The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-18

IN an UNDERGONE. III bet you y hat she's .
The neat E9Sng woman walked strelsAt e
AIR. but there was a whole lot OF business about
"qood-morninE." began the young man.
Yes. I am seeking employment" said the
f.Rave been omiploysdd for the past few years is
about to remove to Washington, l don't want
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week. / can't very wen expect to get that
pioyer, but I'm worth go a week, anyhow,
and that's my figure, am An all-afound
can do any kind Of shorthand work, and ali
kinds Of typegEitinE: Have you any places on
Yes, said the younE, man, at once, IT think
have. You don't mind taking q bit Of dlota-
world that you are all right as to speed and
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The young woman took q notebook and pencil.
Here's an editorial about the Philippines"
said The h t5 young G vd man. Suppose I Just read
1t 10 q curious objection to our annexation
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alleged that the reclamation. civilization and
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that 2, INQUIRED the young man. looking up
The young woman was also looking up. with
syoo ond un,ttno u,ho ropliod Tba vo,,n0
man. hi had dD SlcStatSd At the the 'e rate Of about isSS
words a minute.
the head 81 the dhsH SSEe a. Use sSro ON i6S'n a 4 &t-t ga
{ou1so% glance at Tak SsE man. Now lust
The young woman walked over to one of the
typewriting machines. Her flnge[s few oyer
fse t mSss shs p at Z %9 tSe p Siip'f from In a t Pls l @so 5hae
and handed y to the young man. The TRANSCRIPT
ton wss perfect In every respect, Then 59,rtah9e
70 the machine. The young women's fingers
fairly danced over the keys, and when she had
finished the page there wasn't even q comma
Ths young man wrote out the address Of q
whole floor Of q downtown building.
" wTaRts s : SaE E S5 t5st ss sS%pS1y & T SalG Ss:
pabiiities. He's. a very particular man. I've
sent him more than q dozen young women. but
none OF them has served. However, they were
s s5sSt-f its n billet The salary however Is not
The young woman SWRtiIIs s &c took the slip Of y
The BUN man, about half an hour later. she re-
turned smiltngly, said that she had got the
place, and. thanking the employment man era
Nov you've got the, whole thing in q, nut
s6eI5i m d1om in e6spRs TO o tSs rspoFter, ea5a we
seen one woman out Of seven Who's up to the
that. About one shorthand writer in ten,
among men, as well as w~omen,,1am talking Of
i EHEsH w aSSi nave St only half t lesF rssi' Tie b snsGi srS
unempaloyed stenoGffaphers that the shorthand
business Is overdone In this town. ana that
s%annensis T clsss. are ssP e9pseted ' to work II f foe
little or nothing. you can Just put that
f faS!n Of dttt talk hs aGwP this as ol Pgs0 Of p0a aiieRsd
writer's Of shorthand say, Six or eight a week
l. about the limit fer stenographers IN New
I've got a list here now Of employers who have
asked me to get competent stenSograPhers men
kind Of people they want. and l do do, not send
ways harplng on the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
proposition; 7 keep q separate and distinct list
81 fsr 4Ieqp ssi Ehe are Su Til | Ea fa T TO say soF b ses ,aa
you and me. that the people who. work for
they i eaa GET. '@ AZ ams are MGs's sto 'Sss Dsss
who I Ha n q ma ma wS PIP a of, %sek ro at the ne
mand FOR competent stenographers as there
ever was, and the salaries paid to eflcient
s' tri6e 6isRer than thar they they we're ave i've years. SaS4n ago.
That capable young woman whom you saw
%e SIsnsie and Sdf'S SRsfl Pdf FaP% that s2 much nns Sz pay T Tishs
BE fellow that wants a good vile comes along
and marries her. I've got places within the
g goSn So Wo@e Sn stenosraphers at saIaries rang
ing from $18 to $25 q week. and they're jewels
OF ofi tas t P9reS 3. e Course serene I ma 9G enTS ST0ene f e&
people who are willing to donate their daily ser;
vices for salaries two-thirds less, but don call
f TRsS,E Sou siGnP %sh le aaa MSR %Ro t tSf9EFt tRReeSS'FrSe;
shorthand writer's. The average salary paid
rate men stenographers and I should say that
wom nnerS who no an sRSa Fss'f fRe g Study Sn 81 m SHORT TT
third rate Job at the business. The, second
and third raters. however. are people who don't
P posse sb sSgf s g iRd1gsItl5y t to G massey Sc Tos ste ssSI-
raphy. They don't study hard enough, You
ean'tlear1 shorthand by looking oyer a manual
earn how to play On the violin n three months;
q ordinary Intelligence who is willing to 60
four hours a DAY for q period of six months.
can become q good amanuensis stenographer
and be At, at the end OF that time, to go into
any business or professional mans office and
SLOUGH through a st~enographic alphabet, who
begin TO take dictation after they have been at
themselves at business houses for shorthand
employment. who naturally fall into tho in
ferior classes. A business man i know came in
here raging the other day. He had hired. on
his own hook. a couple Of days before he
visited me, a young woman ~sten6grapher whom
back mail to work up. and he spent an entire day
In debating replies TO his letters to his now en-
hand notes she was stalled. She couldn't read
'em at all, nor could the best stenoRrapher on
earth read them. The business man was out a
whole days work. and that's why he was FUN
ing when he came to me and demanded mo to
send him a stenoGrapher who knew short
hand.
with stenography as 1t is with everything else"
concluded the young man. There's always