TYPEWRITING DEPARTMENT.

Bates Torrey, author of Practical Typewriting, has invented and patented a knee-shift for the Remington Typewriter. Mr. Torrey is an earnest advocate of the all-finger method of operating, and this neat little device of his, will tend in a great measure to facilitate its adotion. With this shift the fingers never need be diverted from their legitimate use, but will be always kept in position. The attaching of the device is easily accomplished, and, when once placed, is not in the way, and is hardly noticeable.

The price is $2.00, and can be obtained of Bates Torrey, Portland, Me.

FAST TYPEWRITING-8,600 WORDS IN ONE MINUTE.

258,000 WORDS IN THIRTY MINUTES AND FIVE SECONDS CONTINUOUS WORK. 500 SHEETS, 516 WORDS ON EACH SHEET.

An interesting impromtu exhibition of typewriter speed was given in a down town office last Thursday, and proved the value of the typewriter for advertising work.

This firm desired to send out some 500 circulars, and concluded to have them take the form of a typewritten letter, printed on their own letter head. Besides their typewriter, they owned an Edison Mimeograph fully arranged for reduplicating typewritten matter.

A representative of THE NATIONAL STENOGRAPHER happened in about the time the operator was arranging the Mimeograph stencil paper for writing the original stencil, and suggested that a test of speed and time be made on work done by a combination of the typewriter and Mimeograph. Watches were drawn and the operator started. In eight minutes and fifty-five seconds she had written the letter of 516 words, (this time included the preliminary preparation of the stencil sheet by taking it from the box and putting it in the typewriter), placed it properly in the Mimeograph, inked the sheet and printed the first copy, and in exactly thirty minutes and five seconds 500 perfect copies of that letter were printed and ready to fold in envelopes.

This is pretty quick work when the results are considered, for in five seconds over thirty minutes 500 letters of 516 words to the letter had been printed. That is, 258,000 words were printed in that time, or 8,600 words a minute. This astonishing result can, of course, only be obtained by the

We have been requested by

Mr. Isaac S. Dement, Editor of the National Stenographer, to furnish him with some sample work done on the Edison Mimeograph, of which we are the manufacturers; and we know of no better way to do it than to give a bona fide circular printed on the device.

Without indulging in any unseemly boasting, we will simply state, that the Edison Mimeograph is without doubt, the best reduplicat ing machine of any class or description upon the market.

A machine which will do the

work expected of it, do it well, do it at once, do it quietly, do it neatly, and do it every time, is the machine which business and professional men want in the ir work, and the Mimeograph is fully able to satisfactorily demonstrate its capabilities at any time, in any place, and under any circumstances.

We use our words advisedly, when we claim that the Mimeo graph can reproduce type-writing better than any other agent in existence. The print ing press will not make a type-written copy that is at all deceptive; the lithographic art may make

a perfect fac simile, but the tell-tale gloss and finish betrays it; Carbon copies are carbon copies, and never resemble the original, but, the Mimco graph copy has all the peculiar characteristics of genuine type-written work, the broad letters with dull edges, which is the result of ribbon impressions, the casual departure from perfect alignment seen in the most perfect type-writers, and the erratic spacing due to the careless operator. In fact In fact, it is only by a critical examination of the reverse side of the sheet, that the counterfeit can be detected, because no punctuation marks have made a matrix of the paper.

We might continue indefinitely to cite facts in proof of our statements, but we prefer to let the work speak for itself, yet we are always glad to send an investigator, circulars, price lists, and other literature, to aid him, if he desires to look further into the subject.

Yours very truly,

A. B. Dick Company,

152 154 Lake Street,

Chicago.

In

aid of a first-class duplicating device, but such a combination can be utilized with gratifying success in just such work as demonstrated. this case, it cost the firm just 211⁄2 cents to do the work, that is, the Mimeograph stencil sheet, blotters, and time of operator, footed up to that amount; as the copies can be printed on any quality of paper, it will be an easy matter to calculate the entite cost of getting out 500 circulars. The value of such a device as the Edison Mimeograph is best appreciated by those who wish to do a large amount of work in a short space of time, and this off-hand test is the more valuable in reaching accurate conclusions, because the circular was an ordinary, every day letter, and not made up for the purpose.

ASSISTING STENOGRAPHERS.

The editor of THE NATIONAL STENOGRAPHER was talking the other day with the gentleman who has charge of the position department of the Chicago office of the proprietors of the Remington Typewriter, and was surprised to learn of the large number of stenographers this firm place in positions from month to month. The gentleman in charge of this department devotes his entire time to looking after the wants of the patrons of the firm, in the line of shorthand and typewriting employes. The firm make no charge; they are interested in placing competent stenographers so their machines will be properly handled.

During the month of November, one hundred and ten stenographers were placed in situations. The number of ladies and gentlemen was about equal, and the salaries paid ranged from seven to thirty dollars per week, and while the salary paid ladies did not average quite as much as those paid gentlemen, still there is not a little increase in the salaries ladies now receive as compared with what has generally been paid in the past. Over one-third of those placed in situations were beginners, just entering the profession, not having previously been employed.

The representatives of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict are to be found. in every large city in the world, and many thousand members of the profession are assisted to remunerative employment by them every year. All the largest business houses, and especially those where the highest salaries are paid, use the Remington and it is an interesting fact that, while the system of shorthand an employe writes is of little consequence, to the employer, the style of typewriter operated is of the utmost importance.

As we go to press our attention is called by one of our bright stenographic friends to yesterday's issue of the Tribune. There were several calls for stenographers, on the part of business houses, and every one of such advertisements of wants asked for a Remington operator.