The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11
one time to remedy this, but does not reg
ulate his stroke accordingly
ONE NOTICEABLE THING.

ulate his stroke accordingly
ONE NOTICEABLE THING.
Zone thing particularly noticeable
about the work of the reporters, that Is
not found in any other Office in which
large number of machines are used, is the
fact that the punctuation is all uniform.
This comes, suppose. from Office rules.
Up in the big government Offices the
greatest care has to be taken to keep the
work from becoming ridiculous One
operator will be stuck on the seml-colon,
another on the colon and n third on the
comma. OF course all are useful, but
have their proper places.
"Of course newspaper men, being eX-
pcrts, will notice these lapses quicker
than any other class Of workers, but
upon the typewriter they stand out like
raised letters upon the reading cards of
the blind 1t has been my experience
that many people who have been care
fully drilled in the grammatical and
rhetorical punctuation OF literary
language have found themselves unable
to practically apply the same rules and
experience to the proper punctuation of
ordinary business language, whereas
many students and printers who have
thoroughly mastered the correct punctua-
tion of commercial language have been
able 10 successfully apply, with little or
no difficulty, the same principles to the
proper division of the literary language.
INTERESTING INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS
''The field of typewriting individuality
presents fewer opportunities than does
that of the handwriting expert, but it is,
nevertheless of some interest and i'm
portance. Take, for instance, the COM
Darison of two sheets of typewiting,
seemingly alike, but for the individual
charac teristics of the typewriter. Two
machines might write so nearly
alike as to make ii impossible TO
determine upon which Of them GER
tain sheet was turned out. Still, there
will be found many little marks of vari-
ance in the writing of different machines,
and even of the same one at different
times, or when used by different persons.
AT one time the reporter rushes into
the office in hot haste and hammers away
like a good fellow at an important bit Of
news that is to be rushed. Then, again,
he will have plenty of time, and his work
will be more even. And, thirdly, he will
again become bsorbed in an article, for
get all about the touch of the keys, and is
finally brought 10 his senses by the alb
normal amount of noise he is making.
STORIES TOLD BY STUDENTS.
"Students on the typewriter possess no
individuality, except their proneness to
make mistakes Interview dozen type
writer operators ana | II venture the pre-
diction that the entire twelve will tell you
the same story of mistakes when they
first sought TO master the machines in
tricacies.
lone will tell of how the carriage got
to the end of the line unnoticed and the
many words he pounded out in the one
place before he noticed anything wrong
Another will detail how he neglected to
inform himself on the workings of the ink
ribbon: how it ran out and became sta
tionary: how a hole was finally beaten
through it and the letters refused to
register upon the paper; how he turned
the machine almost inside out looking for
the trouble, and, finally, how it cost him
rs cents to have the ribbon sent on its
way doing good work, the knowledge Of
when he should have mastered at the
very first
"A third will tell of his troubles with
capital letters and punctuation marks,
while the fourth and numerous other Will
grum BITE at the beautiful accuracy OF the
measure gauge. And so on to the end. y
hundred and one numerous mistakes can
be made on the typewriter, and even 10
the old-timer new ones are coming to the
front continually. Up in our club room
am considered one of the best operators,
both as to speed and accuracy, yet l prac-
ticed for six weeks according to the little
book of instructions before l attempted 10