at ten o'clock, in Room 21 Bradford Block.
Cincinnati, July 26. - At the time match contest of speed in the use of the type writer, made here yesterday between Frank E. McGurrin, of New York, and Louis Traub, of this city, the time occupied was one hour and thirty minutes, in which, the report of the judge says: McGurrin scored 8,709 words, Traub 6,987 words, half from dictation and half from manuscript.
Cincinnati, July 27. - The first professional type-writing contest in this country, at Graham's Phonographic academy, between Louis Traub, of this city, and Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, resulted in a victory for the visitor. The match was for $500. At the end of the contest, which lasted one hour and a half, McGurrin had written from dictaion 4,294 words, or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.
A Contest at Cincinnati in Which a Utah Reporter is the Victor. Mr. Frank E. McGurrin, the stenographic reporter of the third district court has returned from Cincinnati, whether he had gone to compete in a typewriting contest. He wrote over 8,700 words in 90 minutes while his opponent, a Mr. Louis Traub, barely reached 6,700. The writing was half from manuscript and half from dictation. Mr. McGurrin returns with honors and $500 in his pocket.
Mr. Frank E. McGurrin, the stenographic reporter of the Third District Court, has returned from Cincinnati, whether he had gone to compete in a typewriting contest. He wrote over 8,700 words in ninety minutes while his opponent, a Mr. Louis Traub, barely reached 6,700. The writing was half from manuscript and half from dictation. Mr. McGurrin returns with honors and $500 in his pocket.
The following Associated Press dispatch from Cincinnati, received today, is of some local interest:
"A typewriting contest took place here yesterday, between Frank E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake, and Louis Traub, of Cincinnati. The time occupied was on hour and thirty minutes, in which the report of the judges says McGurrin scored 8700 words and Traub 6938 words, half from dictation and half from manuscript."
We understand the premium for which the contestants competed was $500. Mr. McGurrin, who is official reporter for the Third District Court of Utah, scored an average of 97 words a minute. This is marvelous speed, although he is reputed to have run as high as 108 in this Territory. He is said to be the lastest typewriter in the world, although that has probably not been thoroughly proved. The way he left Louis Traub, another expert, in the rear, would, however, bear out such an assumption. He is also a rapid shorthand writer.
A grand typewriting contest, which has already been made the subject of hundreds of telegrams and communications to every newspaper in the country, took place at Cincinnati on the 25th last month, between two very expert operators, one using the Remington Typewriter and the other using the Caligraph. The test was the result of many challenges and counter-challenges which have been made in various publications of late, between Frank E. McGurrin, Official Stenographer of the District Court at Salt Lake City, Utah, operating the Remington - and Louis Traub, Principal of the Typewriting Department of Longley's Shorthand Institute at Cincinnati (now and for some time past conducted by Messrs. Jack & Traub), who is an expert operator of, and for some time past has been agent for, the Caligraph. The matter culminated finally in a contest being arranged for Cincinnati, July 25th, for a purse of $500 ($250 being furnished by each contestant), before a committee of three judges consisting of N. F. Dean (Secretary of the Ohio State Stenographers' Association), E. M. Williams, and Buchanan Perin, all well known and competent Cincinnati stenographers and typewriter operators. The room selected for the contest was the office of the Caligraph agent and contestant, Mr. Traub, the contest beginning at ten minutes to ten o'clock, A. M., continuing until twenty-five minutes to twelve (allowing fifteen minutes rest in the meantime), and being solid work of just one and one-half hours at the machines. The time was divided into two separate tests as follows: 1st, forty-five minutes to writing from dictation; fifteen minutes rest; 2d, forty-five minutes to writing from copy, the operator reading as he wrote. The matter written was a selection from ordinary court testimony, selected by the judges, and new to both operators. In an extended report of the proceedings, the Cincinnati Enquirer says:"It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. It was evident that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and he was to that extent placed at a disadvantage. Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvelous speed, and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested fourteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. The men finished at twenty minutes of twelve. At the end Mr. McGurrin had written from dication 4,294 words; or 95.55 words per minute; from copying 4,415 words, or 98.11 words per minute, making a total of 8,709 words. Mr. Traub wrote from dictation 3,747 words, or 83.26 per minute; from copying 3,191 words, or 70.91 per minute, his total being 6,938 words. Mr. McGurrin beats Traub on the whole time 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette described the contest in a lengthy article, from which we clip the following description:
An analysis of McGurrin's work shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin a wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of the Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving but a letter, character, space or capital: striking a letter or character oftener than necessary."Both young men removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony. Dictation was the first test. At the word go, the young men started and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutes each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of Blind Tom at a piano. Mr. Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the caligraph Mr. Traub wrote in the ninety minutes allotted, 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words. Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin. It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long-disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter."Messrs. Jack & Traub have since abondoned the agency for the caligraph at Cincinnati, have placed all Remington machines in their school, and write the World, under date of July 28, that in the future they will use and advocate only the Remington.
