formed as to the names of stockholders. At directors' meetings a considerable part of the report can be made up from figures and statements furnished by the officials, but where the remarks of each individual are to be furnished verbatim it will require some considerable "hustling" on the part of the reporter to get all that is said. The conversations are the most difficult to report, but even these are easier after some practice. In the majority of stockholders' and directors' meetings there arise a large number of technicalities, which should be anticipated as far as possible by reading over the previous reports, etc., if you can possibly obtain access to them, before the meeting.
POLITICAL REPORTING.
Political meetings, if the speakers are important and the newspaper is anxious to get out an immediate report, are generally reported in "takes" or "turns." A "take" may consist of from five to ten minutes reporting of the speech and then the reporter's place taken by another man, who "takes" another five or ten minutes, when he is relieved by a third man. The first man by this time has dictated his "take," or transcribed it on a machine, and is ready for another short "turn." Gradually as the speaker draws his speech to a close the length of the "take" is reduced to two or three minute turns. By the time the speaker is finished the written re-
