The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-19

full apparatus, and which required OF MerS
genthaler over nine years of solid thinks
ing, together with seven hundred cases Of
Milwaukee beer, to work out the problem;
for If, perchance, the operator has BEEN
out with the boys decorating the town
with vermilion. the night previous. and
consequently oblivious of the warning ha
has just received, there Is contraption
suspended over his head, after the man.
ner of Damocles' sword, which the sub
maxillary alVeoia process of the negative
electropede automatically releases, and.
the lever descending like an avalant he
from Alpine nights, administer de
swipe on the operators head, which makes
him see not only the seven stars, but all
the consultations of the zodiac, and awak-
ems him to full realization of the fact that
he has to play ball while your Uncle Mer-
genthaler is in the box. So soon as the
matrix is full. a Keey motor racks off
with the layout and turning over like a
hapJack, stamps all the type on a thin
metal Sheet then Hopping over again the
matrix vomits oil the type in an upper
tier, and races back to headquarters to
receive another batch.
At this point an arm on derrick, on the
end of which there is a pair of grabbers,
like oyster tongs, reaches solemnly down,
and SELLING the Whole caboodle of type,
yanks It up on the starbnard quarter, and
places the batch i'm little grooved alley;
instantly. beneath, a trap door rises, and
out pops a small wheel like a Jack-in-the-
box, and before you can say scat" with
your mouth open. the wheel pushes the
whole shooting match before It, into am
aluminium turret, the bottom of which is
divided into exactly as many compart-
ments as there are characters on the key
board. Right over these chambers all the
types are carried by an endless cable; and
by an ingenious contrivance which nobody
DIf ourselves MorPepfhalar xyntfId -
have conceived each letter drops into it's
own cell every time; and on no occasion
has, any letter, drunk or sober, been
known to drop into the wrong berth.
which cannot be claimed for Pullman
passengers on some occasions. The cabsa
never stops foT an instant. nor does IL
ever nudge a letter to inform It that the
cell below IS its hopping off place, like
the street car conductor has TO do occas-
ionally, in warning some young fellow, who
went out too many times during the acts
and came back eating cloves. Man makes
mistakes, the Mergenthaler never. In con-
clusion, we will divulge the secret of the
automatic distribution of the type.
Each one OF the little yerticle cells cons
tains a very attenuated metal rod which,
acts as a piston, and rises up exactly
az the instant a type passes over; conse-
quently each pistol rakes up and down
the front of each type as IL passes OVER
the wrong letter sometimes. (and IL our
friend Mergenthaler were still living we
would not give IL away is, that on this
end OF each pistol Is a little proturberance
the proturberance Of no two pistons be-
ing allke-and on the front of each type
there is a slot or small cavity into which
the protuberance OF the piston corresponds
ing to the particular letter, exactly fita
and into no other.
Thus when the r, type passes over tho
b cell, the piston of the latter will pass
over the surface of the former but will
not take r, mo pun intended) and so piss
ton b rejects every type except -, but
when that Individual passes over the II
cell its piston hooks into the slot and Mr..
b let's go the trolley, plunges down his
cell, rams down the gangway, rushes to
the roundhouse, washes It's face and re-
ports to the central ready for another
trip Such is life in the busy hive OF the
Mergenthaler
Let the readers Of the Press cut out
this lucid explanation of ours, and when
they come in person TO the office, IL they
find that we have not described the ma
chine perfectly, we will give each one
years subscription to the Pensacola Press
for six dollars