THE FIVE-HUNDRED-DOLLAR TYPEWRITER TEST HAS TAKEN PLACE, AND THE REMINGTON IS VICTORIOUS. 97 WORDS A MINUTE. THE FASTEST TIME ON RECORD.Through the medium of the Cosmopolitan Shorthander, the typewriter contest, between McGurrin and Traub was arranged and brought to an issue at Cincinnati, on the 25th of July. The contestants, as our readers are probably aware, were Frank E. McGurrin, official stenographer of the District Court of Salt Lake City, for the Remington typewriter, and Louis Traub, principal of the typewriting department of Longley's Shorthand Institute, Cincinnati, for the Caligraph. The contest was for five hundred dollars, and took place in the office of Mr. Traub (who, at the time was the agent in Cincinnati for the Caligraph), before a committee of three judges, namely, N. F. Dean, secretary of the Ohio State Stenographers' Association, E. M. Williams, and Buchanan Pernin, well known stenographers of Cincinnati.
The contest began at 9.50 a.m. and ended at 11.35. Two separate tests were given, the first being 45 minutes' writing from dictation of matter selected by the judges (ordinary law testimony), and new to both operators. After 15 minutes rest the second trial was made, writing from copy. In the dictation test, Mr. McGurrin wrote 4,294 words, or an average of something more than 95½ words a minute, for the 45 minutes, Mr. Traub wrote, at this test, 3,747 words, or an average of something more than 83¼ words a minute for the 45 minites. In the copying test, occupying also 45 minutes, Mr. McGurrin wrote 4,415 words, making the unprecedented record of 98.11 words a minute. Mr. Traub wrote in the same time 3,191 words, or 70.91 words a minute. Mr. McGurrin beat Mr. Traub's average time on both test, 1,771 words, or 25.38 per cent.
"It was evident," says the Cincinnati Enquirer, "that Mr. Traub could operate faster than his machine would respond, and that he was to that extent placed at a disadvange." Mr. Traub evidently thinks so too, for he at once abandoned the agency of the Caligraph, and has supplanted the Caligraphs in his school by Remington typewriters.
The same paper says: "It was a brilliant performance on the part of both men. Owing to the compactness of the Remington keyboard, Mr. McGurrin was enabled to copy without looking at the keyboard at all, and he could have taken the dictated matter nearly if not quite as well blindfolded. He displayed marvellous speed, and won the purse, although Mr. Traub proved himself a worthy competitor. During the contest Mr. McGurrin rested forteen minutes, and Mr. Traub fifteen minutes, the full time allowed by the conditions of the match. An analysis of McGurrin's work shows that he made over seven and one-half strokes per second on the average. Traub's matter contained a considerable number of mistakes, while McGurrin's was comparatively free from errors, the majority of them trivial. The extent of McGurrin's wonderful performance will be better understood when it is stated that he wrote in an hour and a half as many words as would compactly fill four columns of the Enquirer. The report of the judges was computed as follows: Each operator was credited with 54,000 points. From this, deductions were made for leaving out a letter, character, space or capital: striking a letter or character oftener than necessary."
The Cincinatti Comercial Gazette says: "Both young man removed their coats and sat down before their instruments. The test of speed was rapidity of writing from dictation and copying. The material used was a legal report of testimony. Dictation was the first test. At the word go the young men started, and the keys clicked at a marvelously rapid rate of speed, while their nimble fingers sped over the keyboards with bewildering rapidity. From dictation the two contestants wrote forty-five minutee each. Copying they each wrote forty-five minutes. Mr. McGurrin copying did not look at his instrument at all, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with the precision of Blind Tom at a piano. Mr Traub worked rapidly also. In ninety minutes on the Remington machine Mr. McGurrin wrote 8,709 words, his average speed being ninety-seven words a minute. On the Caligraph Mr. Traub in the ninety minutes allotted wrote 6,938 words, his average speed per minute being seventy-seven words, Mr. McGurrin's copy was clean and neat, there being but one or two letters struck wrongly. In the five minutes rest allotted, Mr. McGurrin swung a pair of Indian clubs merrily, and when he returned to his work, it was with renewed vigor and nimbleness of fingers. The judges awarded the contest to Mr. McGurrin. It was a very pretty test of speed, and the amount of work done was marvelous. The contest will settle once and for all a long disputed question as to speed. Manuscript has never before been turned out from writing machines at such a rapid rate as yesterday, and the copy was clean and neat enough to satisfy the most exacting type-setter."
Thus the disputed question as to which is the faster machine, the Remington or the Caligraph, is settled, by a fair and conclusive test. The operators are probably the most expert of their respective machines. The challenge issued by Mr. Traub was open to all writing machine operators, and was meant to be "for blood", and to fairly test the mooted question of superiority of typewriting machines. The fact that Mr. Traub could have operated faster had the Caligraph been able to respond to a quicker touch, proves beyond a doubt that Mr. Traub can and did reach the full speed capacity of the machine; and if it were possible to produce a faster operator on the Caligraph, it would be useless for test purposes, for Mr. Traub can reach the speed limit of the Caligraph. It only remains now for Remington experts to beat the record of Mr. McGurrin, if they can. We confess that the record made by both machines is far better than we anticipated could be made by either machine. Think of it; 97 words a minute, 7½ strokes a second, kept up for an hour and a half! We had not supposed it possible for either machine to respond to such fingering, and still more impossible to find an operator able to sustain that speed for so long a time.
