New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-13

With the seventh number OF Ihe tribune
Campaign of Education announcement Is maue u
continued interest in the work. Not only mas ''ei'
been no diminution In the ranks OF 'hose WV
originally began the study, but each week mas
shown a steady Increase In numbers. The per-
centage of errors Is smaller than that announced
one week ago. while those which do occur are Oh
less moment. With this issue one-th'rd Oh '"'
period Of instruction expires, ana those reaue'.
who have followed the course have commence oi
that ultimate which was PROMISED oi's''i"
y by The Tribune.
TIE student Of shorthand to-day has decided au-
vantages over those who went before MIN III
period prior to 1887, when Isaac Pitman, theh d"
unknown teacher. made such improvements "Po"
the systems then in use that he Is caheo ''e
father Of modern shorthand. Charles Dickens ana
his father when they began the study OF s'enos
raphy about the year 1924 adopted the best methou
then in existence but they were compelied 10
learn the use of more than one huhoreo
signs and symbols, many OF whch "''e
arbitrary. Samuel Pepys, author OF the niar!'
wrote his inimitabe work in a system OF snort
hand known as Sheltons which demanded the
Use of nearly 800 signs and symbols. What took
Pepys fully two years and Dickens one year to
master The Tribunes Campaign of Education
teaches in twenty lessons giving IN these inc
shortest possible form. and In such manner as 10
bring 1t within easy grasp OF hoy or XIII VI
average intelligence.
Such the strides that shorthand has made in the
ages, and especially in the last ffty-nne years.
What appears strange In this matter is tnat the
people of the United States should be. as they are
far behind England, Germany and France In gen.
eral practical knowledge Of this important work
Americans are so active. energetic and inventive,
seeking to overcome time and distance In all that
they do easily leading the world in the matter OF
labor aving machinery, that 1t would seem that
the economic value Of shorthand would have been
recognized at once Such however. has not been
the case knowledge of IL being restricted chleny
to those who follow 1t livelihood. while In other
who expect to follow professional business life.
because they realize how valuable 1t may be TO
them in their several pursuits ,.,.or ,,.,r
day and generation. because their students len OF a
then in use. employing them generally In CORE
sSs o Of spsse of OF
and Cicero were not read from manuscript Were
taken down in this manner and afterward long
These Greek and Roman systems were the only
the Christian era one other being adopted In
differently BY the yaOus c0u Wns n. ms only
said the became lost for century or more ana
then reysd in wa SmpY t0t both
TENS failed to the requirements of the itera,
n ars Ei e eonf to ~% he d~eeTs
The common-sense monks gradually changed ~ 10
and symbols as substitutes for words OF purely
ecclesiastical nature Thus the monk Sdr IN, ,h
present apparently perfect system Of sisn-writ'ns
Shorthand is one OF the arts that has never been
lost 1t has lived in one form or another and al
proving condition. because there have lived In
every age those who appreciated us econoin y,
Phenicia before Attica existed a people. and
possibly also at Babylon. One finds no traces as, OF
named m " Country has always and the second until
recently opposed all manner Of LABOR Snd ana ime
acter writing. to which there might be difficulty in
EeCf
fury B. C., is not difficult to hnd II In one form
another in mos, es Of the fro% the sen
| to the seventeenth century, when II was IN par.
obseury but in this time whe ess @ c"Tcus
fact in connection with its history Is that Its re-,
in England was due to the the Of
church have verbatim reports OF their sermons
really worthy of that name, however appeared, in
1902 How strong hold 1t took upon me Enehsn
date until Isaac Pitman invented his system nearly
300 methods. each under the name OF its oev'ser oi
inventor had been published in that country alone
| From 1870 when the signs and symbols reached NJ.
| their greatest number. upward OF w. uh.l , ,ia,
| them. until when ne appeared there were about
| one hundred His predecessors uniformly adop.ea i
EIGHT instances. in which abortive attempts were
| made to Introduce method OF writing by s9und.
s,stance to Mr. Pitman (afterward knighted by the
| Queen). but to him Is due all the honor and fame
shorthand, the great modern system in universal
| practice in the United States and largely so In
England alone since 1887 200 books upon shorth
| have been published by as many different authors,
appeared in this country in the same period give
but more or less altered forms Of Pitman's inven-
Benin Pitman's brother OF Sir Isaac. Graham's.
Mnsons Longeys Ella ,o Bnsn ana m nnd Of
those Of Sir Isaac who did his work SO thoroughly
| essentials That many Of those in Europe and In
this country are decidedly better than the system
| originally sent out by Sir Isaac may be admitted
evoutions wrought IN the OF me are
the present admirable economic forms are 'he re-
The present history of shorthand shows CON
clusvey that IN more general use IN haw
IN the snd TpssH M merits
was fairly introduced upon this side OF the ocean.
eaparsn ssm ssiabs a%d foowns
ample pc only with good results suits
The Tire. Gi WHICH
does no! differ 80 much an nd al and tne
s Stnet ts sess w %"H be- less here
Sea syss% or 20 @
ment. upon the whole, OF the best that are taught
and practised in the United States Indeed meth tn
o oos Take two persons Of equal intelligence and
nd sGSai the other in the United States each
the Ss, ISs be- Ts Of an
thoroughly practical knowledge Of , the art ,e.
The Tribunes Campaign OF Dedication has unques-
| tionably awakened fresh interest In this most i'm
portant study. and the work thus begun must tend
| the Old World countries. Its readers have been
prompt to perceive the many ADVANTAGES that are
| capable of easy mastery. under competent In
| structors and under a method that offers the most
economic forms Of practical work In this age OF
| push and haste one may safely adopt what Is so
positively shown to be economic from every point
Of view
| ',tH CONSONANrS.
The following tho first eight straight con.
sonants Of the Shorthand alphabet:
l. as in pet
| II Z 40 In hot