The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-12

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sien ea:she.. Hi6Ees Model 10 Rs,
ington- '
"A demonscuion con =the-.eyps-
vriHx3, oV{kRiSnew In thaf." I
vooders. '..TA&seores-of such
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minatesSppyinE 11rmlnanuscrps:0
ooune, fExss.t!eIy fist opeanus
dat. E.1sff2Wd AZ Remiur,os
hum: !,BasssAas6titr. Lthousts
The ysods EytiLofsfast snd-cc
ecr..s SSekstsat1a"
PEss2Ags- tool
me- up IN thlrEnd6csf me to ths
young pminn.c 2a1owkdrd my
salutsticn Sus,086dlEknsHisw atins
= Due corHsnird :;
eked Aimss.fen9ues6ons,sbo
himx1f md 90 sSfE ELL answered
them, sin rfidaxo'''
Then,i. dzwnedupon=me-thae hers
indeedcwas, somefHinEs1utofthe;ord
nary.
AL the while that this young mas
was talking tcms6e neveroeased d
copy 'fIcnns@ manuscript. He-wa,
doing Witt pSebdpefsts have grave
" told ias'fs-imposste 'Heswas per
forming isySo r5Sfs,alf mental opera
lions at ole aadyShfss9nrei fine.
" arS !hs rapS.tU. -
But this was 'nntsauE Il swas;ont
the tegihainE;Ss
".pp YOU sspeak: Geman?". asked
our h IS.
l confesed .myyignorance ofsths
l.ngusa2p.- r2German happenes
to be pSs.snss and he took up til.
conversston. H~esopefztor answered
m-aGsrmaSAHeh still.con
tinued TO gItrntSEGgiish
Then q man was found In thu
audience who.spokea French, and th,
same test wa, Tepeacedsin that Ian
guage, for the operator was not onl,
q proficient Npkt but also an. accom-
plEhed- lingusg
There wzsrno stumping thar oper
ator in his remarkable FEAT of tws
simultaneous -mentaf operations. H,
could converse EucntlyA In French OF
German; while at the same time copy
ing from English manuscript, and b,
showed us later that he could just a,
easily reverse die process. Ir.was al
new-to me and 'toi everyone present
IS new as-it-w was extraordinary.
But of what practical use i, ;t?'
! thought ON my way-home-
Then my mind began to stray baei
over the -ezrker days of the writins
machine: 'Iremembered' another mar
vel of2o years ago, when Frank Nc
Gurrin, the pioneer touch" oper
ator. the FIRST typist who ever operates
the machine without looking at tn
keys; was giving his exhibitions on tn
Remington Typewriter in all tn
cities Of North America
remembered how they called Me
Gurrin a freak, a sort of magician
who did what no other operator ooul'
ever do. Today the whole bushes
world knows that all the best opeI
ators are touch" operators.
The wonder of yesterday is Away
the commonplace Of to-day.
IL is not the two in one
stunts thar this young man docs tina
matter in themselves. 1t is the fac
hat be stable TO do them, for thi
fact proves what perfect mechanics
proficiency an operator may altar
with practice
Tbelesson this lates. marvel teachs
is thar the typist becomes prohoen
by becoming mechanical humz
atomaton. And only whrn typin
becomes a, mechanical and uncor
scious a. waking. is the ypist trai
a master Of his craft.
Twenty years ago the Remingto
Typewriter Company brought %
Frank MoCurnn z an example to al
operators of-his dsy. Nov they has
brought out this ne~ marvel ~ \
example, 20 the Oprrstors Of the pre-
ent Thus the Remington Twp
wrfcr fulhls its role a. the pcperu
pionc,r. not only IN ne devrlopm~r
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