Show HOME I JEi t ME fro CORRESPONDENTS writing for publication are requested to write on one si side p of the paper only No notice can be taken talen ol of anonymous com com- communications communications I INo Correspondents names must In every Instance accompany their communications not necessarily Dece sar ly for tor publication but bit as a guarantee of reliability NEW SYSTEM OF Last L Last st even even- evening evening evening ing Mr M J Shelton lectured on his new system tem of in the Ward Assem Assembly bly Rooms to an audience of about persons After Atter explaining the principles and giving illustrations of the system which he has in- in invented invented In Invented vented the lecturer wrote sentences on the black board which were read by two box bOJ bo s who had been studying it for lor two days The audi audi- audience audience audience ence then requested that sentences be written in the reporting style of the new Dew system and in PItmans PItman's reporting style Bro D Evans was requested to write at the dictation of the audi audi- audience audience audience ence in Pitmans Pitman's and Bro Shel- Shel Shelton Shelton ton Shel-ton ton wrote the same in his own owr The advantage was decidedly in favor of the ratter for while it OCCUPIed about the same space and every ele ele- element element element ment was represented in the Pitman style all the abbreviations and contractions were used At the close of the lecture Bro David Evans said he had given the new system a little atten atten- attention attention attention tion and he was wag fully satisfied that a person could learn its corresponding style in a few days while Pitmans Pitman's would require months and that the characters of the former and the method of combination by it could be learned in a few hours He was not acquainted with its reporting style but he believed that with a quarter of the practice he had spent on Pit Pit- Pitman's Pitman's mans man's system he could write in Mr Sheltons Shelton's system words a minute The reporters of the NEws office have paid some attention to this Invention tion and are very favorably Impressed with It If it fulfils the expectations entertained concerning it they will m adopt It In preference to Pitmans Pitman's which they now wr write te and they heartily recommend it to the public Mr Shelton called office atom at omee this afternoon wIth a couple of pupils who have been study study- ing studying since Monday They were presented with witha a paper written In inn the first style of the new system which one of our r reporters porters had in his desk and they read it off with much fatuity facility Mr Steelton ton proposes to organize classes im- im immediately Im Immediately mediately and will communicate the principles 01 the first first corres corresponding and reporting styles on very reasonable terms He can be found at atthe atthe atthe the residence of Mr Joseph Hyde let 1st South Street Street opposite the Theatre FIRE FIKE The ENGINE The increase of and their being erected closer together m in inthis inthis this sit city make it reasonable to look for more mOJe fires Area taking taxing place and much more serious t lo loss s tha thena R i im if m means ns are not not adopted to quench them on their outbreak A fire on any part of East Bast Temple street notwithstanding the proof fire-proof structures es which structures which ha been built would lay lair th the busi busi- business business business ness portion of the city in ashes wind and weather being favorable for it as they often are A Hook and Ladder Company might do very veY well in its place but it is not enough The importance of our City and the im- im immense im immense mense amount of property thus exposed to the devouring element call for engine afire afire fully equipped and properly manned for house engine emergencies Better keep it in the engine engine- house ten years without needing it once than not have it one time when a serious fire might occur If the matt matter r is taken properly in hand now one might be got on this season powerful enough to answer all purposes required |