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| TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919 tunes Left by Will 1 #8 ‘ortunes _ \To Domestic Servants EGACIES OF FROM $5,000 TO $50,000 | HAVE REWARDED LONG LOYAL SERVICE And Why Not? B Men Often Will Money to Employees—the “ Servant in the Home, Whose Loyalty Is Proved _ by Length of Service, Is an Essential Member of the Family; Her Work Dignified by the Very " Intimacyof Her Relations and by Her Regard for | the Family Welfare—it Is Time This Service Was Recognized—and Rewarded. . By Marguerite Mooers, Marshall VONTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS has just been left by will to "} two domestic servants near New York. t One lucky beneficiary is Bessie Stern of South Orange, N. J., who, has received $50,000 from her employer, Joseph Samuel, “for faithful and devoted service to my beloved wife’ ¢ and myself.” On the same day it was announced that, after thirty-five years of faithful work in the family of Oliver B. Wood of Camden, N. J., Annie Blackton, @ colored servant, has heen rewarded by a legacy of $25,000 from her. em- ployer, also a comfortable home for life and a half interest in Mr. Wood's automobile and garage. We hear much about the disadvantages of domestic . ~. service, but evidently it has its big prizes. Ir similar sams are in the habit of being willed by employers to stenographers } women clerks or factéry workers—to name three groups of employed who consider themselves vastly superior to the servant in the I have yet to hear of such generosity, + ‘Yet it is not at al) unubual for « employee to receive gener- vf mer In the Metropolitan Last—Few Have Had Op “ ee, ugh Miss Eleanor Hendricks of New Biggest Year for American Stars ' TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919 7 And Earn INSURE ACCURACY, Stich, wobid’s champion high speed authority on the subject, “Taking th EXHI A exhibit, ‘The best scheme is to mark all di B. ant BB,” &o, The first plaintiff's exhfbit should be marked P. E. 1, the second P, E and so on. Exhibits are first offered for iden- tification and later, when they are made part ‘of the case, they are. of- fered in evidence. When offered for identification, gwrite the capital let- ter I" after your initials, When Jater offered in evidence cross out the “I” and put a capital “EY” next to it. Thus the second defendant's exhibit offered for identification in a case would finally bear this mark: D, E. B. (reporter's initials) L E. Note the “I” crossed out). FIGURES. How to write figures when they Be a Better Stenographer — HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR SHORTHAND, Tenth of a serics of twelve articles written especially for stenop rapher readers of The Evening World by Court Reporter Herman 4 By Herman J. Stich ‘Coprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Tork Rrening World), N exhibit is part of the evidence in a case. illegally carrying @ revolver, the revolver would be @ necessary Where a copyright law has been infringed a book or magazine article would be an exhibit. ‘ ‘There are, of course, defendants’ exhibits and platintiffs’ exhibits Each exhibit must be marked and initialled by the court reporter, all plaintiffs’ exhibits numerically. For instance, the first defendants hibit would be marked “Defendant's Exhibit A” (“D. E. A.”), second, If more than twenty-six exbibits a art the twenty#eventh thus: “ [hesitate to edit, unless specifically “@uis provision from the man or woman ih whose house she has worked. And " Mot solve the servant problem “By putting the servant in your will? York left to a domestic servant, Annie Duff, the interest from a trust fund of $10,000, By the will of Carl Strakosch, hus- You have a “domestic treasure,” thy not leave her a certain propor- band of t&e late Clare Louise Kellogg, | the prima donna, the sum of $20,000 was willed to Celia Goranson of New York, a maid in the Strakosch home for more than fifteen years. Charles ‘W. Lynde of Islip, L. L, left an in come of $20 a week to his wife and a lke income to his housekeeper. Franklin Adams of Bucyrus, 0., who ‘was a well-known lawyer, left to his fifty-year-old housekeeper, Lizaie Ox: termier, who had been in his employ thirty years, almost his entire estate = |of $100,000. J Onty last April a similar eum was One of |bequeathed to “a faithful friend and employee,” Dora M. Kohl, by Miss will of |Anna K. Ba > whose home was at! lived. |No, 60 Riverside Drive, By the will,| Avenue, Brooklyn, |as filed in the Surrogate's Office, the! trust servant was to Feceive $25,000 in cash, who thirty shares of Western Union Tele- h stock, a cottage and other real Oak Btuffs, Mass., and one- the residuary estate: Also, | died, she was to be buried de her mistress in the family plot at G . fiometimes the domestic servant at ith of she employers tn her will, _ For example, almost the whole of the $15,000 estate of Anne Grey, an old servant in the family of the Rev. ' i) P hes opened it# doors to the American singer. ‘Ten American singers h@e gained acces® to the Metropolitan Opera OY, Italian men’and women, French, German and Scandinavian have been able to make of the Metropolitan their home, but Americans khocked in vain—until to-day, Continental