The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-29

their morning paper.
With the completion ~ todav's Issue Of
The Post. the press room employees hive
been on duty thirty-slS hours. and all in
order that tho thousands OF rcadcrs ~
Tho Post may not he disappointed by
failure Of the pspcr to put In It's daily
appearance
THE BUSY SCENE
The time Of going 10 press With
great daily newspaper Is timed 10 tao
fraction ~ minute. The capacity u
the presses Is accurately gauced and the
tyncsettng continued until the last NO
mcut Of time when the forms can be
closed, the plates cast and tho wheels
started Once the press IS started the
completed papers fail from the machine
in n steady stream aud the mailing force
PUSHES with great stacks n papers from
table To table whore the mailing sacks are
hlled and the wagons carry them to the
waiting mall cars.
r1s clanors Of the carrier hovs must be
appensed and they struggle aud fight for
the opportunity to be hrst served Tho
scene appears 10 be one of inextrcahla
confusion to the uninitiated but to the
men who are doing the work IL Is all or
der and system. II was at this critical
moment that Sundays accident occurred
when onc-fourth 81 the edition had been
printed.
! Tho one demand that is made upon all
tho departments Of paper the one watch
word Of every employe is "Be on time"
system as diligently studied as any army
| organization or formation Is found IN every
newspaper office. Every man knows his
| duties and his response must be prompt
ard certain.
when the last copy Is In and the hour
| when composition must cease arrives. the
! great furnace in the stereotvplne room
| gleames Ike a Dragons eye and streams
! Of moulten metal are ladled from Its hiss.
! lnG depths. There is a shouting Of com.
! mands, hurrying Of heavy forms filled
With the precious news gathered nv re-
porter or received nv wire, a manning of
) machinery, the whlrlinr OF wheels and cut.
/ ting Of metal and out Of the confusion
there hnaily comes the paper that grects
| sou at YOUR table every morning
To those who have watched latter day
printing methods the wonder grown that
there are not more mistakes, and II Is
maryccd that moro Issues arc not missed
IN week than are chroniclcd tho country
over Ia year
The Posts press Is as due machine
as le operated ia Texas Tho accident Of
sunday morning Ia such as il likely tc
occur at any hour In any office In the land
Nothing but the breaking Of the press
could nave caused the delay. But this &,
what happened, and like all other acct
dents. at time seemingly most iuoppor
tuuely, for few months later would hay,
rendered 1t impossible for the readers o
Tue Fost to have been thus delayed II
learning the news OF the day. Every otheI
part Of The Posts plant is duplicated. anc
the mlshap Of yesterday will never he no
peated once the paper Is established in III
new home now In course Of construction
as The Post has provided for dupllcat,
presses, which are now in the warehous,
waiting completion Of the building
The Post appreciates the kindly consid
Grafton shown during the annoying dc
lay Of yesterday, and greatly regrets tina
the explanation Of this first and II is he
lieved last delay In its history was mad
necessary.