The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-04-17

In the srrIng u 1890 the first add
ms machine that WAS really a success
was rus on The marked IN 81 Louis.
The inventor, William Seward Bur
roushs. = bank clerk. who had lost
MS health iuEelinr figures in a hank.
left hia position determined 10 pro-
dute q machine that would lit some
u the burdens from the houkkaapar
The Burroughs OF today II tha de.
~relppmtnt ~ his machine.
a would BE- difficult 10 state with
certainty shat was the earliest use
% shorthand. Some authorities state
that xenophon wrote el-enoornphic
notft % the lectures of Socrates r.
the nfth cpnfnn Of H. C.. but u a.
AZ leaAt established that the learned
slave Marcus Tnlllus Trio. freed b
Cicero ana made his secretary, de-
Velopfd a system which SOON came
into widespread Use. Those who
practiced The system known a. No
tarli-whence our Uorda notary
Through them We have ntany ralu.
abit records Of early ~dlac0nraoa and
traces o. their use linrer In manu-
scripts a. late as h eleventh rem
fury.
huny Rene found much use for ma
atenographers. Attlcus. y famous
Roman book lover. trained a great
force Of slaves In the art for the sol
purpose Of tranacrlbine. and thus
this ingenious ancient became a reaf
publisher ages before the days OF
printing. Five manuscript readers IN
different apartments were allotted to
each hundred ntenoFrapherf. and
these latter took down simultaneously
The spoken words. ny this means. Il
s. sald, I y hundred copies OF a work
equai In ltnNth 10 Enoch Arden and
10 accompanying poems could be
produced In ~ hours Aud the daily
cost TO The thfifty Afticus was but
one pound Of grain and a small al
'owance OF vino per Have.
Even kome's greatest men did not
scorn 70. master Tro's notes.
Pope Clement Gee A.. d divided
Rome into seven districts WIKI a
ftenoerapher Tor each. Il Is recorded
that eight Official s~tenogrnnhers we're
present at the Grand Council OF
cafthaRe IN stt a. u.
One OF the first published systems
OF si~enography IN English was that
which came IN 1853 nom the pen OF
Or. Timothy Bright.
The art OF that time developed one
rather curious use. IA was a period
OF religious persecution In which the
possession OF certain writings might
prove embarrassing " not dangerous.
Consequently clcrEymen and others
found IN this secret method. security
from prying eyes. II may have been
some such motive - this which led
/ Roger Williams. the founder OF the
Rhode Island settlement, TO acquire
stenography. That he was one OF the
first TO make use 81 Il upon THU side
OF the Atlantic II Indicated By hts
ahnoiatlons ln shorthand rpon a Bi-
bic stIl In existence. John Winthrop,
son Of the famous governor Of he
Massachusetts Bay coiony. was also
an adept. az was Aartha. his wife.
Stenographic systems followed
zach. other In numbers. as this or
that inventor felt that he bad hit
upon a valuable idea. Most OF them
were Ahort-lived, but some like those,
Of Byron. TAYLOR Quincy aud Lloyd
Obtained considerable acceptance. The
Inst named owed is origin % Thomas
Lloyd. tho first reporter OF congress,
while Curney's system was used for
generations In the English parliament.
Charles Dickens. the novelist. em-
ployed IL IN hia early days when re-
porting the house OF commons Tor
the True sun" and the Morning
Z Chronicle."
Ultimately. however. the mUdern
principle OF photography came IN
TO possession OF the field. The Hys-
lem. evolved through the iabors OF
Isaac Pltman aud others. used char
nctere 20 represent the spoken sound
o. words Instead Of their apelilngs
and was such an obvious improve
ment h a IN iis various forms q has
become practically universal Isaac
Pitman was knightcd by Queen Vic
ioria in recognition Of his great
work.
Then h unexpected happened and