Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-21

l8 Hi tAPCIt thO Oeo.sNe~.
nsr; ence of some OF them is hereditary.
Every employe on the paper is oil the
Highest Grade OF Scholarship
or business training, but the managers
and editors are working as hard ana
closely as il they were starting new
enterprise. Mr.. Chenery, the manag-
inc editor, sees the first paper on the
press every night. Mr.. Mcdonald. the
managing publisher, sees the whole edi-
tion off the press. Mr.. Walters 1.-THE
main proprietor) own house is adJoln-
ing and runs into the Times building, Is
substantially a part Of it. The Tunes
was the first journal printed on steam
propelled machine, in November, 1914:
The new press produced about l,OOO
impressions an hour, great improve
ment in the former press printing oy
hand at a common press, whereby zVV
sheets per hour were printed on one
side
An Edition of About sc, 900 an Hour
is now run of by the several presses.
The paper is generally made up oil SIX
teen large pages, but twice a week twen-
ty pages are needed to accommodate ad-
yertisers and additional news The
price OF single copy of the Tunes varies
from three pence lsix eentsl 10 three
pence and half penny according to the
size. Another marked feature Is the
watchiul economy practlced IN tue daily
management. While all the first cost
or investment expenses have been ON
the most liberal and solid scale, the daily
running expenses are very closely
guarded. The very rags with which
the machines are wiped are counted,
and those who use them cannon
receive clean ones until they return the
dirty ones. The latter are then mashed,
and it is said that this small operation
saves yearly one hundred and fifty
pounds. The same economy--the
child OF thorough knowledge of the
business through every depart,
ment of the establishment, editorial ana
manufacturing. The distinguishing
characteristic of the Times is solidity.
Tne Editorial Department,
like everything else OF influence and
weight in England, rests squarely on
the University, and what that means il
takes some insight into the English Lille
10 understand. The paper addresses
the leaders and thinkers, and statesmen
OF the world, and it must have the best
trained power to speak TO them. The
solid paper that il is printed on is equal
to book paper in grade. Three oi the
twenty pages OF the Times 20 to the
pound OF printing paper. The proof
reading is pertection-mOre scholarly
and faultless than the average Ameri.
can book. But while everything is solid
and perfected on the Times, while every
man on il is trained and tried in his pro-
fession, and there is
No Experimenting in the Business
OF the establishment, there is no cessa-
ton of mental energies or invention, for
these men are veterans standing ready
to hold their paper abreast oi the times
and TO seize first the vantage
ground of any new discoveries that
might affect the property OF the news
paper. The Times, indeed, has always
been a college of invention or discovery
in the newspaper world, spending large
sums of money in reaching after new
processes and improvements in ma
chinery or management. Among the
achieved results OF its labors in this way
are the Walter press and the type-set.
ting machine-two enduring monu'
ments. / was gratitied to find in this
connection that among the problems re-
volviag in the fecund womb OF the
Times office was one that had often oc-
Cured to me-viz: the publication sim
ultaneously Of great daily paper in
dozen cities. That Is certainly
The Newspaper Of the Future,
and the future may be near at hand.
There is no excitement or nervous hur.
~ in the 7imes building-nOthing, per-
haps, that would impress an unskilled
visltor-but the mental atmosphere Is
very stimulating. In fact one feels tired
and exhausted after inspecting honestly
it's plant and workings, so great are the
achieved results, SO iimitless the range
OF the thousand suggestions which start
themselves in reviewing, in the sympa'
thetic companionship OF its own man.
agement, the first newspaper office OF
the world. j. +. q.