Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-14
Getting to Press on Time.
The Pen and Prose, Of New York city
contains the following: !. "I.lIt

Inc Tm ana rev. OF NEW 1Ork CITY
contains the following. !"l.lJt
Every Legitimate publisher Of = news
paper understands fully tho importance
Of getting his paper to press on time.
II his publication day 10 Saturday, lie
would no moro think Of failing TO print
and mail his psn@H on Friday night 90
that it would reach its country sub.
scribers on Saturday, fresh and inter.
esting, than he would Of nsglecting to
send out his bills regularly. Said q
veteran publisher TO the! writer Of this:
"There never WAS q piece OF news in
vented, not even the 6rst report of the
original dood, that would justify the
delaying OF paper one minute beyond
tho time to reach the mails on pubEca-
ton day." and the veteran was right.
Subscribers look for their paper when
it is due; they expect it then; they 10
do not find it there, waiting for them
the disappointment is So great that no
information given in the paper 1 day
later will atone for it,. Let the farmer
on Saturday 60 to the postoface in
the two-miles.away village and return
without the paper, and the salutationp
he receives from wife and family. If
heard by the publisher, would convince
him that such delays are dangerous.
He would learn from the - What q
shame-it's too bad " Of tho family that
his energy in securing news at the ex-
pense of the appointed day was q fail.
ure-and would make a solemn vow
never to err again.
When we commenced to write this,
we did not expect to deliver q disSerta-
ton on something that every publisher
is familiar with, but intended simply to
repeat an old and particularly good
story told some years ago by the De-
troll Free Press man, and which will
bear repeating. A property owner in
o Michigan town had'invested in hand
press and material for o newspaper.
He secured the services Of . printer,
but the printer was one OF that class
who prefer to sit around q saloon play
ing euchre to doing his work, and the
paper was always. late in coming .outs
If II came oht at. all sDisgusted, ;. the
land. owner went to Detroit and secured
another printer. For o few weeks ev-
erything went we'll, but one publication
day the owner Of thesoff1ce went in to
find his publisher out In the back yard
digging worms: He called him and
typo came slouching in and began
tumbling over the contents Of drawer
to find q fishing line, Although it was
publication day work on the papefwas
backward. The owner looked around
a moment and ~ burst forth:
it is press day IL II paper, and you
have not yet - Is the back side of
the paper. DldhFyou tell me when I
employed you that yQpe would press the
Lum6erman every week on time?"
"1es, l dtd,p.qFerled out; JaHes las
he continued porting over quoins.
shootipg.sticks, reglets, leads, rules,
Irvine, side-sticks, wrappers. files and
old type in the drawer, to find the miss
ing line; Eyes, I did: but I didn't
know Aslipg was 90 good up here,
Within Two dhyb| James bad all, the
time for fishing that he wished for, and
o new printer came up from Detroit to
"press" the paper.
We repeat the siuiunets4; there is no
excuse for neglecting to "press the
paper on its regular publication. day