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Show WOOD LIKE GREELEY Stenographers Were Perplexed but He Always Came to Their Rescue Res-cue Gladly. I,eonard Wood's penmanship Is Ills wral;est point, but In thai lie has as prototypes, Horace Greeley, Napoleon nd many other Illustrious lenders of men. Give N'eweonio llnrtt, who was j his stenographer at Governor's island, writes: ; "Am what a signature It Is! I.'n- less one knows In advance what It is I supposed to represent. It miht he J looked at through a ninfcnlfyini: jrlnss without being alile to decipher it. 'Tint no matrer how puzzling his ' chirography may he to others, it Is always lar and legible to the p-n- rl. I had occasion to learn this ' Terr seen. Hi' would take typewrit- t ten pages I had turned in, revise them, and serswl Interpolations and inserts and rhanpes In the most terrifying way and then I would have to make a fresh cepy of tliis changed matter. I was working over his notes one day when he boomed : "'If you -sn't read that. Mr. Hartt, j dea't he afraid to ask me and save I time.' "Fie was nuile rijrtit about It's snv-lit snv-lit tim. It would fake a dnija heard to read a pafe of his notes, and then one couldn't he sure that even j us word was correct! "If this sounds like an exaggera tion, let toe convince you of the valid- i ity f my statement. I "During the winter of, 1UJU-I7 General Gen-eral Weod was traveling here and tkert speaking in behalf of prepnred-aesa. prepnred-aesa. It was part of Captain John-sen's John-sen's duty Captain Johnson be-tag be-tag as aide to the fieiierul to keep in (if h with his itinerary. One day the eapmin cniue into the office, and picking up the Kenural's memorandum pad, scowled in perplexity at the words scrawled across the paj;e In the general's lnimiinfile handwriting The etneral watched hiiu quletlv for a few aeonients, then said: "'What's wrong? Klre away.' "That was his usual signal that he was ready te listen to what one had le say. " "Kr excuse me, general,' said Captain Cap-tain Johnson hesltatlDgly, 'hut but I don't quite understand the memorandum. memo-randum. This reads. "Here for Itineh," while my slate says you are not In town tomorrow and T don't quite understand that is, I've made plans for lunch for tomorrow.' "'Let me aee It,' said the general. "He glanced quickly at the notation a the pad, and said disyuslodly. That doesn't aay anything about 'litre fur lunch." It reads "Leave tr Ithaca." |