The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-27

fs a Especial TO The TimeH-l0lkpatch)5tiitg
81 NEW 3YORY. August 20. lecoyery3 from
the first shock given, by Pre- dent Roose-
yelts sanctioning slmplified spelling was
followed yesterday BY Il storm Of dis.
cusslon. The conservative element chnfed
and worried and the friends OF reform,
even OF the most advanced phonetic
Kind we're juhilant. From all parts Of
Tie country there came to tue !, surface i RAG
Il dlscipies OF the spell-as- you-talk cult.
some OF whom had for twenty or thirty
years been trying to spread the form
OF spelling which the Public Printer OF
The United States has by executive order,
been Instructed to employ.
g$i5 1t was round that no inconsiderabie
w number OF publishing houRcs and period
4 icnls In this city were actually spelling
s many OF the words mentioned in$s the
list or three hundred.
Especially welcome was the action o.
the President to tue Esperanto 6oclfty,
s. which Ii inattIle movement 70 piece aall
III tie tongues Of the world Il together 20
I'd common speech. The fact hat EspeF-
anto has been spelled Theoretically and
Therefore looks rather queer has 4 been
ono OF the obstacles to Its progress. ~
giving IA Wnrsa tang to English ORTIZ
grapiyr Il Is believed by the Esperantists
that 81 the dny4gof5 a8ncw world language
lis being hastcned. he societ. here 4 s
,5prepa-lng letter To- the President TO
!. convert him TO It's IDEAS IDEAS 81. a.
Newspapers Are Satirical,
Newspapers printed in foreign Ian
gmages In the city commented more or.
i less satlricaliy on the innovation. On the
first page or Il pronln ent al ternoon news
Il paper was printed a cartoon representing
&s:.Tht. Benefactors OF the Human Race.
which was made up OF the portraits ~
35S AnIrew Carnegie, y Theodore Roosevelt and
John Ritz. a kind OF Teu,onic Josh BIZ
ll:gs, who juniblcs English and $ticrnlah
without any regard for the orthograpiy
= OF either language. 8 q, s2as II
joy orerspread the offices OF the Sim
55spliticd Spelling Board in Nod Madison
Square, and typewriter and copying ma ma
chine we're working overtime In the prep
e aration OF additional material ~ defense
Of the abridged style. The secretary. u.
Scott, chuckled, and the press agent SAT
wreathed in smiles. DR.. Scott said other!
public men had taken the matter -pf 81 eii-
~ ing fs,:cpl5 under adyisement t., and that
ii would not be long before they would
follow the lead Of the President. The
headquarters Of phonetic spelling, which
Il. once had a rather sleepy look, were filled
With signs OF hopeful activity and be-
3 fore long another manifesto filed With
suggestions for "nipt Wurds' may be
Z expec ted. y "a
Test for the Government
To see whether the government Is In
earnest In regard to the simpllned method
Of spelling. twenty-eight applications for
patents have been prepared by Fred W.
I3arnaco n patent LAYER, OF NO. r $50
Nassau Street rs 3
The new method OF spelling will be
used in the applications. An application
must be absolutely correct In construc-!
lion. both legally and dramatically. or
I The patent will be held UP until correc-4
lions are made by the attorney by whom
they are sent. This often delays a
I. patent from five to thirteen months.
5"If the department in Washington Is
in earnest and Is going to adopt the new
method" said Mr., Barnaclo ut will
return my applications at once and the
patents Will be granted but. II It is not.
1t is hard to tell when they will be
\ returned.
Mr. Barnaclo said there had been %. 623
applications for patents held In the
d Patent Department. In Washington since
the first of this year on account OF mis-
spelled words or because OF errors in
the legal construction OF the applications
Henry Clews, well known banker
end a writer on financial topics, said yes
terday: ai III Sss
,'Iaam firm believer in spelling re-
H.
der the present method, unnecessary let
tiers are used In a great many OF our words.
i by eliminating those. greater. speed can
be made In writing. Under our present
system most persons spell BY sight and
no. by sound. 5li53 Or &
II believe 1t will require years to bring
about general use OF the simpllfied
IS method In spelling. It Is possible that
1t would have been better had the edu-
HI<,f5 klvat tntr
together and adopted in the school system
a slnlplified method. BY such q way the
new system would be adopted gradually.
a "But great bodies move slowly, and that
(, was the case with the educational aus
thoritIes of the United States. They We're.
X slow to act, and, mea ntine. President
Roosevelt took action. IT vas. indeed,
rather surprising step on the part OF
President Roosevelt; Teddy is one OF
those men who do SURPRISING , =! snln ,,a
by his one act In this direction ne has
accomplished great deal In reform
on which the educational authorities nave
been for years at work $ .if atI,s
vImperfect spelllngs seems 70 be on
4 the increase. The business man OF to-day
has very little occasion to do any spells
Ing His stenographer has 70 do mat
That being the case, when It Is absoTT
gglutely necessary for the average man
In business to write letter himself. the
result is that his method of spelling Is
somewhat Ike the proposed sl1lplItiedl
= III
English View Of It.
tBy Associated Press.) a,0l 5S8
sS LONDON, Aug, 27.--Among the numer-
Gus opinions canyassed by. the newspnp.-
g. hers of President Rooseyelt's order. with
regard q a reform in spelling, George
X Bernard Shaw says: B3 5if5 Tf,
''Thare has been nothing like 1t since
\ NIahomet reformed the calendar, BY maxi
months. It serves us right. The think
had to be taken IN hand somehow, and
r If we refused to attend to our own OK