Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-09-10

VIII lnlure nhnnlpai 30 mucn % tue eultoT OF
the Free Press appears to imagine.
IL The following letter Is some encourage
ment to apprentices in country printing Offices,
as it shows that it is practicable to acquire
enough knowledge of the business in Western
country office, to command the best situations,
West or East. There are great many who
suppose that no mechanical business can be
learned we'll in the West:
New YORk, Aug. 81, 1853.
M dear Mother:
New York is at present OverstOcked with
printers; and l suppose they are from the
South, driven North by the yellow fever. l
got permanent situation on Monday morning,
in a book and job Office, and went to work.
The printers here are badly organized, and
therefore have to work for various prices.
These prices are %, %, %, 30, 80, and 35
cents per 1000 ems. The price get is %
cents; bnt did very we'll to get place at all,
for there are thirty or fOrty-yeS, Fifty good
printers in the city with no work at all be-
sides, my situation is permanent, and l shall
keep it till can get better one. The Office l
work in is John A. Gray's, 81 Cliff street, and,
next to Harper's, is the most extensive in the
city. In the room in which work l have
forty cOmpositOrS for company. Taking com.
pOsitOrs, preSsmen, stereStyperS, and all, there
are about two hundred persons employed in the
concern. The Knickerbocker," "New York
Recorder" "Choral Advocate" "JeWist
Chronicle" "Littelrs Living Age" "Irisl
-" and half dozen other papers and pc
riodcals are printed here, besides an immense
number of books. They are veiy particular
about spacing, justification, proofs, etc., ant
even if do not make much money, will learr
a great deal. / thought Ustick was particular
enough, but acknowledge now that he was no
old-maidsh. Why, you must put exactly tn,
same space between every two words, and euerl
line must be spaced alike. They think it dread
full 10 sPeso one limo with three Gun spuces, ant
the next one with FIVE ems. However, ex
pected this, and worked accordingly from tn
beginning; and out Of all the proofs saw
without Boosting, can say mine was by far tn
ceanest. In St. Louis, Mr.. Baird said m,
proofs were the cleanest that were ever set il
his Office. The foreman Of the Anzeiger toll
me the same-foreman Of the Waterman In
same and with all this evidence, believe l d
set q clean proof
My boarding house is more than mile fror
the Office; and I can hear the signal calling tn
hands to work before start down; they use
steam whistle for that purpose. work in III
fifth story and from one window have
pretty good view Of the city, while anOthe
commands view of the shipping beyond tn
Battery and the forest of masts," with al
sorts of flags flying, is no mean sight. Yo
! have everything in the shape of water craft
from fishing smack to the steamships and men
Of-war but packed so closely together for miles
: that when close to them you can scarcely distin
a guish one from another.
/ OF all the commodities, Manufacturers
whatever you please to call tin New YorL
}, trundle-bed trash-children l mean-take tn
! lead, Why, from Cliff street, up Frankfort t
$ Nassau street, six or seven squares-my roa
b to dinner--I think could count two hundre
r brats. Niggers, mulattOes, quadrOOns, Chinese
: and some the Lord no doubt originally intende
= to be white, but the dirt on whose faces leave
one uncertain as to that fact, block up the little
), narrow street; and to wade through this mas
d Of human vermin, would raise the ire of tn