The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-05
ADEcADE IN PRINTING.
COME OF THE MILEsToNEs OF PRO
GREss BRIEFLY NOTED.


otved-The Linotype Introdu-
oed-EIectric POwer-other I'M
ovements in the Printers Art.
,oss ten years ago, the Morning News
-.,ti,sbed a brief history of the paper and
,,ork and a sketch of the conditions
hon existing in it's big building. Dur
a. me mast decade the strides that have
naor made by journalism and the print
-, business have been more remarkable
Kan the progress of any, and one is
.ar,nted to say than of all other trades
and professions.
nan wears ago, when we looked back
IN the preceding decade of journalism
Fs1.r,ad innpossible that any very great
,u,nrovements could be made. The per-
Ting press and methods then employed
.ro considered the acme of the art The
.ro9ress that has followed in the decade
~ succeeded it's introduction warns US
- cot no limits to the growth Oh the PRINT
~ ort Particularly remarkable has been
tbe evolution of the composing room. Inc
',obarsome and slow process of hand
Comnosition liable to many errors, laborl-
Ind the fruitful source of diseord in
W many Offices, has been superseded by
obire work sWifter, more correct,
nooter in appearance and more entirely
sstisfactory. The economy of time mas
been and is the great destderatum OF
tba publishers art, and that has peen
orhiaved by the use of the machine that
son. IN an hour what, in times gone by,
rscnired a night of hard work. 1t has
~abIed the publisher to put
saors news and fresher news in his paper
han before to print larger papers and
tattar napers. and has relieved much OF
tba friction between publisher and print
or II has revolutionized the work IN the
mechanical department or newspaper
within the past ten years this method
of work has been introduced iii the once
Of nearly every prominent newspaper in
The nation. Among the first to introduce
this improved method of typesetting was
the Morning News.
This office now has in constant opera
tion eight of these wonderful machines
which operated like typewriter from
keyboard containing the various letters
numbers and signs used in printing,
through its complex and delicate machine
nv evolves a line of type as you see 1t in
the paper. and line after line fails into
Mace in what the printer calls his galley,
as he presses the successive keys or the
hoard in front of him. Briefly described,
this machine when the letter is struck on
the kew board releases a lever or trap IN
front of a corresponding chamber filled
with brass molds, each mold being the ma
trix of the letter struck, that mold slides
down a channel and takes it's place in
front of a wheel that has a slit or mold
ppoper in il the size of the line of type to
be used When a sufficient number of
these matrices are in front of the wheel
to close the slit a valve is opened and mol
tent metal pours into the mould. BY means
of force pump, and moments pressure
the line is cast. The revolution of the
wheel cuts the line off smoothly and it
drops into the galley. This is the work
of an instant only and is limited only by
the speed of the operator By an ingen-
ious device these little molds are then by
a.eontinuous system of pulleys, belts, ETC.,
each returned TO its own chamber.
The introduction of electricity has been
another notable step forward in
the printing business, and again
the Morning News claims the
credit of leading its contemporaries in
a good cause. The powerful machines of
the Morning News office all derive their
motive power from electricity. This pow
er from its quick availability, its cleanli-
ness and its speed has established itself
in printing offices now as the power of
all other adapted to the exigencies of the
case.
two revolutions has the Morning News
marked its progress in the last decade,
but in increased facilities in its press
rooms its bindery and in every other de-
partment of the extensive business that
is carried on by the enterprising journal.
The big white building at the corner of
Whitaker and Bay streets is a teeming
hive of busy human bees, every hour of
the twenty-four that make up the day,
there is life, hustle, hustle and work with
IN its walls. The job department, the bind
cry and the Autograph departments begin
the day with other workers in the city;
the editorial rooms of the great daily wake
to action later and continue their labors
long after the rest of the world is wrap
ped in slumber AS the shades of evening
begin to lengthen the composing room
starts into life and the hum of the limo
types continue until the big presses in the
basement take up their part of the work
OF Issuing the paper. A big newspaper Of
lice never rests, is never quiet like the
o. current of life it represents, it is always
rushing onward, always teemipg with ac-
uYity and strength. 1t is life in epitome,
the world reflected as in a looking glass,
Where even the hearts and the motives of
men are mirrored
When it is considered that the last few
years have been so frought with ruin and
obstruction, to many noble enterprises, the
progress of the Morning News, steadily
onward, never faltering or failing, never
retrenching, never losing confidence, be-
comes more remarkable. 1t has endeavored
10 make itself a necessity to Che people who
support 1t. 1t has endeavored to build
up the business of those from whom 1t ex-
poets business; II has watched Savannah $
interests as sentinel on the tower, and
IN this course its strength has laid, and
Hs success has been founded and main
famed 1t has never been satisfied with
Tess than the best of everything for Sa-
Vdhnah and itself. 1t has always secured
Ihe best talent in every department 'and
thoroughness of work has always charac-
urlzed its business. Its principle is that
nothing is worth doing that is not worth
doing we'll
Inc paper has its agents and correspond
ems In New York, Washington, Atlanta
and all the principle southern cities, as
Wen as In every city, town and hamlet in
the states Of Georgia and Florida and
many IN South Carolina. It is a client OF
tne southern Associated Press, lately re-
o.rganized with greatly improved facili-
ues Tor news gathering and news ser.
wee The association has it's own wires
US own telegraph operators, its own cor
Iespondents and agents all over the world
ana with its ally, the United Press, com