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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

the elevator. One of them seizes a
wrench and loosens the screws i'll the
chase, while the other grasps mallet
and ''planer. - When the ''form'' is
loosened sufficiently, it is ''planed"
downfall is block of wood with
smooth surface is run over it and
at the same time pounded with
mallet until no piece of type stands
higher than its fellows. After the
"planing'' process the form is again
tightly ''lOcked. - A brush is then
worked over the face of the type
to clean it, and some sort of
preparation put upon it to keep
the "matrix' from adhering The
sterectyper then takes what looks like a
piece of thin paste board, thoroughly
wet, ard little larger than one page of
THE GAZETTE. 1t is made of alternate
layers of papier mache and tissue paper,
glued together. They are kept damp,
and are perfectly soft and pliable. This
is spread smoothly over the face of the
type. Then the stereotyper and his as
sistant each takes large, fiat brush
Emade of heavy bristles, and with steady
downright blows, pounds upon the
surface of the .papier mache. The
bristles are set so close together in these
brushes that the beatinG'' makes
noise like pounding with mallet. They
drive the soft, papier mache down into the
open spaces in and between the letters
until the impress of every point is made
i'll its plant surface. Two or three
pieces of blanket, just large enough TO
cover the "form are taken from a wire
overhead and spread over the form. The
form, with papier mache and blankets,
Is then pushed on to large table with a
smooth surface, and having upon it what
looks like large letter, press The form
is slid under the press, which is screwed
down upon it with all the strength of two
able-bodied men. This is ''steam
table. - That is to say, it is hollow, and
pipes from the boiler down stairs carry
steam into it, rendering it so hot that the
soft, wet papier mache is in six minutes
made perfectly dry and hard. At the
end of six minutes the press is unscrewed,
the form slipped from under it, the
blankets removed and the matrix taken
of, dry and hard. and presenting to view
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he will let us know, politely but firmly,
and there is no danger of our interrupt
ing the work while he is about. He
won t allow it. The reporters, if they
are in, are all busy writing up what they
have gathered; the telegraph editors are
rushing through the Associated Press
''stuff' and the ''specials, - which are
laid upon their tables by the telegraph
messengers. THE GAZETTE takes all the
report sent into Texas by the Associated
Press, gathered by its correspondents the
world over, and embracing 1000 to $500
words. 1t also has about 300 special cor
respondents. located throughout Texas
and at prominent points i'll other states.
The matter sent in by press and special
must all be handled, - condensed or
filled out, as the case may be, heads
written, and marks put upon it denoting
the department for which it is intended
1t is then put into dumb waiter and
sent to the composing room upstairs.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

''Let us hurry upstairs, " says the &C
commOdating night editor, "and we will
see what becomes of the matter just sent
up
We do hurry, and arrive i'll the COM
posing room just as the foreman takes it
from the dumb waiter. Here we see
twenty-five or thirty men at work in
silence-nothing being heard but the
''click - " click, - of the types against
the ''sticks. - Everybody knows how
type is set, and ii is done i'll large office
just as in Il small one, so we need no i'll
formation on that point.
."But, where so much matter is set up,
how is everything kept in order, so that
it will appear i'll its proper placer you
ask 1t is simple enough, and we will
watch the foreman to see how it is done.
The articles he has just received he cuts
into ''takes - each of which he marks
with figure and letter. For example,
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of the telegraph, live stock and CONNER

of the telegraph, live stock and CONNER
cial editors.
- If our visit is made in the day time, we
will find these rooms almost vacant. The
telegraph editors have nothing to do I'M
til night, when the press reports and spe-
cials begin to arrive, and thu local men
are at work on the street, working up
the occurrences of the day. We will find
the managing editor at his desk, the edi
torial writers busy with "leaders and
paragraphs, - and the literary editor
deep in the last new novel or the late
magazines We must not interrupt these
workers with too long a call. The man
aging editor is plotting the campaign for
tomorrow 5 paper-for the work for
each issue must be laid out
as the plans for battle-the
assistants are deep i'll the facts and fig
ureS, the premises and conclusions of
economic science; literature, fresh from
the press, is more interesting to the liter
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

