The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-01
NirAt-work on Morning Newspapers.

The morning papers do large part OF
their work at night, and few more active
scenes can be found than at one of these es-
adjustments. Stand, for instance, in the
business room Of the Herald, and see the
hurried groups of advertisers who
are running their slips in so as not
to lose the next issue Many of these
people have just got through their
days work, and improve this chance OF
making their wants known to the world.
Here are clerks and porters looking mp
situations. contrasted with cooks and
house-maids, who are offering their services
to the public Here is delicate-looking
lass, who with modest blush hands in
an advertisement asking for place per
common one in city life of poverty
driving families once rich and ex-
allied to seek bread by hard labor.
Such misfortune is illustrated by the pain
full histories of sewing girls, music teachers,
governesses, etc., which one can readily
understand when reading the advertising
column. Here, too, is some finical youth
inserting personal" to some girl he has
met, who will probably never see the adj
vertisement, while he will wait day after
day, vainig expecting an answer.
THE hNGiNE EOOM.
In the vault BENEATH the mighty engine
is resting from its labors, having just worked
off one side of the paper, and is being pre-
gineer is giving it thorough examination.
Its machinery must be in perfect order, for
a breakdown at midnight would be costly
damage. Go up to the second-story where
editors and reporters are hard at work pre-
pairing matter, and every little while jerking
the bell and sending copy upthe elevator
to the composing room. These men will be
on duty until after midnight, and such
work as this tells upon the system in the
most eXhausting manner. All. little does
the reader, as he Tolls over newly-printed
sheet, damp from the press think of the
close and trying effort of combined in
tellects, poorly paid and worked hard, and
the sacrifices of health and comfort
which gave it existence. We may
ascend still higher to the composing
ROOM" where the types are set and the pa
per got ready for the press. Here 100 men
are hard at work, and amid the general 81
lence one hears the incessant click of type.
One great difference between night and day
duty in such an Office is that in the last
hours of work all copy" is in manuscript.
The clippings have been cut up during
the earlier part of the day, and now come
the
THOUGHTS FROM THE FEvERED BRAIN.
Most Of these men, after the paper has
gone to press, put on their coats hastily
and 60 home, first taking their accustomed
drink at the porter-house, which is ever
ready to entrap the victim Of appetite. Some
of them, however, remain at work until
morning. The reason of this is they are
out Of town men, living in Orange or Nor
risania, and by working all night
they can go home by o'clock in the
and stay all. day. There was
q time when it could be said with
truth. Man goeth to his labor until even
ing" Now, however, the rule is to large
degree reversed, and men work by night
and rest by day. The day, however, is
never proper time tor rest, and the SUM-
bers taken at this unreasonable hour are far
less restorative than those of nights. Our
reach their present perfection
through the incessant sacrifice of health
and comfort on the part Of editors and
craftsmen, and again we exclaim how little
Is this considered by those who dawdle over
a morning paper and sip their coffee at
case, while criticising the labors of that IN
fortunate class referred to.-[Cor. New
York Times.