Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-11-07
NO. 262,

men generally. The service is conducted
on canteen principle. and as a rule the EN-.
ployes are glad to have the opportunity Of
taking their meals here. The meats are no,
baked, all kinds of joints together, in one
oven, as is the case in most English restau-
rants. to the utter destruction Of their indi-
vidusl character and flavor: they are roasted
before open fires. | noticed that there is
complete staff of cooks, with chief. who ap-
pears to take special pride in his art. On
this floor are also store rooms and other
apartments. As You descend Won come next
to broad and high composing. rooms, lighted
with electric lamps. Cloak rooms are pro-
vided for the men, each article being checked
by an attendant after the manner Of New
York club houses. Here and there are quiet
offices. with telephone and other machines
in use and on trial One room is devoted
to the special Paris wire. By the side Of the
telegraph. which reels of its message on the
now familiar roll of paper. is type-setter,
so that the Paris letter is put into type, hot
rs it comes in, from the slips themselves. In
another apartment are telephones connected
with the reporters room at the Houses Of
Parliament. During last session all the night
reports sent to the office through this
medium. The stenographer writes out his
notes as heretofore, then the manuscript 10
read off through the telephone. The recipi.
ents of the messages at the Times Office die
tate them to the type-setters, and SO they are
put into type. The manuscript comes up
from the Houses as heretofore, and goes into
the resding-room so that the proofs are read
by the original copy, thus checking the tele-
phone dictation. The type-setting machine
| is made in the Times Office, and is as near
perfection as il is likely to be in our time. In
a corner Of the great composing-rooms there
are six or seven of these little machines
They are capable Of composing" three parts
of the news portion of the paper. each put
ting up Ave or six columns night. The ed
itorial and writing-rooms occupy the next
story below, and convenient to the chiefs
desk is telegraph in direct communication
with Mr.. Reuters office.
A pneumatic tube is used right through
| the premises for the distribution of copy"
proofs and messages. On the ground floor
are the machines, engines (the latter in psirs.
in case of accident foundries and publish
| ing officers; so that the last operation Of
production, the printing Of the forms, is con-
Quoted with the added facilities of approxi-
nation of departments. The forms come
down; they are sterotyped: they pass to the
machine: the paper isprinted. and goes forth
| into the publishing house, which opens its
| doors at about four at each morning to the
carriers and porters of Smith 4 Sons, who
are the chief distributors of the leading
| journal. In front of these busy rooms, cut
off from the heat of the machinery. and hav.
ing an outlet upon Queen Victoria street, are
the advertising Offices and the letter AID In.
quiry department. From the ASPECT of
manufactory and government bureau in one,
the establishment now assumes the appear
ance Of bank The similarity IL not with
out point for here come in 1.-The sinews of
war In this department there is a tele-
phone in communication with the Roval Ex-
change, which can be switched of to the
offices of all the leading advertising agents
| in the city
| The inquiry department IL for the use Of
persons who choose to have their letters ad-
dressed to The Times office, for consulting
the files. and other purpose--a convenience
which the public evidently appreciates. The
Times, with all its ramifcsiions and in.
fucnces, reaches from Printing house square
to the uttermost ends of the earth, and con-
sttutes one of the modern wonders of the
world and nothing about il is more remark
able than the fact that it may be said to
have grown up in our day. The art Of print.
ing has been literally revolutionized by the
present Mr.. Walter and Mr.. Macdonald.
| The Times was started in 1875, under the
title of the Daily Universal Register, and
adopted its present title three years later. II
was originated by Mr.. John Walter, grand
father of the present chief proprietor, Mr.
John Walter. NJ. 7. for Berkshire, who earn
ed for his paper the sobriq1et Of "The Thun-
derer" by his bold and fearless attacks upon
| national abuses, his defence Of the right, and
his defiance Of all obstructions that the wrong
might plant in his way.
On the 29ih of November, 1914, the Times
was printed by steam--the first instance Of
steam being applied to printing. The Book
of Days. Mr.. Grants Newspaper Press, and
d.. ...l.A T. Il n
tails of this notable change in the production
of newspapers, and the reader who desires to
investigate is referred to these and kindred
works. The Times is still high priced jour
nal I'D. }. is printed on superb paper, and its
staff includes some of the ablest men in Eu-
rope. II pays princely salaries 10 its depart
mental chiefs and foreign correspondents, and
stands by its writers with a loyal tendency.
"The Walter Printing Press" which il ca
pable Of printing 22 900 to "a. 600 an hour. il
the invention Of the present Mr.. Walter, who
supplements his scientific studies anil journal
istic duties with the onerous labors that be-
long TO a seat in Parliament. The Walter
machine was constructed under the super
intendence of Mr.. Mac cDoDald, who is con-
staDtly engaged in working out some new
| scheme for the reduction Of labor and the
perfection OF the art Of printing. 1t were
too great tax upon these pages to say in
how manv directions the Times management
is engaged: but the Walter succession In
Printing house square is wonderfully main
tanned.
| When stamp duty was enforced upon
advertisements, the Times paid 10000 In
one year 1880 to the government. II this
exaction had been continued, as well as the
penny stamp on each paper, the Times, on
its present sale and its present number Of
advertisements, would have had to pay the