composed under all circumstances. Many hotels charge rental for the use of their space; others give space in consideration of the stenographer doing the letter writing of the hotel free of charge. Nearly all the large buildings in the cities grant privileges to one stenographer to take in work for that building alone. Some have to pay for this right in addition to the rent of an office. In other buildings the right is included in the rental, with the understanding that no other typewriter operator shall be permitted to solicit work from the tenants of the building.
The easy terms on which typewriting machines may be obtained and the desirability of having a stenographer at hand whenever wanted, have placed machines and operators in almost every office, and consequently very little work is sent out to be copied.
The public stenographer should own a machine, with wide carriage and tabulator, also a mimeograph and a hektograph. The main point to be observed in public typewriting is good work at all times, no mistakes, and rapid execution.
TECHNICAL REPORTING.
Each particular business or profession calls for its special nomenclature, and the stenographer taking up a new line of dictation will find that he will have dictated to him words which he never heard before,
