Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — Typewriting Record Lowered. [ARTICLE]

Typewriting Record Lowered.

Miss Rose L. Fritz of Brooklyn, N. Y., whw last year won the rtfttF of typewriter champion by deeating Mae Carrington of Chicago, defeated the four male contestants at the Madison Square .Garden business show by writing 5,019 words in an hour, with only 81 errors. Allowing for the five words deducted as a penalty for each error, her nverage was 87 words a minute. Miss Frit* wins the SI,OOO cup offered by the trade. On an average 102 immigrants from Russia land in New York each day.