New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-24
ONE OF TILE MODERN ARTS.

| Not all the labor-sayng machinery used in The
Tribune Building is to be found In such mechanical
| departments rs the press stereotyping composing
and mailing rooms. The ready reference to the files
| of THE DAILY tribune which our indefatigable in
dex-keeper fills out from day to day and completes at
the close of the year, enables every member OF the
editorial and city staff to turn in an instant to any
! article or sources Of information to which he may
| have occasion to refer This useful appliance,
whereby the time, temper and eyes of our literary
! wOrkmen arc saved, swectens the labors OF news
editing and Underwriting The open sesame to a
| great store house of contemporaneous information
is in every mans hands and nobody is com
PEELED to strain his eyes aud warp his
disposition by fdgeting for hours over tho
files in an exasperatng effort TO ferret
out the facts which Inc happens to require for i'm
mediate use. We lay as much stress upon saving
Of temper as upon economy of time, for we are so
charitable as to attribute the acrmOny and lima
ture IA well az tho exhaustion and WEAKNESS so
often displayed in the columns Of illequipped
newspapers 10 the lack Of complete index to their
| files. Newspaper conductors ought to keep this
fact i'm mind and If they cannot afford to employ
an index. keeper of their own, they certainly
provide their Offices with THE TRIBUNE INDEX,
which practically serves guide to any news
paper OF any prctonsons inasmuch as any matter
Of general news may usually be found in any other
journal within a few days. at least Of its appear
ance in The TRIBUNE.
Indcx-making is ~ art which makes slow pro-
gres owing TO the laborouS nature OF the processes
or the hundreds Of public Libraries in the United
states only two are adequately indexed-one in
Boston and one in Brooklyn. The ordinary cata-
loguos containing lists Of titles and authors and
crude schemes Of classification Of limited scope are
"a 4. fbo E,f,fr
which hc needs. If one does not know where to
look for the facts which be requires, or what are
tho best sources Of information relating to the sub
ect he is helpless unless he take advantage Of
an index which combines special entries for every
topic with comprehensive system Of classification.
The files OF The DAILY TRIBUNE are indeXcd in
this way. There are in each volume over 10, 600
references TO dispatches, correspondence, news
articles and editorials. arranged in alphabetical
order and at the same time il had TO what
Mr. Noycs the Brooklyn librarian. would describe
As n Especial dictionary system" by which
entries are grouped III classes. small and large
There are only three daily newspapers in the world
which nrc thus indeed: The Times Londou The lugs-
burr Ga.clie the leading Journal OF South Germany,
and THE TRIBUNE.
Tie fifth volume OF The TRIBUNE INDEX is the
largest which has yet been issued from this Office
II contains t2l dOuble-column pages and - com
plce guide to the news of the world for the year of
grace 1879. The arrangement is perfectly simple
only one alphabet being used, 50 that anyone who
has the',lghtest clew to the information for which
he may be searching can at once find what he
wants II il useful for lawyers, politicians clergy
men. fnancicrs, journalists and men of letters aud
i'm short for all who arcanxous To- keep fully abreast
with the times TnE TRIBUNE INDEX for 1879 will
b, sold over our counter forwarded post paid to
any address for 80 cents. Back numbers can also
be furnished ~ the same prices.