Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-07

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throughout the world, I mean men who
can be called on at an hours notice and
can be depended upon to do goo! work,
number 5000"
THE PRINTING.
At II o'clock at night the first forms.
those Of the advertising pages. are sent to
the stereotyping-room in the basement,
and one after another the editorial and
news pages follow as quickly as the type
can be set and put into the forms. The
stereotyping-room is a wonderful affair,
and it is on record that, by its own system,
the Times can make twelve plates in as
many minutes. 1t has all the modern ap-
planes, and like every department of the
paper, owns several conveniences not
known of or used by competitors.
In the pressroom, which, like all other
departments of the paper, is big and
roomy, there are dozen Walter printing
presses, capable of printing anywhere
from 10000 to 10000 copies an hour of
the Times. Not all of these presses are
used, but they are kept Id case of acct
dents. In another building complete
fonts OF type and presses are also kept in
case of fire or other disaster, so that no
matter what happens the Times will not
be incommoded or compelled to lose an
issue.
By $3.50 o'clock all the forms are in the
stereotyping room, the plates are made
and few minutes before the great
presses are started and the doors of the
distributing department are thrown open
to the agents of w. H. Smith & Sons, who
are the chief distributors of the paper.
There are crowds of porters, carriers and
news-venders waiting their turn, and in
half an hour are carrying into the streets
great bundles of the leading English news
paper. By o'clock every train running
out of London has its stock Of papers, and
before noon you can purchase the Times
in any part of the Kingdom that is at all
accessible, in Paris, and by the next morn
ing there is not place of Importance in
continental Europe where the Times is
not on sale.
EVERYTHING ON THE SPOT.
What is the most surprising of all about
this most marvellous newspaper is that
everything that is used in making it is
made on the spot, except the paper. The
Times Office is a vast machine shop and
factory. The Walter machines, named in
honor of Mr.. Walter, their inventor, are
made here. The type-setting machines
are made here.
All the appliances used in the compos-
ing-room and the stereotyping-room are
made here; even the type is made on the
spot, and the electricity that lights up the
great building is furnished from the lab
oratory on the premises. The whole of
the new building which the Times now
occupies, and which was designed and
built by Mr.. Walter and Mr.. Macdonald
without the aid of architects or contract
ors, may be said to be convenient and the
most commodious newspaper building in
the world. The very bricks used in con-
structing the building were made on Mr..
Walters estate and brought to London by
his own people.
ENTERPRISE.
There is no invention that promises to
aid in the making of great newspaper
that Mr.. Walter and Mr.. Mcdonald are
not willing to try, and, if found feasible,
buy outright and use in their establish
ment. Walter and Macdonald are the
only two men besides Blowitz who have
any personality outside of the Times Office.
The others are known as good journalists,
and are well paid for their services, but
anonymity has long been one of the feat
ures of the "Thunderer," and it is only on
rare occasions that even great man is
allowed to sign his article in the Times.
That there are great men writing for the
paper is no secret.
Giants of politics, of war, of commerce
and of literature are always glad to be
requested" by the Times to prepare arti-
cles on any given subject, and the recon-
pense is always worthy of the great news
paper. One hears great deal about the
financial condition of the Times just now.
sit has had black eye" says one. ut is
making money" says another. 1t is all idle
speculation; nobody but Macdonald and
| Walter know the real condition of affairs.
The denizens of Fleet street say that the
paper has circulation of about $4,000
copies day. l fancy this is maximum
figure. Its income, am certain, from all
that can learn, is in the neighborhood
of 100000 a year. Thirty years ago
the management of the Times boosted IN
an editorial article that its gross income
was equal to that of the most tiourisAing
of the German principaities. 1t may
have had temporary check since the
miserable Piggott iasco, but its income is
still something enormous, and it will con.
tinue to be SO, for the Times is still the
Bible in tens of thousands of English home:
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