The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-26
TEACHERS GONE.
Fourth Annual Association of
Commercial Teachers Closed.
Expert Operators Entertained
on Wonderful Machines.
SPEED SHOWING MADE
H. o. Blaisdell of New York City
Gave Especial Exhibition.
Wrote 231 Short, MemOrized
Words in One Minute.
SPEED SHOWING MADE

The fourth annual meeting of the
Missouri Valley Commercial Teachers
association closed today. 1t was one
of the most successful conventions held
since the organization. Teachers ana
students from nearly every commercial
school and college in missouri ana
Kansas attended.
REPRESENTATIVES of various companies
manufacturing machines and instru-
ments for the convenience and &C
curacy of business concerns were pres
ent to demonstrate their models
Teachers used to scold the boy or
girl for counting with their fingers
while busy with a mathematical maze;
Big men and women, business men and
their EMPLOYEES, enlist the aid of their
phalanges now and along WIN Ln9
wonderful machines for tabulatlng,
billing adding and subtract1ng, more
accurate work is done and with less
effort and expense.
want to see Mr.. PLACE, if you
Tlease" was asked.
S.You see that big sign and hear that
dreadful racket down yonder at the
end of the room? You Will t1nd MN
there" answered a member of the re-
ception committee
No exhibit of typewriters and com
Duting machines shown at the conVen-
zion eouaIed that of the Underwood
Typewriter company. B. w PLACE,
manager of the Kansas City OFFICE, had
charge of the exhibit.
In their display are shown all styles
from the plain plodding typewriter to
an automatic machine which when
given the copy so to speak, a list OF au-
dresses and plenty of paper, VIII con-
finue to write letters all day long with
out attention.
When either the list of addresses or
the supply of letter paper is exhausted
the machine stops automatically.
At night, the business man may fur
nfsh the machine two or three hundred
addresses and paper enough to write
the communications, start 1t going and
in the morning return to find his let
ters all written and ready to sign, each
an actually type written letter
Wonderful machine, this Underwood
Automatic operator, and no detail has
been overlooked or sighted to make 1t
the most practical and the only one
in existence.
business men of Topeka and the
state, college professors and presidents
from two states, stood around liAt1e
machine which would tabulate hVe
rows of figures, add them sidewise or
up and down, substract the credits
from the sum total and leave the pro-
fits. This they call the Underwood
computing machine. Every operation
is simple, the movement easy and no
one ever so cunning can beat the ma
chine"
- one typewriter was shown with an
automatic carriage return. Simply
touch a button and a little motor
throws back the carriage, makes the
proper spacing and is ready for writ
ing again.
Their adding machine, combined
with the ordinary typewriter attracted
much attention. Perfect in calcula-
ton, and easily operated one operator
can do the work of two and eliminate
the old style adding machine.
-Four days ago a table of statistics
was compiled showing that in business
and commercial colleges in this sec
ton of the country 1893 are used" said
Mr.. PLACE. Seven hundred and sixteen
of that number are Underwood ma
chimes against 677 of all other kinds.
Come on over here and meet Mr..
Blaisdell, the champion typist of the
world" and Mr.. PLACE led the way
to the point where the racket was
deafening. There sat the young man
pounding away with the same rapidity
as when he won the magnificent cup.
October 81, at Madison Square Gar
den, New York. One hundred and
nine words per minute, kept it up for
an hour, made 36.826 strokes in the
time and didn't get the characters on
the machine tangled-surely a record.
This special record was made on
an Underwood, in fact" said Mr.. PLACE
''every world record now is held by
Underwood operators"
Mr.. Blaisdell gave an exhibition in
the office of the Topeka State Journal.
In one minute he typed 231 short
words of memorized reading matter
On his own machine he typed 119
words of news matter which he had
not read previously. and in still an
other one minute test typed 10 words
of like matter on machine which he
never had used before, one of the Of
flee machines. an Underwood.
The world record is held by Mr.
Blaisdell who now lives in New York
City, though he was born in Shadron
Neb. In one hour he typed 6,91E
words and made only seventy-two err
rors. In the world contests. five words
are taken off for every error which
left him net average of 100 words g
minute.
Mr.. Blaisden holds the $1,000 trophy