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Edgecomb.. 11 OFFICIAL REPORTER DISTRICT COURT 412 Court House, Denver, Colorado In National Shorthand Reporters' Association Article III of Section 2, Qualifications for Membership, as amended at the New York meeting, now reads as follows: "The following classes of persons shall be eligible for membership in the Association: First: Any person who is an official court or legislative reporter; Second: Any person who is and has been engaged in the active prac- tice of law reporting (other than law amanuensis) or general reporting, for a period of not less than one year prior to making application for Third: Any person who shall demonstrate to a Committee of one or more members of the Association, to be appointed by the President (a) That he is of good moral character; (b) That he possesses a high school education, or its equivalent. (c) That he can write in shorthand general matter of not less than one hundred and fifty words per minute for five minutes, and transcribe VAUDEVILLE TYPIST WITH STAGE ASPIRATIONS JUNE GRADUATE WITH A WORLD TO CONQUER REGULATION OUT OF A JOB ་ THE National Shorthand Reporter Official Organ National Shorthand Reporters' Association Office of Publication, 1358 Broadway, New York, N. Y. CHARLES H. REQUA, President... ..503 Fulton Street, Brocklyn, N. Y GEORGE A. MCBRIDE, Treasurer. CHARLES E. WELLER, Secretary.. .....City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. .Masonic Temple, La Porte, Ind. HORACE A. EDGECOMB, Chairman Legislative Committee....Barristers Hall, Boston, Mass. Subscription price, $1.00 per year. All subscriptions should be sent to the Secretary of the Association, Charles E. Weller, Masonic Temple, La Porte, Ind. Entered at New York, N. Y., Post Office as second-class matter January, 1913, under Act of March 3, 1879. to have dropped off the earth without troubling themselves about notifying the secretary of their future whereabouts, so far as can be ascertained a large majority are still on the list of delinquents who are in perfectly good health, engaged in the daily avocation of pushing their pens and pencils and gathering in the regulation stipend for their per diem and transcripts. In the meantime both the secretary and treasurer of the N. S. R. A. are compelled to go down in their jeans and dig up the necessary funds to meet the legitimate current expenses of the Association. To all who have failed to pay their dues for 1914 let it be distinctly understood that this is positively the last call, and don't you forget it, for something is going to drop. This is not the "House that Jack Built"; in fact. we don't know who did build it, but it's a good house, to judge by the picture-it's the place from which Secretary Weller sends out his due bills. The puzzle is to find which window he is looking out of. William Le Queux dictates the seventeenth chapter of his novel, "Loony With Love," to a new shorthand writer, and this is the result: "Sylvia rushed into the arms of Armand, A-r-m-a-n-d, comma, the wild cry of a primitive woman issuing from her warm, comma, red lips, period. "New paragraph. Clinging to his stout, comma, manly shoulder dash-in an ecstasy of relief dash-she sobbed out her pitiful story period. New sentence, quotes, 'Ar mand!' exclamation point! she cried in a convulsive sob, comma, quotes again, 'I ruined three men and a roué with an acute accent over the é. In giving one of them his congé, always underline foreign words, Miss Smithers, so the typesetter will put them in italics, I spoke to him of you and all that you had meant to me, period. He said you were a capital H, and G, Human Gorilla and I had best be on my guard semi-colon; but now I know the true man behind your mask, comma, Armand, and don't forget to capitalize it." "London Opinion. To the Editor: In the December number of the NATIONAL SHORTHAND REPORTER, under Current Notes, California, appears the following: "A correspondent says that there are two United States official reporters in California, Charles R. Gagan, of the Northern District, and Mr. Leo Longley, of the Southern District," etc. So far as the Southern District is concerned, this is absolute misinformation. Leo Longley is not now and never has been official reporter of the United States District Court. In the reporting of criminal matters the U. S. District Attorney of this District has had the employment of shorthand reporters. Mr. Longley for many years controlled the criminal work of the Federal Court by virtue of his acquaintance with the District Attorney and by virtue of his high standing as a reporter; and in the same way controlled the greater part of the civil business of that court. Since the change of administration, John P. Doyle has done practically all the reporting of criminal cases in the U. S. District Court. MONROE H. CONLEE. APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP C. M. Prewitt, Cherokee, Oklahoma, Official Reporter County Court, Cherokee. Endorsed by A. B. Hugos and Thomas Reed Clift. |