up the special service, and prepared to
give Fort Worth such a newspaper as had
never been published in the city. Shortly
afterward the name of the company was
changed to the Loving Publishing Com
pany, but the paper remained i'll the
same hands. In 1888 another change
was made and the Fort Worth Publish
ing Company become owners of The GA
ZETTE. In 1884 the paper was. sold to
George B Loving, and early Ill 1885 he
sold it to The Gazette Printing Company.
Under this ownership it was. run until
August 10, 1885, at which time, owing
to numerous complications, the paper
was suspended. As soon as THE GAZETTE
suspended, a number of enterprising
gentlemen formed a company under the
name of the Democrat Publishing Com
pany ,-obtained q charter and begapyfhe,
publication of the Fort Worth Daily
Democrat. Mr.. Loving, however, only
allowed the THE GAZETTE property to lie
idle for two weeks, and on September l
the paper was started up again.
Ten days later THE GAZETTE
plant, books, franchises and good will
were purchased by the Democrat Pub
fishing Company, and on September u it
took charge with the announcement that
next day the paper would appear as the
Democrat Gazette. During the day,
however, the plan was changed, and the
old name, Fort Worth Daily GAZETTE,
was adopted instead of the hyphenated
affair.
UNDER THE NEW DEAL.
With the new company THE GAZETTE
took ON new life. The newspaper bust
ness was very lively in North Texas dur
ing the latter part of 1886 and the first
part of 1886. The Dallas News was es-
tablished and the old Dallas Herald made
q squirt for life. Then the Herald went
down and the field was left to THE GA
ZETTE and the News. THE GAZETTE set
the pace. AS it had been the first paper
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

Ing circulation demands faster printing,
and double cyclinder Hoe is purchased,
and finally increased advertising patron
are and the demands of readers require
more space, and trains departing at
an early hour make increased facilities
for rapid printing necessity, and then
come smaller type and a perfecting
press, which prints all the pages
of the paper at one time, and turns them
out at the rate of many thousands an
hour. At first an editor, Il comp0sitor
and a...devil do all the regular work
while here.aRd there a voluntary CORE
spondent sends in the - itemS'' which he
can find and manufacture in his
neighborhood: at last, a business mana
ger, with clerks, bOOkkeepers and assist
ants, runs the counting room, the editO-
rial and news matter is prepared by editors
and correspondents counted by hundreds,
and set up by compositOrS numbered by
the score. Such has been the history of
the Fort Worth GAZETTE.
TIE OLD DEMOCRAT.
In October, 1871, Messrs. X. NJ. Van
Zandt, sam Evans, w. II. OvertOn and
John Hanna bought small plant and
founded the Fort Worth Democrat, a
weekly paper of which j w. Cleveland,
d SCuOOl was manu- WI
tor. Early in 1872, John d. Templeton
became editor of the paper, continuing
In that capacity until January / 1873,
when B. B Paddock who had purchased
the whole outfit, assumed entire control.
The Democrat had been established by
public spirited men, for the public good,
and Captain Paddock did not let it falter
In the good work for which it was or
iafned. Early and late, from one years
end TO another, in season and out of sea-
son, it labored for the upbuilding and
general prosperity of Fort Worth. The
Weekly Democrat was continued with
success up to July, 1876, when. it was
converted into a morning daily. But
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

