The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-27
HORTHANDWRITERS
THOUSANDS TAUGHT STENOGRAPHv
EACH YEAR IN AMERICA.

A Few Experts Receive High Salaries.
10 Cicero. Who Used More Than 1000
ChAracters-New York's veteran.
There are more stenographers in New
York and its vicinity than there are
lawyers or doctors. But not all of them
are competent. A first class shorthand
writer is very difficult to find, and if
he is a fast writer he is sure of a good
salary.
Shorthand writing as "A means % earn
ing a livelihood is not as lucrative as
many other callings. but it affords a
young man, if he is quick witted, a fine
chance to watch the internal workings
of a business house. and thereby helps
him toward a business education such
as he could get in no other way.
The only field that is highly remu-
nerative is law reporting, but to become
competent for this work requires years
of %assiduous practice, and the field of
employment is limit d.. The highest
salary paid to a cou stenographer in
New York is in the surrogate court.
Mr.. Edward F. CnC rhill. probably the
oldest practicing ST lographer in Amer
lea. holds this pc .tion and receives Il
salary Of 50. 600 Z year He has been
in the serSice sin 1919.
The municipal partmcnts and courts
in New York q : pay annually in sal
aries for steno raphic services Slji.-
900. This sal y list includes 80 ste
nographers. % Of whom are court re-
porteTs. each receiving 50. 500. and 10
81. 600 annually as salary. In addition
10 this, however. all court steuographers
are allowed by the code 10 cents per TO-
lilo of 100 words, foI furnishing copies
of transcripts To the parties interested
in any case when desired.
Up town at 333 West T~wenty-third
street the stenographer- Of New York
have a club, where they meet each 9TH
IT socially. In connection with the
clUb l. "a classroom. where the mem
hers may practice the ant of shorthand
writing. Her nearly every evening are
gathered scores Of ambitions Young
shorthaudal- iuGr-.. .u-Iy dr.yim- tluIG
pens Tor love 81 .-i.u iH fE.iF
craft, while -.H.r ,. .4 -5,r'.
reads or dsrta IT,. a"lt.-r.H. J.
provided with ..4 RI. Fl. .rr. 81 o..
tyPrNTr,.u- H-a.al. .E III. #-. o..
members WHOM ts.r FL, r. O. -.-.
The club also iI..u-..u- 900 ,
meut bureau, The u.uu l- ufau 30 80
ther sex. Ia fact. il is rH- iar- myia
bership Of Young lsj.,- lair gives 2.-,
to the social -ld" ut r.. club. winch l.
one If its important features. IN r.r
winter the club gives receptions. out. r.
tainment-. ucrH-iar.ll y a dinner ana
onc every year Il bail.
In many of tire public schools ri the
country .~teun-ragly is "a part Of the
training. An evidence If its recent re
markabla growth l. shown ~ a circu-
lar issued iy the bureau Of education AZ
Washington.
Here il j. shown that from July l.ls~g.
to June 80. 1890, 5;.37j persons recpiv-
ed instruction in the art Of shorthand
in schools and colleges III IN, United
States. Five thou-aud five hundred aHa
fifty 81 JH.- w..- ia New York and
Brooklyn. = similar circular was l.
sued by the bureau in 1881. in which II
was shown that during the year 1Ns2
the numNrr 90 pupils receiving such
instruction was l2,4;H. 1t j. therefore
quiue safe tu -Iy that the number for
1890 Exceeded -. 1000.
But this number does not take into
considerable an army probably equal
" large who receive instruction fIoln
some other source or from professional
steDOgTaph"r-.
Ont Of thi- vast army. however, but
"A very small minority are either phys
iCally or mentally qualified TO become
court reporters or even Office
SEES.
Cicero j. said to have been the invent
or of shorthand writing. and the freed
man. Marcus Tullius Trio, his friend,
the first stenographer. and he undoubt-
eddy did use a method Of shorthand
writing as early as 90 Il. &.
The FIRST English treatise was by Tim
othe Bright. entitled An Arte of Shurte
Swifte ard Secrete Writing by Charac-
ture, Inuented by Timothe Bright. Doc
tor of Phisike. Imprinted at London by
L. Windet, the Assingee of Fir Bright,
1858. Cum priuilegie Regiae Maiesta-
tis. Forbidding all others to print the
aa,ne.'
DIR. Bright in this work says: Cicero
did account il worthie his labour, and
no less profitable to the Roman common
weale Most Gracious Soueraigne), to
inuent a speedie kinde OF WRITING by
character, a. Plutarch reporteth IN the
life of Cato the younger. This inven-
ton was increased afterward by Seneca:
that the number of characters grue IL
1000. Whether through inure of time.
or that the men gaue it over for tedious
ness of learning. nothing remaineth ex-
taut of Cicero's inuention at this day.
Every stenographer who recalls the
efforts required to properly master the
few characters used in thu art today
will not wonder that of Cicero system.
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