The daily sentinel., 1912-02-06
CROWDS AMAZED
BY CHAMPION
WRITER
At Private Demonstration
Office and at Public D,
tion at Business Collie
nous Typist Makes

This morning at III : lock in
The Sentinel office II. 5laisdeu,
the worlds champion ty ( tier op-
orator. gave a demonstt 3 of his
remarkable ability. the d, : -.stration
being the only private he gave
in the city. 9
Sitting at table in3 2 Sentinel
office and using his own ins,h nine. the
Underwood. Mr.. Blaisdell made clear
to The Sentinel force his complete
and wonderful mastery OF the type
writer machine.
Opening at random a copy of The
outlook, which The Sentinel furnish
ed him, Mr.. Blaisdell wrote one hunt
red and forty-siX words in one minute
making but one slight error in the
number.
He took a memoriZed sentence and
writing this sentence repeatedly he
made a total OF two hundred and
twenty-one words in a period of sixty
seconds.
This morning at 9;30 o'clock at
Hoefs Business College, in this city.
the worlds champion gave a public
demonstration of what he could do
on the Underwood machine. During
the hour and a half OF the demonstra-
tion over five hundred people visited
the Business College ana marveled at
the remarkable speed and accuracy of
this young man.
Manager Hoel, OF the college. is to
be congratulated upon securing an
engagement with Mr.. Blaisdell
Mr.. Blaisdell was accompanied to
Grand Junction by A. W. Eaton, Colo
RADIO manager for The Underwood
company, and by Mr.. Knapp. western
slope representative OF the company.
At noon Mr.. Blaisdell and Mr. Ea-
ton left for Salt Lake City and other
western points.
II. o. Blaisdel, champion typist OF
the world, attended a night school in
Chicago few years ago, taking six
months course in shorthand and the
touch typewriting, graduating at the
age of sixteen years He then secured
a position in that city as stenosraph-
er, and practised stenography four
years, resigning from his position at
that time to enter the employ of the
Underwood Typewriter Company. 10
take up speed typewriting.
Entering typewriting speed con-
tests for the first time al the Business
Show in 1906 at Chicago, Mr. Blais-
dell won first. second and third, plac-
es, respectively, in the three difefrent
events which he entered. 1t was his
good showing in these events that at
tracted general attention, and result
ed in his employment by the Under
wood company a year later as dem
onstrator of speed and accuracy in
.typewriting.
In Chicago in 1905 Mr. Blaisdell
won the American championship,
making the highest record in competi-
tion up to that date-writing IS net
words minute for thirty minutes.
Since he entered the employ of the
Underwood, he has competed each
year for the international Champion
ship, and twice wrote the greatest
number OF gross words; however, as
five words are deducted for each er-
ror, the penalty brought his net rate
below the winner.
With ambition set towards gaining
the highest place in championship re-
cords, Mr. Blaisdell, in searching fer
his own shortcomings, reached the
conclusion that accuracy was the
foundation upon which rested the
championship honors. He, therefore,
toiled INCREASINGLY to improve his
work in this combining az
curacy with speed-with the remark
able result that this year in practis-
ing for the contest, he accomplished
the extraordinary Feat OF writing one
hour, continuously, at the rate of 100
words a minute, without error of any
kind. Naturally, such a record is
considered par excellence
AS reward for the hard work and
perseverance of Mr. Blaisdell in ex-
pert typewriting. he has the distinc-
tion of being the first operator to
write one hour. at the rate of 100
gross words a minute; the first to
write one hour at 100 net words 4
minute, both in exhibition and in
lCnntin11ad ON pa % Ennr