The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-11
left by the cq!ting blade, rush the papers to a

left by the cutting blade, rush the papers to a
collecting cylinder.
Connected with the 'press-room is the stereo-
typing apparatus, which is Of great interest TO
visitors. To those who do not know what
stereoIyping means il may be well TO say that
on the presto" machine the paper is not
printed directly from the type, but from plates,
which are impressions Of the type. This saves
wear and tear Of the type, as the plates have 10
stand all the pressure incident to being
run through the press, on edi-
tions numbering thousands. The plates
can be melted after being used and reeast. After
the type set by the cOmpOsitors has been
made up in the proper forms, they are sent to
the stereotyping-room on steel-lopped imposing
tables set upon casters. StereOtyping Is done
by means OF the papier-mache process-the
matrices or molds from which the casts are taken
being made from paper. Paper paste and
occasionally peculiar fine powder are al the
material used in making the matrix. hen
the impression has been taken the matrix bears
the appearance OF a single sheet OF thick,
strong, parchment-c0lOred pasteboard, the size
Of Il page of THE SENTINEL. The matrix is
put into a half-cylinder mold, where the plate
Is cast, the molten metal, hot from the melting
pot, being poured into the castingbOx. After
trimming il is ready for the preSs-room.
In the stereotyping room the process here
described IS gone through IN space OF tne
that 10 the uninitiated appears incredibly short
In less than fifteen minutes from the time the
l0rnlS OF type are received the seml-cy ylIndrlcal
plates of metal are sent TO the presS-room,
where they are at once placed on the Presto,
and the wonderful machine shakes itself, starts
mp and begins TO pour out The SENTINEL,
folded ready for the carriers or mailing, at the
rate of eight second.
Besides THE SENTISEL's wonderful new
press and its complete mechanical equipment,
other notable improvements have been made.
THE SENTINEL has its own telegraph operator,
with wires running into the office, and
$500 words are received nightly, giving
news from every quarter of the globe. Electric
lights have been contracted for, and the entire
SENTINEL building from the press room in the
basement, TO the composing and editorial rooms
the top floor are to be lighted by electricity.
The building is also equipped with telephones,
messenger calls, a IRE gong and everything else
that tends to aid large stali OF news gatherers
and editors in performing their work.
Reference was made in the introduction 10
the growth and proSp perity OF TIE DAILY SEN
TINEL since its change of form. The SUNDAY
SENTINEL has long enjoyed the largest circula-
ton of all the Sunday publications in the state,
and t. TOO, is saining new subscribers by the
hundreds. For last Sundays paper there was
such rush of advertising matter that
late Saturday evening 1t became necessary to
refuse ''adS." To-day's SENTINEL speaks for
itself and shows that il Is q most most popular
advertising medium. For this is C IS hereto
foie, advertising space was limited ~ order TO
make room for the news OF the day, and Il
proper amount of carefully selected Sunday
reading.
Then there is THE WEEKLY SENTINEL, which
goes 10 every POstOthce in Indiana, and cireu-
lates in every state and territory in the Union
THE WEEKLY SRNTINELs circulation is larger
than that OF any other paper published III lndi-
ana, and equal to that OF any publication in the
Nest