Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27


ment of the session: On nominations
Samuel Ryan, J. Ell. Reyes, I. A. Hoxie
A. F. Warden and @. Burnett; on reso
lutions-Levi Alden, J. A. Watrous anC
E. Charlton. Mr.. Hurlbut, of Ocono
mowoc, moved that a committee o.
five, consisting of the president anC
secretary and three members to be
chosen, be appointed to draft constitu
ton and report at the afternoon session
The motion was carried and the commit
tee was constituted as follows: Edwin
Hurlbut, chairman, T. *. Dunn, Sam
Ryan, President Coe and Secretary
Heg.
| HOW TO DO JOB PRINTING.
An interesting paper on Sob Print
ing-How to do it and What to Charge
for it," was read by J. r. Decker, of the
Columbus Republican. In the course
of his remarks Mr.. Decker said:
became job printer nearly % years ago.
| The art preservative has kept step with the
march of progress, has made achievements
| worthy of the age of steam and electricity has
been found equal to the demands OF the new
order of things, and is not likely to he left in
| the rear of the van of progress. The time has
passed when job printing may be done as the
village choir used to sing, ''by main strength.
| Printing now ranks among the fine arts. The
artistic designer, letter cutter and engraver,
| have furnished to the ingenious printer the
means with which to compete successfully with
| the steel and copper plate engraver, while the
| lithograper caunot compete with modern letter.
press work. A good job printer is a born artist.
| He must possess the inventive genius, the me-
chanical eye, the inherent taste, the knowledge
| of the harmony of colors, that would make him
| q sculptor or painter. But these faculties
must be cultivated. He must make his trade an
experiment and study. He must not be dis
| couraged if results are not always up to his
| ideal, but patiently and persistently strive for
| excellence. With multitude of standard and
| new faces and styles now offered by the foun-
dries, a printer has need of all his experience,
| sound judgment and practical knowledge, to
choose wisely. Whenever possible and practical
BILE select styles of type only in series.
| Scripts are an expensive luxury, but are inds-
pensable. A general and safe rule in the Sc
| lection of type is to choose whatever is pleas
| ant to the eye, and can be read at glance. OF
| this class there is an abundant variety for all
purposes. Labor saving fonts of rule that is
needed to any extent in the Office, 10 by far the
| most economical, work and time and nice
| job considered A font Of lsbor-saving leader
or by phen rule, for blank work, ought to be
| considered as necessary as the type itself.
| Metal furniture is far superior in accuracy and
convenience to wooden, but should be of the
| heaviest pattern procurable. Every job printer
will find it a convenient acquisition, especially
| if his Office is rather short of large wood type
for poster work, to be able to design and cut
| in wood a line of type, or a coarse wood cut,
| in an emergency. cherry board evenly
dressed is the most desirable for such work,
| yet whltewood or soft pine will answer good
purpose. A penknife blade. couple of
gouges and a fine milestone are all the tools
required, when once the design is on the board.
There are no rules generally applicable in re-
| gard to the display and arrangement OF
| a tasty job that are not lain down in
| the books, or known to the craft in general.
! The matter of paramount Importance is good
press work. With skill and experience credit
able work may be done on any regular press
now sent out. And as the press Is to good
printing, SO is the roller to the press. 1t is the
| one thing that can never be too good. Success
| depends more on good press work than all
else. valuable auxiliary to printing Office is
a stereotype outfit. Not any of the amateur
concerns go generally advertised, however, are
of practical use. No well regulated job print
| ing Office can afford to be without lever
paper cutter. In the economical management
/ of an Office, there should be due balance pre-
served between the material and the qualiica-
tons of the workmen employed. It is a mis-
take sometimes made by proprietors not prac-
| teal printers, to supply an establishment with
better type than printers. The reverse is safer
| plan. A printer well up in his art will produce
a creditable job with very ordinary material
1t is dangerous to let botch printer get into
a well appointed and equipped Office. He tries
to get all there is in the Office into each job he
| does. Ii he has lady's calling card to print,
he must make 1t known on the corners or that
card that there is Japanese, Chinese and
| Egyptian combination border in the shop. If
business card Is in hand he ransacks the cut
| case, and scares up the toad catching flies and
the mud-hen swallowing garter-snake, and
crowds the reading matter into close quarters
| IN one corner. If letter head is to be pro-
| duced, the type-butcher revels in all the fancy
| type and all the borders, and cuts up two feet
and half of new brass rule, and "matches I"
| corners that would let a cat through, and then
| prints bis fearful creation in all the colors of
the rainbow. Patrons need education up TO
| what good work is They are becoming edu-
| Gated, but the process is a slow one, and the
printer will have to suffer until the people will
pay fair prices for their work, and be as liberal
time and capital in the production of first class
| job printing.
| INVITED TO THE WORLDS FAIR.
Discussion on the subject treated in
Mr.. Decker's paper was suspended in
order to allow E. D. Holton, of this
city, to address the meeting on the
subject of the Worlds Exposition, to be
held at New Orleans. On invitation of
President Coe, Mr.. Holton took a posi-
ton on the stage and delivered a
short address. He strongly urged
the members present to arouse the
people of the state to a sense of the i'm
portance of having Wisconsin repre-
sented by large collective display at
the New Orleans Exposition. Edwin
Hurlbut, of Oconomowoc, who had been
called to the chair, followed Mr.. Holton
in short speech, in which he warmly
supported the request of the preceding
speaker, and declared that Wisconsin
should be well represented at New Or
leans, and to this end the newspaper
men of the state should do everything
possible.
Mr.. Decker's paper was then taken up
and discussed by M. P. Rindlaub, of
Platteville; /. A. Hoxie, of Evansville;
President Coe, and Sam Ryan, of APP
pleton. Mr.. Ryan's speech was a very
witty one and contained several valu-
able suggestions. The other speakers
| advanced some very good ideas in con-