stenographer must ask for the question or answer to be repeated, as it is most essential that a proper record of the proceedings be made. Some reporters distinguish between the question and answer by drawing a horizontal dash from right to left. Others prefer to write the question at a special place on the page on one line, the answer indented still more on the next line, and objections or remarks of the court still further indented. The note-books should be numbered and dated, and carefully preserved.
It will be readily gleaned from these remarks that the qualifying for the position of court reporter entails a considerable amount of study and training, and a few years' experience in a busy lawyer's office will be an invaluable aid. Mr. W. H. Thorne, lawyer and court reporter of Johnstown, N. Y., began work in a law office and subsequently studied law. Col. E. B. Dickenson, official reporter, Surrogate's Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., read law for five years before he was appointed official reporter. Mr. Philander Deming, official reporter of the Supreme Court, New York, Albany Circuit, graduated from a law school. Mr. C. C. Marble, of Chicago, studied law and was admitted to the bar before he learned shorthand. Mr. Frederic Irland, Official Reporter U. S. House of Representatives, was stenographer to the attorney for a railroad company before he took up stenography in the courts.
