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The evening world., 1902-12-03

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the lungs, but II builds up new tissue aud
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Eestion, stimulates and cnriCheB the blood.
tones up the heart, invigOratcs and builds
up tho body 30 that II win throw OH all
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would rather have Duffy's Pure Malt Whis-
key to cure consumption, Caturrh, asthma
and diseases OF the throat and lungs than
all the guaCk medicines in the world, and
The doctors present agreed with him
unanimously, Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey
Is good for old and young. II has carried
the blessing OF health to hundreds Of thou
sands Of poor sufferers. Many have tried
to initiate II, and unreliable dealers have
been known TO try 10 sell their customers
some cheap substitute because there was
more proft IN the substitute. So We car.
ton our patients TO be careful and see that
"Duny's Pure Malt Whiakoy" is on the
label, and that II Is our own patent bottle,
with the name blown in the bottle. This IL
the only way Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskoy is
sold, II offered In bulk or in TASKS 1t Is n
fraud.
The genuine at all druggists or grocers
or direct. Sl.00 n bottle. II is the only
whiskey recognized by the Government az
a medicine. This is a guarantee.
A valuable medical booklet containing
symptoms and treatment OF each disease
and many testimonials will be sent free
to ans reader OF this paper who viii write
Duffy HALT whisky Co., RocheBteF, N. Z.
The evening world., 1902-12-03
STOPPED
QUICKLY CURED.

Dear Sirs; | picked up one of your cir
culars on n table about a month ago and
read it through. After reading | went out
and bought n bottle OF your whiskey, which
helped me right away. / am now on my
fourth bottle, using II for so-called incura-
BILE consumption. and / feel like a new man.
| think that II l had known OF your whis-
key when I was at home in Chicago /
would have never come out here for my
health. ED. SCHUBARTlI,
1908 Market ST.. Denver. March IS, 1902.
There are thousands Of cases Just like
where the patients thought they had in
durable consumption until their doctors
prescribed Dumy's Pure Malt Whiskey.
Dufty's Pure Malt Whiskey is absolutely
pure and possesses more curative pow or
than all other medicines. II contains no
fusel oil, so common in other whiskoys,
and which is a dangerous ingredient In
whiskey, especially for the diseased sys-
TEN. when the poison takes effect.
The evening world., 1902-12-03

Mr.. Anthony D. Conway. Private
Secretary to ex-Mayor c. A. r. Di-
mon. of Lowell, Mass. says: "Hav-
ing been saved from a serious illness
by Father Johns Medicine, which
cured me of a dangerous attack of
grip. l take this opportunity to rec
ommend it as the best remedy ever
prescribed. (Signed) Anthony d.
Conway, lowell, Mass"
The evening world., 1902-12-03
THREE MURDER TRIALS.

