The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-04-08

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like long trains of freight cars in the
yard of colossal depot. 1t is a won
derful machine, but there are others,
think, now surely approaching perfec-
ton, of much more interest and impor-
lance to newspaper proprietors.
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
The last permanent investment of the
Times has been the manufacture of its
own light on the electric system, using
carbon points. The cost for the plant
of this has been very great, but it is so
far successful, and the cost of now pro-
ducing light is very moderate.
Tie entire building is lighted by six
teen electric lights, each light of from
800 to 1000 candle power-far more
than is needed Sixteen wires-each
starting directly from battery-are
used to distribute the light, and the bat
terry is worked from a solid and power
full steam engine. This engine had to
be built expressly for the electric bat
terry, and its power cannot be used for
any other purpose; the light would
waver and be unsteady. Quite thick
porcelain globes are used to temper the
fierce power of the light and the dark
shadows are in part corrected by re-
Election from white cowls l see no
reason why the new Edison light should
not be attached to this plant, if deslr-
able.
This electric manufacture has been a
striking advertisement for the Times,
but so far it is not an economy. They
have more light than they need or want
to have, and the cost of the plant is the
capital of gas company-not a legiti-
mate expense of newspaper establish
ment.
THE ELECTROTYPING SHOP
Is a well-appointed room, equipped with
all the modern appliances of the traffic,
where are made the plates for the
weather diagrams published daily in the
Times, and also maps, charts, ETC. So
we'll is this shop perfected that mod
crate sized plate can be turned out in a
few minutes. Practical newspaper
managers will recognize the economy
and desirable use of this important at
tachment.
TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE.
The Times has its own wires over
much of England and most of the con-
tinent, and its own service of them by
accomplished correspondents-men of
ability and influence. 1t uses Reuter-
(the associated press of Europe), but
only partially as an incident, its page or
more of tele graphic news being genel-
silly exclusively its own, and the Reuter-
news coming in only supplementary.
1t is a common expression among
newspaper men in our country that we
only use the telegraph largely. l think
that the special telegraph service of the
Times exceeds that of any newspaper,
saving possibly the New York Herald.
1t does not strike the popular and uned-
ucated eye perhaps so strongly as ours,
because it does not deal in criminal
news, small fires, petty accidents, sensa-
tons, etc.; but every morning the Times
does have dispatch from every capital
in Europe, from. ''stick" to column
and half or two columns in length,
giving the political situation of the day,
and the great business and social fea-
tures-t the matter that statesmen and
scholars and leaders read and talk about.
They are its constituency. Its tele-
graphic service of special matter aver
ages, think, about a page day, and
a page of the Times is equal in super
ficies to over twenty per cent. more than
a page of the Press or New Y ork Her
AID
1t is all 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 merely as a record. The
dispatch, as it is received, is read off by
the telegraph operator to the operator of
type-machine, who pays it off by ear,
and the dispatch, thus reduced TO writ
ten 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