ence largely through the discussion by Mrs. Potter Palmer and prominent women stenographers of the subject of stenographic work among women. Mrs. S. Louise Patteson, a court reporter, of Cleveland, is also closely identified with this new Association, which is soon to be incorporated. As its name implies, the Association is national in character, the intention being to plant branch societies in all cities and large towns. Among the worthy features is the payment of sick and death benefits to members during sickness, the amount paid being proportioned to the amount of monthly dues paid by members. The principal object of the Association is mutual assistance and protection in securing and performing work, and for the moral, social and general benefit of its members. The Chicago Association will send five delegates this month to the meeting in Washington. D. C., of the National Council of Women.

MR. CHARLES THOMAS, a recent graduate of the Schenectady (N. Y.) Business College has become stenographer for the General Electric Company of that city.

ROBERT C. CHAPIN, having been chosen stenographer of the Assembly, the lower house of the Legislature of New York State, his address for this winter will be Albany, New York. H. W. THOrne.

Practice For Odd Minutes.

A SUGGESTION TO TYPEWRITER LEARNERS AND OPERATORS.

There is a bit of practice-fancy work, you might call it-which will lend itself to future use if you value nicety of workmanship. Take a fine pen and see how close an imitation you can make of the print of your machine. Various points as to the shape of letters will thus be brought to your notice. The o is not round but oblong; the loops of the b, d, etc., are not exactly half-circles, but are curved back toward the stem of the letter; the bar of the ƒ is set high, etc., etc.; almost every letter or figure has some slight distinctive peculiarity of the sort.

The purpose to be subserved relates to erasures. It is often better to insert the correct character by pen than to return the sheet to the machine even when the latter method is practicable. Any such character that has a legible outline will pass muster,

no doubt, yet, if the pen-work corresponds closely with the typewriting, the appearance of the page is much improved, and there are some documents in which this point will be regarded as of considerable consequence. Now, you will have no time, come to case in hand, to study and compare the shapes of letters, but the details of outline that have been already familiarized will be readily brought to mind and imitated.

Also, I notice that you ask, in the November number, for combination signs for the pound sterling. Now, I worked out one such, once upon a time, for the Smith machine, which seemed to be a fair imitation and which I have used on commercial work since. It is slow, and, as it depends on an underscore set high, I presume it is not applicable to other machines-certainly not to the Remington.

This is the combination-four characters: You are welcome to the idea if E. G. FOWLER.

f j you care for it.

WE earnestly urge every one to read Mr. Thorne's remarks addressed to the court reporters in this number of THE STENOGRAPHER. They are very pertinent.

STENOGRAPHERS AND TYPEWRITERS WHO DESIRE EMPLOYMENT.-Send a two cent stamp to THE STENOGRAPHER for full information of the plan by which we hope to help you, at no cost to yourselves.

THE Cleveland Shorthand College, 64 and 66 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, ranks as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the United States. Professor Alfred Day, the well-known author of Day's Graham, has been secured as principal of the institution.

MARTIN FISHER, an employee of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, in Philadelphia, is a remarkable man. The Record, of that city, says, that while he lost his right arm below the elbow, and has but the thumb and two fingers of his left hand, he is one of the most expert telegraphers and typewriters in the employ of the company. He is about thirty-five years old and has been in the telegraph business for about twenty years. He handles newspaper specials, which require accuracy and speed, and the letters on many of the keys of his typewriter have been rubbed off by the rapid manipulation of his thumb and two fingers.

Shorthand as a Stepping-stone to Higher Things.

A successful man whose course has ever been upwards, is Dana A. Rose, of New York city. Born in Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1845, and educated in Trumansburgh and Waverly, in 1863, he, like many others during those troublesome times, enlisted in the army, serving with credit until the close of the war.

After a business education in the Commercial College of Binghampton, N. Y., he

phy by mail, being the first to successfully exemplify that method.

Later on Mr. Rose was appointed stenographer to Mr. C. P. Huntington and to Mr. I. E. Gates, vice-president Southern Pacific Railroad, and in 1885 he was made private secretary to Mr. Charles Crocker, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, of California, serving in that capacity until the death of Mr. Crocker, in 1891.

He is now employed as tax attorney, by the Southern Pacific Company, and alsolooks after several large estates in the same

was employed by the Erie Railroad, as telegraph operator and ticket agent, at Adison, and while thus engaged, sowed the seeds which brought him prosperity and position later in life, by mastering the Graham system of phonography.

