New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-15
LONDON JOURNALISM.

NEW MACHINES AND NEW MElHODS
THE TIMEss TYPE-sETrING MAcHINEs-THE POST
AID THE GAZETTEs AT A PENNY.
IRON An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUSE.l
LONDON, June 22.-lype-setting machines
have had fair trial in this city at the Office Of The
Times having been in for several years past There
idea extant that they @aDorsavng machines,
and this far exact that they can be worked by boys
aud when filed do their work with considerable
rapidly. Concerning this there Is no difference OF
opinion the tiresOme work Of filing the tubes
has performed. the ypesetter works quickly under
the care of boy. This beng granted even by the
workpeople themselves it remains to consider the draw
backs to the typesetter in use by The Times 1t de-
stroys great quantity of type, as much 1t is said as
three or four columns per diem. No satisfactory
method OF distributing" the type for it has yet been
discovered and they have fallen back upon an auto
matte type-castng machine which daily sends in page
after page of absolutely new type in tubes. for
the type-setter foundry has been established on the
premises aud The Times makes lts own type.
Every day three or four columns are sent from the
foundry into the office 1t also said good authority
that az The Times office there marked ndispostion
to acknowledge a failure of any kind and that as the
type-setter is what may be called fad" Of Mr. Mac
donald the manager. it must be made a success. or
AT leastmsde TO appear There has been endless
trouble with the machine; but inasmuch as the man
ager has up his mind that 1t shall succeed every
body puts the the matter and lets II down
80 made up a. not to too sharply the charges
aralust the rype-setter. BY these means species OF
spurious success has been manufactured for compost
ton by machinery: while in fact 1t Is gross failure
from az economical financial point Of view. The ma
chine does lie work. it is true and as SHOW ls very
good; hut il breaks more than it saves.
It significant, too, that IN newspaper Offices man.
aged as shrewdy and skuly that Of The Daily Ners,
the idea OF adopting ypesetter is not even enter
tanned This perhaps would prove very little were ii not
thai The Daily Necs and The STANDARD very swift
III adopting improved Walter printing machines, and
cleared out their old machinery at the best price they
could get The Standard long ago sold lot Of compare
lively old machinery The MornHg Post and replaced
il with the new machinery already in full blast at The
Dailg Mars Office II well known. OF course, that tie
folding part OF the last new machine has proved
useless. Except for solitary subscribers folded news
papers are a nuisance. They viii not pack" and
Smith & Co. shut down upon them.
There is, then. no want OF readiness 10 follow The
Times when its machinery Is successful Perhaps tie
managers OF other great newspapers may be unduy in
1uenced BY the reports OF practical men"
Probably they have got at underground sources
Of information. But whatever their reasons
they srug their shoulders and proclaim the ypesctter
AZ The Times Office not successful enough for them
10 adopt Naturally enough they Will NOT speak very
freely the subject Buf tAe fact remains that they
have allowed ne Times ior several years 10 ENJOY
since lie reductlonto penny. The Morning Po-rs cir
aud half times and little less than three times as
great II This. when the quality OF the paper on
which The Post is printed Is considered, represents II
he said severe loss. The present, however
time all newspapers here. Advertisement
pour in quite wonderfully
/ Inc TQU MdH Gazette thanks 10 the last twelve or
eighteen months glut of advertisements made profit
last year Since has been reduced to penny it, cir
cuatOn increased but in nothing approaching the
ratio Of The AOy9iJg Post should ytbing Ike panic
occur shr1ukage advertisements from their
present abnormal Development to the average Of the last
seven years The Pail IiGL Gazette would be dead loss
When Yates Thompson took II as free GIT from
his fatnerin-law, everybody IN Journalism was aston
ished not gift, but its acceptance. Advertise
me1ts however pulled il through last year-jus through
To the gut OF advertisements has Deen
ana Is il is said thai London daily paper, which
previously returned very profits made last year
e3j 600 sterling and above Is usual earnings.
me ST. JGmcsS Gazette mas increased It's circulation
little since the reduction to a penny There can Ao"
ever be no question OF profit this year The most ta
GOOD fortune the advertising side can DO VIII Dc 10
mitigate loss incurred on production There H. how
ever good money behind he 81. James, when can
hardly be regarded a commercial speculation IhOse
vino are deeply interested Ii pass ny the question OF
prOut ana loss with Indifference All they wish TO do Is
10 ptch in Gladstone and 1t Is likely that they
viii have TO 'psy the piper" very long BIZ. The
pipcr-n-chief is Mr.. Fred. Greenwood, a good AID
c.ever fellow, bat rabd the subject OF Gladstone,
against WON lie d" eklrs " the "p,b. och daily.