training and experience are no more A T last the Metropolitan Opera <i , kIT pany. Scotti engaged her tq eing in his company as leading contralto. The contract with the Metropolitan was already in the making. Evelyn Scotney comes to the Metre- |politan Opera already @ great singer. Unlike the other American singers en- gaged for the coming seaso! left the bottom rungs of thé ladder far below. Miss Scotney has never before sung in New York. ‘This woman comes from Australia, JEANNE GORDON : T occur in reporting work has puzzled Many reporters. ‘The best method seems to be to write the Arabic nu- merals for numbers like 112, 9/142, Bigger Pay INCREASE EFFICIENCY shorthand writer and international e Hurdles” Bits. It a man is arrested for jefendants’ exhibits alphabetically and 'D, BE. offered by the def 1D. E. AA,” the twenty-eighth * speakers. Editing is frequently nec- essary, and if you are qualified do not” requested not to do #0. However, never edit the testimony of a witness in court. Editing a wit- ness's testimony, will often destroy the whole impression which his lan- guage and grammar are intended to convey. GETTING A DICTATOR. With the large number of school urching anxious to earn a few cents, you ought to @ no difficulty in procuring a willing dictator who, it paid by the hour, will camp with you, If a schoolboy is not available get. a brother, a sister or anybody, An ad- vertisement in the paper will fre- quently get you in touch with people’ but when she married Howard White, the béloved American baritone, she took America to herself and gave her- self to America. compan-| Thornton M. Niven of Dobbs Ferry, Nevins | was left to the members of her om- ployer’s family, much of it going to his children. Another faithful old servant, for twenty. years in the family of Mr. and Mrs, William Hasard, of Cedarhurst, L. 1, remembered “the children” in her will. She was Margaret @weeney. and out of her $5,000 estate she made bequests of $100 each to the five the sine qua non of the coveted Met- ropolitan contract, and now the American singer with the exceptional voice can find a training school in the biggest musical institution in the ‘world, ‘Much speculative interest attends the engagement of the ten American singers for the coming season, Who are they? Where do they come from? Are they young? Are they beautiful? Anna Fitziu, brought her to New York to live, She entered, the Conservatory of Music and studied and earned more as she went along, singing at all kinds of affairs, earning her wusical education by the sweat of her own brow. There was a period of con- has still to ae America, As @ child she was taken away to Prague, now she has come back to Am»rica to make her debut im the Metropoli- tan Opera Company. An American lady passing through ‘H. Ellingwood, who’ died at ; 144 W 7 * Prague perhaps a dozen years ago Noj 144 Went 1éth Street, |Ctldren who had grown up ia the| It's @ pocketful of mystery, Here 18) contrated study, Miss Kellogg came | PASM ‘ + “To the|hume where she had been employed. | the list: to New York, she studied some more, heard tell of the nine-year-old child “Paitntul maid that ever graced| Alice Quinn bequeathed her estate| Orville Harrold, tenor, Wad now eke in ready to'take up per | W700. 004 @ velco like'a Din. Ghe > ‘earth I leave $1,000.” The maid’s |“ $25,000 to the family of J, Newbola| dna Kellogg, soprano;, born. in| duties with the Metropolitan Opera, | found her one morning, hilarious, L> in Virginia, also of Chicago; attached singing joyfully, entertaining @ score She took the child to jar of New York, for whom she % was Gertrude A. Dubois, and many years in his employ. Adelina Vosari is really Adele Voss, to New York. twenty-four years of, come out of of travellers. worked twenty-five years, om bulk of the éstate of Miss| And Mary Honeyford who worked Adelina Vosari, soprano; a West-| the West, virile, open-hearted, smiling, the conservatory, the masters ale 4 H. Van. Week of Hempstead, |for thirty-two years, until her death, {¢rner, now acclimated to the East. determined to fulfil the dream that tened, and the little girl was ad- L. went io her maid, Maggie |! the family of Mrs, Emma 8 Spear) Jeanne Gordon, contralto, of Can-|pegan to bud in her heart when she | mitted, ada, Detroit and Now York. Evelyn Scotney, soprano, of every where, Ellen Dalossy, soprano, of America Bohemia and Italy. Gladys Axman, soprano; lived studied and married in New York, Margaret Farnam, soprano; alway® of New York City, Frances Ingram, contralto; of un- known residence, Carolina Laszari, contralto; whereabouts unknown, Each woman Is beautiful and num- bers her years in the early twenties, Not temperamental branettes, not vio= | mambor of the Canadian House of lent blondes, not steeped in the for-! Parliament for eighteen years, and it eign passionateness of feeling, they| was his beautiful and talented young are like all other sweet, simple, young! daughter who helped him fight his American girls, with a charm lasting | political battles, and with a deep hold—and with] It is thanks to a man from Detroit and kindling wood are plac voices, Few have had operatic expe-| that Miss Gordon becomes one of Jy he Reed wo . |riexice, concert aaearlenye of