All of this happened more than half a century ago, and now, after all these years, "Friend Charlie" begins to figure again in this story. Throughout his long life, Mr. Weller's devotion to the memory of Sholes has been unbounded, and recently, despite advanced years, he has become the leading spirit in a movement instituted by the National Shorthand Reporters' Association to erect a monument to mark the last resting place of Sholes in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, which will be worthy of his name and fame as one of the world's great inventors. It is earnestly to be hoped that the efforts of "The C. Latham Sholes Monument Commission" to raise the necessary funds will soon be successful, in order that the erection of this monument may commemorate this anniversary year of the writing machine. While Weller and Clephane, late in the sixties, were demonstrating the utility of the new machine in connection with shorthand reporting, another man was doing similar pioneer work in an entirely different field. This man was E. Payson Porter, an honored name in the history of telegraphy, and long known as the dean of American telegraphers. Porter first saw one of the Sholes models in 1868, at which time he was employed as an operator in the Chicago office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and he astonished the inventor by the rapidity with which he manipulated the keys at first sight. His skill was due to the fact that he had formerly worked a House telegraph printer. Sholes, of course, was delighted. He promised Porter the finest machine he could make, upon condition that he could receive on the typewriter as fast as any telegrapher could send a message. In due time the machine arrived in Chicago, and Porter thus describes the demonstration which followed. "A sounder and key were placed upon the table and General Stager was the first to manipulate the same for me to copy, which I did readily. Colonel Lynch then attempted to 'rush' me, and failing to do so, an 'expert' sender was sent for from the operating room. A thorough trial of my ability to 'keep up' resulted so satisfactorily that the typewriter was taken into the operating room." This demonstration was made in the year 1869, and Porter's description of it gives the whole gist of typewriting in its relation to telegraphy. It lies simply in the superior speed of the "mill," as telegraphers call the typewriter, over handwriting, in receiving over the wire, and it is just this difference in speed which in the past forty years has revolutionized the telegrapher's profession. The partnership between telegraphy and the "mill" is as firmly established today as that other partnership between the typewriter and shorthand, and it is worth noting that, in each case, the reality of this partnership was demonstrated at least five years before the first typewriter was actually placed on the market.