HszEce Dnss, of Rochester, to Pre-
side over Criminal Court.
Hsli1e John M. Davy, of Rochester.
the Criminal Branch of the Su-
Court. this morning. Before this
MI come the ease of John
Young. the young Mormon ac-
The murder Of Mrs. Annie Pull
8ee Davy will also try Thomas
ana Alexander McInerney for
afaer of Capt. James -. Craft in
aaH# and also Thomas Sharkey
IH9 Tanker Nicholas Fish.
ae Hrst time Justice Davy
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with the main features of the news. He las
had set of proofs of everything put in
type and he knows what is awaiting him
on the galleys in the composing room. He
goes to the composing room about las
every afternoon and from that time until
the last page goes to the stereotyper there
is a constant hustle.
From what might seem chaos to one an
familiar with composing room scenes an
hour or so before geing to press the pages
Of The Evening Star are constructed in
double-quick time and without hitch.
Day in and day out and at the same min
ute the wheels of the giant presses in the
basement of the annex begin to revoive.
To maintain this unbroken record there
must be no delays in any part Of the pro-
cess of making the complete newspaper.
The labors Of the makeup are not easy
by any means.
The copy as 1t comes from the editors
through pneumatic tubes to the copy desk
of the composing room is cut up into what
are known as takes. For instance, a coll
umn artice-story is the name applied in
a newspaper Office to every piece of news.
no matter how short or how long-may be
cut into ten. twenty or greater number OF
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matrices, having answered. their purpose, Is
lifted vertically and then shifted laterally
until the teeth engage tho teeth of the plate.
This plate then rises. liffing the entire line
of matrices to the distributing mechanism
at the top of the magazine. The spaces re-
main behind when the matrices are lifted
to the distributor, and are, transferred lat
orally to the box or holder to be used
again.
The distribution of the matrices to their
proper channels Is effected by mechanism
of extreme simplicity. Each matrix has
the teeth arranged in peculiar order or
number. according to the letter which 1t
bears. In other words, matrix bearing
any given letter differs as to the number or
adapted to engage the teeth of the matrices
bearing any other letter. and these teeth
are relied upon as the means for effecting
distribution. A rigid metal bar Is fixed in
position above the open upper ends of the
magazine channels, and IS formed at Its
lower edge with longitudinal teeth or ribs
adapted to engage the teeth of the matrices
and hold the latter in suspension. The ribs
of the distributor bar vary in number and
arrangement at different points in its
length. there being . special arrangement
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The Editorial Staff of The Evening Star.

trices bearing the required characters, and
set them up in line side by side, with inter-
vening spaces, in the order in which they
are to appear in print, and thereafter to
present the line to a mold so that the limo
types or slugs may be cast against and
in>o the entire line Of matrices at one oper-
alton.
The operations are effected by mechan-
ism which represents in outline the princi-
pal parts of the machine. There Is an in
clned stationary magazine or holder, con-
tanning channels in which the assorted
matrices are stored The matrices tend to
slide downward out Of the magazine by
reason OF their gravity, but they are held
In check by escapements, one at the mouth
OF each channel. From these escapements,
rods are extended downwards to a series
Of finger keys. There is a special key for
each character or letter. The keys are
depressed by the operator in the order in
which the corresponding characters are to
appear in the print.
Each time key Is actuated 1t permits a
single matrix, bearing the corresponding
character. to fall out of the mouth of the
magazine and downward through the cham
nels to an incline travelling belt. by which
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the exception of in the latter, where a single
error means the setting over of the whole
line, as the line is one piece of metal in
itself.
Good Old Days.
Those were good old days, the days of
hand composition. A rollicking, happy-go-
lucky set were the printers of the ante
machine period. They were men of bright
intellects. Many of the best-known journal
lists and authors of today obtained their
early training Eat the case" The "art pre-
sentative" as the trade was called, was
school in itself.
BY the old process the cases had to be
replenished when they were set out" This
was called distribution. The compostor
lifted from the forms a handful of type
after 1t was thoroughly wet, and, holding it
securely In the left hand, proceeded WIN
the fingers of the right hand to return the
letters to their respective boxes. This was
a much quicker process than the setting Of
the type. The compositor became pro-
ficient in the work of distribution that the
letters took their places almost as II by
intuition.
Compositors on morning newspapers usu-
ally repaired to the composing room few
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matrix men were getting an impression.
In this department minute was gained
and the paper went to press on time
In the Stereotyping Room.
Now we come to the stereoptyping proc
ess, which is an interesting one. On the
arrival OF a form from the composing room
the stereotyper slides it on what is known
as an elevating table. This table is used
for convenience and safety in moving the
form to and from the matrix-rolling ma
chine and the drying press, or steaming ia
BILE. The old way of forming the matrix
was by beating it in by hand with big
brush. Owing to the great saving of time
by it's use, the power molding machine has
superseded to great extent the hand proc
ess. For several years after stereotyping
had been adopted by The Evening Star the
incessant and rhythmic rat-a-tat-tat of the
descending brushes on the forms was ia
miiar noise during the busy hours proceed
ing going to press.
Just before rolling the matrix in the
matrix-rolling machine the face of the form
is anointed sparingly with olive oil. With
this machine a matrix can be prepared
for the drying press in less than one min
ute. The form is placed on the bed Of the
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hours before time was called in the evening
and threw in their cases. II a compositor
was anxious to use the time the following
afternoon he remained in the office after the
Jig was up or go was in, expressions
used to convey the information that the
paper had gone to press, and distributed
his cases before seeking his bed. On even
ing papers distribution was done before
leaving the office in the afternoon.
The composing room was always a place
where good fellowship existed, and one
might hear the choicest bits of repartee and
wit when the men We're assembled for their
work" Not SO is it now. The noise of the
machine makes conversation among the
Operators no longer compositors, almost
out of the question. In the old days COM
positors working side by side oftentimes
carried on interesting and animated CONVEX
sations while their fingers were constantly
travelling back and forth from the boxes of
the cases to the sticks and all kinds of copy
was being transformed into columns of
reading matter il cold type.
Machine Composition.
The linotype machine, of the kind used
in the composing room of The Evening
Star, is not type setting machine in the
ordinary sense of the word, although that
term is often used in referring to it. On
the contrary, it is a machine which, be-
ing operated by finger keys ike a typewrit-
ing machine, creates or produces type mat
ter ready for use on the press or stereotype
ing table.
The machine marks a side departure from
the ordinary methods of using single line
letter type. 1t produces and assemblies
side by side metal bars or slugs, each the
length and width of line of type and
having on the upper edge the type char
acters to print entire line. These bars
having the appearance of solid lines of type
and answering the same purpose, are called
'hnotypes." When assembled side by side
they constitute jointly a form composed of
ordinary type and adapted to use in the
same manner.
After being used the linotypes are re-
turned to the melting pot to be recast
into other lines, thus doing away with dis
tribution. The production of the linotypes
is an interesting process. The machine
contains as its leading members a large
number of small brass matrices. The cut
of one Of these matrices looks like a big
letter Y. These matrices consist each of a
fiat plate, having in its vertical edge a
female letter or matrix, and in the upper
end a series of teeth. There are a number
of matrices for each letter or character
represented in the keyboard
The machine is organized to select ma
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MAKING A MODERN NEWSPAPER
Remarkable Changes That Have
Occurred in Fifty Years.
HAND COMPOSITION SUPERSEDED
One Linotype Machine Does the Work of
Several Men.
THE STARS UP-TO-DATE PLANT FOR THE TRANS
FORMING OF COPY INTO THE DAILY
EVENING PAPER

