Evening journal., 1902-04-08
STORIES FROM
HERE AND THERE

The pay rolls Of the great New York
newspapers run from $4,000 to 100000
week. and that is only part of their
| expenses.
A single press of the latest pattern
costs from $4,000 to 100000, and one
plant has fourteen such presses, each
capable of printing in five colOrs and
one in six. and each able by superim-
posing. to do lithographic job of a
hundred shades If necessary.
Each of these presses can pour out
in an hour a cataract of $4,000 eight
page papers, with five colOrs on front
and back, 1000 per minutesf or over
twenty-six per second; 10000 twelve
page papers, $4,000 of sixteen or $4,000
OF thirty-twO pages.
A four page country paper that circu-
lates 1000 copies may just consider it.
self reasonably prosperous. The metro
politan battery of fourteen presses can
print that number OF eight page papers
in less than three seconds.
As a. seamstress puts her little spin
die Of thread in her sewing machine
the pressman feeds his press with
giant rolls Of paper. each four pages
wide and about mile and half long.
Each of these rolls weigh from 1000
to 1000 pounds. An ordinary edition
viii use hundreds OF them; an extra
ordinary edition may devour as many
as 1.4OO. the load of two or three good
sized freight trains.
The same office has from 800 to q
600 people in it's direct employ in New
York city alone, not counting it's army
of correspondents. 1t has 5000 agents.
It spends from $4,000 to SO 900 a month
for twine and wrapping paper to wrap
uD its bundles. 1t makes its own
wagons and harness.
II has the largest factory for colored
and black inks in the country. 1t makes
it's own rollers and almost everything
il uses. In each department it pays the
highest wages known in that industry.
The number Of families dependent
upon this single specimen OF yellow
journalism would make a big city.
A dead man has the same baggage
rights as a live one. This question has
been passed on by the chief baggage
master at a Union depot, and it was
done in hurry. too. There were five
live persons and a dead man waiting
for the decision. The coffin was placed
in the baggage car and then the trunks
OF the five friends We're weighed.
The weight exceeded the $50 pounds
for each. but If the dead man were al
lowed baggage, this would solve the
difficulty. The clerk had never heard
of such q thing before. He refused to
check a trunk on the dead mans ticket
The train was almost ready to start
The five persons did not care to pay for
the excess baggage. neither did they
like to allow the body to go alone. The
whistle of the train footed it's first
warning.
Just then the chief baggage master
arrived. He took in the situation at
glance.
Check the trunks" he exclaimed.
and the FIVE hurried on in time to catch
the train.
Then he explained to the clerk that
the General Traffic Managers Associa-
ton had passed on the question only
last week. This organization decided
that when a fun fare ticket Is paid for.
for the transportation of a corpse. the
ticket carries with it the regular bag
gage privilege OF not to exceed $50
Dounds."
Some people have an idea that a pa.
per is published for the purpose OF
airing personal grievances. and when
the editor refuses to give space to such
matters his action is denounced and
the party in question withdTaws his
patronage.
Once in awhile some one does get
the best Of us. For instance. a mar
nrfrl - TO Tho nfHna
ly hands us a news dtem for the paper
, We thank him, and he departs. How
ever, upon reading the news item 4
proves to be an advertisement, purl
and simple. A charge is made in th,
advertising book and a bill sent. an,
D we soon ascertain that we 'fhave on
+ foot in it. The debtor storms in an,
asks what We sent him a bill for. Up
on being told that It was for the adver
tisement Money to loan on good sc
I curity" which he handed up last weel
. he angrily informs the publisher tina
he is a subscriber to his paper, and {
4 he has 10 pay for such items he vii
stop taking the paper. What shall W
n do, lose him as a subscriber or Civ
r him advertising space free of charge
r We always make the charge for space
regardless OF consequences.
4 A well-tO-do farmer in Russell count,
! Kan. has traded his 10-year-Old so
and wagon load of corn for the 1s
&c year-old daughter of a neighborin
10 farmer. equally well-to-do. and tn
N transaction was made a matter of rec
ord in the County Clerks office. Th
reason for the trade was that in tn
family of which the son was a membe
there were no girls, while the father {
the transferred girl had no boys.
Id In the rooms Of the Phil Sherida
is Post this evening. the Fifth Regimen
ne Association will meet for permaneI
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