New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-09
CITY ITEMS.

PRINTERS PAsTIMEs-An accident happened TO
ore Of our cote nporaries, on Saturday morning,
which is wota relating especially as they were them
selves quite ignorant Of the circumstances uut long
after the affair The ed;t"-- "f tho IN
question bad seen the proofs Of their leaders, and
gone home; the reporters had given Ia their last
items, ard gone after tn, editors; the City ltenizer
had fred his last squib, and WAS folio wing the re-
porters; tho composiors had closed up" aud
were accompanying the City.Item man home
wnd; the foreman and his assistants had locked
up the forms and the Office, aud disappeared
around the corner; the forms, all right and
snug had been lowered away aud were ia transit to
the pr room in another building, under the ch,rge
of brs,e of Hioernians, aud the usual morning
paper was Of course considered a certainty. But,
from some fallipg-out Of the posters or from dsa-
greement of the articles ia type, or some other most
unlock editor cause the forms fell out upon the side
walk an made Of the editorial page about as ugly
mess Of hafsqabbled pi as the worst enemy of the
press could desire. The Irishmen were nonplussed;
but, knowing that going to prees is business always
done 10 hurry, they beg to put things to rights
BY hauling out the column rules-thus doing the
greatest amount of damage in the least possible time
In two Minutes our neighbours elaborate disq1sitions
upon politics, the news, the drama, aud finance
fusion, 10 be scooped up with shovel like the NOR
tar with which the poriers were pro 0ably much more
intimate than with types. Fortunately the forensn
and assistants from of the neghboring establish
nents, who bad just started Tor home, heard the
smash-a printers ear is particularly sharp on that
most dsagreeable of all .ounds, the crash of type
and hsstened to the spot. Tney at once stopped the
murderous work of the Ioshmen; but what a sssns!
Load rith an
elaborate argument with its jor premises wanting;
RAILROAD accident" had rua into ga woman &C.
"cu.ed Of passing counterfeit money" the Msine
CLAW" was broken by the Irishmen in dozen in
stances; "New.York had not only annexed, but
annibilated Brooklyn" the Mayors office" was
topsy.tu.~ey; there was marriage where the bride
and groom had fallen out the fall Of stocks was per-
fecty runous; The polit cal leader more mixed up
than the parties themselves and all WAS confusion
were COMPOUNDED. The puzzled and doubtful looks
Of the porers they hauled the types about trying
to fix them, were enough to make pho gopher
smile. The four printers speedily got the msngled
fom back into the office; arranged as much Of the
matter they could; hunted up the proofs aud sup
piled the missing lines; found sufficient "lef-over"
matter TO I'll the space of that which wss pied beyond
remedy; extemporised the following apology:
osips TO an unavoidable accident. tour form being thrown
in p bile on iu TO the essroon are compelled 10
De sheet tits morning with quantity Of mater not n'
tended for to-dsy's isue.
And in a short time had the forms again complete,
and safely delivered at the press roo thus securing
70 cur Deighbors the regular appearance OF their in
teresipg journal litle late perhaps, but in ample
time for regular distribution.
The public, of cou,e, were oblivious OF the differ
epce between what the paper vas intended to be and
what II was but the editors Of the paper in question,
as they squared themselves over their coffee to enjoy
the secret pleasure of perung their own articles aud
perhaps had called wifes attention to something par
teulary stunning, must have looked particularly
queer as the transformed psge opened before them.
This incident forcibly illustrates the chvalry OF the
cram for which no tradesmen are moro honorabiy
potable than printers. The jsded aud sleepy men
who were just on their way to most welcome BEDS
no sooner found neghbor In trouble, than fatigue
was forgot aud they went In with that cheerful good
will which always accompanies the comforting Of an
unexpected favor, and made al right il the shortest
possible time; each feeling richly paid Ia the
assurance that the pspsr would BE- issued ~ usual In
spite Of the ustowsrd accident.