We thought that the speed of the two machines was about equal, the Remington having, perhaps, a slight advantage from its keys being more compact, requiring less territory to be covered in fingering: but we were not prepared to find the Remington one quarter faster than the Caligraph (and perhaps more, for the limit has not been reached); yet this is what the record proves.
"There was quite a large gathering of stenographers here on the 22d inst., to witness the wonderful performance of Mr. McGurrin, the lightning Remington operator. The meeting was at Hopkins' Hall. There wer about 300 people present, almost all being stenographers. The hall was too small to accommodate everbody, and a good many of the ladies left on account of the scarcity of seats.
The president of the Cincinnati Stenographers' Association stated in a few words the purposes of the meeting, explaining at the same time the object of the Cincinnati Stenographers' Association, and asking those who wanted to committee. He closed his remarks by introducing the Hon. Job E. Stevenson, who addressed the audience in a spritghtly and instructive way.
Mr. Stevenson stated that a few years ago stenography was almost an unknown art, and that the time might not be far distant when, with the aid of the phonograph, a universal language of sound would be used. At the end of his remarks Mr. Stevenson was loudly applauded.
The President then introduced Mr. McClain, representative of the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. Mr. McClain addresed the audience, stating that he was not here to discuss the merits of the different makes of writing machines, or to demonstrate the superiority of the Remington Typewriter, as everybody in the audience knew that it was the best; that that point had already been conceded, and the honors had been won by Mr. McGurrin at Toronto; but those honors had been questioned by an operator of a rival machine, and to settle this dispute Mr. McGurrin had come all the way from Salt Lake City to take part in an open contest at Boston on the 8th of January, to which this claimant was invited. Mr. McGurrin met with no competitive machine on that occasion. The superiority of this particular operator being already acknowledged, it remained but to show the possibilities of the fastest writing machine in the world, in the hands of the fastest operator in the world.
Mr. McClain also stated that his concern attached no importance to records made on single sentence tests, but as a certain writing machine company claimed to have the best operator in the world, Mr. McGurrin would also during the evening write a memorized sentece, to show the absurdity of attaching importance to any speed attained under such conditions. These figures may not appear high as compared with those mentioned in advertisements of a certain operator, in which it is stated that a medal was awarded for the highest speed on record - 126 words per minute. `Let me explain,' said Mr. McClain, `that these 126 words a minute were made on the continuous writing of a memorized sentece containing short words. We do not take any stock in such tests, for several reasons; first, it permits of special preparation of a machine to write that particular sentence; secondly, it does not bring into play all the characters of the key-board; thirdly, the only true test of any labor-saving device is to try it on the labor which it is designed to save. But inasmuch as our competitors are making great capital out of those schoolboy records, and misleading the public, Mr. McGurrin will show you what he can do on a single sentence; but he does not wish to be understood as attaching any importance to it as a matter of record.'
Mr. McClain said that it was the practice heretofore to read for only one minute, and he asked if anybody in the audience would object. Thereupon somebody suggested that the first test should be for three minutes, which was done accordingly.
Mr. McGurrin in this time wrote 269 words, or an average of 89⅔ words per minute, with three errors. In the second test of one minute, Mr. McGurrin wrote 88 words without an error. He then wrote for one minute, writing 98 words without an error. On the fourth test he wrote 110 words.
Mr. McClain then stated to the audience that Mr. McGurrin could write just as well blindfolded; but as it was of no object for a man who could see to write bloindfolded, it was only done to show what a perfect command he had of the key-board. In this test Mr. McGurrin wrote 118 words per minute. Mr. McGurrin then wrote from his shorthand notes the introductory part of the speech of Mr. Stevenson, which he had taken down, without once looking at the machine. He then wrote the sentece, `Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party,' succeeding in the first attempt in writing 138 absolutely correct words. On the second test, 144; on the third, 150, and on the fourth and last, 161, which is the highest he has ever attained. At the announcement of the last result the audience cheered and applauded loudly.
The President then stated that any on the local experts would have the chance to try their hands in meeting Mr. McGurrin in a friendly contest. This announcement the audience hugely enjoyed.
The President then introduced Mr. Louis Traub, law and general stenographer, and proprietor of the Longley Institute and Graham Institute of Cincinnati, the ex-caligraph export, who was defeated in the first professional contest on record for the championship, twenty words per minute, six months ago, by Mr. McGurrin, stating that these two gentlemen would meet again in a friendly contest; that Mr. Traub had only used the Remington since that contest, on account of which Mr. McGurrin would give Mr. Traub a handicap of ten per cent.
Mr. Traub wrote first, new matter from dictation. Mr. McGurrin wrote from dictation the same matter (he having retired from the hall while Traub wrote).
The result was, Mr. Traub wrote in five minutes 434 words, an average of 86⅔ words per minute. Mr McGurrin wrote in the five minutes 447 words, an average of 89 2-5 words per minute. The matter written in this test was full of long words and technicalities, which accounts for the low rate of speed which was accomplished.