many | those to grace the roll of great Ameri- is and cinders are|of them is not bi nor varied, and| can singers. He married her, he took oe pa oot ete Reged it is in Amefica that all but one of | her to his Detroit home, and made gf ed. After the top layer begine to |the singers have recelved their train-| her an American wifo, an Ameriean burn properly, the fire will spread | ing. woman, slowly downward, if the air draft is| red dress, % earned at a funera,| War was declared, Miss Gordon's right. This method secures the most) iq @ kindly uncle were the forces) husband went across as a naval of- that led Edna Kellogs to the operatic | ficer, She was suddenly left alone. ‘With ber bag and baggage she made her way to New York, There was a brief interim. of treining and Then the chance came! A sister who had been to America and re- turned wanted to take her back to America, and Ellen Dalossy set sail for America, for New York. ‘The young American-Bohemian- Italian girl studied here for less than two years. She had-an audition at the Metropolitan Opera, she fainted from excitement, she was engaged. Gladys Axman never dreamed of fame; #he didn't pore over “Lives of Great Singers e never was burning up with a desire to be a great singer. “I was born in Boston and then I moved away as fast as possible,” tells uals Axman, “I travelled and studied all over the world, and in the course of a young girl's life I found myself in love with a New York newspaper man, Not long after I married him.” Homekeeping turned out to be but an avocation, so Mies Axman seught a vocation. True to her word, Miss Axman stepped on the concert plat- form. She sang a great deal through New York, bringing to herself much praise. From concert-stage to opera was @ stride easily taken, and for the past two years Miss Axman has sung leading roles with the Ajorn Opera Company. The engagement with the Metropolitam came e@uddenty, Misha rv SNES ot New York, left to Mrs. Spear and her daughter Helen her | savings, amounting to $11,600, There are. servants, you see, who are indeed “Just like one of ‘the fam- lly." Why not make yours under- stand that if whe proves that sort she will be rewarded “like one of the family” apd made free from want. during ber later years? And before the job-seeking young woman com- pletely boycotts housework, let her stop and think of the really magnifi. cont rewards it may hold for her! who had worked for her five years. Of $50,000 in per- ponal sroer'y the income of $43,000 ‘Miss Peters for life and she 2 outright the home where ¥en Wyck Jived, besides all her J, sliverware, furniture, horses was a sixth-grader. Miss Vosari popped into the Metro- politan Opera Company unknown, unheralded, She has not studied in European music centres and she has never before sung in opora, She has concertized successfully and exten- sively in the West, and last Novem- ber she came to New York, studied hard for opera for six months, and immediately after her first audition Mr, Gatti offered her an ongagement. Politics flavored with music was what Miss Jeanne Gordon thrived on in her girlhood days. Her father was a ve ‘eerriages, Minnie F. Smith, “a faithful servant maid,” received the income from from the will of Mrs. Ellen Bentley, filed in the Surro- Court of New York. also # Tn ABLE HOLE RIM FOR > GOLF COURSES, PRESSED-STELL bole rim for Golf courses is so designed that * it keeps the balls from falling that may accumulate at the and can be readily adjusted i the desired hajght by turning a re- movable key, furnished with the out- Popular Mechanics, Within which forms the rim proper, cylinder, with threaded which fits into a hole in the ‘of the cup and into the upper nk ball falls, The LIGHTING A FIRE AT THE TOP SAVES FUEL, UTHOUGH a coal fire always burns better, especially at the start, when lighted from the bottom, It has been found to be much more economical of coal if the paper Es. OF 4 Geen Sera, Ellen Dalossy is an American who | ty twelve years old her mother and § father took her to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time. She heard) “Faust,” and then and there she made up her mind to become an opera singer. Like all other American girls with operatic ambitions, she made her way to Paris to study, War breke out and Miss Farnam was but one of those disappointed thousands turned away trom the city of promise. She came back to New York, bron hearted; she thought there had come an end to her career, ‘Then she began to sing for the sol- diers, Through all the camps of New York agd Washington and the South she made.her way, singing the songs of home that the boys loved best. Stilled ambition woke again when wartime ended. Miss Farnam studied some mere, she knocked at the door of the Metropolitan Opera House and it_was open sesame. None of these singers was found at home in a garret; none was dressed in poverty. They fought their way, it _gtory-book difficulties were not encountered. Help and money and enoor nt were plentiful—if not all three to cach, then there was the combination of two. Every one of these singers has accomplished much and every one is determined to at~ tain the pinnacle of fame. book provides you signs for writing 6,000,000, &c. who,will be glad to exchange