line. This was the one great thing that
was supposed to stand in the way of ma
chine composition. 1t was argued by print
ers that no machine could ever be invented
that would space out the lines.
When the ''stickS' was full the matter
was carefully lifted with the fingers, aided
by the setting rule and put on to a galley,
a brass tray with wooden sides and about
two feet in length. When the galley was
full, or the take or article, was ended, a
proof was taken and read by the proof
reader to mark any errors the compositors
might have made.
When all the corrections were made the
galley was sent, with many others, to the
forms to be made into pages. The ma
chine composition is placed upon galIeys
in the very same way. and the process of
proofreading and correction is similar, with
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over the mouth of each channel of the mag
azine. The matrices to be distributed are
simply pushed horizontally along the bar at
one end SO as to hang suspended therefrom,
and then moved slowly along it over the
mouths Of the channels.
Each matrix will remain in engagement
with and be suspended from the teeth of
the bar until 1t arrives over it's proper
channel, where the arrangement of teeth
permits the matrix to disengage SO that it
falls directly into the channel. This pro-
duces a falling action of certain matrices
into their respective channels, while other
matrices are continuing their course along
the bar to their proper points of delivery.
The movement of the matrices is effected
by means Of longitudinal screws which lie
below the distributor bar in position to en-
gage the edges of the matrices and slide
them along the bar.
-. Printing the Latest News
: With a comprising room SO complete in
every detail, in line with every other de-
partment of the paper, is it any wonder
that The Evening Star is enabled to print
every day all the news of the District of
Columbia-local and departmental-and of
the world up to the very hour of going to
press?
That is what The Evening Star pretends
to do, and it does do it literally. 1t has long
been the subject of interesting comment
particularly on the part Of newspaper cor
respondents in Washington and others who
are more or less familiar with getting out
of daily newspaper, the appearance in
the columns of The Evening Star of ac-
counts of news occurrences almost stimuli
taneous with the issuing of the paper.
The new building of The Evening Star
was constructed with the paramount idea
of time saving in all its appointments.
System, method and discipline are the other
prerequisites for accomplishing the desired
result.
The reader has fair idea of how the
material for The Evening Star was for
merly ''set up and is familiar with the
method of composition that has come into
vogue within the last decade. He finds
himself now with the makeup" Upon
the man who makes up the paper lies the
responsibility for the artistic or non-artis.
tic appearance Of its pages. He is the man
who determines where certain articles shall
be placed. He singles out the best pieces of
news for the first page. He sees that the
pages are constructed symmetrically.
The "Making-Up."
The makeup on the Evening Star, as
is true with nearly all the large papers of
the country, is the managing editor.
Throughout the day he has been in touch
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| the matrices are carried aownward one
| after another and delivered into the slotted
assembling block in which they are set up
or composed side by side in a line or row.
| A stationary box contains series of
| spaces and delivery device connected with
! finger bar by which the spaces are dis
charged and permitted to fail into the line
at their proper places Thussit is that by
operating the keys, the required matrices
and spaces are delivered one fter another
and assembled in line in the block: until it
contains all the characters necessary to
complete one line of print.
After the line of matrices is composed it
is transferred to the face of a Vertical mold
wheel, through which slot or mold proper
extends from the front to the rear face.
The entire row of characters in the matrix
line is presented directly opposite the face,
of the mold or slot, so that when the md4d
is filled with metal to prodace- a Slug or
linotype the metal will flow @into~the ma
trices, which produce their respective type
characters in relief on the edge of the
casting.
Casting the Solid Lines.
Behind the mold wheel there is arranged
a pot in which type metal is maintained in
a molten condition by flame from the gas
burner Hereunder. The pot has a delivery
mouth or channel adapted to fit against and
close the rear face of the mold Within the
pot there is mounted a mechanically oper-
ated pump plunger. After the line of ma
trices is presented and locked against and
across the face of the mold, the mouth of
the pot is closed against the rear side of
the mold, and the plunger then operated to
force the molten metal from the mouth of
the pot into the mold. in which it solidifies,
completing the slug or linotype.
After the linotype is thus produced, the
mold wheel makes partial revolution,
turning the mold slot from the horizontal
ing operation to a vertical position. While
the mold stands in this position, horizon
tai blade advances from the rear and
pushes the linotype forward out of the
mold and between trimming knives into
the galley on the front of the machine.
A vibrating arm advances the ifnotypes one
after the other along the galley, into which
they are thus assembled side by side in
column form ready for immediate use.
Distribution of Matrices.
After the assembled matrices have an
swered their purpose in front of the mold
it is necessary to distribute and return
them to the magazine. from which they
are again in due time discharged in differ
ent order for use in succeeding lines.
After the casting operation the line of
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Quick Work at Press Time.