Beginning as instructor of phonography and telegraphy at the Phonographic Institute of Wyckoff & Rose, Ithaca, his work advanced to the larger cities and court reporting in the sixth judicial district. In 1873 he completed a system of teaching phonogra

capacity, in the city of New York, earning an income which can only be attained by advancement as a result of careful work, an opportunity for which is presented in the very best form by stenography.

During these years of toil, Mr. Rose has found time to take an active part in Grand Army matters, and his interest in the veterans has been in a measure rewarded by his appointment as aid-de camp on the staff of the commander-in-chief. He is a member of Lafayette Post, No. 140, in New York city.

Gentlemen oF THE JURY:

On the twenty-first day of September, 1894, the plaintiffs in this action were the owners of a farm situated in the town of Tully, Onondaga county, in this State; and upon which there was a dwelling house, a barn, a cheese or milk house; and upon that day the defendant, which is an Insurance Company organized under the laws of this State, and doing business in this State, in consideration of the payment to it of a premium of $23.70 issued to these plaintiffs a policy of insurance against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of $3,700.

This policy was divided in eight (8) different divisions, there being $1,000 on the dwelling house; $100 on the household furniture; $200 on the family wearing apparel and provisions therein; $100 on the milk house; $800 on the barn, and $1,200 on the produce therein, and stacks adjoining; $100 on dairy tools and dairy products in the milk house; $100 on the farming utensils, and $100 on the mower and reaper.

On the thirtieth day of November, 1894, and while this policy was alive (it having been issued for a period of three years), a fire occurred whereby the house, barn, milk house and the contents, along with the stacks and grain adjoining the barn, were totaly destroyed, excepting the mowing machines, three feather beds, and two wagons. The plaintiffs testifies that the property destroyed consisted not only of these buildings, but of all their contents, together with the stacks which I have alluded to.

BETHANY College, Twenty-second and Bainbridge Streets, Philadelphia, has provided for instruction in stenography, either in the Cross Eclectic, Wesley A. Looney, instructor; or to Isaac Pitman, conducted by Spencer R. Weston. Tuition, nominal; one dollar for three months, three sessions of two hours each, per week.

WE are under obligations to Mr. Aaron Gove, superintendent of the public schools of Denver, Colo., for a copy of the twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of Education, District No. 1, Denver, Colo.

ENCOURAGED by the success of the free classes in phonography, for New York public school teachers, now being held at the City College under the auspices of Messrs. Isaac Pitman & Sons, that firm are now arranging similar classes for the teachers in the Brooklon public schools. The same will be held at the Burrill Metropolitan School of Isaac Pitman Shorthand, 591 Lafayette Avenue (near Nostrand) Brooklyn, commencing Friday, January 25th, at 8 p. m. Teachers

in the Brooklyn schools, wishing to take advantage of this unusual appointment, should communicate immediately, personally or by letter, with Isaac Pitman & Sons, 33 Union Square, New York, giving the name of school in which they are teaching. The instruction will be entirely free.

GENTLEMEN : Replying to your favor of the 16th inst., we would say in respect to the boot and shoe industry, that comparatively few establishments are now running full time, while many are altogether stopped. The shipments from Boston last week, according to the Shoe and Leather Reporter, were only 53,253 cases, against 83,772 for the same week last year, a decrease of 36 per cent. Since the end of June, the shipments have been 516,100 cases, against 656,117 last year, a decrease of 21:3 per cent. Occasional orders are received, but it is stated that countermands fully offset them, and collections are very unsatisfactory. Yours respectfully.

DEAR SIR: Answering your favor of the 5th inst., with reference to your countermanding the twelve pairs Men's Calf Machine Sewed Bals, we would say that were they regular goods, such as we carry in stock, we would cheerfully accept your countermand, but as this is a case of special sizes that you ordered on a width and last that we do not carry regularly in stock, it will make an odd lot of goods on our hands. Under these circumstances, we hope you will not insist on our accepting the countermand.

Yours respectfully.

*From" Business Correspondence, No. 2," containing actual business letters with shorthand key. Valuable to writers of any system; 40 pages. Price 30c., postpaid. Isaac Pitman & Sons, 33 Union Square. New York.