This was quite unexpected, and everybody in the hall was surprised, and loudly applauded Mr. Traub's victory. This is quite remarkable, considering the length of time Mr. Traub has been using the Remington - not quite six months.
The announcement drew forth a comparison of Mr. Traub's work on the machine he used in his former contest with McGurrin, when he only wrote 77 words per minute as against 86 on this occasion, and a voice asked in behalf of the rival machine if 77 words was no net while the 86 gross. In reply, Mr. McGurrin stated that while that statement had been made by rival machines, he was glad to have the opportunity of correcting the statement, as the 77 words was gross. He then explained how the count was made and result arrived at by the judges on the former occasion, and Mr. Traub at once arose and verified the statement of Mr. McGurrin, which occasioned increased applause.
Mr. Traub had been operating the machine he used in his contest with Mr. McGurrin in July last for over four years, and as he has used the Remington since July only, and as his many other business duties admitted of time for him to practice, his performance on the 22d inst. certainly reflects great credit not only on Mr. Traub, but also on the Remington machine, which he has so recently adopted.
It is needless to add that Mr. Traub is delighted with his change of machine.
As a further demonstration of his progress in the use of the Remington, Mr. Traub delighted the audience by giving them an exhibition of his skill in writing on the machine from dictation ad from copy without looking at the key-board.
The whole entertainment was a marked success, and closed with unanimous praise of the experts who took part in the entertainment, and a declaration in favor of the Remington machine.
Cincinnati, January 24, 1889.
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The Y. M. C. A. gym annual athletic and gymnastic exhibition at the Globe opera house this evening promises to draw a big house. The reserve seat sale has been large and preparations to accommodate a large audience have been made.
Fifty performers, all trained men, will appear on the stage and a great show is expected. Among the novelties will be a "relay potato race" engaged in by two teams with six contestants on a side. The fencing contest between Prof. Louis Traub and C. H. Jenkins of Cincinnati will be an affair of fine swordsmanship, as both of these gentleman are among the best foils in Cincinnati.
Owing to the length of the program the opening number will begin promptly at 8 o'clock as the Cincinnati and Dayton men return home this evening on the Southern Ohio Traction Co's. line, which company has generously given them transportation free as their contribution to the success of the entertainment.
Louis Traub, at the head of the largest business college in Cincinnati, says he spent sixteen years in writing and teaching the Graham-Pitman but found that after a month's study he could read his McKee system in his school and has been teaching both systems, till he has only fifteen Pitman scholars left and when they have finished will take no more. Since he began to teach the McKee system of shorthand he has been compelled to add 56 type writing machines to his equipment.
Mr. Louis Traub, of Cincinnati, has a standing challenge to any and all expert writers of any system other than the McKee to meet him in a public contest. The writer has no personal or pecuniary interest in the McKee stenography and recommends it pro bono publico.
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Cincinnati, O., March 22.---Colonel William H. Jackson ceased to be chief of Cincinnati police department Wednesday midnight, following his suspension from duty yesterday by Mayor Hunt. The suspension is permanent, the mayor having declared: "William Jackson will never again be chief of police while I am mayor of this city."
It is not thought Colonel Jackson will fight for a return to office. Safety Director Cash was made temporary head of the police department, and not either of the inspectors ranking next the chief, as is usually the rule. Speculation is rife to who will be appointed chief. Lientenant William Copelan, in charge of the patrol service, is the most prominently mentioned.
The suspension, which created a sensation, followed closely on the trial of Ike Gottlieb, charged by Mayor Hunt with being a "known gambler," whose trial occurred yesterday morning. Louis Traub, expert stenographer, was engaged to take the testimony, and Judge Fricke announced he would make a careful examination of this and would withhold his decision until April 20.
The firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, organized last August, are doing a rushing trade in type-writers, - the sales being confined almost exclusively to the number two "Standard." Mr. Seamans is the resident representative, and manages the manifold details of an intricate business with marvellous tact, promptitude and exactness. It would have been but little trouble "to make an editor outen o' him," for he possesses in a marked degree the necessary "cheerfulness, courage and vim," besides being able to "keep things in apple-pie order, and do half a dozen at once." He keeps three lady "typers" busily engaged with dictated letters, circulars, etc., and yet personally supervises all the details of sales, shipments, repairs, etc. Looking at a photograph taken a year ago we should judge him to be a man of thirty-five, but since then he has stepped back into lite half a score of years apparently, owing to the sudden and unaccountable loss of every vestige of hair from his face. The doctors are puzzled over the case, having never seen anything like it, but Mr. Seamans does not seem to worry over it. Mr. Wyckoff and Mr. Benedict are now, as they have been for many months, busily engaged in organizing their American agencies. Mr. W. is a man of the jovial type, with immense powers of endurance. His manner is very affable, and his organizing faculty peculiarly strong, hence the great success with which he met in his profession as stenographer, from which he has now retired in order to give his whole time and attention to the type-writer in Central New York while resident in Ithaca, and made more sales by far than any other agent. The story was told us last summer that at Remington's headquarters a complete model of a type-writer on an altogether new plan had been put out of harm's way on the shelves of the establishment. There seems to be no foundation for this story. All the suggestions that have been made for the improvement of the type-writer have been adopted when found really valuable, and though there are other machines in course of invention which introduce new applications of principles, the type-writer of to-day may be taken as the sum of practicable invention in this direction to date. In this connection we may add that several improvements were first tested and then suggested Mr. Wyckoff, and incorporated with the machine now on the market.
