Show SALT LAKE MAN FAST TYPEWRITER His Record Much Better Than Recent Aspirant Touted as Champion Worlds typewriter records are be becoming becoming becoming coming so habitual that they are hu humorous humorous humorous and expert typists merely smile at each succeeding announcement that some genius has blighted all past per performances performances and Jumped into front rank Last night the Associated Press Frees flashed hed across the wires the startling news that H O 0 Blaisdell of ot New York had hl d writ written written written ten 1606 1506 words from copy he had not seen before belore In fifteen minutes This is a little better than words per pr minute Th The dispatch adds that the previous high record was 95 words a minute years ago F E McGurrin rin now president pre of the Salt Lake Se Security Security Security and Tru Truet t company wrote note on an average of at 98 99 94 words a minute for from to fifty minutes it was so long ago one hardly remembers rem mb rs trivial details He did this on a wager at Cin Cincinnati Cincinnati Cm The same year at Chicago in the presence of one thousand persons persona he wrote words In a minute and he was blindfolded He really re llly wrote 1 words but one of ot them was misspelled Either of ot these records is better than that made by Blaisdell yesterday at St Joseph Mo Io Charles H McGurrin a brother of F FE FE FE E McGurrin is the acknowledged champion of ot the world His home is in Kalamazoo Mich Six years ago he went to London and in competition he Le p wrote words a minute for twenty minutes from copy COP he had hd d not seen Cen bf br b fore tore and there a flaw In th copying cop either The feat teat performed by F E Eo McGurrin rin years e rs ago will doubtless stand unchallenged through all aU time The typewriter in those tho e days was not the perfect machine that it is today toda and when it is considered that near nearl nearly I v words were ground out every min minute mm ute for over an hour the mark m rk made by the New Yorker York r m ill li Missouri yesterday resembles the puny ramblings of a cherrys der In comparison ison leon |