The Washington times., 1904-10-06
WORLDS RECORD
FOR TYPENRITING
Miss Cameron Is Premier
Manipulation.
23,o0C WORDS IN ? HOURS
Patent Once Clerk Has Accomplished a
Feat Which Will Be Difficult
10 Duplicate.

Many q person mas Weakened in the
moraiHg 10 hnd that he mas become
famous over night
This, al least, TO certain extent, was
the experience OF Miss Olive r. Cam
erou, the young woman who now holds
the worlds record for typcwriting.
Miss Cameron, 10 Patent Office clerk.
wrote .. J0J words ia seven hours. Her
'feat has never before been accomplished
and promises 10 keep her al the head
or hlgh-speed JypeWriters Tor time TO
come.
Interest in Miss Cameron's record was
excited not only in the office in which
she IS employed, but wherever the
knowledge 0T IL went.
Miss Cameron's Modesty.
The young woman. herself. was ap-
pareHtly UHcOncerned about it when a.
reporter for The Times called M Eer
home last night. She modestly declared
that continual copying would gain speed
for anyone and that 50 was constant
work OF this kind which had enabled
her 20 make the worlds record.
Miss Cameron is Canadian Dy Ja-A
and received her training IN her Cara
dian home. She has, however been Iiv-
ing In Tennessee Tor some time, and de-
CIaEes she is q uatuFaIzed American, 10
British rag has done toward her au-
ysucemenJ in the business world.
& little less than a year ago Miss
Cameron took q civil service txamiua-
Goa and wrote an average or siNJy-nVe
words a minute on the typewriter Her
words minute.
Has Not the Touch"
she does not write the touch. sys-
n...H H.r.r E.F ~ q
ahead with the copying without looking
AZ the keys OF the typewriter. with
the allowance for time taken Up ia
keeping her eyes hrsJ on the copy and
then ou the keys, her record Is there
fore even greater than the result In
dicates.
Miss Cameron uses three fingers on
her right hand and two on her LETT She
never brings her thumbs into Fequisitions
but spaces Wlth the same fingers she
uses ON the keys.
Although she has been typewritiug for
several years. Miss Cameron has been
content WITH the ability 10 do her work
and has ues er gone into the really tech
meal side or the operation. Her tagnll-
laFiJV with the keyboard Is accordingly
greater than the anatomical kuOWledg
OF Just what muscles come most into
play while she is spinning on her thou
sands OF words.
I'm using so few fingers Miss Cameron
is following what she believes 10 be the
principles Of an rapid typewriter, who
she declares. 90 not use every finger.
desplt. the fact that a. is much more
graceful
MISS Cameron I= one OF "a group OF
nlgH-sDeed JypeWTiteTs i'm the Patent
Once Her speed. ike that Of the OIher
clerks 81 the result OF "A principle which
holds az the Office that 30 many words
must be % days minimum work. With
out au ide- OF competition among the
clerks eacD increased gradually her ay-
eEagv speed until some time ago when
Miss Mary j.. Pretty. OF Philadelphia, @
clerk go the office. wrote -. 90 words lI4
nag.
About the middle OF September Miss
Cameron was given long record 10
copy and wrote Just ]. coo words more
than lllss brettss record showed. A
pleasing incident which Miss Cameron
apparently appreciates highly Is the fact
that Miss Pretty was the first 90 con-
Efalulaie Ile new recOrd-beateT wheI