Mr. W. O. Wyckoff, principal in the firm of type-writer agents, will assume the management of the western branch of the business, with head-quarters at Chicago, on August 1st. He is now in that city, in which there are over a thousand machines in operation.
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The Remington Standard Typewriter had passwd wholly out of control and ownership of the Remingtons some time before their million dollar failure, so that although it may be known for many years to come as the "Remington Standard," the have no further interest in it. It has been sold, along with the factory, machinery, patents, improvements, etc., to the firm who have really been the makers of its marvelous success, Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who have been its exclusive selling agents for years past, and whose name has already become inseparably associated with that of the Remingtons in connection with the typewriter. The three members of this firm had been in the employ of the Remingtons in the interests of the typewriter long before the formation of their co-partnership, and as a natural outcome of their ability, experience and pecuniary success, they were ready, when the opportunity came, to buy and pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for the typewriter business, which had its beginning not many years ago, but which to day aggregates a sale of upwards of three-quarters of a million dollars a year. They will still retain their main office at 339 Broadway, New York, their factory office at Ilion, N. Y., and branch offices throughout the world.
Demise of the Typewriter Manufacturer at His St. Lawrence Residence W. O. Wyckoff, the father of E. G. Wyckoff of this city, died yesterday afternoon at his new summer home near Cape Vincent on the St. Lawrence. Mr. Wyckoff was president of the Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict company, the manufacturers of the Remington typewriters. At the time of his death, six weeks after his wife's demise, he was 60 years of age. He was a trustee of Cornell university and a native of Ithaca, where his funeral will be held next Sunday. W. O. Wyckoff leaves two sons, E. G. Wyckoff of this city and Clarence Wyckoff of Brooklyn.
New York, July 12. - The announcement last night in a dispatch from Ithaca, N. Y., that Capt. W. O. Wyckoff of the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict had died yesterday on Carleton Island, was incorrect. The W. O. Wyckoff, who died on Carleton Island, was the father of the senior member of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, whose initials are the same.
Edward G. Wyckoff This City Inherits Nearly Half a Million. HIS FATHER'S WEALTH DIVIDED
It Aggregates Nearly $800,000, and Two Sons, Edward G. and Clarence F. Wyckoff, Are Heirs to the Entire Amount.
By the recent death of his father, William O. Wyckoff, at his St. Lawrence home, Edward G. Wyckoff, the bookseller in the Bastuble block, comes into a fortune of nearly $500,000. The estate left by the late William O. Wyckoff amounted to $758,000, of which $58,000 represented real estate and the balance personal property. There are only two heirs for the fortune, the sons of the elder Mr. Wyckoff, Edward G. of this city and Clarence F. of Carlton Island, who is yet a minor, being 19 years of age. E. G. Wyckoff, the elder son, yesterday petitioned for letters of administration of the estate before Surrogate Ross C. Scott of Watertown, the estate being the largest ever presented for adjudication by the probate court of Jefferson county.
The late William O. Wyckoff died at his palatial home on Carlton Island on July 11, 1895, his wife having died about a month previous to his own demise. The value of Mr. Wyckoff's estate, as set forth in the petition for letters of administration, is fixed at $700,000, which consists of stock in the Union typewriter company, promissory notes, mortgages, bonds and other securities. The value of the real estate is fixed at $58,500 and it consists of the Carlton Island property and land in Tompkins county, where Mr. Wyckoff resided most of the years of his life, his residence being at one time in Ithaca. The state will receive an inheritance tax of $8,000 from this estate.
Edward G. Wyckoff was appointed administrator of the estate and under section 2,605 of the ends of civil procedure Surrogate Scott entered an order that $500,000 of the certificates of stock of the Union typewriter company and other securities he deposited with County Treasurer A. Upham, and the order also provided for the appointment of Edward G. Wyckoff as the administrator of the remainder of the property, which amounts to $200,000. The administrator was required to give bonds in double that sum and his securities are Lyman C. Smith of this city and Clarence W. Seamans of Brooklyn, both of whom testified that they were worth $400,000.
George W. N. Yost, of Yellow Springs, O., assignor to G. W. N. Yost & Co., of same place. - For improvement in manufacture of soap.
George W. N. Yost, of Titusville, Penn., who was convicted of perjury last week, was sentenced, yesterday morning, to pay a fine of $5,000, to pay the costs of prosecution, and to confinement two years at hard labor in the Western Penitentiary. His perjury consisted in false affidavits in a patent suit.
The American Writing Machine Co. are fitting up a factory with new tools and appliances on 31st Street, near 7th Avenue, New York City, which will have a capacity to produce 100 type-writing machines a day.
