The Green Forest tribune., 1903-11-21
OF AGREAT PAPER
More than Three Months Requir- ed to Get Out q Single Edition.

More than Three Months Requir-
 ed to Get Out q Single Edition.
 Newspapers are so quick to fol- low news happenings with a full account of the occurrences that people have come to believe all newspaper processes are in- stantaneous. How far from true this belief is, becomes evident to one who has been privileged to see great edition of a metropolis tan paper in course of prep aration.
 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is preparing to celebrate it's 25th birthday on Dec. 13 by the issue of a newspaper which will con- tain at least 124 pages and will weigh over two pounds. This newspaper will cost it's publishers over 12 cents per copy, but will
 be sold at the regular price-5 cents. The work of preparation for this enormous edition began last September, when five mem-
 bers of the editorial staff were detached from service on the regular editions and constituted the Anniversary Edition Council.
 The first work was the founda- tion of plans and these having
 been adopted, schedule was
 prepared which resembles rail-
 way timetable. On this schedule is d space for each page and the
 dates each portion of the work on
 that page must begin and end
 from the reporter and photo-
 grapher to the pressman. The
 members of the council were as-
 signed to divisions of the work
 and directed artists, photograph
 CTS, reporters and stenographers
 in the preparation of the features
 for their division. The head of
 the council keeps them in such close touch that up to date the work has followed the schedule
 faithfully.
 Eighteen color pages were planned, and as a color page occupies more than thrice the
 time in preparation that is neces-
 sary for black page of equal merit, the first work was on these
 pages. By the latter part of
 October all of the color pages had been completed and were in the hands of the pressman. They had gone the long road from the suggestion of the editor, the collection of material by report CTS, the taking of pictures by photographers, the combination
 of pictures in accepted designs
 by artists, the engraving and the
 electrotyping. They were ready l to be printed on the Post-Dis- } patch s huge four color presses. Before November began a com ] pleted section of the anniversary . edition was on the press.
 ] The necessary paper had been t brought in special train of 10
 enormous freight cars from the
 mills in the East and stored in the
 Post Dispatch warehouse. So !. fast as the first section was print 1 ed on the big color presses on the t first floor of the Post Dispatch } building the copies were carried
 by elevators to the sixth floor. There, as soon as the printing t of the second section was begun, a force of men was employed , "stuffing' the first section into 5 the first; when the third section
 came up the elevators, that was l also stuffed" and so the process
 will continue until all the sections
 of this enormous edition are com-
 bined in the completed news
 paper. The total weight of this a paper is 600,00O pounds. The problem of distribution is the most difficult ever presented to f the circulation department of any newspaper. The edition will ap- ! proximate & quarter of million complete copies and will be read ! Dy more than one million people.