Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-08

Sunday newspaper will be fully understood
by those who will read this excerpt to the
end. We will be brief and merely epitomise
things. Detail would stretch out the sub.
iect to the lengths Of those Prison Reform
nightmare papers Letus commence at the
beginning therefore and proceed chronology
ically with the aid of our hydraulic com.
pressing machine
That the SUNDAY MORNING GLOBE has
been an unusually dirty sheet we admit
From the typographical, autographed
and grammatical point Of view The matter
composed has been clean enough in con-
ception or until it encountered the limo
type machine. There it met its Waterloo. i"
Even a sermon by Talmage and an angel
serenade by Grumbine came out from under
that invention of the devil with all the hoof
marks Of his Satanic Majesty, disfguring
not only our syntax and prosody, but our
photography and etymology.
We are a patient and a forbearing biped,
like an Woodworking newspaper men. We
have been accustomed all our life to the
hand compositor, that all around hard drink
ing educated aud wel.read individual to
whom uumberless editors, dead and living,
are indebted for such fame as writers as a
discriminating intelligent public awarded
them That old time compositor is passing
away and hence the dirty" sheets now
issued by even family newspapers depend
eut on the linotype aud the MACHINE who
Tor which, mauipulates it. When, there.
fore, the daily newspaper comes out daily
with errors sticking out as prominently as
the nose of Don Caezar de Bazau what must
a suffering public endure from the perusal
Of "a what is intended by its editor as highly
moral Sunday newspaper The former has
the pick of the MACHINES who Tor which,
operate the linotype and the latter is COM
PEELED to submit to any old shoemaker,
bricklayer or carpenter Temporarily ont of
employment at his own particular craft, and
fills in the interregnum operating for some
one horse Office (where the GLOBE has been
murdered weekly until the present issue),
by this miserable substitute for BRAINS
known as the linotype machine.
The great dailies use the linotype be-
cause the linotype saves Office space and
cannot go out on a strike. One linotype
will compose as much matter as four or FIVE
H0InDOslIOlHs
ical as a mere type setter than the old time
hand compostor is a question, except in the
matter Of shop space But ye gods. and
little fishes. the contrast In the product of
the linotype and the human being with
brains is where the climax is reached In the
printed newspaper The pleasure is no
longer enjoyed by the reading public of the
graceful and flowing rhetoric, properly
puuctuated, spaced paragraphed and Of
Geographically grammatically as well as
geographically correct which we all en-
i0ycd before the substitution of brains with
this linotype machine. The ambition has
departed from the Faber welded by the
modern scribe, for alas. too well he knows
that could ne write TO bring the angels
down the MACHINE operating the machine
would make his ablest inspired effort look
like thirty cents
There is no redress TO be obtained from
these butchers of copy, of English as she
is written" they simply take corrections
on proof sheets as the harmless amuse-
meut of hand raised writer's and regard an
such with the same dense stolidity with
which their fellow machine gruds out the
lines of type metal.
If am editorial does not suit the MACHINE
operating the machine, he simply destroys
it and his boss puts up the excuse that the
MACHINE Is on a drunk. This happened 10
the GLOBE last week and it was the last
straw that broke the camel's back We
struck And this issue is the product of
the hand and old time intelligent compost.
tor Contrast 1t with the dirty" GLOBE
YOU have been reading dear public
But we had almost forgotten the real mo.
tive which inspired this tribute to our old
"pard"-the hand compositor In last Sun
days GLOBE there appeared an open letter
to the President of the United States
from the distinguished writer traveller and
author MI Hamilton Rowan Helper His
great work "The Impending Crisis" will be
recalled by the student and political ecouo-
mist. Well-Mr Helper selected THE SUN
DAY GLOBE as the mediumfor his very able
aud exhaustive letter to the President ON
the importance Of the three Americas or
pan-American Railway from Alaska to the
Straits of Magellan A stupcndous under
taking and magnificent conception truly
Mr. Helper, however, undertook an equally
marvellous enterprise when he supposed
because he furnished type written copy to
the MACHINE who Tor which operates the
machine that his article would be free from
errors He gently chided the Editor of the
GLOBE an our careless proof reading and
the dirty appearance of the paper We
bided over time and turned Mr. Helpers
type written copy over to the MACHINE who
(or which, runs the machine
Mr.. Helper called ON Friday to read his
proofs. He commenced at II a. m. and
finished just two galleys columns by 23o
p. m. There were three more to read
We made a rapid time calculation and de-
cided that if the GLOBE was to make its
usual appearance ON Sunday morning Mr.
Helper great man though he Is, must be
suppressed His antics while reading the
two proof sheets mentioned were those Of a
centipede afflicted with the jim-iams He
several times struck the ceiling with his
head and protested that he was not a swear.
ing man. He did think, however, the
printer who could or would furnish such
proofs ought TO be arrested for false pre-.
lenses and kept in jail until Congress ad.
journed." He said and did so much that
the distinguished author Of THE IAiPEND-
ING CRISIS succeeded In making us lose
our temper. We sent for the printer and
introduced him TO Mr. Helper, and then we
abandoned the GLOBE Office for the balance
OF the afternoon. Saturday morning mail