The morning call., 1893-05-28

department and the mechanical departments
are Eummlng. The wires are bringing tidings
across the continent from the fartnerm 0st
parts of the earth. The telegraph editor is now
the biggest man on the paper. Everything de-
pends on the purport OF the messages he re-
eeives. If an aDal chist gathering has exploded
a bomb in Chicago there will be little room In
the paper for local news. If President has
been ass assDated or elected the paRer must be
enlarged or all OTHER departments reduced.
Usually such things occur too late in the even
ing to permit of adding an extra page of read
Ing matter, and then it Is that the night editor,
The managing editor, The city editor and The
foreman of The mechanical depa rtnent are put
upon their mettle. These are the hours OF tribu.
lation In daily newspaper office. That they
do not occur every day is the only reason that
the officials most affected by them manage to
survive and raise families.
at is 10 O'clock and not line from the night
police renortel." says the city editor despair
ingly. Then 4 telep hone message announces
that The body has not yet been taken TO The
Morgue and examined. hence the potce re-
porter cannot write III things have assumed
more definite shape and it Is known at least
what killed the murdered man.
well. the baseball man ought TO have his
stuff written" says the city editor. "The fore
man is kicking for copy. Is all the afternoon
stuff read?"
The copy-readers are just finishing the last OF
II and the baseball reporter explains that jokes
cannot be ground out in a moments time. He
VIII be through i'll half an hour.
delegation OF prominent citizens and old
subscribers now wait upon the city editor 10
drive away his solicitnde for early copy and 10
suggest reform or TWO in the local depart.
ment
AT l. O'clock the pressmen begin TO appear.
The first forms &C into the slereotyping depart
ment and very soon there is much pounding of
hard hair brushes on wet paper. The stereO-
iypers are making he matriX. When it Is fn-
isheG molten type metal will be poured in 1t
and stereotype plates thus made
Now the night reporters begin to come In.
keep everything down. says the city ed
itor, or II Is rather unusual if he does not say
1t. Now the work is not so much 10 get all The
news rs to c0ndense II and TO know what items
may be safely omitted to make room for the ex-
tension OF the more important news or late
''ad,"
At tie hour OF midnight, when the witches
are about and honest folks in bed The CALLS
big pressroom begins 70 assume an air of ac-
tiVty, even OF liveliness. All the pressmen are
down by this time, and the giant machine, that
Is soon to perform its prodigi0us task, Is being
oiled again and cleaned again and made ready
once more in a thousand different ways.
A couple OF forms come down from the
stereo:yping- room. These ar screwed en-
their revolving beds aud other revolving beds
prerared for other forms.
An hour past midnight the police rem orter
comes In with 4 rush. He has every lmpo rant
&c all now of thai big murder case and has not
an instant TO lose 10 prepare his copy for the
first edition. Many of the reporters are through
their work and nave gone home.
The messenger boys still keep coming and
going and the clickety- click from the operating.
rooms ao;s on anc on. There are not so many
men about the editorial-rooms as there were "A
couple OF hours ago, but those still ON duty
work faSt"r than ever.
The city editor has gone home and the tele-