Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-15
SCENES
At PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE IN LON,
DON.
Asight With ihs Worlds Greatest News
n,osr-Pen Pictures Of those VINO
Make the "lims.'-ediiors and
Sub.idilors at Work -"Ihs
lines Goes 10 Press"
Mr.. wALIeR.Oss OF The Pl0stekS0f
LIBERAL Ks0s D6t.
,..,.,., Correspondence OF the Register

I'm nv las, leit you, alter a ramoie
,..,,.,b a f,.x sub-lanes Of the metrop
oil. npon the thr eshold OF the great
Timos offiee.
I,is as the shades of evening gather
,o,rd the CJur DIS Miracles which en-
.,,,passes the TGm,s office, that the
seeas which it and the Square present
hs.omss more interesting. For early in
the evening the giant steam engines be-
Gin TO throb and as the hour advances
the monsters are fed with miles and
miles of stout white paper, which they
deyour as though they were so many
waters. 1t gets late at Printing House
Sousre, the sub-editors have been for
some time in their rooms, the inefable
mysteries OF the Times-editors, pro.
prietors, cabinet ministers, lord chan
cellors, generals Of the Jesuits, for aught
| know, have arrived from their cubs
in broughsms and in cabs. Who shall
teuP That stout, good humored looking
gentleman with the umbrella and the &C.
clesiastical neckcloth, may be the writer
of the comic leading articles, just arrived
with his copy. No; he has vainly tried
the door of the advertisement room,
which is closed. Perhaps he is only y.
", who, in the second column, entreats
2. q. to return to his disconsolate pa
rents; or the inventor OF some new
tooth powder with Greex name, orthe
discoyerer Of the "fve shilling gtrowsers."
It is getting late, and the windows OF the
great office are all blazing with gas.
The steal engine not only tbrobs, 1t
pants, il groans, it putfs, 1t snorts, 1t
bursts into wild changing paeans OF print
inc. Sub editors are now hard at work
cutting down "flimsy, running sheets OF
copy" on file, endlessly conferiDg with
perspiring foremen. 1t is getting late,
but there is no sign OF diminution yet
in the stream OF cabs that drive into the
square. Everyone who is in debt, and
everyone who ia in difficulty, and every
body who fancies that he or any friend,
relative or connection OF his has griev-
ance, and can put pen to paper,
| four letters together in orthography and
| four words in syntax, must needs write
a letter to the Times; and OF the metro
politan correspondents OF that journal,
the immense majority themselves bring
their letters down TO the Office, think
| ing happily that they might meet the
| e,litor standing "promiscuous" on the
door step, and after some five minutes
button holing, secure, irreyocably, the
| insertion of their communication. L
don't at all envy the gentlemen whose
duty it is to open and read lido they read
them at all?) the letters addressed TO the
editor of the Times. What quires of in
sane complaints, on matters running
IRON the misleliyery OF a letter to the
misgovernment of India, from the in
| iquities of the income tax to an
/ oyercharge for sandwich in
country inn, the editor must
have to wade through; what
reams of silly compliments about "your
influential journal" aud 'your world.
known paper" he must have TO read
through and grin in his sleeve at! What
a multitudinOus army, what q Persian
hos, these correspondents must be.
1t is getting latter and later. Oh!
anxious walters lor tomorrow news.
The Tunes has les secrets By this time -
state secrets, literary secrets, secrets
artistic aud dramatic: secrets OF robbery
and fire and murder-it holds them all
fast now, admitting none TO its conf
dence bat the ineffables, the printers,
and the ever-tnrobbing steam engine;
but it will divulge its secrets to millions
at five o'clock tomorrow morning. Later
and still later. The last report from the
last debate in the House OF Commons
has come in; the last paragraph OF in
teresting news dropped into the box by
stealthy penny-a-liner, has been elimi-
mated from a mass Of fiimsy on its
probation, and for the most part
rejected; the foreign telegrams are in
type; the slaughtering leaders glare In
their "chases" presaging woe and dis-
aster to ministers to morrow; the last
critic in white necktie has hurried
down with his column and half on the
lat new spectacle at the Princess Thea
ire, or has, which very frequently hap
pens, dispatched that manuscript from
the box at albion" where he mas been
snugy supping, bidding the messenger
hasten, and giving him TO procure q cab,
the sum OF one extra shilling, which
that messenger never by any chance
expends in vehicular conveyance, but
runs instead with the art criticism swift
as the timid roe, so swift indeed, that
policemen are only deferred through
chronic laziHess from pursuing
and ascertsining whether he has
been stealing anything. By this time
the Times has become light and replete
with matter, as one VINO has dined
we'll and copiously. Nothing is want
ing; city correspondence, sporting intel
ligence, markets, state OF the weather,
prices OF stocks AMI railway shares, par
Iiamentary summary, law and police
reports, mysterious advertisements, and
births, deaths and marriages. Now,
let the nations wonder, and the condnc-
tors OF the NANCY little continental fly
sheets Of newspapers hide their heads
in shame, for the Times the mighty
7Tmes-has "gone to bed" The pom
derous stereotyped iorms are on the
many presses; and at the rate Of twen-
ty thousand or more an hour, the
damp, broad sheets roll from the grim
iron inst trune Mt in the dissemination OF
light throughout the world.
! At tipur o'clock A. N. the first phase OF
the Publication of the Tmes newspaper
commences. In large bare room
something like the receiving ward OF a
hospital-with apay counter at one end,
and lined throughout with parallel rows
OF bare deal tables. The leading jour
naP' first sees the light OF
publicity with dazzling celer-
ity. TIE papers are carried from
the press all folded straigthsay t, the
door, where cabs and carts, and light
express vehicles are in readiness tn
convey them 70 the railway stations.
The scene outside then becomes one Of
bsffiing NOSE and confusion. There is q
cobweb of wheeled vehicles OF all sorts,
from a cab to u hybrid construction
somewhat between a wherlbarrow and
acoastmonger's shallow. There is much
| hsUliuy and fiur,iuv sh,viny hoisIi1o