The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-29

the readers of journal know to certainty
who is the writer of any particular leading or
editorial article. A word or two about
THE ROUTINE OF THE sANoTUM.
Editors and reporters assemble at "the
Round Table, in the morning between ten and
eleven O'Clock, and tho labors Of the Office are
planned. The local reporters go down town
and surge around. The editors retire to their
desks and busy themselves in preparation
for the labors Of the day and night Not until
FIVE or six o'clock P. NJ, however, does the ac-
tual continuous work begin. By this time the
printers have commenced composition, good
ly number Of articles have been prepared, and
Others ore sure to follow without intermission.
Later the teleg!aphic news begins to come in,
in confused and perplexng masses; this re-
quires deciphering and arrangement. Titles
are TO be affixed, headings made, and the loose
disjointed matter put into an intelligent shape
for the compositor. The "copy hook" is well
supplied, but The nimble fingers of the printers
consume it rapidly, until by eleven o'clock or
thereabouts the foreman says enough"
Everything is now given out, and "revises"
begin TO come in-editorials, locals, selected
matter, poetry and advertisements-al mixed,
without regard to subject or order. They are
closely scanned ard sent back to the compos-
ing room, and soon after midnight the labors
OF the edi orial department are generally at IN
ead.
''MaHNa-UP TIE FORM"
Oace more in the composing room, we
find thai there, also, york is nearing compile
ton. The matter that has been set up and
corrected on the galleys ls transferred to
huge stone tablet, on which rests the iron
frame, or "cnase, that encircles the remains
of yest.rday's newspaper The ''maker-up
TUES his eye over the several e llleys and Sc.
lects the advsrtiseme ats. These he separates
from the other matter and arranges according
10 tleir respective titles, under the heads OF
groceries" s9ecal notices" auctions" &C.,
&C.. lifting each tenderly and dropping it in
its place between the column rules. The SIN
side form" as it is called, consisting Of the two
Inside pages of the paper, is Low securely
fastened at the sides by meaas OF wedges, or
place, and permits its removal to the press
room. This process is denominated lock-
ing up"
The outside form, which is reserved be-
cause the latest news by telegraph is always
on the first page soon follows, and the tired
printer goes home to his nightcap. BY this
time it is two or three o'clock in the morning.
It must be remarked that in TEE DAILY
NEWS press room both forms, !. e. the whole
four pages of matter, areput on the bed OF the
press ut once, go that each revolution Of the
cylinder gives complete copy OF TIE NEWS.
THIS is dore to economize time and labor, but
requires presses of the giant size which VIC
hove in use. On the presses of our city con-
temsoraries only two pages are printed at .
time.
THE PRESS Room.
This is on the ground floor and in the rear of
the counting room. The steam engine room is
also close at hand. Hero are two presses, both "f
the Taylor pattern, with o capacity for printing
5000 sheets an hour. Formerly one suf6ced to
print, in good season, the whole edition OF THE
NEWS. The increasing circulation of the pa-
per. however, compelled us to add another,
AMI it is not BY my means improbable that
third and still tnster machine will, ere long, be
necessary to supply tho growing demand.
The operations Of the press are too compl.r
Gated for description IN detail. but some OF the
more prominent features may be briefly re-
ferred to. The forms" having been let down
from the upper story through trap, are lad
upon the broad iron led of tho press. The
pressman now !oosens tho ''quOins" around tho
sides of tho s'chase," and with mallet and
block OF wood called a"planer," proceeds by
pounding to '.plane'' or smooth down any inc
qualities Of surflce that may exist This done,
he sgsin 'locds' the "form," firmly secures 1t
TO the press, and tells the engineer to 'so
ahead" The visitor who watches tue machine
in operation will soc boy standing on plat
form IN tho right side. He is called thefseder,
and has pile Of damp paper on an inclined
plane over the press and under his hand. Un-
der this pilo Of paper is ibe impression cyEn-
der. The feeder places the sheet against the
guides, when it is caught by the nippers at
tached to the cylinder and drawn around the
cylinder on to the form placed on the bed oHthe
press below. After tho impression is gwen, the
nippers let go tho sheet, when it is carried
along by tapes to light framework called q
Ay. which delivers it 10 table in smooth and
regular pile.
Il has tallen thus much to describe how ono
paper is printed. You will be astonished, per-
ha,s. to learn that the act itself is repealed
almost as tast as you can conveniently count.
MAILING AND DELIVERY.
All this work must be completed before the
earliest train Ioavos the city, for railroads are
the arteries through which flows the life-bIood
Of o popular newspaper. Accordingly, boys
seiz, The sheets as fast as they come from the
press and fold them for the mail clerk and for
tho agents, BY whom they are delivered to the
city subscribers. The former, as VIC have a.
ready seen, Inns prepared his wrappers early
in tho day. Now, the number OF papers for
Zach postofice aud individual must be singled
out and onveIoped. This is dono with great
rnpid.ty, o printed address and little paste
ecopomizina the timo that Would otaerwise De
rson;rcd. The bundles are transferred TO tie
postoilice, and that is the Inst SIC see OF them
TIE NEwsBoYs.
Meanwhile lLcro is crowd waiting outside
the newsboys. Long before daylight they be-
gin to swarm, until you may count hundred
and fifty, and ruch cnother ack OF hap y,