The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22


having been bowed out Of the lower office
door. eff the steam was allowed 60 blow
out, the boiler would be ruined. 10 was
only something wrong with the patent
"Would YOU advise another woman to
buy out a paper instead of teachingP
al should hesitate TO do son responded
Miss Lingle, while Miss Leonard petted
JIMMY" the SDitz terrier who is the
power behind this editorial throne and
nodded in confirmation. "a woman came
to US once from the interior Of the state to
ask that very question. She YVES not a
practical printer, and country paper
W ich has an income of 0,OO0 to $l2, 900
year is hardly large enough to afford to
separate the editorial and composing rooms;
yet she was unwilling to serve an appren-
ticeship in an office to learn printing. be-
cause she would have to subject herself to
unpleasant companionship. How would
she have endured, after buying out her
paper, to sit up all night with drunken
printer, TO keep him at work to insure
jobs being done Ia season! And yet if
women can habituate themselves TO the
drudgery of an office they make artistic
printers. A paper in Red Bank belongs to
two friends of ours. The husband is the
editor while the wife has enJlre control Of
the composing room, setting up herself the
incest display 'adsn and bits of job print
ing.
I'VE find it great disadvantage to have
no vote. In larger place this might not
injure so much newspaper run by women,
but in borough which has only 125 legal
voters, every male citizen counts, aud the
paper is robbed of a part of its legitimate
influence, because its editors are disfran-
chisedn
''Do you go into politicsr'
''If a rival paper were to start against US
we should come out as straight republicans.
As it is we have the only paper, not alone
in the borough but IN the township, and
circulate through very considerable terri
tory among people of all shades of opinion.
We owe favors to men in both parties and
hold ourselves independent. The New
York dailies are sold here so largely that
we are confined mostly to local ques-
tiOns. There is no local Temperance
ISSUE as we have no saloons, and candidates
for local Offices are not put up more than a
week before the spring elections. Pohti-
clans recognize us SO far as to ask US before
hand if we will or will not support such
and such @ man."
'How do you get your newsT
like all country papers, from the doc
tors and the post offices in half dozen vii
lagos. We have a horse-it used to belong
to Phil Daly-and we drive about the coun-
try and pick up the happenings. We go to
and in the summer there IS the news Of the
big hotels. We devote ourselves good
deal to building news and improvements
and whatever is likely to concern the large
real estate interest. We put back into the
paper nearly all that we get out of it, and
mean to manage it economically, but i'm
prove it as fast as the place grows"
why don't you have women compost
tors2'
Don't like them" said Miss Leonard and
Miss Lingle looked emphatic confederation.
They work just as fast and just as accu-
rately as men, indeed we used to have q
woman who would set up three galleys Of
important Job work without an error and
who never spent over five minutes in a dav
correcting her proofs; but they are fussy
hard to suit about the temperature and the
light, they won't submit readily to the con-
troll OF women. No, we have never had
any unpleasant experience with our men.
We printed DR.. Pentecost's magazine for
some months of its existence, and that
| meant extra printers from New York one
week out of the four. OF course the hang
abouts, out of regular job, whom the
| Typographical Union had to send us were
| often dlsslpated men who couldn't keep
| positions, and whom we couldn't trust
with money till the work was safely done.
| Once we worked six days and six nights at
| stretch, taking turns at two or three
| hours sleep each, andss zone bloated fellow
who weighed over 200 pounds to begin with
after he had fed the press for three days at
that rate, looked like sheet and lost 10
| pounds He hadn't been thoroughly sober
| before in year, and he had a grand drunk
when he got through. The men would go
| off with their pockets full of money, and
when we sent for them again they'd tell us
| what lark they had spending their coun-
| try earnings, and how the boys were all
waiting for them on the wharf They
were always perfectly respectful in our
| presence and submitted with a good grace
TO the prohibition Of tobacco and beer in
| the building
do you remember" and one girlish face
| turned toward the other in "Reminiscences,
how, when we went into this thing we
! Rugged the delusion that we were entering
| on a literary careerg We soon found out
that it was business pure aud simple, and il
was fortunate for US that we liked that Just
| as well.n
Before entering college Miss Leonard ran
| big farm for two years and made money
| on 1t, and the same executive ability tells
Ill the newspaper line. Leonard g. Jingle
| pride themselves on holding their advertis-
| ing rates stiff and never taking lads" at
| low prices through the city agencies. Miss
| Leonard Is her own advertising agent and
| has little difficulty in persuading business
| men That IN borough with a future it is
| their DUTY to sustain q newspaper. Miss
| Jingle Is an artist in types and, when in
! health-she is recovering now from a recent
! illness-sets all the display advertising for
the weekly issue and is the head and front
| OF the job printing, which has more than a
! local reputation, receiving commissions
| from New York and even from Florida.
Both girls work indefatigably aud accom-
plish more with the help of their two young
compositors, who set up the BREWER galIeys
| Of news notes ard editorial comment, than
many force of double the size. Their
success has been in marked contrast to that
OF young college man who settled in the
same county, and inpatient Of soiling his
fingers with mechanical labor hired fore
men, compOsitors, devil and other para
| phernalla, and proceeded to get out good
paper and swap his capital for experience in
| the good old fashion. The college man has
taken his white hands, his progressing
manners and his empty pocketboolz to fresh
harvest f-lds, while the college girls WHO
| We're expected to run a newspaper three
| months for fua and then stop because they
were tired, or six months for pluck and then
stop as finding it an expensive amusement,
| nave not spent week out of town since
the Atlantic Highlands Independent issued
| its first number
The Independent keeps this announce
ment standing: mo poetry desired" 1t is