The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-21
MILES OF WRITING.
cur,ous Statistics ms to the Space the Fen OF
Famous Men Covers Yearly.


While New York Telegram reporter was
waiting for an interview with Chauhcy d.
nonsw NJ ms Office in the Grand Central de-
NOT the other day a queer old man came IN.
rs the Right Rev DIR. Depew IN ne asAeu
Private Secretary Duyai.
'Yes. sir but he IS busy" -, 49,,
"Tll wait" The gray-haIred ana travel
s,o;rad o,d oentleman sat down and began to
firrlre away for dear life in little NOTEBOOKS.
sAb1 mo exclaimed suddenly. apparently
crati6ed at something he had discovered,
used TO know DR.. Depew'
Yes. " said Secretary Duyal. ,,,,
Went ter school with him up IN Peeksklll'
and Tye been calculating on the speed OF the
rSn;d nenmep of this country. and want 10
Get the velocity Of DR.. Depew. I've JUST leII
Cornelius Vanderbilt. lie writes 100 miles a
wear. Heisa pretty good worker, can teiI
YOU. Used 70 have private secretary Duc IL
didn't work Now. rapid penman can "I WIZ
thirty words a minute. 10 90 lhla ~ mus
draw his pen through the space u i0''
teen and half feet. e,
.tin forty minutes his pen travels turlong,
and in FIVE hours and third mile. On an
oyeraCe sixteen curves of the pen are ihauS III
writing each word. Writing thirty wOruS
minute 40 are made; in Oh hour, 25,SOO' III
dav of only five hours, l44,OOO, ana IN year
of 400 davs. - 200 O00 The man VINO MAKES
600 600 strokes of tho pen IN month nave
found is not at all remarkable. Many men
make 1 600. O0O Here we have IN the aggre-
cate q work 800 miles long TO be traced on
paper by each writer in year. In maklhg
each letter of the ordinary alphabet we must
make from three to seven strokes OF the pen
or an average of three and q half TO four
How many words does Mr.. Depew write
on an average" asked the old gentleman.
well. let me SEQ. replied Secretary Duval.
He prepares his own speeches, and / guess
what with speeches. private correspondence
and railroad business he must write about i've
thousand words q day"
well, now, MI Depew writes in year
how many Words
About two millions. I should say
VERY good. Now. then. his pen travels
over the entire length of the New York Cen
tral road proper every year. lie makes on an
average Of sixteen curves of the pen IN writ
ing each word In writing two million words
he makes thirty-twO million curves. a marx
very nearly three hundred miles long II traced
on paper.
Secretary Duval made an estimation and
found that bis pen wandered over about 5oO
miles each year.
Jay Gould writes 200 miles year con-
tinued tho old gentleman, referring 10 ms
note book During the last twenty years MI
Gould has written about $500 miles. inns Is
taking out vacation trips and time lost by
sickness. William d. Rockefeller, one Of the
richest men in the world. has written during
his lifetime nearly $1,000 miles. and James d.
Rockefeller about 7 1000 miles. Coils 2. Hunt
ington has written about 5000 miles calcu-
late. and Charles A. Dana about $1,000 miles.
Robert J. lngersollldOes not write as much
as he used TO, but I've figured up he has made
with his pen mark 5000 miles long during
the past thirty years. Carl Schurz has made
a mark in his lifetime Of about IL 900 miles.
Andrew Carnegie is credited with 5000
miles. hev. DR.. 1almage has made mark
10000 miles long in thirty-fve years Mr..
Glider, editor of the Century, comes IN with
$4,000 mics 10 his credit. and Daniel Froh-
man and A. NJ. Palmer each have 5000 miles
N twenty five years of writing. Mr.. Austin
Corbn only has 1900 miles, but Abram ,.
Hewitt calls the turn with 10000 miles in the
same length of time twenty-five years.
had to tear myself away at this Juncture,
and the old gentleman was Still standing and
declaring:
Mighty interesting, eh7"
Now let no calculate q bit"