dicta- — tion with you. The public and vate evening schools may help up to around 120 words @ After that speed the College City of New York is about 2,436,541, &c. Your shorthand text- numbers like 500, 3,000, 500,000, PUNCTUATION. Punctuate as you report. Indicate the period at the end of every sen- tence or every question, When the sense of the sentence is broken al- ways insert the shorthand dash. Where there is a distinct questio other than in testimony, piace @ very large cross at the end of the” sen- ence. MNITIALS OR LETTER Very frequently in reporting you will get combinations of words like “It is as easy ay A. B.C.” “His name is R. K. L. Jones.” Use the small letters in such cases and mere- ly join them, REPEATED QUESTIONS OR AN- SWERS. An expedient frequently resorted to by shorthand reporters is the use of parallel lines about an inch in length and about an eighth of an inch apart, which are used to represent the im- mediaté repetition of any combina- tion of words, $ lined for AUTO-DICTATION and upon your daily dictation. GENERAL REPORTING. When you can write about one han- * dred and fifty words a minute attend lectures, sermons, debates, oratory - contests and any gathering where you will get a chance to obtain practies, But don’t try it until you can writes good hundred and fifty on straight peeng Speakers will very often go above that rate, If you will be able Age Sy ores |can handle a good hundred and aitty j Words @ minute. But if you cag’t | handle that speed you derive harm, For instance, if the question aaked| "0! benefit, from your efforts, oral be, “Did you say that he would not | tice when Teotid mot rena oan come in till after 10 o'clock?” and the| WN&i I wrote in shorthand, answer is, “I said that he would not | CAused by my consistent! “4 It was | yond my speed. ly writing be. come in till after 10 o'clock,” the re- porter would write in his answer in shorthand, “I said,” and would then write the parallel lines to Indicate the exact repetition of the, remaining part of the ‘question, EDITING, In the free lance field the shorthand writer does considerable editing. It has been humorously remarkéd that a good shorthand reporter is ore who ‘They are Ame above all they are American sing: can transcribe good speeches for good The upshot was that I fast writing for six Months and’ dia only careful, neat work according to the methods outlined for AUTO-D. TATION, Once in a while/I w, take dictation at a 6) far less than what I could comfortably write. I re- ligiously read what I wrote and after oe struggle Seszeged to get out my m the vir martian. oe Segre jut it wes an unpleasant couraging experience and ine ees should not be necessary for the short. hand writer who has been forewarned, Phoney Oil and Oily Phones Not That They Bear Any Direct Relation to Each Other, but You'll Be Surprised to Read What Can Be Said About Both in the Same Breath ’ By Neal R. O'Hara ‘Caperiht, 1010, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World), ROMOTERS are finding there's money ia oil wells, even if there isn’t any oil if them. Reason promoters are rich is that some birds that can’t play a phonograph are playing the stock market. Stories of millionaires made overnight indicate ther bull movement somewhere, But the guy that trades Rus- sian bonds for oil stock San't lose, The same people that lace John D. when oil goes up are the same ones that knock Wall Street when it goes down. ‘The only gent that cleans up in oil is the guy with grease or his pands. There are more lemons in Texas than Tampa. Ol stock that’s watered is as valuable as oil that’s given tha a 4 ra get wireless ; making their millions » Salad oil, ‘The only reason why some stocks have increased in price is owing to the high cost of white paper and engraving. When you consider the segyice we stand for, you've got to con- cede that the telephone direc tory comes pretty near to being a euckers’ list. Calling a party is like sub- scribing to a Ipttery. It’s 100 to 1 you get the wrong number. The idea of the new phone rates is that you pay 25 per cent. to find out they don't answer. » And it makes no difference if * you're an orator—your speeeh is disconnected if you fail to pay the phone bill, Every phone patron. knows there's no such thing as a fair exchange. : They stick you if you do get your party, if you don't get your party, and then they slap on the Government tax. And when we phone calls, wait be charged, out of -) SS But we expect our revenge on Judgment Day. St. Peter will be picking candidates for the Promised Land, and he'll beckon the telephone operators to him, Then he'll loce the gates on ‘em and say, “I beg your par- don~-you were called by mis- take,” And all that the oper: do wil: be to “try mee ~ Stull, the phone girls aren't so bad. They'd be worth what they're paid if they’ only keep Plugging. But we're getting away oil—just like the new bse they're drilling. There are only two sure-fire systems for getting rid of your faoney, 1. Throw it down a sewer, 2. Buy some near-oi] stock, There are only two sure ways of getting money. The farmers can raise crops twice a year, And the city fellers—they cay raise the rent three times a year, ‘That's where they've got it og he —_—, aa iter, ere |