carriage machines for manifests, bills of lading, etc. It is important, therefore, that the stenographer should know how to use these machines. Many forms of various widths have to be filled out. The variable spacer and free roller must be used constantly, as it would be impracticable to shift the paper so frequently. Very few railroad letters are press copied, but one or more carbon copies are made of each letter and attached to the correspondence. In railway and steamship work all the papers or correspondence relating to a certain subject are kept together, and when completed are filed away in one compartment. The hektograph is largely used for multiplying copies of way bills, manifests, bills of lading, etc. For railroad and steamship work, get a thorough training in the way of carbons, wide carriage, hektograph, mimeograph and the variable spacer or free roller for filling in blanks on forms.
MANUSCRIPT COPYING.
Manuscript copying, as, in fact, all other typewriting work, generally calls for accurate and rapid operation of the typewriter. Very little shorthand is used. The copying of plays is usually done on ordinary letter-size paper, this being the size preferred by editors, and the work usually permits of good typewriting well set up. Examples of the style are given in all the typewriting instructors, and the typist intending to earn his or her living at this class
