The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07

man manages there are about 100 agents
and loads Of personal friends to whom he
might write, and which one what's name
n light he is naturally a puzzle TO the stet-
osr1 aSsI :. mi. Mo. old ma, would rom,
the end of this letter before she would have
time to ask him the name of the man to
whom he was writing he would start
another, probably giving that name cor
rectly.
stenographer asked him the name Of the
man he would say. Now, you must remem-
Der when l say anything. l have dismissed
that particular matter from my mind. 1
expect you to get 1t down on your note
book. I've forgotten all about IL now
So the s~tenographer had TO appeal to the
chief clerk, who would look at her as II he
thought she we're an IDIOT. to tell her to
whom such a letter might be written.
Sometimes the stammering and repeat
ing man has TO be dealt with. He will
say, No, don't put that last down. Take
out from there to there putting his finger
on the notebook and insisting upon having
that particular part scratched out.
What do you want taken out'' asks his
stenographer.
Right down there at the bottom OF the
page, where my finger is
And then the stenographer will be at
sea, for she knows he has NO more idea
OF the meaning of the notes under his finger
thar he has OF the inhabitants Of the o
or what is in King Edward VII g mind.
Sometimes their dictation is execrable
English, and when the stenographer under
takes to p~unctuate and revise she Ia told
never to change anything he says. Then
real trouble comes when she hands him out
a letter just as he dictated It. He declares
and swears he never used such English in
all of his life and hasn't the girl got my
sense at alp But he still insists on saying
il was a matter between MIR. Smith and L.
why, l know a man who made a girl write a
letter over because she changed 1t to o
matter between Mr.. Smith and me-
And then again there IL the man who
never knows when he's said enough until his
letter is written three or four times. First
he will dictate a long six or eight page
letter and then he will boil it down until
it gets to a page, saying in an encouraging
and remonstrative sort of tone. Well get
it right after a while making the stenog-
rapher feel as If she were to blame for all OF
this doing over
"Oh. no. | do not mea to say that the
stenographer is never to blame; neither is
she all the time at fault. There are cases Of
arrangements Of the keys. { being just below
r, il Is easy to say Deaf Sir instead Of
Dear Sir, also Dear Sis. or Dear Sit, all of
which would be rather puzzling to the man
not understanding these small things.
Another cause of trouble lie from the
fact that the girls from different States
come here to work and do not understand
the oolloquialisms of this place. nor does
the employer understand those OF the region
whence his new employee comes.
Some people now in New York say
'Iawr' for law and drawn for draw
So when a man dictates that to the stenog-
rapher who does not understand his Pc
culiarities OF speech the result is disastrous.
Other troubles arise from the fact that
people coming from certain parts OF the
country are supposed to gay 40 for floor
and dough for door, 30 complications
abound. ,