The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12
THE RECORD BROKEN
The Fastest TypeWriting Ever
Done.
A Musical Critic on the Question of Type
writer's.

The following account of the great type
writing contest at Macon, Ca, in which
the worlds record was broken, is taken
from the Philadelphia StenOgrdpher and will
prove of considerable interest to Salt Lake
operators
Following is the report OF the typewriting
contest at the Royal Arcanum hall, Macon, Ga,
beating the worlds record: Lee Batemap
with Talbot & Sons, wrote in five minutes 6Si
words, writing with the YOST. j. W. Graves,
with R. E. Park, SO words, writing the YOST
Lee Edwards. with 81. j. Lamar & Sons, 66S
words, writing on Caligraph j. c. Craig with
Georgia Southern & Florida railroad, $50 words,
writing on the Remington S. A. Smith, with
S. A. Smith Co., 62S words, writing on Smith
Premier.
"Bateman's total average for five minutes
was more than $50 words per minute. and his
correct average of about 1873 per minute was
remarkably rapid writing, being the fastest ever
written and breaking the Caligraph's worlds
record of 1875 words per minute. The first prize
won by Mr.. Bateman, was gold medal"
Apropos of rapidity in typewriting and
typewriters in general, the following taken
from an article in the Northwestern Chris
tian Advocate, by the celebrated musical
critic W. S. B. Mathews, is full of excel
lent ideas, and is distinguished from the
mass of writings in the interest of this and
that particular machine
"Of all the type-bar machines, find myself
most attracted by the Yost, the third attempt
of its gifted inventor The Yost's type bars
strike upward TO centre, like the others, but
with important differences. The bars consist of
two parallel strips of steel; each bar is made in
three pieces, moving upon three joints, two of
which are immovable fulcrums. The alignment
is permanent and perfect the type coming to it's
contact with the paper through steel mortice,
so shaped as to Hermit the letter latitude in
coming but bringing it down to perfect align
ment before reaphiDg the paper. The YOst
prints directly from the face of the type the
type being mixed from pad against which the
types rest their faces while not in use
The print is clear and much less sensi-
BILE to inequalities of others than
of touch than other type-bar machines and
gives better copy Printing from the face of
the type gives greater power of manifolding
than other machines have. since the ribbon
counts about two thicknesses of paper. The
YoSt's types are steel and are interchangeable
A broken letter can be replaced in a few sec
onds by the operator himself. at an expense OF
&c. II one desired to do so he could entirely re-
arrange the keyboard and the letters in q few
hours, making it to correspond with any other
machine on which he might be an expert. This
is an advantage over all other instruments II
enables the Yost people 10 furnish their ma
chimes with the caligraph arrangement OF the
small letters for the accommodation of opera
tors already schooled in that system. More
over the self linking device keeps the type clean
and saves from IS to $40 year in the cost oil
ribbons.
In first GLASS Offices that demand cIeanest
looking letters yield ng strong copies, they
change ribbons about once in two weeks This
means Sl.50 month net for ribbons that cost
about nine dollars dozen. The YoSt uses two
pads year. costing about two dollars In les:
severe places a YoSt pad lasts nine or ever
twelve months. The work Of the machine i:
the sharpest and most satisfactory have seen
though opposing agents do not think So IT 1a:
made itS in business rirrlaS thic al
ity AS to speed, durability and ease Of opera
ton, it is fully equal to the best and in m,
opinion superior. l happen to know where
operators have changed from the others to in
and alter fortnights use have re-acquiret
their old speed, and found the new instrument
much pleaSanter in operation.
All writing machines have their draw backs
The Remington loses it's alignment and In
ether respects its first wear is SO much the bes
that in exacting offices they change for nev
ones after few months use. The old ones ar
still serviceable, but their work no longer ap
peals to the caligraphic dude. The Calgrapi
is large and heavy instrument its touch IS no
pleasant and its key board is the most Difficult
OF any to write rapidly. excepting the Ham
mond, because all its letters, large and small
have to be learned arbitrarily Otherwise it Il
a good instrument The SmithPremier il
heavy, trife slow, has stiff touch and is salt
not to be capable of high speed. The Yost il
probobly the best type bar instrument by far
In elegance of work it is far ahead of any Blu
| the Hammond, and to my taste, is ahead o
| that,
In respect to structures so freely bestowe,
here upon different instruments, I am not in
tending to damage anybodys business I Civ
| it TO the reader as 1 found it, 1t may have beel
made imperfectly, and the same thing ma
strike you differently. Every agent vii
promptly deny the shortcomings here attributes
| to his instrument. and will send in twenty aft
davits in support Of his claim. Nevertheless
the truth stands. If any machine is better an,
more competent than here represented, / an
| glad of it.
The Yost writing machine is the invention O
G.. w. Yost, who in 1877 invented the Reminp
ton and in 1880 the Caligraph- 1t uses no ribbon
writes in perfect alignment, and does not ge
out of order. The western officeS OF the com
pany are situated on the ground floor OF tn
= l,.c-., $3.50 tlNcl-. N SILT Like Git.