Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-02
Work On London Newspapers.

From the Leisure Hour.
Soon after six In the evening the sub editors
arrive, and begin work upon the piles of manu-
script and printed matter which await them
there. The printer is pressing them for copy"
for his hands are waiting; but they must proceed
cautiously, or they will choke space which will
be sorely wanted later on. Now the reportars
In pallament and out Of doors begin to send up
their first manuscripts, and il these. and those
reports to which there is no option. do not suffice
to keep the printers going, a column or two lit
erary reviews may be given to them. since these
last, If found In excess when the paper is made
up can be held over.
By ten the editor and his assistants will no of
their posts, and now serious consultation ia held
for the topics of the principal leaders must be
decided on without delay. Such a choice has
been deferred until the latest possible moment
for good reasons. Had 1t been made before. all
the data which foreign and domestic kilograms
private notes from whips" confidential init
nations from political friends and the explora-
lions OF trusted social agents could WELD had
been realized, it might be liable to reversal when
all the arrangements based on 1t were In opera
ton. As it Is, the late delivery of a blue-book
the publication of an extraordinary gazette or a
telegram announcing that favOrite regiment
had lost heavily in South Africa will unset the
operations OF the editors room Just when such
disturbance is most incOnvenient. Sometimes
material necessary for them is at hand. An
eminent statesman Is speaking at Ednburg.
Liverpool or Manchester, and in London his
speech is being delivered by the telegraph boys
by instalments
In such case the leader-writer will be busy
on the earlier part of the speech while the ora
tor is constructing his later sentences By
quarter past ten O'Clock the Underwriters will
have addressed themselves to their tasks. and
before they have nearly finished their articles
the earliest paragraphs will have been handed
to them In proof for correction. By about
eleven the chief printer makes his appearance
In the editors room with his statement" q
schedule of the titles and length in columns of
the articles he has received, showing the fore
seen result that the paper is overcrowded
Proofs are now coming down very fast and
must be dealt with rapidly and returned By
half-past twelve the fourth page that which is
at readers left hand when he opens the paper
out. must be closed up, locked in its iron frame.
and sent to the foundry to be stereotyped. The
NTH page is the second to be sent to the fOun-
Dry. and the inner pages are kept open longest.
ny about two the last paragraph is dropped into
the last open column, and such as it has been
made. with its merits and defects, the mornings
paper must go before the world.
A few nights ago the editors at work on the
top floor of the tallest newspaper Office in New
York, heard the fire-engines gathering at its
base about midnight. Stepping to the telephone,
ohc vi thc tuitofe Cdiic0 W TIE ponce HeadQuaf
tiers mile away: lis our office on irei" No"
came the prompt reply. ats little building
rotnd thescorner." 1t took less time to ask the
question of man mile off, who knew all about
1t nom routine reports, than to 60 down stairs
and see for themselves.
A Paris newspaper credits the widowed Bar
oness Rothschild with the intention of estab-
llshing In Versailles home for aged and desti-
tute authors and journalists She is said to
have set apart SOC, coo francs for the purpose