The morning call., 1893-05-29

retail for two bits, but few people have
ever seen 52page newspaper turn ed out
This was the attraction that drew so MANY
people to THE CALLS pressroomS, AMI THE
CALL regrets more than nvbody else that
II was unable to extend the courteses to
all who came.
But it was impossible. THE CALLS big
press is quite new yet and altogether
strange to this part of the world. 1t had
never yet made run that taxed its best
speed. and the pressmen worked off the
fastHTnn with drawn tensions and nerves
highly strung.
1t went off all right-as il was bound
to-for the Hoe quadruplex never fails,
but the men who handled the mammoth
edition for the first time on the new press
felt that nothing must occur during the
memorable run 10 distract their attention
from their work.
So the public had to be kept out.
Ordinarily run of q coo or 50, coo copies
an hour Is sufficient to work off The
CALLS daily edition. If the press starts
running at o'clock in the morning, allow
ing for few moments interruption TO
iasten on the plates of the last edition,
which contains the news up TO A. NJ. a
considerably decreased speed is sufficient
to print the whole edition by 5 o'clock in
the morning.
But here was a steady run of $4,000
papers an hour, and because the edition
was so big the papers must he on the ma r
Eet earlier than usual to enable the car
riers and dealers 10 handle it with facility.
The paters fairly poured out of the
press fIom two different places. A small
army of employees could scarcely take them
away fast enough from The receivers in
packages OF 100 each.
1t was run unprecedented on the Pa
chic Coast The Chicago daily pa pers are
not printed at anything like this speed.
Even the great New York dailies seldom
run their presses faster than 80 900 an hour.
a 52-Dage edition of daily morning
newspaper containing literary matter on
timely subjects of the very highest merit,
and news of the entire world up to the m o.
ment OF going 10 press, is an achievement
heretofore clasSed among the impossible
Ties. so far, at least. as the Pacific Slope is
concerned.
The CALL has proved that it can be
done.
THE CALL has done it.
You read the paper Yesterday. You
found 1t neither heavily and slowly com
piled encyclopedia Tor cheap priced book
on found 1t daily paper, and You
started to read it while you slipped your
coffee. The cost to you was 10 more tina n
the ordinary 10 or 12-page morning paper.
But you realized from its high literary
merit, its bright and sketchy articles and
illustrations and from its late new.
columns, telegra phic and local, that it
must have cost somebody pile of money.
Now, suppose you take glance at the
printing of this mammoth edition, barely
n peep at the way in which some of tina t
gray matter was expanded; Just the me-
rhanical part of il, for instance. 1t would
take too long TO DO more than peep at it or
to peep at more than The mechanical part
of it.
So begin in the cOmposing-room, at II
o'clock Saturday night, when the forms are
being locked up and hammered down
They must be hammered well and locked
tightly if the printed page is to look neat
What lot of hammering it does take.
you can scarcely hear yourself think, but
the niinble-fingered. intelligent compositor
is reading scraps of manuscript written
rome too plainly, and setting up in meta
tyres the words he finds upon 1t, regardless
of all the clatter and confusion.
The managing editor and the night editor
have both been out in the composing-room
for the last half-h0ur to consult with the
foreman. Usually they come out later
than this, but there are 80 pages to this
edition and time, therefore, is doubly
valuable.
Now the hammerlng on some OF tho
forms Is completed for the time being, and
they are wheeled in on their tables TO the
stereotyping department A printers
table is on wheels with metal top. upon
which the chase is laid and the form made
up.
A few PAGES in front of the foreman of
the c0mpo siDg-room is the entrance to tn 9
stereotyping department. 1t is hot in
here. At one side is big furnace. and
over 1t is great big iron receptacle that
is filed with molten type metal. 1t Is the
furnace, at white heat, that makes it so
Int, you know.
Well. the forms on their tables are COM