The first will be A, the second A, and
so to the last. These takes vary in length
according 10 the time the copy is receiv-
ed. If it is early they are longer, per-
haps each one will make 1000 ems; they
are made shorter as the hour is later, and
after a IN. each one will make but four
lines. After being cut and marked
they are placed on hook, from which
they are taken by the several
compositors as they finish the "takes''
already ''in hand.' Let us follow
one. The first to go is l A, which
is on top. A compositor takes it, goes
to the ''head letter cases' and sets up
the ''head. He then goes TO his own
leases and sets the body of the article.
When that is completed he carries his
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

airy editor than the gossip of idle visitors
could possibly be. All the editorial mat
ter, save that upon important matter
contained in the Geographic reports, is
prepared in the day time and put i'll type
early in the night, SO rs to be out of the
way of important news that may arrive
late.
Suppose, however, we go at night.
Then there is work, to be sure. The
whole establishment is in charge of the
night editor, lynx-eyed, ready-witted
fellow, who knows newspaper business
from the ground up, and who is
capable of being in several places at the
same time, and doing half dozen things
at once. We may engage him in con-
versation, for if he has anything TO do
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

stick to the fdumpinG stand - takes
the matter out and sets i'll Il brass galley,
putting numbered Slug at the end
10 show WHO set it, and laying by il Il
slip of paper upon which,iS marked A.
The mau with = A will set his matteC lust
below it, and this will lie continued by
those who have ''A' matter, until the
article is finished or thl. galley, ,filled,
when it will b. proved by the :: galley
boy, - the proof read and marked, and
the matter carried TO each compositor
who has made two errors, shat he may
correct them. 10
If you will stop and consider. the fact
that each letter, each punctuation mark,
and each space used i'll newspaper must
be handled separately, you wills see that
the work of type-setting is one that mast
be done with great skill. Let us take the
Sunday edition of THE GAZETTE. There
you have eighty-four columns of matter,
each column of which contains about
5000 different pieces of type metal, or
G72 200 pieces in all. And yet some peo-
pie complain of typographical errors. and
smart reporters call the composing room
the butchery - The wonder is there
are not more mistakes.
Well, when the proof has been read
the man who makes up the forms. Here
we find brass table built on stand
which moves on wheels. This is an
''impOSing' table, and has steel chase
upon it, just the size of one page of the
paper. Suppose the article of which we
are keeping track is an important one
and is intended for the first page of the
paper. The makeup has the ''head''
of the paper, the ''date line'' aud the
first page advertisements placed i'll posi-
ton inside this chase. As fast us he gets
matter for the first page he puts it i'll the
chase, until finally il is full. He then
clocks it up, - that is, tightens it with
screws in the sides of the chase so that
every piece of type will be held in its
place. When this is done the table with
the form on it, is wheeled upon the
elevator and carried down to the
STEREOTYPE ROOM.
Be it known that TIE GAZETTE is not
printed from type, but from a - counter
felt presentment' made right here i'll the
building. And in the work of making Il
newspaper there is nothing of more in
terest than the making of the stereotype
plates upon which the printing is done.
As soon us the ''fOrm'' which we have
seen ''made up'' reaches the stereotype
room, the table is seized by the stereo-
typer and his assistants and whisked off
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

range from one that will make line as
fine as Il hair up to one an eighth of an
inch in width. After the outlines are
cut, all the shading and detail is finished
IN the same manner, directly on the
chalk, without first drawing on paper.
The artist having completed this part OF
the work, the plate is turned over to the
stereotyper, who places it (A) between
the bearings &C and d. of the
casting box shown in Figure q.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

Fort Worth was not yet ready for paper
such as Editor Paddock published, ard
after hard, brave struggle for a few
years, the daily edition was suspended.
1t was only allowed to lie dormant a few
months, however, and early i'll 1881 it
was revived in the form of four-column
folio, and the announcement made that
it would be enlarged and improved as
business justified. 1t grew in popularity
and soon increased i'll size. The Associ-
ated Press report was printed and spe-
cial service created. In Il short time in
stead of four it was an eight-column
sheet. During the suspension of the
Democrat a daily called the Advance
had been started. The two papers were
soon consolidated and the Democrat-Ad-
vance was the only morning daily in Fort
Worth.
THE GAZETTE.
In August, 1882 the Stock Journal Pub
fishing Company, with George B Loving
as manager, purchased the Democrat
Advance and, changing the name to Fort
Worth Daily GAZETTE, increased the
plant, multiplied the editorial force,
added to the list of correspondents, built
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

