The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-22

force He said that the Times had
nearly 100 men in London on its
pay roll. These furnish editorials, |
reviews, reports of all kinds and do
special work. Its number of foreign
correspondents. he said, was so
large that he could not tell the
except by a reference to the
books in the business Office.
And you may rest assured" he
said, that the Times has CORE
spondent in every city of impor-
lance in continental Europe. These |
men are In communication with the
Office and receive instructions regu-
larly. 1t often happens that they
are not required to send dispatches,
because the news may not warrant
it; they forward letters to the office
once or twice week, and are in
such perfect discipline, and so we'll
know what the Times wants that
they never make the mistake of
flooding the Office with unimportant
matter. Some of them are paid
salaries, others are paid for what
matter is used.
In Great Britain it is different.
Every telegraph operator is in the
Times service. He understands that
we will pay more for news than
any other paper in London, and
we always have first choice
of anything that is going on.
In all of the big cities of
the kingdom we have regular CORES
pondents. These are paid by the
week or month. At rough guess 1
should say that the correspondents
of the Times throughout the world,
1 mean men who can be called on at
an hours notice and can be depend
ed upon to do good work, number
5000"
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 stereotyp-
ing-room is wonderful affair, and it
is on record that, by its own system,
the Times can make twelve plates in
as many, minutes. It has all the
modern appliances, and, like every
department of the paper, owns sever
al conveniences not known of or used
by competitors.
In the press-room, 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 in case of accidents.
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 inconmoded or compelled
to lose an issue.
By $3.50 o'clock all the forms are
in the stereotyping-room, the plates
are made and d few minutes before 4
the great presses are started and the
doors Of the distributing department
are thrown open to the agents of w.
H. Smith g. Sons, who are the chief
distributors of the paper. There
are crowds of porters, carriers and
news vendors waiting their turn, and
in half an hour are carrying into the
streets great bundles of the leading
English newspaper. By 5 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 morning there is not a place of
Importance in continental Europe
where the Times is not on sale.
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, ex-
cept 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 ma
chimes are made here.
All the appliances used in the
composing room and the stereotype
ing-r 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 labor
atory on the premises. The whole
Of the new building which the Times
now occupies, and which was de-
signed and built by Mr.. Walter and
Mr.. Macdonald without the aid of
architects Or contractors, may be
said to be convenient and the most
commodious newspaper building in
the world. The very bricks used in
constructing the building We're made
on Mr.. Walters estate and brought
to London by his own people.
There is no invention that pro.
misses to aid in the making of a great
newspaper that Mr.. Walter and Mr..
Mcdonald are not willing to try, and
if feasible, buy outright and use in
their establishment. Walter and
Macdonald are the only two men
besides Blowitz who have any per
sonality outside of the Times Office
The others are known as good journ
alists, and are we'll paid for their
services, but anonymity has long
been one of the features OF the
Thunderer, and it is only on rare oc
casions 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 com
merce. and of literature, are always
glad TO be requested" by the Times
to prepare articles on any given sub
ject, and the recompense is Away:
worthy of the great newspaper. One
hears q great deal about the tinancia