Time and again an important piece OF
news that came to the editor or copy reader
a minute or so before the last page was
closed has found its way into the paper
Usually only few lines, a s.mp-e state
ment of facts can be used at this hour. The
operator who sets the heads is told the line
1t is up in a fifty. In the meantime the
fingers of another operator have begun 10
move over the keyboard of his machine,
setting ZIP the news paragraph. The make
up has been told Of the important piece OF
news and about how much space will be
required. s.. The rest of the page is being
thrown together all the time with the
thought of the last news item that is being
put into type.
A burry-up call is made. The galley man
stands waiting for the last line. a proof is
taken. The proofreader scans it, In the
meantime the story in type has been passed
to the forms and it has been placed in the
page. There is an error in one of the lines.
The operator has reset the line. The page
is being locked up. The operator hastens
to the form. The imperfect line is taken
out and a perfect one substituted. The
page is locked and is trundled away to the
matrix room. Not a second has been lost
A year or two ago one Of the men who
assisted in the making up Of The Evening
Star was formerly base ball player and
good al catch 1t was time that the last
page was due in the matrix room. The
page must be closed. An important piece
of news for which the page had been held
a minute over time. had been placed in the
form and it was being locked. The proof
reader discerned glaring error. An OPP
orator reset the line.
Cant wait second" the makeup
yelled.
Here you are" replied the operator, who
was in a remote part of the room.
Let 'er come" the former base oall
player shouted.
The leaden line was thrown by the oper-
ator. herassistant makeup caught 1t.
The imperfect line had been left on end in
the page. 1t was removed, the perfect line
took its place, and in another instant the
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takes" and as many compositors, opera
tors rather, may be working on 1t at the
same time. This is done for The sake OF
expediency. One story may come to the
makeup in sections on a number of gal
leys. The makeup and his assistants
must keep tab on everything and see
that there is no break. That more errors co
not creep into the columns of every daily
newspaper of any size can be little snort
of marvellous to those who do not fully ap-
preciate the system of getting a paper out
on time.
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BRIGHT Disc ASE

