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Show I RAPID WRITING I BY ENGLISH I EXPERT Kind A Trefzger. a figure of Inter-'national Inter-'national prominence In t h- typewrit ing world, was a visitor In Ogden yes terday Mr. Trefzger la holder of lhe English Eng-lish championship having won the trophy three successive times and also al-so won second place In the International Interna-tional typewriting contests of 1912, held at the annual business show, November 12. in New York city n b record Is llfi words a minute for one-hour one-hour copying from printed matter, and was surpassed onl b Miss Flor-ence Flor-ence K. W'llBon, who wrote 117 words Mr Trefzger'a western tour is bo ing conducted by C B. Corey Mr Corey was formerly a resident of Ogden. Og-den. having been one of the first grai nates of the Intermountain. now the Smithsonian, business college, and 'I was at that Institution thai Mr Troffc' ger gave his first exhibition of type writing skill yesterday al )i a, m The typist's work was very Interesting the teachers and students nnd his complete mastery nf the keyi was shown in everx phase Writing first from a oopy of the book, Letters of a Self-made Mr chant to His Son," he wrote 254 words In two minutes with two or rors: from dictation, blindfolded, he .wrote 124 words in one minute without with-out an error, again, from copy, he wrote 127 words, or 645 strokes. In one minute, with onp error To show how really mechanical typewriting may become he wrote 12R words In one minute with only two errors, while conversing with Prof J. A. Smith I Nearly every typist, he explained, has a pet sentence and to show some "real" speed he wrote his favorite: It is the duty of a man to do me a turn and If he ran he Is to do so," at the rnte of 2"? words, or 13 strokes a minute. The record is 10 3-4 strokes s min nte for an hour, held by Miss Wilson and when one sees the speed of the operator working for one minule -it that rate and then thinks of them keeping It up for an hour, changing paper, etc., it surely seems an im 'possible performance Mr. Trefzger gave exhibitions at ihe forest servlr-e building and at the 'Weber academy |