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Romance of the Typewriter 187 character of the mechanism, expert mechanical skill. Ruminating upon this aspect of the question, Dens- more finally came to the conclusion that a firm which specialised in the making of rifles and small firearms constituted the most promising field, because the mechanics were expert in fitting intricate and delicate mechanism. He concluded that the firm of E. Reming- ton and Sons, which occupied the pre-eminent position in the United States in this realm of industry, would probably be the most satisfactory concern to which to entrust its production, if he could prevail upon the firm to take it up. Apparently Densmore was somewhat dubious of his commercial persuasiveness, because he suggested that a friend of long standing, Mr. G. W. N. Yost, should accompany him upon his momentous mission. Yost was an experienced man of business and possessed valuable, if not hypnotic, talking powers. The idea meeting with approval, Densmore and Yost sallied forth to try to complete a deal with the gunmakers. But the task proved to be one of extreme delicacy, and almost taxed the fluency of Yost. The Reming- ton firm was not particularly impressed with the model; it was still far from being sufficiently per- fect to be considered a commercial enterprise. The gunmakers at first declined to have anything to do with it. But Yost and Densmore were not to be denied. They talked and talked, and at last the gun- makers yielded to their persuasion. They decided to undertake its manufacture, and, moreover, under- took to devote the whole of their resources towards the improvement of the machine. That was in the early months of 1873. When the