Inventor and Manufacturer of the Caligraph. G. W. N. Yost, the inventor of the Caligraph, was born April 15th, 1831, in the town of Starkey, school education, and prepared for college at Starkey seminary, with a full expectation of obtaining a thorough education, but owing to the misfortune of having inflammation in the eyes, which prevented his studying for some years, this was reluctantly abandoned. During his boyhood, and until his nineteenth year, he attended school and worked with his father on the farm. For some four years thereafter he traveled extensively in the West and South, and in March, 1855, his first patent was obtained for a Cotton Plow and Scraper, with which one hand and a mule could do the work of two hands and two mules during the busiest part of the cotton-growing season. Many thousands of these implements have since been sold. From 1855 to 1873 (except some five years while engaged in the oil business), he devoted his time to inventing, patenting and manufacturing agricultural implements. During this time the Climax Mower and Reaper, also the Acme Mower and Reaper were brought out and successfully introduced to the public. These machines are now extensively manufactured at Corry, Penna., Syracuse, N. Y., Wellsburg, W. Va., Chicago, and other places.
213 West 31st Street, New York.
Some twelve years ago, he was invited by Mr. Jas. Densmore to go to 32 Pine street, N. Y., and see the Type-Writer, a machine to write with type, instead of the pen, which had then just been finished at Milwaukee, Wis., by C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and others. Mr. Densmore had acquired an interest in the invention, and the machine had been sent to New York for examination. After seeing it, Mr. Yost expressed the opinion that the idea was a good one, but that the machine was not invented yet; that there was no commercial value in it. Mr. Densmore somewhat shared in this opinion, so much so, that the machine was returned to Milwaukee for the purpose of having it "invented," and through the persistent efforts of Mr. Densmore, the inventors were induced to keep at work for four long weary years, during which time nearly fifty experimental machines were made, each one differeing more or less from the other, until December, 1872, when Mr. Yost was invited to Milwaukee to see the INVENTED Type-Writer. After a very careful examination of the machine, as then made, he became interested in it, and, in connection with Mr. Densmore, took one of the Milwaukee machines, in February, 1873, to the Remington Armory, in Ilion, N. Y., and made a contract to have one thousand of them built, which machines were to be taken in lots of 250 each, cash in advance.
During this time Mr. Yost had fully examined and tested the matter of writing by machine, and had arrived at the conclusion, that if the conditions could be made right, that is, if Writing Machines could be made cheap enough so the masses could afford to buy them, and good enough so they could use them, that millions of them could be sold. He found by actual test that an expert, with a good writing machine could do from three to ten hours work in one hour, and do it much easier and better than was possible with a pen. He became satisfied that the Writing Machine was a greater laborsaving machine than the sewing machine, and that while the sewing machine saved the cheapest labor in the market, the Writing Machine saved the most expensive labor.
He also became satisfied that the Writing Machine was the best known means of teaching children and others, spellingm, punctuation, the proper division of sentences, &c. Also, that it would afford pleasant and profitable employment to thousands of young people, who become experts in its use, and that it was especially adapted to give employment to intelligent and cultivated young women, hundreds of whom are already employed as experts. The demand for laborers in this field of enterprise is practically unlimited.
Not only were the first thousand machines taken, but between the fall of 1873 and the winter of 1877, nearly four thousand more were made and sold, mainly through the energy and intense labor of the inventor of the Caligraph. During this time many improvements had been made and adopted.
In Febrary, 1877, Mr. Yost came to the conclusion that the Type-Writer of the future was not invented yet, and he decided that he must have better machines, for he found the defects of the Type-Writer, as made, so great that only a small per cent of those sold could be kept in use. He returned to Ilion, and went into the factory determined to overcome at least some of the defects in the machines as then made. Up to this time the Type Writer was so constucted as to write capital letters only, while there was a great and growing demand for a machine that would write both capital and small letters. Mr. Yost bought some crude ideas of B. A. Brooks, as well as from other parties, and with the assistance of W. K. Jenne, of Ilion, N. Y., and in spite of the opposition of his associates, invented and perfected the No. 2, or Upper and Lower Case Type-Writer, as now manufactured by E. Remington & Sons. He also invented and literally forced the manufactured at Ilion; he also remodelled the No. 1 Machine, and overcame many of the defects in the Type-Writer as then made. After spending two more years of herculean efforts to introduce the improved machines, he arrived at the conclusion, in the summer of 1879, that the ideal Writing Machine was not yet invented. By this time, between five and six thousand machines had been made and sold, and the conviction was deepened on his mind that the counclusions he had arrived at six years before would be more than realized if only Writing Machines could be made good enough so that the masses could use them and keep them in order, and cheap enough so that they could afford to buy them.
