The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12

sextuple sheet of twenty-four pages,
containing, besides the reading matter,
1915 different advertisements, quite an
an increase over its modest number Of
$50, fifty years before in 1911. In 1867,
the Times began printing with the Walter
self.feeding press, patented the year be-
fore. and claimed to be tho fastest and
most economical printing machine in the
world. The present circulation of the
Times is from 63 900 to $4,000 daily, the
ordinary issue being sixteen page news
paper, Whilst sometimes it is increased to
a twenty page newspaper.
This is a brief history Of the paper,
and I now will pass on to an account OF
it's present conditions, and Of the office at
Printing House Square. The Times is in
an era of great prosperity, and the en-
deavor in the establishment is to issue
newspaper which will at, once be model
of correct Typography, excellent printing,
and tho purest English. 1t is considered
that the care bestowed in the Times office
upon the diction of its leading articles
has contributed more than anything else
to preserve the purity of tho English
language The staff Of "loader" writer's
is large, and upon it are the bost nows-
paper writer's in England, where an
editors ambition is to be employed by
the Times. Unlike the custom in Amer
I, lea. the object at the Times Office is to
preserve the impcrsonalty of the paper.
/ Whatit contains is said by the paper it.
self, and not by any individual, and for
that reason its opinions and statements
90 before the world with all the weight
! | the newspaper can give them. Its edi-
tors never write. They forecast, day by
day, tho policy of the paper suggest
subjects to the leader writer's; sit in
jud gment upon their articles when writ
ten; and decide what shall or shall not
go into the paper. It's correspondents,
| in England and abroad, receive but one
1 instruction, and that is to send accurate
and impartial accounts of transprng
events, at the earliest moment, written
in such mannor as to interest tho read
ers.
To conduct this establishment, a large
force is OF course required. 1t prints
every day from 100 to 5000 advertise
ments, and on extraordinary occasions
even more. 1t also prints twenty to
thirty columns Of reading matter. To
perform the mechanical part Of the work,
400 persons are employed at Printing
House Square, whilst probably as many
more are attached to the paper in literary
positions. With reference to advertise
lpents, as the paper is always receiving
moro than it can print, it promises early
insertions to none but tho poor people
who want places, and few other urgent
classes. No one who comes after twelve
o'clock on any day with his advertise
mont, can hope for an insertion in the
next days paper, whilst generally the
advertisers do not SEQ their advertise
ments printed until two or three days, or
sometimes as many weeks, after they are
handed over tho counter. They have TO
wait their turn. and such is tho anxiety
to get them in tho Times, that the English
public submit patiently TO delays that the
American public would mover tolerate.
The lowest charge is for wants. in
which case each advertiser is allowed
three lines for half crown, about 60
cents, gold. For all others: the regular
rate is shilling line, 81 cents, gold,
but no advertisement is taken for less
than four shilings, whilst long adver-
tsements are charged more in proper
ton, the rate, after tho first fifty limos,
being two shilling line. The cheapest
rates are allowed to public charities and
similar classes, but nothing extra is
charged for fayorite positions in the pa
per.
In the mornings, when the people flock
to the Times office to hand in their adrer-
tisements, Printing House Square is a
place of tho greatest hustle and activity,
but in the afternoons it is comparatively
deserted. The advertising pages arc
made mp in regular ordcr beginning
with the births on the first column of the
first page, and the "agonies," as "person-
ais" arc called, on the second column.
and closing with tho auction notices. Of
which alone in the paper of last Satur-
day; juno 9th, thcro were twenty-five
columns. There are no headings to tho
advertising columns, each department.
coming unannounoed on tho heels of it's
predecessor, and this course by bringing
'.washing taken in" Immediately ahead
of the aristocratio "tutors," am told,
has caused great complaint among that
class of the English community, as they
regard thoir characters as soiled by the
iuxtaposition. The Office for the receipt
of advertisements is conducted by eleven
persons, and is devoted to that business
exclusively, the publication Office being
separate building.
The reading matter is furnished by tho
editorial, reportorial and corresponding
staffs, there being besides, % law repor-
tors, 10 Parliamentary reporters, II po-
lice reporters, and an indefinite number
of miscellaneous writers, known as ''pen-
ny-a-liners'' in London, at least 100 cor