Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-17
EXECUTIVE DAY DRAWS
ANOTHER GREAT CROWD
TO BIG BUSINESS SHOW
rnd of Efficiency Exhibit,
Worth S1,OO0,000, in First
Regiment Armory, Is
Drawing Near
MODERN OFFICE HELPS

o.,,, ono more day remains in which
.gaSoinbians will have the opportunity
.aoinq ST .OOO, 900 worth of office equip
o. ss iii under one roof because the first
n,,aI philadelphia Business and Efti-
.iancv show, now being held in the list
p.oirnent Armory, Broad ana CaIowhill
Issso,s will end tomorrow night at 10
o'clock. ,,- -. ..,u,,,,, ktO ,or-
sttons and business houses are the
P..te Of the show 1t will be the sec
~ afternoon known as the Executive
I This afternoon the doors will be
.,1ssd 10 the public, so that the executives
~ have full possession and may ask any
Snsstions uninterrupted.
Although the Dlctophone has been on
~ market for a number of years and
s,shough many persons have heard of II
ssaso are thousands who have passed
,ssouob the Business Show who never
.n,ro one before. The Dictophone booth
tss heen a popular point of investigation
- the show, both for the business man
and the public in general. Visitors are
r.nch Interested, according to the sales
nnsna ger. ]. D. westervelt, when they hear
nat by the use of Dctophone. letters
can be dictated at the rate of $50 words
a minute, while under the regime of dlcta-
,,on by shorthand 1876 words is the aver.
age rate.
"a MACHINE DOES ALGEBRA.
The Hammond Typewriter Company,
rhicb has local offices at EOS South nth
street is attracting considerable attention
with its machines which write in several
languages without changing the key
hoard For instance there Is one machine
,vbich writes Yiddish, Greek and Eng
,Ish To write Yiddlsh and Greek. the
machine has to 60 from left TO right in
stead Of from right to left Then, too, the
,he machine which can be used for
algebra is causing much comment. The
Hammond people claim that they have
the only typewriter which does algebra.
The Corona typewriter, which w. L.
Pricktt, a member of the firm who is in
the booth, calls "the typewriter for per-
sonal use," is being investigated by hun
dreds of people daily The Corona is
often lovingly called 'the baby type
writer" because it is the smallest at the
biz Business Show and weighs only six
pounds 1t can be folded up and packed
in grip or a suit case. Mr. Prickitt de-
clares that it goes all over the world with
the writer's of news, because 1t is easily
carried and makes such clean copy.
The winner of the highest possible
award in the stencil machine class at the
Panama Pacific Exposition at San Fran
cisco, the Ideal Stencil Company. Belle
Vile ILL.,, has booth at the exhibit
which has attracted crowds.
some people have never even seen
stencil machine" said the representative
In charge of the booth, land they are
much Interested in 1t. The newest feature,
which has never been used before, Is the
sliding table on which we place our card
board for the stencling." The operator
says that many firms file their stencils
and use them for years.
INTEREST IN LETTER COPYING.
Crowds also visit the booth of the
Romeo Company, of New York, to see how
copies Of letters are made without water
fmade on vegetable parchment paper that
Is as thin as tissue paper and as strong
as the old-fashioned brown wrapping
paper. Copying of the typewriter letters
Is made possible through the use of the
Romeo no-water COPPER paper, which is
Kept IN air-tight waterproof, rolls.
Visitors at the Business Show are show.
Ing special interest in the +. & II. check
writer's, made by the Headrnan Manufac.
turing Company of Chicago. o. T. Weig,
the district manager for sales in this ter
ritory, calls his machine the only only"
because it is, he says, the only one which
writes duplicates, the only one which is a
sef.nker, the only visible one. and the
check on the back, so it cannot be tam
pered with. Changing the amount with
PEN using acid, or eraslng any figures on
check written with an f. & +. writer Is
Impossible, according to Mr. Weig, who
demonstrates at his booth in the Business
Show.