Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-18
THE SOUVENIR
Some Facts Regarding its Pub
LEGATION.

ing regarding the Carnival Souvenir.
1t was sixty-page affair and cost S.
page, for 5000 bound copies
The job was first taken to The News
office and that paper declined to pub
fish it. 1t was also brought to the
Appeal office and its publication de-
clined. 1t was what is known as
rush" job and neither paper deemed
that it could do justice to the work in
the short notice given for its publica-
ton. The Appeal subsequently agreed
to publish it at the price named per
page and was obliged to spend over
500 in paper, material. etc, before
beginning the job. Mr.. Van Duzer
was awarded the concession of COM
piling the work and securing the ad
vertisements on commission.
A lot of hali-tone cuts were brought |
to the Office which were made some
years ago in this city by local pho |
tographet. named Halves. The half
tone work was not first class and the |
Appeal so informed MIR. Van Duzer, as
il is next to impossible to make such
cuts show up
There was nothing else to be had on
short notice and so they went in.
About twelve pages of San Francis
| CO advertisements were sent IN and ad
I.4 ~ -, II,
money received from San Francis
CO was not turned over to the Publ
city Committee. The members OF the
Committee feel that they should have
had, this money, about SEQ, to meet
these extra expenses with. Learning
that this money was not TO be forth
coming many pages OF San Francisco
| advertisements were omitted.
Various parties had agreed to have
certain copy ready at stated times but
it did not show up and often the print
crs, still under pay, were idle, and TO
make UP Tor this they had to be worked
over time and KEEP, up q, night Tor
which they. properly enough. charged
overtime
As : result OF this crowding work at
night TO make up Tor the time lost
through no fault OF the Appeal, two
printers quit work entirely. At the
pictures came up from San Francisco
} and il required several pages more to
get them in The book. These cuts
were hurridly executed and no Two
seemed TO be O the same he ght. TO
make these cuts look at all pIesentable
required 10 end of Iuttering work,
which only persons familiar with print
ing can understand and some were in
! such condition that a good impression
of them was an impossibility- These
. cuts cost the Committee money both
5 to have made aud to publish in the
: Souvenir
} Many OF the persons whose cuts ap-
peared in the Souvenir paid nothing
for them. The Committee informs the
Appeal that about half OF the people
whose pictures appear have SO far
paid nothing for them.
The Committee received about $225
from the Souvenir, from sales and adj
vertising If it had the $500 which
came from the San Francisco merch-
ants and the bare cost of the cuts re-
funded, it would have had a good sur
plus. Regarding the incomp1eteness
of the programme part, the Appeal has
but to say that it printed this portion
exactly as it came to the Office.
Lester Merrill a young man from
.~eno furnished the design for the COW
er and his bill of $I2 was rejected.
[ If the people whose half-tone por-
traits adorn the pages OF the Souvenir
will pay the actual cost to the Com
nlittee they can settle with Mr.. Mer-
ril and give him his just dues.
This would be about dollar each
( for quarter-page cuts and four dollars
TOR full page cuts.
The Appeal is still engaged in bind
ing the edition and a portion of the
money due it has been very properly
withheld by the committee until it COM
pletes its contract They are to be
circulated free and each advertiser can
have all he wants to circulate by ap-
plying to the Secretary of the Com
mittee Mr. Nate Rolf.