Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-01-24
HYDE PARK, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY "a 1866

tion at the Central Office, at No. 900 Null
berry-strcet These headquarters being
in direct telegraphic communication with
most Of the station-houses throughout the
city. the slightest incident is at once re-
ported and handed over for publication
If the item be important, if a terrible
murder be committed, or a fire break out,
all the representatives. generally hasten to
the scene and obtain such details as may
be of interest. If the case be unimpor
tant, all the details being impaired over
the wires to the authorities at the Central
Office, the news -gatherers are content to
"wrie.up" the item and send it "down-
town at midnight, at which hour, if no
incident of moment transpires, they ad-
jourD the session
Another genre of news. the advent of
which is anxiously awaited, and which
takes precedence over most other copy are
the telegraphic columns from the Wash
ington specials" The intelligence
forwarded by the correspondents in the
former city-these gentlemen generally
being three in number during the session
OF Congress--not including sketches of
proceedings of the House, which are for
wardcd by the care of the Associated
Press is always of the greatest moment
AS many telegraph companies have dis
continued the use of an unintelligible al
phabet, and substituted therefor con-
trivancc by which the despatch is printed
While being received, large portion OF
the special kilograms are hurried to the
composing rooms, on strips Of paper 30
feet in length by half an inch in width.
and cut in smaller slips before being
placed in the hands of the typos, During
the war, the cost of special despatches-
exclusive of those furnished by the Asso-
ciated Press-frequcnt(y- t(y-amounted to six.
ty thousand dollars per annum for one
daily newspaper.
At length, toward three o'clock in the
morning, all the copy and kilograms be
ing received, the foreman of the compos
ing-rooms under the supervision Of the
might editor" proceeds to makeup"
and lookup" the forms, The "galeys"
or portable shelves. whercon stand the
columns of "set-up' type, are placed be-
fore him, and at the bidding of his chief
he places article by article, and item
by item, each in its proper place in the
form.
But few years since, 1t was still Gus
tomary simply to tighten these forms and
locate them upon the fiat ted of machue
that, at great loss of time and with con-
siderable wear 0f tyre, would print two
thousand five hundred copies an hour,
Now, the forms of matter are hurried uu-
der press their surface being covered
by four or five thicknesses of dampened
oapier mache. This substance is pressed
down upon the type, and dries few min,
utes after its application. When removed
it gives perfect impression of the face
Of the tyre This pas'eboard mould is
placed at the bottom of concaye recep-
taclc, and hot type metal being poured
upon it and allowed to cool, the printer
obtains, in a solid mass, one entire page
of the paper, which is at once smoothed
down and made ready for the press. The
mouds thus made are used in lieu of the
type, and are melted down on the morrow,
that the metal may he submitted to the
same process during the evening The
use Of this system OF stercotypins was in
lugurated by the proprietocs of the Lon
don Times The immense advantages
presented by its adoption are firstly, the
little wear to which the type is subjected
the possibility of taking scve-
raj moulds of the same page, and thus
much larger edition of the pa
per in a shorter space of time: thirdly.
The avoidance of all danger of "pi," mas
much as, if an accident were to happen
to one of the plates, smother could be sub
,tituted for it without the slightest de-
ay. ..# ,.f.... 4
And now for the closing scene of all
When the eight pages of the journal are
'eady for imposition upon the press, they
IRE lowered from the 0iympian heights of
me composing rooms into the PluionIan
realms below Having reached the press
room, dozen swa,thy hands seize each
If the concave lcaden masses, which are
fitted to the central cylinder of the Hoe
Iiehtning.press, and fastened in their
proper positions Large piles of damp
sned paper are placed on the huge shelves
tho monster, aud while, on
ten cylinder press, ten men are busily en-
gagged 10 feeding" the machine with spot
less tolios as many boys receive aud keep
in order these same sheess, which are
transferred to them on tapes, this time,
black with the news of the day. Then,
for time, do the two or three presses IN
the vaults make the walls trcmble with
the roar of the machinery, and,'at dawn,
the carriers throw upon the "stoops of
vour readers houses their morning pa
pers still damp from the embrace OF the