The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-04-22

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political situation of the day and
the great business and social features
the matter that statesmen and scholars
and leaders read and talk about. They
are its constituency. Its telegraphic
service of special matter averages, I
think, about q page q day, and page
of the Times is equal in superfcies to
over twenty per cent. more than a page
of the Press or New York Herald.
It is al solid news, too-no padding
or whipped cream. - =.
PRINTING BY EAR.
The reception of the telegraphic news
of the Times is something unique. The
lines from the continental capitals, Ber-
lin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, etc., all of
course converge in one room, and the
dispatches are received over an instru-
ment that prints. The printing, how
ever, serves more as q record. The
dispatch, as it is received, is read off by
the telegraph operator to the operator
of tyre machine, who plays it off by
ear, and the dispatch, thus reduced to q
written form, is supplied to the editors
in printed proof: OF course only the
work of responsible correspondents,
likely to need no alteration, is honored
in this way. 1t would be too expensive
to treat thus matter requiring editing.
The type.setting machine compost
tors are of course, q class to themselves,
~ III $H thu 7cooo1> Es,o~vv n~~v
compositor going on the Times obligates
himself to abandon all unions or out
side organizations.
Indeed, in many things the Office is
exclusive in this way. It does not EN-.
ploy men who serve on other papers,
and those who work on the Times are
protected in many ways from outside
afiliations. As q curious instance of
the feeling, was shown in distaut
portion of the building rather deaolate,
Notwithstanding room for casual en-
ployes or temporary contributors, "per-
sons that we don't want to mix up with
our own men, you KNOW"
HARD WORK.
What impressed me strongly was the
large amount of hard work and unre.
hitting attention bestowed unceasin ely
on the Times by its proprietors and
editors.
Here is an old paper, perhaps the
best established in the world: Every
man on 1t holding any responsible
place az an expert in the business. The
experience of some of them is heredi.
tary. Every employee on the paper is
of the highest grade of scholarship or
business training, but the managers
and editors are working as hard and
closely as if they were starting q new
enterprise. Let me give some facts:
All the editorial work is done at night
the editors not coming down at all in
in the day time.
Mr.. Chenery, the editor sees the first
paper off the press every night.
Mr.. Mcdonald, the managing pub
Usher sees the whole edition off the
press every night.
The paper goes to press at $3.50 a. M;
but then men know that from mid
night to . a. m. IS the quarterback in
S9% . Of on or mr WseT iPd
main proprietary own house is adjoin-
ing and runs into the Times building: is
substantially part of it. The dwelling
of Mr.. Delane, the late editor. stood
quite near the Office between Printing
house square and the Temple. He, too
was always on deck at night until the
paper went down. Both of their dwell.
ings are fay down town: infinitely farther
from social life and rest of London than
would be Third and Chestnut from that
of Philadelphia. But the night is the
life of a morning paper.
The Times having no long railway
rout . to travel, as all England is COW
cred in a few hours, and running off
its edition, $4,000 an hour can afford to
wait until latter moment before going
to press than any paper of Philadelphia
or New York. may say hare the ed
itors of all kinds each have q room to
themselves, and work under all the ad-
vantages Of seolusion and silence. These
rooms, nearly every one of which I Wis.,
tied, are spacious, often about sixteen
by sixteen or twenty feet and substan-
tally furnished, have high ceilings, are
we'll ventilated and comfortably lighted.
They have in fact, something of the
comfortable air of a university chamber.
ECONOMY.
Another marked feature is the watch
full economy practlced in the daily
management. While all the first cost
or investment expenses nave been on
the most liberal and solid scale, the
daily running expenses are very closely
Guarded. The story of the rags in the
Times composing room. suppose, is
familiar to all interested in the news.
paper business, but I saw other things
quite as remarkable. For instance, I
saw in comparatively small package