The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

position in the Interior Department at
Washington. D. c., where for while her
work consisted chiefly in typewriting.
Later she was detailed to assist the clerk
of the Superintendent of Indian Schools,
and remained with him until the end of
the fiscal year. Miss Brown was then
changed to the rolls of the Patent Office,
and given fac-simile typewriting to do,
five thousand words a day being required {;
but her days work always exceeded that
figure. After a short while she was
made stenographer to the Assistant Chief
of the Assignment Division in said office.
On November 9, 1885, at the request of
the Superintendent of Indian Schools CDR.
Mailman, translator OF Froebel's "Educa-
ton of Man." etc., she was transferred
to his office in the place of his former
clerk. Here she had charge of the cleri-
cal work and during the frequent abb
sences of the superintendent on inspect
ing tours. carried on the routine bust
ness of the office. In 1897 the Superin-
tendent asked that she be detailed to re-
port the three Indian School Service In
stitutes, but, owing to the lack of funds,
this could not be done. In 1898, however,
upon his urgent request, the three in
stitutes having been consolidated into
one, to be held during July and August
at Colorado Springs, Colo. and to con-
tinue for three weeks, she was sent out
by the Department to assist the Superin-
tendent in it's conduct and to report the
same. Besides assisting in the general
management of the institute (Which was
of the nature of a summer SCHOOL,, Miss
Brown took in shorthand all of the ad-
dresses delivered during the three weeks,
the same being embodied in the Appendix
to the Annual Report of the Superinten-
dent of Indian Schools in 1898.
Since her original appointment she has
received frequent assurances from Off
Gals of the satisfactory performance of
the duties assigned her and especially
that her stenographic work is accurate
and of high grade, her services having
been recognized in the substantial way of
writing, she is stenographer to the Chief
of the Educational Division in the office
of Indian Affairs, Washington, d. c.
Miss Browns work as a student was an
earnest of her future success. Ten days
before her graduation in May, 1894, she
reported a three days session Of the
North Carolina State Medical Associa-
ton. This was her first take" Of a
practical nature outside of the college.
and her second take three weeks
later exceeding the first in quantity
though not in technicality, was ten day
session of the North Carolina Teachers
Assembly, at Morehead City The amount
of notes taken during these two meetings,
was nothing short of enormous, and a rep
utation for doing high grade of technical
work was won.
Until her departure in 1895. she had
again reported the State Medical Asso-
citation and various other conventions. at
the same time holding responsible po-
sition with firm of lawyers, in Newbern,
N. c., her native town, being called upon
at times to report referee cases, etc.
She writes the Isaac Pitman system of
shorthand, and was educated at the
State Normal and Industrial College, of
which institution she is a regular grad
uate Her. civil service examination was
taken above the 140-word rate, the com
missions first standard, and while her
grade may seem low, yet those who are
acquainted with the close grading of the
commission will recognize the above 10 be
high average.
The technical work of the most difficult
kind, undertaken in her native State,
which received the highest commenda-
tons from the medical profession. and
ment OF Government officials, are suffi-