By

BENN PITMAN and JEROME B. HOWARD.

Published By

The Phonographic Institute Company, Cincinnati, OH

There is no question whatever of the truth of the statement that the Benn Pitman System is more generally used than any other in this country; at least this would appear to be true, from the reports made to this Bureau of various institutions teaching shorthand. - Hon. W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education (Washington, D. C.), November ftp, 1898.

The following is a graphic summary of the Table of Statistics on the Teaching of Shorthand in the United States, in the Bureau of Education Circular of Information No. I, 1893, pages, 40 to 141: {Benn Pitman, 747 teachers, 34.7%.

Graham, 363 teachers, 16.8 %.. Munson, 228 teachers, 10.6 %. Cross, 185 teachers, 8.6 %. Isaac Pitman, 143 teachers, 6.7 %. Lindsley, 81 teachers, 3.7 %.

Pernin, 64 teachers, 2.5 %.

Scott-Browne, 52 teachers, 2.4 %. Longley, 52 teachers, 2.4 %. McKee, 36 teachers, 1.6 %.

Pitman (unspecified), 35 teachers, 1.6 %.

Moran, 30 teachers, 1.3 %.

Sloan-Duployan, 24 teachers, 1.1 %.

Besides 38 others, each being less then I %

To supply the increasing demand for stenographers, schools of shorthand and typewriting have been establisht in various parts of the country, and with few exceptions, all business colleges now have a "department of shorthand." A number of systems are taught, but that of Benn Pitman is more generally used than any other in this country and may be called the "American System." - Report of the Commissioner of Education, for 1887-88, page 927.