The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-06
new EPOCH OF Times
IN NENSPAPE RING
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eousy with the black and 1t is possible.
and. in fact, is done with this issue, to
print the color pages at full running
speed while printing the twenty-five block
pages in addition.
GREATER THINGS YET.
This press will even do greater things
than this, for while printing in black 1t
will also turn out four pages in color.
The colors used to-day are red. blue and
yellow, with an outline Of black. Shades,
tints and other colors are produced by
blending the primary colors. as, for eX-
| ample, the green is produced by putting
the blue over the yellow. The wonder
of the work is the nicely with which
these colors are Registered" or printed
precisely in. the proper place while the
paper is passing through the machine at
almost the speed OF an express train,
going In at one end of the press as 1t
does from q continuous roll, receiving
four different Inks in exact quantity and
position, being printed on both sides OF
the sheet and coming out at the other
end of the machine just as the SUD-
Scriber receives them.
The dimensions of this wonderful print
ing machine are as follows: 10 feet long,
515 feet wide, and Il feet hlgh. IL weighs
10 OdO pounds, or thirty-flve tons.
The first issue of The Times was a
small penny sheet 14x19, which appeared
on the ed day of October, 1856. from a
very contracted office at No. 91S East
Main Street.
A PENNY PAPER
At that time there were two old es-
tabl.shed morning papers here, the DIS
patch and the Wing, and they had the
field The Times was therefore an ex-
pertinent to test whether Richmond
would support a penny daily. The bant-
ling encountered from the very beginning
many Obstacles and had heavy odds to
fight against in its infantile struggle for
existence.
AS a matter Of course it required time,
patience energy and hard labor TO make
a paper that should become popular with
the thinking and reading public: but de-
spite all manner of discoura cement the
originators of the paper persisted in the
effort to put the enterprise on the road
to ultimate success. The work seemed
to be slow and Of uphill character,
but at the end OF the first year of Its
existence the little insignificant penny
paper had made sufficient Roadway to
justify it's enlargement and improvement.
BRANCHING or.
Plans We're set on foot to enlarge and
improve the paper, and it was found that
the very first step in that direction nee
essarily be the securement Of more COM
the paper was just a year old. q larger
and more convenient home was secured
a No. SIS East Main Street. and there
d complete newspaper Office complete
for that Gay and time) was established
AS soon the new office had been ar
ranged, new type put in. new machinery
installed new furniture put in place, the
next important step was taken. The IA
ciities for gaLuering the news OF the day
We're enlarged at great expense and
change was made from the pony"
telegraph service of the Press News AS
sociation to the better and more desire
able service OF the United Press and In
addition correspondents were secured at
the leading Virginia points In the mean
time the price of the paper had been ad-
vanced to cents and the Sunday and
weekly editions were enlarged 70 elshl
pages.
EIGHT PAGES EVERY DAY.
The people appreciated these efforts to
please and the patronage increased Won
derfully Additional features were add
ed to make the paper popular, and 1t
was soon demonstrated that the people
of Richmond wanted an eight-page paper
daily. The Times was the first to notice
this demand and the first to meet it, and
accordingly before it was two years old
The Times gave the reading public the
first eight-page paper they had ever had
and took it's place in the ranks OF first
class Southern journals, and mind you,
the paper was Just two years old. The
staff was then increased and the mana
gers commenced to look around TO ascer
tain If other Improvements were neces-
sary.
MORE NEWS WAS THE CRY.
The Richmond public, always progress
sive and aggressive, wanted moro news
1t was the business of The Times to fur
nisll it and the management did not hest
tate for a moment to arrange, at great
expense, for the ''All night report of
the United Press. This report commenced
daily at P. NJ, and continued without
interruption until $50 in the morning or
longer If there was any more rews to be
had. This gave The Times the best gen
eral news service OF any paper in Vir-
Sinia-
THE WHIG ABSORBED
Tho Times was now making such rapid !
strides as to weaken at least one of its I
The Wing begun to lam |
guish There was q general Impression
that the aged paper was on its last legs.
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