The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-14
RAPID TYPESE'TTTNG.
AN INVENTION THAT WILL REvOLU-
TloNlzE NEWSPAPER WORK.

Inc Important race lhhb tho IypesettfnE
Machine Is Destined to Mako In All Big
Newspaper ofces-oue Writer Tries an
Experiment..
II happens that 1 have very decided ideas
about the future Of mechanical typesetting.
Originally disbeliever and a scoffer, l have
become a convert. The machine Is with us
to stay. II has come just as came the cot
ton gin. Any device that will reduce the
cost of the production Of n manufactured
article % per cent cannot be ignored. The
newspaper is a manufactured article. Type
setting by machinery does reduce the cost
Of its production at least 33 per cent. There
fore the machine is the life preserver of the
modern newspaper.
With the perfection of the printing ma
chine came the invention of the typewriter,
and while their relation Is not obvious at
first there is no doubt that thn.V interde-
pendence can be shown and that the sue
cess Of the typewriter has hastened theper-
fection of the typesettinR machine.
We can all remember how crude were
the first typewriting machines, how mac
curate their Alignment and how slow their
production Of copy. Today no we'll APP
pointed newspaper or lawyers office Is com
resnondents and snecial WRITERS do their
own work wholly Nv diotation direotIv 20
tbe t,,na,yritar Go oreat is the enaod ~ tbo
evne,t onerator todov that no or sbo con
readily keen mace With the average rote az
sneakino. The tvnewriter has become n
gTeot soTrce of Comfort to the oonv reader
and eaitor. Rad Fnplisb 10 moro reodilv
datacte1 nro,or names arc moro accnrotoIy .
nnt an tvre from tbe nrinted naoe and The
General result is more satisfantorv 10 both
the writer and the reader of the neper
The theory upon which the copy reading
desl, EXISTS In every newspaner offioe is that
Il is FOR the pnrnose of making matter in.
tended for pubiication more readable and
more concise. but above ali. of puroino n
of libelor1s and indelicate matter and hal
English
II is a matter of sincere mortification To
the experienced writer upon the newsnaner
Dress to feel that the average conv reader
ss a oopv butcher While not entirely to
blame for this. because he is Instructed NV
his sunerior 10 .'read for snace y the baste
under which the work generally has 10 he
performed does not initiate In favor Of nice
distinctions I'm the use of words In the
turning of rhrases or in the selection of
subbeads. VERY much-ah. too often,-tbe
individualitv Of the writer isd destroved and
the nian unon which he or She constrnctnd
the account OF n disaster a rnnrley or a
Gown meeting is utterly eradicoted
can rememher 10 have baarJ in Tha
Ttitmne Office dnrinu the davs of Horace
Ereelev bumiliatinu rebnkes administared
M reporters nnrn its staff Who yantnred 10
cleverlv turn n nhraae or to he nndnlv fa,
miliar with an ediectfve In those days Of
the blue pencil The oopy readers broke
hearts and slashed manusorint. meyer ston.
1ina TO consider that they were destrovipo
Instead OF creatinp capable nevsnaner re.
porters and oorresnondents
Lookfno hack over an experIenoe ~ near.
" q quarter of n oenturvin New YORK I
cannot recall sinrle clever literary man
who endured that harsh seboolina for three @
or four wears whose love of his work sur-
yived. fIhe blne nencil. with n mere car-
penter behind n. l. the destrover Of stvie
he dissinator of omb;tion -
The typesetting machine already looms
M as q valuable coadiutor of the working
newsnaner rnan-whether he he renortes
editor OF snaciai writer The oomnactness & @
of the tvpesettine machine oS toSav. t5e
Feasibility of running It with n small dvna-
mo and a let of GAS: the fact that one man
can 40 the work of four and can nrodnce
type In columns ready for use with nearly
The same rapidity that the EXPERT tvnewrit,
az can place words In a row mon bIanl, M
ber. SUGGEST that the writer talk directIv to
the ootnpositor.
Before many years l confidently eynect
10 see the typesetting machine, with the e,,.
pert compositor behind Il. take a plaoe et
the right hand of every writing editors
-
trv,
The mammal drudeerv Of oonnosdtion is
aiready relieved by the introduction of the
steno9rapher and typewritey. INT at crit
ical hours of the niRbt when every minnie
Is worth saving. there Is no reason wbv de
Law shotIld he suffered nv n writer Who da-
ares to turn into copv ideas that are readv
Io dow from his nen nnom tbe white naner
Why longer submit to the tvrannv ~ the
Sopy readerp why shalI not each "sta,s,
Reporter hire his typesettine machine inst