The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-01
CHICAGO JOURNALS.
WALTER WELLMan TELLS OF THE
NEWSPAPERS OF a GREAT CITY.
A Vivid Description Of the Way Great
Newspapers Are Made Topic Upon
which tho Average Reader Is Wofully
Ignorant.
rsneclal corrernondencel

Special Core pondenccl
CHICAGO. Sept. 27-Chicago is as IA
nous for It's newspapers IS Tor anything
else There are no greater newspapers
anywhere than those printed IN this city.
No better examples can BE- found Of the
marvellous organization. concentrated en-
ergy. lavish expenditure and executive
genius which combine % make the great
publ, Journals Of this country. News
iiDar- 20 before the public eye. day after
day. morning and evering. the whole year
through altogether tie Los. important
and Indispensable fabricated article min
is-erinc ~ the w-ats vi man. entering into
his d.ilvliic and consciousness as nothing
else foreign 20 himself can possibly do,
and So. the public does not know how
newspaper i MaLe Tie bright pages arc
placed before the readers csc, quickly
trilur him tle world s. daily story, but
back ~ these pages ai. D. mystery TO him.
llcv ere there and Do knows iaey como
With uacoasuc regularity and Luaarglug
iu-e-r, Sc. bat Low they came - De-. how
they were designed built carved and
nodded. hc dr., not know Tho nc"sp2'
per 8 an open book. tie milking of news
paper puzzle which the average reader
has never had an opportunity to solve.
One Of tho principal streets in Chicag-
is Madison street. II r-n5 FROM the lake
20 the prairie. @ distance q about i've
miles. At the corner of Dearborn street,
a few blocks from the lake curious
thr0nr nay often De- found " q Saturday
night. pccring down into tie basement.
They sen o dozen or more mea. red and
per- piriug moving uneasily about among
hu-5 kettles filed with molten metal,
pouring Lers and striking there as If they
wc-o founders or blacksmiths The rum
bic II machinery comes up through the
skylirhts. IRE crowd falls 20 discussing
and guessing what is going on down
there. aui is informed by Gn urchin who,
being ncw,boy, imagines be knows all
about newspapers. that "Dey's maxim
D. Ir-b0ol.
IL isrich. ono of the mrititudinous
processes 5y which anewsQaper Is made Is
there ID operation But the curiosity OF
tho crowd is By 10 means satisfied. When
it learns tia, @ newspaper Is being manu-
f-c-lrei 10 becomes more curious than
ever Deep down In the s0ll OF tho aver
ago ,rarf..cr O. secret and strong desire
ID learn The secrets of the legecdemain by
vhlcl Us morning newspaper Is, presto
w-le % leap from the presses. II IS true
thov -rr carrying on one Of tho processes
tcra there IN tho basement by the big
ca,lrlns. lu. that is not the beginning OF
tha t-ies .lieel. 10 would not be easy
t,sor ,-fo-, the newspaper begins. Per
Lars f. tie far ca where reporters
Gather the ncws Of China. Japan, India,
Russia. continental Europe. AMI prepare
+. COZ t-snsnis ion by cable. SD far ahead
a.. tho American worker in point Of time
f.e. tla European day often laps into
.ar.f,v T., the columns of the American
t.s.-.- .-rr. Tor irstlnce. the recent lar.
ve---o-f.ri rowing race. which came OF
at.e'.l1,k il the morning. was reported
i1 tie American journals which went %
press g. 3 O'Clock the same morning.
re
By. we shall best got e.. the making Of
p nos. paper ~ w2 SO down beside the
MON wi. make T.. iu so FAR as may bc
-......-i..,,-. and --ctch Thorn II their
,-,r,, va -irst not asl, too msnv oues
.-..,. f.~-ia ,.a-,.-,-rer man /, not over
b,,--....,i viii. Patience. We must rather
l.,., o.,r owes aid cars 0ocu and our wits
,i,r- r. la .trav-e. rlultiiari0us. CON.
-li.ateI. vondcrr-l process. this making
Of O. new paper. and Il we don look sharp
$40 shall laL 70 understand and appreci.
ate -1-e 81 is best and most interesting
methods
Oi tie thousand men who help make
Tho Tribune every day the first one on
tutv-at least III Americas the assist
ant % tie MANAGING editor At IS O'Clock
. the morning De shuts himself up In q
Ltto room. with all the morning paper,
Of Chicago. numbering half O. dozen be-
fore him il reads these papers column
bv col-mn all item by item. Whenever
be comes upon an item of news which is
in one VI the other papers and not in Tho
Tribune. Doe marks i- with q big and
r~,i-o~- blro rancil cross. This cross IN
ti--,o -,,-,.s l.,,i ID l,, 81 hard ono for sone.
r-5r ~ loan fer FLO man who sbould
I-r, -ar- In That i,en of news. and did
moi. H. l.-.s.v ~ Lcar something about il.
sur1.so III, missed item is enc which
cana il Dr. telegraph frlm Crost0n, a.
THO MANAGING EDITORS assistant immoii
atelv rrabs I'D telegraph blank. takes
down a big book IN which BE- keeps o list
VI al Tho Tribune correspondents. and
sends tie Crest0n correspondent a mes.
SAGE asking h.m WHY De dii nO- send such
aad sach an item which appeared in Tie