Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-24

| Each Paper Has News Speciality.
! But while the Associated Press is all
that could be desired in gathering the
news of the world, each great newspa-
per feels that it Is published for the
/ special interest of the people in it's i'm
mediate locality. Hence the New York
daily employs an enormous force OF
/ special men to gather the marine news
| and news of New York. The Chicago
| daily devotes four fifths of its columns
| to news of Chicago, to the ward poll
tics OF Bath House john" the saloon
| brawls of Clark street, and gossip of
the lake front, each specializing on the
news affairs of that locality in which it
is mostly read The Times Republi-
can has long looked upon itself as a
state daily, hence 1t maintains its own
exclusive staff of ESQ special Iowa COR
respondents, and makes a speciality of
Iowa news, which would not be accept
ed by editors in Chicago or any large
city. After the Associated Press has
telegraphed 1t the news of the world,
the markets and the sensations, all of
which is grouped together on pages
one, five and eight, enormous special
telegraph and telephone tolls are in
Cured to obtain from all over Iowa the
news of every event. Scarcely can
birth happen, a death occur, a leg be
broken. business deal consummated.
thief caught, swindler exposed, fire
burn, or party be held in the Hawkeye
state that some one of the T.-R.'s men
does not get hold of it and report 1t on
the two Iowa news pages of that days
Tx. And all of this time a special
force OF trained news reporters is gath
ering the news of Marshalltown for the
people of that locality who open their
T.-R. to pages six and seven before
glaneing at any other page in the pa
per. And over all and above all, sits the
editor and editorial writer's, calmly OBJ
serving the events of the mad world
about them and editorially expressing
their opinion, which then becomes the
I.-R.s opinion, of what is wrong and
what Is right, and what should be done
TO make right what is now wrong.
such is the organization of the news
force of great daily newspaper, an
organization that is not surpassed In
the management of railways or the
mobilization of armies When you have
looked in upon the editors at their
desks, the news editors arranging. Sc
lectfng and writing headlines for the
news items that are constantly coming
over the telegraph and telephone wires,
and by mail, the local editors at their
typewriters pounding out copy. while
shouting questions into the telephone
receiver and dispatching reporters here
and there, we enter the composing
ROOM
Wonderful Type Setting Machines.
But a few years ago the scene would
have been one of long rows of men
at their cases, as BENJAMIN |
Franklin Cd and as men are doing in |
the proverbial country office today. |
Since the innovation of the type setting |
the composing room of the
daily newspaper has been revolution |
lied. In the T.-R. shop four men, OPP
Grating keyboards on four machines, |
set all the type for reading matter that |
appears in this newspaper. the adver- |
tisements and larger headlines only |
being set by hand. Twelve years ago
1t would have required twenty -four
men to do this work.
The Mergenthaler linotype machine |
has been considered the most wonder !
-ui tliSCHdHtCdl lllNGIltlOn OI dl ages. /
For lifetime a German machinist by |
he name of Mergenthaler worked over
t and finally when success was at last I
n sight, discouraged in spirit, ex-
lausted in pocket and broken down In
health he sold all Of his patent rights
or $4,000 to company formed by
Whitelaw Reid, who was then publisher
# the New York Tribune and in whose
shop Mergenthaler had been expert
nenting with his machine. Mergen-
haler died shortly afterward but the
Linotype Company still
urther perfected the machine until
is work would far outclass that OF
my other device ever invented and for
he year 1902 alone the company's div
dends and profits have been million
nd half of dollars. The patent
lights give 1t a monopoly which enables
to charge $4,000 for every machine
sells and the machine itself, is such
hat large newspapers have to have it.
he Mergenthaler linotype machine
new type for every line !,
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