The space between the bottom of the box
lB) and the top of the bearings Cd and Cd
are just the height of type, thus max
ing the cast when finished the same
height. The lid (E) is then thrown up
and elamped as shown in Fig 8. and hot
type metal poured in ON top of the plate.
After this has cooled it is taken out and
the plate removed from the metal, when
it Is found that every place that the artist
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14
THE GAZETTE.

THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE FAvoRITE NORTH TEXAS
NEWSPAPER.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

THE HUMBLE BEGINNING AND THE PRESENT GRATIFYING
PROSPECT FOR THE FUTURE.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

PRETTY CLOTHES DO NOT MAKE PRETTY
WILL ACT ON THE MAXIM PRETTY is PRETTY DOES
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The History of The Gazette Hsoty WORTH
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-13
Commissioners Sale.

John Hays, Pl'ff., Notice of
against
J. F. De Board, &C., Defts. Sale,
By virtue Of a judgment and order of
Sale oil the Lawrence Circuit Court, rem
dered at the August term thereof. 1888,
in the above styled cause, the pndersign-
ed will, on Monday, December II, 1888,
being county court day. at the Court
House door in Louisa, Ky, proceed to ex-
pose to public sale to the highest bidder.
the following described property, tQ-wit !:
A tract of land beginning on beech
near the branch below Farmer DeEoard's
tthe defendant j. +. DeBoard), thence
up the branch to an oak stump, thence
np the hill to the Nelson line, and with
that line to Stephrn DeRoard's line, ant.
thence with Frank Ramey's line and
the ridge to Bowen's line, aud with said
line to the top Of the ridge TO the Farmer
De Board line and thence around with
the ridge 10 Ira Borders line, and thence
with said line to the beginning; or . suf-
ilcient amount Of the above TO produce
the sum of $20000. " 18th D per cent inter-
est from the lst day Of June, 1888, until
paid, aud S3l 20 costs.
TERMS Sale will be made on a cred-
1t of and II months. The purchaser
VIII be required to z We bond with APP
proved security for The ayment Of the
purchase money, to have the force and
effect of replevin bond, bearing legal in
terest fiom the day Of sale, with lien
res fved upon said property unril all the
purchase money is paid,
NJ. 5. BURNS, Nj. Z. l.. c.
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Comm ssio,er,s Sale. =

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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-13
Cheek and Self Possession.

There is E great difference be
tween cheeb and self-ppssession
One is based on ignprhnce, the 9th.
er on careful training. Cheek dis
plays itself by "A forwardness which
suppresses itself whenever presence
of mind-is required to avert a re-
buff or danger. Self-possession, or
the other hand, is modest, often
bashful, but it carries its possessol
through delicate and dangerous di.
lemmas with flying colors. In
short, cheek is the attribute of the
fool, self-possession that ofthe real
man. s'The successful days of the
cheeky man are numbered, becatise
he * anxious to display his igno-
rance in as short time as possible.
The 'self-possessed man grows ev-
cry day of his life because every
day affords him opportunities to
display the strength and beauty of
his'mind.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-13
Commissioners Sale.


