The evening times., 1900-07-10
NEW SHORTHAND SYSTEM.
Maryland Priest Completes n WOrk
of Twenty Years.


BALTIMORE. July 1e.-Rev. Nicholas
Ward of 81. Joseph's Passionisf Asonas
terry. Frederick Road. near Irvingt0n. has
invented a new system Of shorthand writ
Ing. which he has named the new Ameri-
can stenography. The textbook containing
the system has recently been issued by a
Philadelphia publishing house ard already
Father Ward has received many hattering
compliments cn the apparent advantages OF
the system
Father Ward is an expert ssenographer.
he has for years made a practice Of writing
his sermons entirely in shorthand. In fact
for all purposes except correspond
enee he has found sten0graphy
20 be OF great advantage to him
H0 said he found all the systems
extant 10 be deficient in many respects and
hnaily determined 10 invent a system which
would be free from the disadvantages which
he had observed in those which he had
studied.
The system IS the result OF twenty years
study. Il has a complete alphabet for the
adequate representation OF every English
wore He claims that IL is the simplest
and most logical system Of Shorthand writ
ing that has yet appeared and that in lssi-
bility Il Is in advance Of any form o.
photography by having no positions
whatever and in inserting al Deedful vow
els in their natural place in the eOEsonant
outIp<.
Tee system IS adapted to self-instruetioE
and Il is Father Wards belief that a good
teacher cCuld sufficiently master il 50 as
10 teach 10 intelligeltly in one month.
In discussing the systems Of Shorthand in
general Father Ward says that in al the
same straight lines and curves are Used
but they differ from each other in the Use
made CT these materials, as vel as in the
amount Of arbitrary igns ineoT2O a-e , irtO
the system The ain OF a good system 5
20 make every syllable Writsble b. q
single sign; otherwise il VIII never b.
available for verbatim work. Curves csn
be more easily written than straight iices.
but if the angles are a drawback 20 speed
they are promotive OF legibiiity- 4 good
shorthand system must avoid awkward a.
giles and make the characters as nearly
cursive ard flowing as possible The brew
ity Of . system is linked 10 its simplicity
4 very short sign may be anything but SIN
pie; hence a comparatively long style II
simple can be written faster than q very
brief style mat is complicated. Speed Is
as much matter Of the memory a. OF the
hacd: consequently the more the memory
Is burds2ed The slower the hard viii be
Father Ward vas born in Dublin. Ire
lard. in 1856. and came 20 the United States
when not quite ten years old He j7ined
the Congregation Of PGsSio1ists u 1871.
he was transferred last October from
the house of th- order 81 Louisville 10 St
JGscph's Monastery 20 teach and 10 edit q
Life OF the Venerable Gabriel a de-
ceased member Of the Congregation OF Fas-
siclists propO5d Tor csncnizauOa. whiCh
had been prepared by the late Re- Hya-
ciEth Hage. OF the OTdsr. UpCl d-ishi- z
the work Father Ward submitted u 70
Cardinal Gibbons. who was sOpleassd With
the biography that he wrote 4 preface fer
H. The preface was Translated into la
ian. and the work afterwaTd presen.s si
handsomely bound. TO Pope Leo
Father Ward IS a Distinguished liTSu's
He Is Eo~ much interested in the prepzra-
tiOn OF a series OF interchangeable gram
mars which would enable the studs nj .
learn quickly the dihsrencss between the
various languages. Father Ward has teen
for vars an Instructor IN muSIc. ard 5
considering the publication OF several vol
umes CT. the theory and practice o. music