St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
The London Times Establishment.

morning newspaper over breakfast has
very vague idea of the tremendous
organization of men and means anu
machinery necessary to the daily jour-
NAILS production. Apart from the
CORRESPONDENTS, the telegraphists, the
steamers, the railway trains, that are
engaged in its service abroad, there are
at home the editors, leader writers,
critics, reviewers, reporters, messen-
GERS, q multitude Of persons, men OF
the highest culture and learning, down
to the nimblest of chroniclers, telegraph
clerks and messengers. These, formlda-
! bic as is their power, simply supply the
pabulum, the manuscript, the material
! for manufacture. How great and how
/ little all this is an outsider can hardly
appreciate until he has seen a leading
! newspaper establishment at work. The
/ Times office is IL vast machine-shop and
factory. Everything in the place, ex-
cent the paper, is made on the spot.
! The TOP floor of the building is de-
voted to the bound files OF the paper.
/ Descending to the next, You come to
dininy-rooms and kitchens-one de-
partment for the clerks, another for the
rompositors and workmen generally.
i
PRINCIPLES. and as q rule all the en-
ployes are glad to have the opportunity
OF taxing their meals here. The
kitchens are dup with every modern
appliance. The meats are not baked,
all kinds of joints together, IN one oven,
as is the case in most English restau-
rants, to the utter destruction OF their
individual character and flavor; they
are roasted before open fires.
noticed that there is a complete stall
of cooks, with q chef, who APP
pears to take special prlde Ill
his art. On this floor lhere
are also store-rooms and other apart
ments. AS you descend you come next
to broad and high composlngg-room
lighted with electric lamps. Cloak
rooms are provided for the men, each
article of clothing being checked by an
2 attendant after the manner OF New
| York club-houses. Here and there are
| quiet offices, with telephone and other
J machines in use and on trial. One room
, is devoted to the special Paris wire.
t Bv the side of the telegraph, which
reels off it's message on the now quite
> familiar roll Of paper, is type-seiter,
so that the Paris letter is put into type,
2 hot as it comes in. from the slips them
/ selves. In another apartment are tele-
t phones connected with the reporters
| rooms at the Houses of Parliament.
, During last session all the night reports
| were sent to the Office through this
| medium. The stenographer writes out
Y his notes as heretofore, then the manu-
: script is read Off through the telephone.
); The recipients of the messages at the
/ Times office dictate them to the type
J. settlers, aud so they are put into type.
d The manuscript comes up from the
e House as heretofore. and goes into the
g readino-room, SO that the proofs are
K read by the original copy, thus checking
G the telephone dictation. The type
}, setting machine is made in the Time;
IL office, and is as near perfection as it Is
e likely to be in our time. In corner OF
d one of the great composing rooms there
h are six or seven of these little machines
e They are capable of composing
10 three parts of the news portion of the
j. paper, each putting up five or six col
f. umns night. The editorial and writ
}, ing-rooms occupy the next story below
le and convenient to the chiefs desk is :
" telegraph in direct communication Will
Dr. Mr.. Reuter- office.
is A pneumatic tube is used RICH
through the premises for the dlstrlou
5. ton of copy proofs and messages
IN On the ground-foor are the machines
Nc engines (the latter in pairs, in case
I'd accident), founderies and publlshln;
A offices; so that the last operation OF pro
a. ducton, the printing of the forms,
% conducted with the added facilities
q. approximation of departments. In
10 forms come down; they are stereotyped
he they pass to the machine; the paper J
or printed, and goes forth into the publlsf
or ino-office, which opens its doors q
about four o clock each morning to tn
10 carriers and porters o. Smith Il Sons
n,1 who are the chief distributors OF tn
IN leading journal. In'front or these bus
,la rooms. cut OF from the heat OF the ms
I he chinery. and having an outlet upo
ue Oueen Victoria street, are the adve,
i99 tising offices and the letter and inquir
~ department. From the aspect OF
90 manufactorv and government bureau
~ one, the establishment now assumes IL
20. appearance OF a bank. The similarity
,se not without point for here come
n ne 1.-The sinews OF war" In this depar
a. ment there is a telephone in commun
ats iiioA -, - n o.I EaL,,,o ,vb;o
~, cation With Inc hOEat EAcuiuSe' WIN
'o' can be switched off to the offices OF
nd the leading advertising agents in Il
are city.
a,e The inquiry department is for the u:
~ of persons who choose to have their le
JIG tiers addressed to the Times office, II
:, consulting the files, and for other pu1
raj poses--a convenience which the publ
ate evidently appreciates. The 1ao'e
the with all its ramilications and influence
un- reaching from Printing house square
Gle the uttermost ends OF the earth Co
lar stitutes one of the modern wonders