John J .Jordan's Admir-, PIN. Notice
against of
u. Freese, sc, Dots. Sale.
By virtue of a Judgement and order of
sale OF the Lawren6eL ircGit Court, rem
dered at the special tefn thereof, Nov.
Sth, lSSS,'i the aboSt styled canse, the
undersigned Will, ON Monday, December
18th, 1889, County court day, IT the
Court House door in IoGisa, Lawrence
county, KY, proeed'td expose to public
sale TO the highest bidder, the following
property, to-wit: Beginning at stake
by the road side on Jack Wilson's line
and fifteen poles from his corner near the
coal bank, thence 5 36Is w, 81 poles to =
chestnut stump on a point thence ) 4lls
w, ~ poles to a red oak on point ON
the west side Of flat $ 3la E, poles to
a red oak on top of a ridge ) 70 w, 20
poles to the turn of the public road, and
with said road n SiIs w, % poles to 4
walnut STUMP by the road corner TO VIM.
Wellman's land, and with tie same n
27ls +. l45 poles TO n rock on the first
spear of the point above where Wellman's
line and within poles of the west slope
which makes n low place in the road,
theEce 6sl5 4, % poles to stake by
the road S 80 w, % poles to the begin.
ming containing 80 acres more.or less, i.
being lot No. 90 as LAID down and dcserib-
ed ia survey and plat made by MI. Fer
guson, deceased. in said Wallace suit.
Also, the following other tract Of land,
containing one acre, more or less, and
adjoihl0g said other tract: Beginning
ona rock at Che side of the county road,
it being the corner between T. W G0l
and w. NJ. Fulkersoh. thence All East
course with the line between Goif and
the Glare tract, described in this judg-
ment. TO opposite peach tree 70 4 rock
set in the ground in said line, thence
near North course 70 Il part ofthe fence
at the county road, (marked) thence same
course to'the railroad, near a west course
Opposite the beginning corner ana thtnce
TO the beginning, and being the same
land conveyed to Freese, Williams aud
Jordan by +. w. Golf, by deed dated
Nov. 2lsr. 1883, and recorded in deed
book S, of Lawrence county. page 50i
TERMS:--Sale will he made on'a credit
of 6 and II months. The purchaser will
be required to give bond, with approve
security tor the payment of the purchase
money, to haye the force and effect Of Q
replelip bond, bearing legal interesi from
the day Of sale, with a lisn reserved upon
said property until all the purchase mon
ey is paid. MS. RuRSs, M.C.L.C.C.
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The Nineteenth Century.
louisville Times. ]

A correspondent of the Jessa-
mine Journal, noting the death of
Jonathan Jones, says he was born
August Is, 1900, aud was the first
child born in NicholasYille in the
present century. 1t is singular how
widely prevalent is the delusion
that the nineteenth century began
with the year 1900. Even SO emil
nent man as the German poet and
wit, Heinrich Heine, used to say he
was born on New Years night, 1900,
and was consequently one of the
first men of the present century.
1t requires eighteen hundred years
to make eighteen centuries, and the
nineteenth century began January
/, 1901,
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HoW,s THIS.

We offer One Hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY 81 Co., Props, Toledo. %
We, the undersigned, have known +
J.Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially alberto ear
~ out any obligations made by their firm
West and Trlax, Whole sale Druggists
Toledo, Ohio.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists Toledo, Ohio. .''
E. II. Van Hosen. Cashier, Toledo Ma.
tional Bank, Toledo. Ohio.
Hill's CatGrrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blo0d and mu
Gus surfaces of the system. Price, Zoe
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-13

The Greensboro Messenger says
"Mr. Thos. S. Petit left yesterday
for Washington to resume his du-
ties as reading clerk of the House
of Representatives. On the Bird OF
next March Mr.. Petit will close his
tenth year of service In that capaci-
ty. He probably has no equal as a
reader in the land, as those who
heard him at the St. Louis Conven-
ton last June are probably fully
prepared to believe. In these ten
years it may be remarked, Mr.Petit's
fine voice has earned for him the
snug little sum of $4,000, and six
months of each year, on an average,
be has spent at home actively en-
gagged in his private business"
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-13

Mr.. Edison has, it is stated, de-
vised a doll with a small phono-
graph inside, which talks when the
handle is turned. The phonograph
is placed III a receptacle within the
doll and the handle protrudes.
When it is turned the words appear
to issue from the dolls mouth. Ed
ison has also devised clock which
announces the time by speaking,
the talking apparatus being, of
course, a photograph.