Show MODERN REPORTING j Twenty yeara aro the tho typewriter had bad hodnot hadnot not come Into us use uee the Uie talking machine had bad not been perfected led The legislature ler lature or court reporter teporter fo orter Of ot those days day after atter t tek k kI I log Ing UK Ills hie hi notes holes dictated to 10 stenographic amanuenses who wrote out their copy cO In longhand The senate and house of ot representative tines live official stenographer had several as assistant I tant stenographers between whom ho divided the dictation Uan of ot iii hi turns turn taken upon the tho floor of at Congress Even with a II number lumber of at assistants assistant a It II wa wun was a hard bard grind grindall all day dllY and nn I often far Into the th night to torel get rel the copy COP to the tho government printing ollice In time lane for tor tho the Congressional Rec Itea Record ord printed In the tho morning The Tho older reporters on the present pre ent floor can call recall many occasions In the days gone one by where when the lh rays of the tho rising Asia sun un have shone on the white dome domo of thu big building on Oil the tho hill hili and lit III up the silent event Beata at of tho ilia public lawmakers lawmaker be fore lore they had haJ sent their last lut copy to II the printer fore and gone lalle for tor the day be fore to 10 le lie accurate The Invention of the Ih typewriter and talking machine inns has ha changed this condi condl lion tion of ot What Whal U III tha the method of retorting reporting a II debate In Congress today In Jn Inthe the Iho house of 01 representatives the live tle Dill cial stenographer divide the note lIole taking between t them each recording at ono one Urn time lint will make u a column In 10 the donal When a 11 man lion has hM taken his hla turn he lie descends to the UIO basement of at the building and talks talka the t e turn into lilt a machine If It the speech reech pl ch Is I well veil ell and re requires reo e quires little or no editing It Is I often of Ie II tile dic dictated tilled In k lest s time than was consumed con umed In he delivering It The stenographer then thenea troiA v ea up to lathe the floor to bo be ready when It Its II is s up to tb him again Another machine talks the turn t urn which has been dictated to the typewriter by menus means of ot the tho ordin ordill ordinary ary or ar ear tnt r through which most mOlt of us ui have havo listened lo to one IIII of lit Sousas Sousa Marche or other musical selections selection Am All soon noon al alone ai 1 one ono cylinder Is dictated It Is II transferred from the tie dictating machine to the Mists meta machine Hy lIy the time the lire stenographer rapier comes down from tram the floor door with hla his second turn ho i e the turn urn In typewriting and ready J for revision If I revision revl lulI In is required And so the wheel wheel KOCH oca round on an a n busy day la the reporter often often getting seven oven or eight turns or as M ar s many nally columns column of 01 t I 1 0 Record H cord With present re ent methods on tic the Ih hlll st day the ropy OP In Is ground out In III the tho room rooms below olow na as II fast ns as n our legislators In Inthe Inthe inthe the chamber above Ibo talk It II and In a 1 short time niter the he speaker gavel t vel falls till and thu tho house the tho last lawt palo page of ot copy Is I read over by tho the stenographer and the the t 10 Is closed for the day da something that did nor not happen until hours hour art under tinder th the old system stem even with double the present force Washington Times |