The largest sum ever paid for a pre-
scription, changed hands IN San Fran
cisco, Aug 90, 1902. The transfer in
volved, in coin and stock SIP, 800, and
was paid by party of business men for
a specific for Bright's disease.
They commenced the serious inyesti-
CATION of the specific Nov. 10, 1901.
They interviewed scores of the secured
and tried it out on its merits by putting
over the three dozen cases on the treat
ment and watching them. They also
got physicians to name chronic, incur
able cases, and administered it with the
physicians for judges Up to Aug %,
eighty seven Ter cent of the test cases
were either well or progressing favor
ably.
There being but thirteen per cent of
failures, the parties were satisfied and
closed the transaction The proceed
ings of the investigating committee and
the clinical reports of the test cases
We're published and viii be mailed free
on app ication Address John J Full
TN Company, 420 Montgomery St San
Francisco. Cal.
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NEW York now hasa "Children's
Police Court. This is in the nature
of a reform, as it is done to separate
youthful criminals from the vice
hardened criminals Of mature years
who occupy the time of the ordinary
police courts. The necessity for a
court devoted especially to the trial
OF juvenile criminals is a sad COM
mentary upon the civilization and
advance of the present day, as it
shows that deprayity amongst the
children of our largest cities must
be extensive. 1t is true, though
that nothing better can be expected
of the babes of criminals, and IN
fortunately Nature does not dis
criminate against the wicked in the
bestowal of progeny.
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AN AWFUL PRICE.

Commenting ON Br'er Hard
wick's offer to sell the editorial
opinions of the Texas Sun, at 1O
cents line, to the anti-prohibi-
tionists, the Alice Sun says:
Hereto Mr.. Hardwicks has been
accounted a Democrat, but as he is
now advocating the election of a
Republican to Congress, and put
ting up arguments directly in con
tradiction of his former political
arguments, and he has fixed the
price of his space at ten cents per
line, it is fair to presume that is the
price he receives for advocating
the election of Mr.. Scott. If he
does get that much, he will pro
badly build brown stone front
when the campaign is over But
the men who pay the money are
paying an awful price; in fact, they
are being gouged outrageously.
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Correspondence solicited on.an mat.
rers II local interest or OF Interest to
che people Of Southwest Texas. Eacr
communication must be accompanied
by the name of its author. not for pub
dcation unless SO directed), but as a
guarantee Of good faith, and when by
request anonymous signatures appear
to such communications the right is re-
served TO disclose the name Of the
writer should necessity arise for
such disclosure.