The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-02-12

sary by the increased amount of mat
ter which the News-Democrat in it's
new form carries, and the increased
speed at which it must be handled.
The machine room at full blast re-
sembles a typewrting establishment,
with mammoth typewrters instead of
the ordinary instrument. These ma
chimes are delicate things, and require
the constant attendance and supervis-
! ion of skilled machinist.
| In the larger room all the handling
of the type is done. One section of the
room Is given up to the hundreds of
fonts of display type used by the News
Democrat in setting its advertisements
and it's headings. The advertising force
is distinct from that of the news force,
and is kept constantly hustling by the
papers large and ever-growing busi-
| ness.
In the linotype department. the copy
having been converted into type bars,
the metal lines are handed over to one
of the young men in charge Of the
bank" BY him it is placed in it's
proper order on the galley, the type is
/ proven, and copy and proof are to-
gether turned over to the proof readers,
who occupy a snug little corner of the
main room. Two people are kept con-
stantly busy reading proofs, rectifying
errors and seeing that the word of the
type adhers to the written copy.
The last stage of the types use comes
after the errors noted by the proof
readers have been corrected. Then it
is turned over to the makeup to be put
into the form and sent down stairs.
Rapid work and hot work it is, getting
the various stories" with their proper
headings and additions into suitable
places and getting the forms down
stairs in time to mail the editions. A
dozen steel tables stand about the
room. On each of these is big steel
frame or chase. These are what hold
the type, and when one has been filled
another steel bar Is put in at the bottom
of the columns, side and bottom bars
are tightened and the page Is slid off
the steel table onto another one From
this it is transferred to the elevator and
sent down stairs to the sterotypers for
casting.
A few minutes later it returns, frame
and type alike hot and steaming, and
some matter comes out and more goes
in, and once again it goes down for
another edition.
Since January /, 1901, the News-Dem-
ocrat company has purchased new ad-
vertising display type, rules, borders
and ornaments to he value of 81 900,
making the equipment of its newspaper
plant in this particular one of the most
complete in the state.
This new and modern material was
purchased from the reliable Keystone
Type Foundry company of Philadel-
phia, one of the most substantial and
progressive institutions in the country.
Readers of the News-Democrat have
frequently expressed their admiration
of the handsomest faces which have
appeared in it's advertising columns of
late. The type of the Keystone COM
pany is cast from nickel alloy metal,
which is unexcelled by any other metal.
Consequently the type Is very long-liv-
ed as compared to that cast by any
other founders. All the new faces are
being produced on standard line, and
they show originality and artistic
worth. The Keystone foundry en-
ployes the most skillful workmen that
can be secured for this kind of work,
and the results are as nearly perfect as
it has been possible to get type.
THE STANDARD LINE.
Standard line is system for the
perfect alignment of any size of type
with it's own size in another series with
out Justification; also the lignment,
with leads only, of any size in series
with another size in its own or other
series where STANDARD Line" is the
basis adopted. The use of cardboard.
paper and tissue paper being required
with the casting of type Of other foun-
dries not on this system.
STANDARD Line" was invented and
first adopted by the Inland Type Foun-
dry, which coined that name. The
keystone company adopted both sys-
TEN and name, by the Inland's consent
and the Keystone's steel lining-stand-
ards were made to the Keystone's order
by the Inland that 1t might have the
alignment uniform and thereby most
useful to the printer.
NICKEL ALLOY.
AS has nickel been adopted by the
United States government, with which
to alloy steel In the casting of Its big
guns, SO the Keystone company, several
years since, adopted the same metal as
an alloy in the casting of movable
types, to make them wear longer with
clear-cut face than Il possible with
the ordinary type metal
In the reorganization Of the depart
ments of the Key4tono ooncorn that ~