The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-18
THE ONE M OF SEVEN.
4 MORNING SESSION WITH A TYPE
WRITER AGENT

Good Typewriters-The Inoompetents.
When the young man in charge OF the short
hand and typewriting employment bureau OF
the typewriter firm reached his office about 8
o'clock in the morning. six client, naughty
Young women sat ranged about his rolltop
desk. Gloom sat heavily upon all OF them.
They regarded one another disapprovingly
from tho corners OF their eyes. In entering
tbe office tho young man bowed In a sort OF
collective, non-committal fashion to the young
women. Then he depositsd his hat upon the
top of his desk and raised the rolling front
thereof. This was the signal. The six young
Uomen all rose from their seats at once and
made for tho one particular conversational
chair beslde the young mans desk. The race
was 10 the Atalanta OF the half dozen. q tall
Young woman with a skirt that wasn't alto
gether tidy. She swiftly thrust the yellow
backed novel she had been reading into her
black bag and gained the coveted chair In two
strides. The other Ave, regarding her with
unconcealed aversion. fell back to their chairs.
oh. yes, yes. yes said the young man
without any particular applicability. Now.
you are seeking employment as
'Manuensis," replied ATLANTA. the young
mans pause calling for a reply
Yes. yes" said the young man. Now.
your experience has been -
The pause here also demanded q reply.
We'll" said the young woman. apparently
collecting the threads of the little speech she
had prepared, las yet l have not succeeded in
obtaining q stenographio position such as I
think -
"Um-m. truly" put in the alert young man.
"But you are fast ?"
The young woman flushed and evinced q sud-
den disposition to become even laughter than
she had been before the young mans arrival.
Meaning, OF course" said the young man.
'that you have attained amanuensis speed. A
hundred words. say 7"
ATLANTA abandoned her momentary hauteur.
WELL" she said. doubtfully. Il don't know
II / can write a hundred words a minute right
now, because / may be q little out OF practice.
on account Of my sister. who has been debating
TO me. being out Of the city for the past two
months or 80. butt
"Um-m. yes" said the young man. at the
same time pulling out the dictation board at
the right-hand side OF his desk. and fumblinG
around for q pad and pencil. Suppose. now.
we just see how rapid your
He had his head buried In his desk. looking
for q penail. and so the rest OF 1t was lost.
Presently he found a bundle Of pencils. and he
put one OF them into Atalanta's hand. which. by
the way. seemed to shake rather nervously.
Then he placed the notebook on the dictatlon
board, and Atalanta drew up her chair, with
her pencil at the " ready"
Let's see; you know all about the date line.
and all that. OF course H' said the young man.
inquirinGly and In a tone that indicated that
he wasn't altogether certain that she did
know all about the date line. and all
that. All right. Now. James Castlewood &
Co.. No. 14.212 Market street. San Francisco,
California'-you abbreviate the California into
GAL OF course. in writing it. Dear Sirs: Re-
plying to your esteemed favor Of the 28th ulti-
mo. we hasten to say that the shipment to
which you refer was made on the I'd ultimo. in
ample time to have reached you at the time
you specified in your order. and'"-
Just a minute. please" interrupted Alta
lanta. Atalanta was plainly In trouble. Yet
the young man had only logged along in his
dictation at a rate Of about eighty words a
minute. Just q minute. please" again said
the girl-"'shipment you referred to and
the young woman's pencil laboriously crawled
over the noteboo page.
"Um-m. yes" said the young man. giving
the girl q quick glance shipment to which
you REFER though. would be better. Did I not
put it that wayl Um-m. Got the rest of it ?
and We are at q loss to understand the delay
young man concluded that it was not Of much
further tq5f1 So1 1ss i to b pr S6 . 5ss s fiststlo RjiDS ai,Se ~
the letter somewhat abruptly,
For fully q minute after he had finished,
her pencil hand plainly suffering badly from
the Iattles. worked away to get the tail end OF
1 msn a %sesSsd f SeT efro On spdabloasiy. Ihe young
up. Now. il you'll kindly sit down at this
He conducted the young woman over to q. cor
ner where stood q folding typewriter desk.
d d9aSse 'h pla zee; af e .S SssisdleE t fSm @RS cRRfi9 Out T Il 8
sheet Of paper between the typewriter rollers.
young man started back to his desk. But Alta
lanta was again in trouble.
Have you an eraser 2" she asked.
7 young man, handed her an eraser. By
the time he gained his desk seat again the FIVE
SsasF So9 For t ESo% Shatr IN bS wrdjtin Slm we're < s SEsIp
as i .they, were tied" as the racing reporters
darted dagger stares at the successful short.
stopt young woman with tlaxen hair;
From 5 to STA week. replied the fiaxen-
haired girl. placing her hand at her mouth
the withdrawal OF q piece OF gum. " You see.
I'm not very strong on shorthand-just began
fgusss I'm worth What I ask. I want to-
q yes, ypeeYTIriting alone" interlected the
RSS%Tees any %s pfsces , WRer0 st / dSn,s k6gS also t 3 not |
machine-ah. thanks. Now. I'll go slowly. at
FIRST. 'G~entlemen: In acknowledging receipt
OF your kind favor Of the 18th instant, we beg
70 state that 1t has been our aim, ever since we
first engaged IN business. to give the utmost
Satisfaction possible TO our customers. Wei
The young man was going very slowly, but.
nevertheless, the fiaxen-haired girl was hope
lessly behind him, He leaned over. and this Is
carriage:
"geNtlmennxx lin Acknowledging rec Eaptxx
Of your K p,dx fyxr ofthe twlythe In st mt We
pekL otdt, =
chiiI. Probably unused to the machine,
Makes a great difference. that; You have not
Practiced a, great deal latelyl Yes. yes. / un-
dsrstand; III lust take your name and ad,
you are fitted why / shall-Good morning. good
morning and the haXen-haired young woman
the Office door.
ATLANTA stood at the young mans desk when
he returned TO his seat. The result OF her work
p the Typewriter was in her hand. She handed
Hdublously, TO the young man. 1t bore be-
daubed, evidences OF much erasing. and as q
transcription OF the letter the young man had
dictated 70 the San Francisco firm It was not o
spectacular success in form. photography. pune