The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

when map printing becomes the part of at
las publication which he is engaged upon.
As soon as the first complete proof is taxi
ell, however, ii is sent to the editorial de-
making from its place names, a complete
gazetteer.
INDEXING THE MAPS.
On such a map along two parallel
sides, will be a certain number of let
tiers of the alphabet, and on the other two
sides the requisite number Of numerals.
These enable both the editor and the pur-
chaser of the completed atlas to find any
given area on the map, because it is by
their aid divided up into squares, such as
A-3, CO, G-S, etc. With these as a guide,
editorial assistants carefully copy all Of the
names in a square, taking each square in
order, until the map is entirely gone over,
and then these names are arranged alpha
betiCally with other names from other
maps, If more than one map is devoted 10
this political subdivision. This list goes 10
the compositor, is set up, when in the type
is repeatedly read with care from the man
uscTipt list, by proofreaders, and then re-
turned TO the editorial department to be
compared with the map, there finally
passed upon, and at last made up into per-
manent pages.
THE COLOR PRINTING.
1t is doubtless we'll understood that
each colored map must be run through
the press as many times as colors APP
pear on it. In other words, the black out
lines and place names having first been
printed. the red, blue and yellow follow,
one impression at a time, the paper passing
under entirely different forms and due time
being given TO allow the ink to dry after
each impression. The primary colOrs are
usually the limit Of the number of impress
sions, green being frequently a combina-
ton of yellow lines running in one direc-
ton and blue lines crossing them, and or
ange the same sort OF combination between
yellow and red. The care that must be
taken in what pressmen know as 1.-The reg
ister.' whereby the various colored blocks
meet and match exactly and correspond
with the black under them, often calls for
the most extreme patience; yet, even with
the utmost care, such is the tendency to
give on the part of the paper that some
times inaccurate impressions are produced,
and these must eventually be discarded.
Tn atlas sheets, so far as maps are con-
Cerned, are now ready for the binder, some
of them containing four and some as many
as sixteen pages on one sheet of paper.
THE BINDING AND SHIPPING.
Naturally, the binding of such a book as
a large atlas, while il is a question of the
ordinary machine sewing, cover stamping,
marbling of edges. etc, must be done with
unusual care and firmness TO sustain the
great weight and strain in such a book and
at the same time enable it TO open in such
a way that every part of IL is accessible TO
the student. Having attended TO all OF these
details and the finished book having come
from the binding presses and been suitably
wrapped for shipment, II Is then ready for
delivery throughout the country wherever
a large and efficient army of agents have
found buyers for II. II may appropriately
be said here that the really valuable high
class atlas is not to be purchased in book
stores.
WONDERFUL READING MATTER.
So much for the making OF maps, the
printing and binding of the atlas, and get
ting IL on the market. Before this point
has been reached. however, there must
| management. but by a different STAFF of as
sistants, those political, historical and sta
tistical descriptions and tables. the compi-
latiOn and verifcation of which calls for
an amount Of labor that very few. none in
fact who have not attempted such work.
can thoroughly appreciate. Let Us take, for
Example, the pages of the descriptive mat
ter having 10 do with the history, physical
features, government, judicial and educa-
tional affairs. climate, products and indus
tries, and the principal cities OF our State
OF New York. Ii is a fact, but little appreci-
ated by most readers. that works OF his
tOrical reference are quite as apt To radi-
cally differ In their statements OF i'm
portant and ascertainable dates. as they
are 10 agree. And even in the spellings OF
place names, or or the names OF persons in
early history, these differences are fire.
Quently very marked. We have already
seen how recently published and much
vaunted dictionaries may be at sea in the
spelling OF foreign place names. and We
are. therefore,. prepared 10 find that IN the