Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

feet. This amount of paper would cover
Pennsylvania avenue from the Peace monu-
ment to the Star building more than one
and one-half times, counting the distance
one mile and the width 100 feet. The parer
used in the first edition of The Sta would
have covered an ordinary city building lot
Growth of Advertising.
The number of inches of advertising in the
first Star was 9OK, or ~ linear feet. On
December I. 1901, The Evening Star printed
10 columns and 200 agate lines or 2,379 -
inches of paid advertising. This was equiv
alent to 1884, linear feet. The advertise
ments in the first Star if measured on
perpendicular, would just overtop a tall
man, while the ads in The Star of 1902, If
measured in the same way, would reach
higher than the roof of The Star building.
The date December Z, 1901, is chosen be-
cause it was the banner advertising day In
1901 During the holiday season of 1902
the figures given will be exceeded approx
mately 10 per cent.
The number of advertisements in The Star
of December 16, 1852 was fifty-four. The
number of advertisements in The Star of
Saturday, October Is, 1902 was 1911. The
dom, and no doubt there have been many
Issues of the paper containing a larger
number
The number of employees in the counting
room of the first Star was two. There are
partment of the paper.
The Star of 1859 contained approximately
325 linear inches of type space, these inches
being twentysix ems wide and twelve ems
deep. To fill this space would be required
1O1, 400 ems of nonpareil type. The plumber
of linear inches in sixteen-page Star
is approximately 2,436, to fill which would
be required 7S9, 264 ems. The twenty limo
type machines of The Star, each setting
5000 ems an hour, would set 100000 ems
an hour, and at this rate could set all the
type that could be squeezed into the form
of the first Star in sixty minutes, fifty and
two-fifths seconds
There were employed in the composing
room of The Star of 1852 a foreman four
compositors and three apprentices The
foreman was William r. Mclean father of
Richard A. Mclean. now foreman of The
Star. One of the compositors who set type
for the first Star, and who still practices
his trade in The Stars composing room is
Charles E. Leves. One of the apprentices
was Stuart Robson the eminent comedian,
and another of the apprentices was Col
William H. Powell, L. S. A.
There are employed in the composing and
stereotypng rooms of The Star today sixty
one men.
The number of employees in the news and
editorial rooms of the first Star was two; in
the news and editorial rooms of the present
Star, forty-four. This does not include
suburban correspondents, special CORE
spondents or paid contributors.
Title of the Star.
The title or "great-head'' of The Star
that legend in eccentric, though familiar
type which stretches across the top of the
first page, has undergone few changes
since The Star was young, but today it is
the same font of type which introduced The
capital more in fiction than in fact. The
great-head of The Star of 1852 was English
text, a type resembling German text in the
small letters, but not in the capitals The
first great-head was Daily Evening STAR
and the letter "Y' at the end OF the first
word was not a ''Y," but an inverted III
This was probably a mechanical error.
There were subheads in condensed English
type reading Daily Evening Star" at the
top of the second column of the first page
and the first column of the second, third
and fourth pages.
When Wallach and Hope became mas ers
of The Star the great-head was changed to