The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-27

New York Tribune; my father went
~ work as a printer when he was four
,..o," said Theodore L. De Winnie. SON
., the famous head Of the Devinne
press He is over seventy now. ! am
a practical printer myself; yes, been
through the mill regularly. hope to
make a printer of my yUungster." II
,bIs aspiration is attained there will
have been three successive generations
n that family in the craft. From this
II seems that the De Vlnnes-It any one
wants to know how to pronounce the
name, the fianal re" is not sllent-like
nrIrtlng. This heredlty Of an occupa-
Non used to be common enough in for
mer times, and some saysthat It's nat
uroI force in the AsciepIads of stagyra
nroduced Aristotle. who was Of that
stock. 1t is common enough in the old
AsIatIc countries. But here and now,
in the the whlrlIng, heeting conditions
Of American life, 1t is remarkable.
However, 1t is not difficult to account
for the De Winnie taste for typesetting!
Typesetting has done well for their
pmlly, so the attachment is mutual.
The De Winnie Press is onetof small
number of similar concernsSall scatter
cd along the great cities Of the Atlantic
coast, which make 1t their business to
turn out that higher ella s3ef printing
required by the more expensive pub
fishers. Among the great monthly
magazines of New York; two-scrIb=
ner's and the century-empIoy outside
concerns to do their printing, The for
mer OF these two is, and has been since
the beginning of the present new state of
existence. fifteen years ago, printed and
got up entirely by the Trow directory,
printing and bookbIndIng company.
The Century has been so constantly and
so long known as mechanical and art
istlc output Of the De Winnie Press that
many people enormously Suppose the
publishing concern and hS printing
office to be the one buslResS corpora
ton.
Like other printers of books and mag
azlues, these two offices are particular
Iy busy just at this season. They are
working with might and main to have
the Christmas magazines and the bound
Christmas volumes for 1899 ready in
time. In any year this would be the
case ia the middle of Qctebs but this
year they say has been exceptionally
good for their business. They have lit
tie time to talk to visitors. and are not
keen to slow outsiders through the
printing and electrotgplng works, where
so many glowing magazine covers and
Christmas destghs are in course OF pre-
paration, Stln, the few words they can
find time to say are interesting enough
to one who is not familiar with the in
side Of the business.
One Of the most striking Impressions
to be had from such talk is Of the ex-
tremely satisfactory results from the
division, OF both labor and responsible
ty, on the one hand, the magazine edi-
tor, or the bead of the book publishing
house. is unable to dispense with any
thing like even smattering of typo
graphical learning. All he had to trou-
Bile himself about is the literary. artis-
tic and genrally, lad captandum" quail
ity OF the manuscript and designs.
They send us the stun" said one head
Of printing house, land we send them
back their magazine. cover and all, fin
lshed." On the other hand, the heads
OF these printing establishments need
trouble themselves about Questions of
copyright or Of libel no more than any
apprentice in their composing rooms.
What they have to think about Is the
perfection of their processes and the
punctuallty with which their work Is
turned out.
In attaining both these ends the
typesettlng machine. or linotype. has
been of great service to printers Of
books In recent years, Several well
known American magazines. Including
the Bookmnn, are printed in this way.
and the machines are extensively used
for the highest class Of boundivolnmes.
The MergenthaIer has been so improved
as to render its resources fully equal to
the demands of ltallcizlng, Of strange
and unusual accentuation and OF fam
tastIc alignment made by the most
elaborate Christmas number,
Another change from the old-fasliIon-
ed state of things is in the large num-
Der OF women employed as compOSitors.
And" said one large employer OF this
kind OF labor, himself an old printer,
they do We'll at 1t. consider 1t
good calling for a girl, much better
than a good many others which girls
are In the habit OF taking up. The
hours are not long. The surroundings
a'c not pgejndicill TO them US women.
The work IL not unhealthful. They are
mt obliged to stand. And they make
good wages--somc more and some less,
according, We pay BY the piece. We
have good many girls In our office
and also some mlddle-aged women. The
women are members OF the union Just
as wen as the men,"
II certainly seems that in some lines
@ magazine and book work the gcutler
s.& ought n compete on at least equal
irE with the roughor. Much OF the
.ca a. OF two or three Of these large
llnting establishments, both In New
YORK and Boston, has been attributed
u tho Insight OF the workman Into the