Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-21
THE LONDON TIMES.
SKETCH or IHe THUk0eRtR VI
PRlNTING-H0USE SQUARE.
lts Mechanical Arrangements, Involving
the Manufacture Of all suppliss-H0~
n is Edited and Published-Ihe
Solidi,y Of the Great Paper.
"Ias NEWSPAPER or THE FUTURE.

You will perhaps think, Nr. Editer.
that am burdeuin2 your columns with
too much newspaper talk TO interest the
general reader, when / tell you am
about to refer agaiR to the subject oil
former letters-the world renowned
newspaper. the london 7ises. l shall
coufine myself chiefly to the mechani-
cal FEATURES, as being Of most popular in
terest and best
Picturiug the Establishment
TO the non-professional world. The ed
itorial side is OF professional rather than
public interest, and, besides. why
should the arcana OF the profes
sion be laid before those eyes
which see notf Solidly established
for wears, (now nearly a century,
founded on the strong basis Of the UNI
versity and the governing classes o
England, conducted by men every one
OF whom is an expert and veteran in
the business, the Tmles enjoys an IN
come that now comes in ot itseii,
stretching out like some OF our great rail-
way companies. it now employs por'
ton OF its surplus revenues every year
i'm buttressing itself by extending Its
works out to the permanent
Manufacture Of Its Own Supplies.
Let me enumerate some OF the most
important, as illustrative OF the scope
of the plant. The 1YmSS
First Manufactures its own presses.
Second-Founds its own type.
Thirl-Provides its own light-elec-
trio.
Fourlh-Feeds its employees on the
spot.
Fith-Has its own electrotypiDg
shop.
Sixth-Hss its own telegraphic SER
vice and wires-in the main; and
Seventh-Repair shops for all these
different mschineries.
All these great shops and offices are
under one roof, and the clus'
ter OF them, with the other ordinary de-
partrnents OF newspaper office, in edi-
torial, composing, pro1f, stereotyping,
making up, press business, advertising
aud distribution rooms forms the Times
building.
The Walter presses are made here Tor
the market, as well as for the proprletors
own paper, and in these shops / found
the workmen in the busy clatter ot
turning out great machines as in any
great factory or foundry.
In the Pressroom
ui the paper stand ten; eight 90 every
night, and two stand as reserve bri.
gade. Each press prints at the rate oil
I :, 900 per hour. In the spacious paper
room below you wander through long
avenues of huge rolls OF paper, each roll
four miles long. | watched at one Of the
presses the four mile run Of one Of these
rolls, and il was striking to see how
uuicSly il was done. Much OF the me-
chaniral interest OF the Times centres in
irs type department. | brought away
with me some type made under my eve
in the foundry room. But that il only
the beginning OF the wonder. Follow
iny this type into another department,
Won see il is set by machinery. All pub.
lishers are familiar with the history OF
the long effort OF Mr.. Walter in this dl.
r-ct;oa. Here is the result; One half
Uf the Times every night is
Set by Machinery.
One machine does the work OF
six to eight skilled compositors
Ii cannot correct, however, and
here Is its weak point, or the whole
paper would be set with it. As 1t is the
work IL about divided. A young man
sits before what looks like a piano
board, with four or five hanks OF keys
all lettered. lie plays on these keys
" ith the four fingers OF each haad
rapidly, and the type are as rapidly
shifted into a minute steel galley, the
width Of the body of the type. Ths
machine Just reverses the
motion of the setting instrument, and
in the last stage each letter OF the alpha
bet is rapidly strunted of on it's sepa-
rate side track, where they stand ike
long trains OF freight cars in the yard OF
a colossal depot. The last permanent
O! the Timcs has been the
Manufacture of Its Own Light,
on the electric system, using carbon
points. The cost tor the plant OF this
has been very great, but it is so far sue
c-ssiul, and the cost of now producing
light is very moderate. Quite thick
porcelain globes are used to temper the
fierce power Of the light, and the dark
shadows are in part corrected by reilec-
ton from white cowls. This electric
has been q striking adver-
tisement for the TiHts, but so far il is
not an economy. | have not time to tell
YOU Of the csnteen, which consists OF a
large kitchen aud two dining
rooms, where the employees are
led. nor of the stereotyping
o Ulectro-iypinI shops The Tines has
It's own wires over much OF England
and most OF the continent, and its own
service oi them by accomplished cor
respondents men OF ability and intiu.
e ice. II u es K er the Associated
rress OF EurOpel Out only partially. 1t
is a common expression among newsps.
per men in our country that We only
use the telegraph largely. think that
the
Special Telegraph Service
OF the TiD,es exceeds that Of any Ameri-
can newspaper. saving possibly the New
York Herald. II does not strike the
popular and unedueated eye perhaps so
strongly as ours, because il does not
deal in criminal news, small fires. petty
accidents, sensations, &c, but every
morning the Tins does have dispatch
from every capital in Europe, giving the
political situation Of the day and the
great business and social features the
matter that statesmen and scholars, and
leaders read and talk about. The re.
eeption OF the telegraphie news Of the
Times is something unique The lin-s
from the continental capitals-Berlin,
Paris, Rome, etc.-all OF course
Converge in One Room.
and the dispatches are received over an
instrument that prints. The printing,
however. serves more as a record. The
dispatch, as it is received, is read of by
the telegraph operator TO the operator OF
u type machine, who plays it od by ear.
and the dispatch thus reduced to
q written form is supplied TO
the editors in printed proof