In the summer of 1879, he set to work in earnest to invent the ideal Writing Machine, and the Caligraph is the result. He has a factory in New York employing upwards of eighty hands manufacturing the Caligraph. The works are being rapidly enlarged, and the production increased to meet the growing demand. It is now fully believed that in the Caligraph, the public will find the Ideal Writing Machine. Mr. Yost's long experience and thorough knowledge of the defects of the old style of Writing Machines have enabled him to combine in the Caligraph all the good, and leave out all the bad elements in the machines as hertofore made. He has also been fortunate enough to secure the full legal right to use such of the inventions belonging to the old system of machines, as is required to manufacture the Caligraph, and having fully perfected the latter in all of its details, he now feels that all the legal and all the mechanical difficulties have been overcome, and that after all these years of sowing, the harvest time is approaching.
The advantages of the Caligraph are so many and so great, that only a few of them will be referred to in this connection. In the first place, the Machine is more portable than the writing machines heretofore made. It is built of the very best material that money will buy; the very bet of steel castings being used instead of common cast iron. No pains or expense is being spared to make the workmanship as perfect as possible. Another great feature is, the Caligraph is so constructed that and ordinary expert operator can keep the machine in perfct order for many years. - From Stoddart's Review, Oct., 1881.
The Climax shops, originated by G. W. N. Yost, for manufacturing the Climax mowers and reapers, were sold at Corry, to the highest bidder, J. C. Sturtevant of the first national bank of Conneautville for $13,101 last week.
Final Requests and Instructions of the Late James Densmore. The will of James Densmore, who died September 16, at 961 Bedford avenue, was filed to-day in the Surrogate's Court. He left a widow, Adella R. Densmore, a son, D. J. Densmore and a daughter, Tina Delehanty. To his widow he leaves the Bedford avenue house with all it contains, including jewelry, in lien of dower, except as afterward specified. To Joel Densmore and his wife Carrie, of South Bend, Ind., he leaves real estate in St. Joseph County in that State. To Samuel Bush and wife, of Lakeland, Washington County, Minn., he leaves all his property in that county, and the remainder of the real estate to his son, D. J. Densmore. His trustees are to continue an arbitration with George W. N. Yost, of Hartford, Conn., respecting stocks held by the testator in the Typewriter Company, of New York. To his daughter, Tina, he leaves $5,000; to Daniel C. Roundy, $2,500; to his stepson, Ernest Ryan Barron, $15,000. He then disposes of the stock in arbitration, if it should be decided in his favor, making further provisions in that case for the legatees named. He confirms an arrangement for the payment of a debt of $68,000 to his brother Amos. He next gives instructions as to the conduct of various business matters, including sundry investments. His executors nad trustees are Clarence W. Seamans, Ernest R. Barron and Daniel C. Roundy. The will is dated August 3, 1889.
THE TROUBLES OF A TYPEWRITER COMPANY FINALLY ADJUSTED. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 4. - This morning Deputy Sheriff Bolster of Stamford and a squad of Deputy Sheriffs guarded the factory of the Yost Typewriter Company in this city. Sheriff Bolster has had charge of the factory ever since the attachment for $35,000 was made months ago by the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of New-York, in the interest of the stockholders of the company. Last night it was rumored about the city that further attachments were to be made, and that matters were growing more complicated, and an extra force of officers was placed on guard.
The factory has been closed for some time, and the 300 employes have been anxiously waiting for the doors to open and work to begin. To-day the cheerful announcement was made by T. G. Johnson of New-York, who has had charge of the works, representing the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, that to-morrow the factory would be in operation again. To-day was the day set for the sale of the property under the attachment, but it has been adjournced one week. Mr. Johnson said that the cause of the suspension of the work at the factory was the refusal of Messrs. Hawley, Mayo & Co., of New-York, the selling agents, to take the machines as fast as they were ordered, in accordance with their contract; but to-day he received word that they were anxious to resume the sale of the machine.
A meeting of the Board of Directors was held in New-York yesterday and the following officers were elected: President - James T. White of New-York; Vice President - G. W. N. Yost of Bridgeport; Secretary - Henry Cummings of New-York. The new officers represent both the Yost and bondholder factions, and it now appears that matters have been satisfactrily settled among the contesting parties, and the work will go on as heretofore.
Mr. G. W. N. Yost, whose portrait we publish, is deserving of notice on account of the important---we had almost said the pre-eminent---position which he holds in relation to the history of the invention and evolution of writing machines.
Quite a group of inventors and promoters were concerned in the development of the early American machines. One who, without doubt, takes a prominent place in typewriter history of this period was Mr. C. L. Sholes, who, at the time John Pratt was busy on his machine in England, had been engaged perfecting an instrument for printing numbers in succession upon the pages of books, on bank notes and the like. Having disposed of this machine, Mr. Sholes set to work on the typewriter in 1867. In about a year his first model was completed, but, though it was not until over a score of models, each differing somewhat from its predecessor, had been made, that the machine looked anything like business. Mr. Sholes and others did the inventing; experienced shorthand writers who had a better idea than most people as to what was wanted in a practical machine knocked the models pretty well to pieces, until the inventors were well nigh sick at heart, and the capitalists who supplied the sinews of war began to wonder whether the battle would ever bring them any spoil. In addition to Mr. Sholes we have associated with the enterprise tow or three other inventors, notable, Mr. Densmore and Mr. Yost, the latter of whom proved ulitmately to be perhaps the most valuable and prominent of the figures connected with the enterprise, as he combined within himself the qualities, not only of the inventor, but also of the shrewed man of business, coupled with unlimited enthusiasm.
