Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-01-18

George M. Snow We should have taken
him for any but commercial gentleman.
| Mr.. Pike, the 81 S. Pr of former Wash
ington correspondence, now writer on POI
litical subjects, is not present, nor is other
members of the corps.
! Between twelve and one, Mr.. Greeley
comes in, with his pockets full of papers,
and bundle under his arm. His first act
is to dispatch his special aidde-sanctum on
various errands, such as to deliver notes.
letters and messages, to procure seeds and
implements for the farm, etc. Then per-
haps, he will comment on the mornings pa
per, dwelling with pertinacious emphasis
upon It's defects, hard to be convinced that
an alleged fault was inevitable. After two
or three amusing colloquies of this nature,
he makes his way to the sanctum, where,
usually. several people are waiting to see
him. He takes his seat at his desk and De-
gins to examine the various notes, letters,
newspapers and clippings with which it is
covered, while one after another of his WISH
tors states his business. One is an exile
who wants advice or a loan, or an adver-
tlsement inserted gratis; he does not get
the loan, for Mr.. Greeley long ago shut the
door upon miscellaneous borrowers and
beggars. Another visitor has an Invention
which he wishes Photographed into celebri-
ty. Another is one of the lecture commit
tee of country Lyceun, and wants our
editor to come out and give us a lecture
this winter" Another is country clergy
man who has called to say how well he
likes the semi weekly Tri5une, and to graft
fly his curiosity by speaking with the editor
face to face. Gradually the throng dmin-
ishes, and the pile of papers is reduced. BY
three O'Clock this preliminary bo:heraton
is disposed of, and Mr. Greeley goes to
dinner. to
Meanwhile, all tho departments of the
establishment have been in a state of the
greatest activity. 1t is Thursday. the day
of the Weekly Tribune, the inside of which
began to be printed at seven O'Clock in the
morning Before the day closes, the whole
edition, one hundred and sixteen thousand
or forty-eight cart loads. will have been
printed, folded. wrapped, bundled, bagged
and carried to the Post Office. The press
room on Thursdays doesi its utmost, and pre-
sents a sence of hustle and movement easier
imagined than described. No small amount
OF work too is done in the Office of publica-
ton. To-day as we ascertain, two hundred
and thirteen business letters, containing
among other things less interesting, eleven
hundred and seventytwo dollars, and four
hundred and ten new or renewed subscrip-
tons, each Of which has been recorded and
placed on the wrap per-writer's books. The
largest sum ever received by one mail was
eighteen hundred dollars The weekly ex-
penditure of the concern average about six
thousand two hundred dollars, of which
sum four hundred is for paper. During
the six dull months of the year, the receipts
and expenditures are about equal, in the
active months the receipts exceed the ex-
penditurcs.
1t is nine o'clock in the evening Gas has
resumed. The clank of the press has
ceased, and the basement is dimly light
ed. The clerks, who have been so busy
all day, have gone home, and the night
clerk, whom we saw this morning in the
press-room pulpit, is now behind the coun
ter of the office receiving advertisements.
Night work agrees with him, apparently,
for he is robust, ruddy and smiling. -Aloft
in the composing-room. thirty-eight men
are setting type, silently and fast. No
sound is herd, except the click of the type
now and then The voice of foreman, or
noise fthe copy box rafting up the wood
en- pipe from the editors room below, or
a muffled grunt from which the different
rooms hold converse with one another, or
the bell which calls for the application OF
an ear to the mouth of that tube. The
place is warm close light and still.
Whether it is necessarily detrimental to
compo si;or's health to work from eight to
ten hours every night in such an atmos-
phere. in such light, is still, it appears,
question. Mr. Greeley thinks il is not
The compostors think it is, and seldom feel
able to work more than four nights week
filing their places on the other nights from
the list of substitutes, or in printers lam
euage, "subs,' Compositors say that sleep
in day time is very different thing from
sleep at night, particularly in summer when
to create an artificial night is to exclude the
needful air They say they never get per-
fectlv used TO rcverSion OF natures order;
and often, after right of drowsiness so
extreme that they would give the world if
they could sink down upon the floor and
sleep at length, they find that offended Nor
pheus has taken its flight, and left their
eye-lids glued to their brows; and they can
not close them before the memorable hour
arrives that summons them. to work a.
gain. In the middle of the room the prin-
cipal night foremani already making up"
the outside forms ofto-morrow paper four
in number, each section of cylinder,
with rims of polished iron, anu type of cop
per face. 1t is slow work and moments
inattention might produce results more ri
diculous than cross-readings.
The editorial rooms, too, have become
intense. Several desks are occupied with
silent writer's, most of them in the Tribune
uniform-shirt-sleev and moustache-
The night-reader is looking over the pa
pers last arrived, with scissors ready for
any paragraph of news that catches his
eye. An editor occasion ally goes to the
copy box, places in it page or two of the
article he is writing, and rings the bell; the
box slides up to the composing-room and