The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-01-07

oihuihS, ana soon pulls the leaves OF til
books loose from the covers, but ria
adopted by The TIaEs permits the Iars
books TO be laid upon their side, and thu
keeps them in much better condition: an
besides this, it saves an immense amount q
time and trouble, in referring to the files, q
each years issue has a shelf to itself ar
in taking out the files OF one year you d
not have to touch those OF any other veal
The volumes are arranged in the orde
OF their dates, the first year being at the toI
and the Others arranged in order OF time b
low it, so that the later volumes, which az
the more frequently needed, viii be the NOR
convenient to refer to.
On the other side of the counting roon
and entered from behind the counter, Is
STOCK ROOM
And this is a veritable 'cu-iosity shop.
All the ten thousand articles.of every imae
Unable kind and character, which, in I'll
course OF business, are taken .'in trade al
here carefully slowed away to await pul
chasers. An establishment doing busine.
as extensive rs that of THE MEs.frequen
ly finds it advisable to take business pa,
able in part trade, and the reader woul
be astOnished at the number and variety ,
articles that are sometimes accumulated
this way. But the stock. is constant
changing; it consists mostly OF standard q
ticles, which, after tarrying for season
the stock room, End their way to the safe, i
the shape Of cash.
The door at the head OF the stairs. in
mediately in front, and before the clerk
desk, leads into
THE MAILING ROOM.
This is long, narrow apartment, fu
nished with tables FOR folding and mailin
The printed sheets are sent here, direct
from the press, and are taken possession
by the mail clerk. The papers that are
go BY the early mails, are folded and wra
ped first, and sen; down to the Post-oiiic
then the carriers-those who deliver pane
in the city-are furnished with their J
spective numbers, and then those for d
later mails are put up. For a few hours
the early morning, this room with its GROW
OF clamorous urchins, its mail clerks, fol
ers, carriers, ard news boys, is the busis
place in town but so many nimble finge
soon dispose of the many thousands OF c
pies sent up every morning from the pre-,
room, and by the time you open your ey
in the morning the mails are all made ,
and gone, speeding their ways 10 dista
parts OF the country, the carriers have d
tributed their bundles all over the city, t
noisy news boys are haunting the hotels Al
depots with their monotonous cries OF Ger,
yer TIMEs-only five cents-all about" ct
etc, and quiet reigns in the mail rool
Passing through the apartment Just q
scribed, We enter
THE COMPOSING ROOM.
| This Is where all the type setting is DO,
and where the forms that is. the paa
OF type from which the sheets are rrin,t
ARE made up, ready for the press. II
room, in the neatness and taste displayed
It's arrangement, is in perfect harmony vi
all the rest OF the establishment II is lar!
light, and airy, looking clean and choerf'
without any OF that dingy ard gloomy a
pearlnce 50 common to printing offices. :,
the type is just from the ioundry-brig
and new: all the desks, tables, racks, stan,
etc, are Handsomely painted, the walls Il
ceiling are pure white, and a. neatly FMS
ed as those OF a parlOr. Hooks are provid
at one end of the room for the coats a
hats of the comrosi;ors, and the light is q
tending across the end of the building, f.
ing the river, and from these a delight
view is obtained Of the Missouri, and OF t
country Tor miles, north, south and east.
THE PRES ROOM
Is in tie cellar, entirely underground, VIII,
the 'rollers" are but slightly affected BY I
changes oil temperature in the air witho
Here, steam engine, of ten horse pow
propels the best and largest Potter drr
cylinder press in the State, and thro
OF the large editions OF THE TIN
at the rate OF three thousand impressions
hour. Communication between the pr
room and the composing room is by means
hosting apparatus run by steam, By viii
the forms, and the printed sheets, or t
workmen, ii required, are carried from Q
apartment TO the other, in few momen
This hosting machine is one of the m,
complete in use accidents are almost il
possible with it; it is not liable to get q
OF order; the person going up or down C
stop it at any place on the way, in a Il
ment, or ii started, and left to run, it W
stop itself when the platform reaches I
top or bottom; thus, all that is necess;
when the ''forms" are ready 10 90 up
down, is to put them on the platform a
start the machine a-going, when they will
carried to the other end of the line, to
main till taken away or sent back
There is ample room in the basement
storing fuel, paper, etc, and As this is tax
from the levee front, carrying in stock or co
concerns only the press room and engi
room, and doesn't interfere with any o;i
part OF the Office.
NO JOB OFFICE
Is connected with THE TINES, as the ent
establishment is now required by the ne,
paper, in order to accommodate the demaT
OF its large and rapidly growing busine
Altogether, We consider the new home
THE TINES
MODEL PRINTING OFFICE,
And it is so pronounced by all those "
have visiiedit. The building is owned by I
, proprietor OF the paper, and it has b
E fitted up, at no small expense, expressly
E furnish commodious quarters to the lead
Journal of the Missouri Valley.
OUR GLENwooD LETTER
: EDITOR TINES: On New Years Eve
: large and pleasant company assembled
the residence OF NJ c. Harris, near Ma
Pos,-ofiice, to enjoy a festival given by