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THE PHONOGRAM. * iu tubes all connect 'into the little telephone cabinet, which shows on the left-hand side of the cut. The 'Trimscribers write on an average seventy-five .etters per day (some of them oeing medical examina- tions, and quite lengthy), the mail at this institution being very heavy, and averag- ing two thousand letters per day. In some of the offices combi nation machines*. our business, and we would not part with it even though the expense of transcrip- tion from phonographs were as great as it is by stenographers. There- is an addi- tional advantage to phonography in that you can extend the number of your photog- raphers- without, any trouble. A new stenographer must hike a considerable t : me before he can become accustomed to Transcribing Rooms, World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. have been placed, so that in the evening, when the steam power is not in operation, the machines are driven by storage batter- ies. In fact, tiie officers of the institution are so well pleased with the phonographs that the following quotation is taken from one of their letters recently received, (the annual saving over previous methods being $ 2 , 133 . 40 ): “ The phonograph has proven a gem in the special phrasing and peculiarities of speech of his employer ; but with the phonograph we 4nd that the time re- quired is very much less. That is, wc can break in a new photographer much quicker than we can a new stenographer and at far less expense. Therefore, as vou see. the eves of the world continue to be further opened to the value of the new machine.”