Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-01-24

the Intelligence conveyed by one OF these
kilograms will cause the immediate de-
parture of reporter from the city. Re-
Gently, line in an Associated Press des,
patch announced that, during gale of
wind, schooner had been wrecked off
Barnegat Shoals A scribeerrant was at
once deputed to that locality, and, that
same night, to use his own language, he
wandering along the sea shore in quest of
dead bodies When the readers hastily
glanced at his report, they little dreamed
of the labor and expense to which he and
the newspaper had been put to procure the
names of the unfortunates that perished,
and whose remains were washed ashore
and lay, stark and naked, on the beach
Between the hours of ten and three birth
is given to the larger portion of the lead
ing articles. Some of the most important
are necessarily written at night, conse-
quent upon the reception of late news !;
but many, not bearing exclusively upon
the events of the passing hour, are ratified
up stairs toward noon, after being submit
ted to the preliminary scrutiny and oc-
casional revision of the chief.
AS the afternoon approaches, business
in newspaper office becomes more and
more :; SS-;sk ;;slk.. The reporters who have been
detailed eli day-duty resume their seats at
their desks, and proceed to indite their re-
spective contributions toward the morrow 8
news budget. The afternoon editions are
received, conned, and the evening duties
of the hitherto unoccupied scribes assigned.
Up to the later hours of the day, the skill
ed compositors have been mostly engaged
in "setting" advertisements ; the time has
now come to turn to the copy" of the
writer's.
When evening closes in, the composing
rooms-generally, in fact, invariably, To-
Gated on the topmost floors Of the news
paper buildings in this city-are tenant
ed by their full quota of printers, some
sixty in number. Each item, as handed
to the foreman, is sub divided into frag-
ments of about twenty lines in length,
and thus distributed to the typos" By
the adoption of this system an article
that would require days of labor on the
part of one man, will be placed on the
desk of the proof,reader for correction
sixty minutes after its division among the
men.
1t is during the early hours of the
night that the value of space comes to be
first demonstrated The most prophetic
cannot foretell what may be the latest
news from Timbuctoo; and if the Hon.
Mr.. So-and -so-a sketch of whose life, in
manuscript, with the biographies of sew
eral hundred others, is ever on hand-
were to die or to be elevated to promi.
ncnt position, every available line would
be required for the publication of that
matter, The foreign correspondence too,
is suddenly unusually plentiful, A. the
steamers generally come up to their docks
late in the afternoon; the European letters
rarely reach their destination until the
shades of night have fallen: so that re.
porters, with book in hand, and such
POINTS" iotted down as will make col
umu of print, are almost dumb stricken
ON being informed that they maat reduce
their article to the dimensions OF ten
line paragraph.
But one batch of manuscript that is
received toward midnight, or even at a
later hour, is most anxiously awaited,
and worthy Of few lines of description
the copy" sent in by the police re-
porter" :.
The police reporter has special jurisdic-
ton over the four police courts in the
city, over all coroners inquests, crimes,
casualties, and fires.
One man is held responsible, day and
night, for the faithful chronic)ing of all
items coming under these several heads
save in one instance, where leading dali
ly employs three men to perform the task
As it would require the services OF SIX
renerters &c DC The same amount Of WORK
an association was o:ssanized, about p'nc
years since, by which one writer could
discharge all the duties incumbent upon
him. The Moius operandt OF news gath-
ering by day was thus great slmp'ihed'
Each member Of the organization atten-
ded to a certain branch of the business.
and all assembled at a certain hour 10 the
afternoon and exchanged notes, each one
furnishing thus complete report Tor tne
paper of which he was an cmployee lhis
system is still in active operation.
Spite of all the advantages offered by
the association, the police reporters know
little respite. Their labors are repeated
daily and nightly throughout the year
while their more fortunate fellow.scrlbes
occasionally enjoy the pleasure of dny
of rest. For a distinguished politician
man be visitor to the city, aud yet not
accept an invitation to speak or all the
civil and criminal courts may adjourn IN
honor OF O national holiday; but who
ever heard Of twenty-four hours elapslng
without the comlaittal Of felouies, the oc-