From the time the instrument known as the 1874 machine was constructed the typewriter was rapidly improved. Mr, Yost, who was conviced that the machine could not be put upon a fair trial until it was carefully made by skilled workmen, persuaded Mr. Densmore to have the matter put into the hands of Messrs. Remington, the well-known manufacturers of fire arms and other implements requiring skilled workmanship.
In 1873 the machine was taken to Messrs. Remington, who were fully instructed as to the manufacture of the new model, and a contract was made with them, whereby one thousand machines were to be taken, and as a matter of fact, during 1874, '75 and '76 something like 3,000 No. 1 Remingtons were taken. It will now be noticed that the typewriter assumes the name of the engineers who at that time manufactured it. In general construction the machine was at this time very much like the Remington of the present day---with its keys, levers, type-bars, with the type at the end---and its ink ribbons, from which the printed impression was got by the types striking it against the paper, just as at the present day.
But this machine was not a success; the sales went slowly; its reception was anything but good. In short, it was a commercial failure, chiefly because of the fact that it printed capital letters only.
The enthusiasm of most of the men connected with the enterprise seems now to have abated very considerably, but Mr. Yost never lost faith in the ultimate success of the typewriter, and having recognised that the want of small letters was the chief objection to the machine, he set about getting over it, with the result that after collaborating with Mr. Byron A. Brookes and Mr. Jenne, he produced in 1877 the first model of the No. 2 Remington, the notable feature of which was that it wrote both capital and small letters. At the end of each type-bar there are two types instead of one, as was the case in earlier machines. Either of these types can be made to print at will by altering the position of the paper roller by means of a shift key. This No. 2 Remington was put on the market in the following year, 1878, and from that time the typewriter became a success.
The device of the shift key and the moving roller or platen carrying the paper was of great value, seeing it accomplished what was thought to be impossible before, namely, printing both capital and small letters.
Being dissatisfied even with the improved machine, Mr. Yost continued his experiments, and ultimately produced the instrument known as the Caligraph, in which the shift-key was done away with. Speaking of this period, the versatile inventor says:---"During all this time I watched the business very closely, and I finally became fully convinced that the alignment system, the inking system, and other inconveniences of both the previous machines would cause both these machines to be superseded by an ideal machine which had perfect and permanent alignment, assured by aligning all the characters through a centre guide at the printing point, by direct printing on the paper by steel type, by using key-levers of the first order, each lever fulcrumed in the middle, so as to get the depression and action of all the keys uniform, and also by providing the machine with any other conveniences, such as a very light carriage, pointer, straight stringing, &c. The picture of this ideal machine became so vividly impressed on my mind that I could neither sleep nor think of much else. I was literally compelled, during the fall of 1887, to make a model of this machine, which I did."
Of the introduction of the Yost machine to the British market, and the remarkable success with which the instrument has met in this country and abroad, it is scarcely necessary to say anything, as it is now a matter of common notoriety.The Portrait of Mr. G. W. N. Yost, published in this issue, is from a block kindly lent by The Yost Typewriting Co., Ltd., Holborn Viaduct, E.C.
Supplementary Proceedings Against the Inventor. George A. Baker has been appointed receiver in supplementary proceedings for George W. N. Yost of 265 Broadway, inventor of a typewriter, on the application of Emerson & Talcott, who obtained a judgment against him on Sept. 3, 1890, for $23,199, on which there is still due $17,000, with interest.
Mr. Yost was interested with Charles N. Fowler in forming the Typewriter Trust, two years ago, and his share was, it is said, stock of the Union Typewriter Company, as follows: $60,000 in first preferred stock, $49,000 in second preferred stock, and $1,226,000 in common stock. Mr. Fowler said he delivered a considerable amount of stock to Mr. Yost, but could not tell how the account stood.
Mr. Yost has received royalties from the Yost Typewriting Company amounting to about $5,000 a year, and he has been enjoined from receiving the royalties by the order appointing the receiver.
He Remained a Firm Spiritualist to the End. Private funeral services were held Saturday night at 309 West Fifty-fourth Street over the body of George W. N. Yost, who died last Thursday after an illness that began three months ago. The burial took place yesterday in the Mount Kensico Cemetery, near White Plains.
Mr. Yost was known as the inventor of a typewriter, and was instrumental in the organization of the Union Typewriter Company, which was incorporated little more than a year ago. Mr. Yost was sixty-four years old. He leaves a wife and a son and daughter.
Although a shrewd man of business, Mr. Yost had a tendency in his nature which led him into abstract speculation and made of him a devoted Spiritualist. With a Chicago Spiritualist named Dr. Rogers, he formed a great friendship, believing that the doctor was able to communicate with the spirits of the dead and to record these conversations and interviews upon the typewriter.
In spite of the conviction of his friends that Dr. Rogers imposed upon him, Mr. Yost maintained his intimacy with Dr. Rogers in particular and his belief in Spiritualism in general to tha last moment of his life.
