The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-23
7YpE.SETTING DEVELOPMENT.
-,.pOTHETE DELEGATES AT THE
MONOTYPE Factory.

x.. york and New England Delegates on
Their Way to Atlantic City Inspect the
Machine which Casts and Sets Sep.
.r,te Type- visitors Arc Pleased.
PHILADELPHIA, June 22.-Between fifty
.,a sixty New York and New England
Tvnothetse delegates, many Of them ao-
ocmnanied by their wives and daughters,
rived here at / o'clock to-day over the
pannsylyania Railroad on their way to the
Tvpothete convention which Ia in session
:; Atlantic City this week. The Lanston
Monotype Machine Company's works are
in this city, and as many Of the delegates
.ere anxious to see what Is regarded as
,hout the highest achievement OF perfec-
,ion in the way OF a type-setting machine
IN process Of construction. they were in
y;,sd by Wood 4 Nathan Of New York,
~. sole agents Of the monotype. to come
~ Philadelphia as their guests, stop over
h.re few hours. long enough to inspect
the works. and then 60 to their destination.
Two special Pullman cars, one OF which
was finely equipped dining car, brought
,he delegates here. An elaborate luncheon
was served soon after the train left the
Pennsylvania Station in Jersey City. which
lasted until the Quaker City was in
sight. 1t was enlivened by some excel
lent singing and banjo and mandolin
playing by professionals.
At Broad street the Philadelphia dele
CATION Of the Typothete met the train and
,hev and the New York and New England
marry were rounded up into number OF
stages that we're in waiting and driven
frs, 10 the companys works at Sixteenth
and Hamilton streets. This is ave-story
Building erected especially by the William
Sellers Tool Company TO do the work of
making the typesetting machine proper.
Paul Nathan, representing the company,
had charge of the excursion all the way
from New York to Atlantic City, and he
and Mr.. Barnard of the Philadelphia works.
acted As guides for the party.
The first floor of the building is given
up TO assembling all the hundred or more
parts Of the machine. Here are kept ready
for putting together not only each piece
Of the heavier castings. but every minute
MT and bolt. each piece having been in
ttcuar part of the work of Transforming
the crude metal into type, and. under the
hands Of the operator at the keyboard,
setting the type with marvellous speed and
accuracy. The works are very busy just
now and the delegates had an opportunity
process Of turning out machine all ready
for shipment,
Much of the machinery used was specially
invented for the work it has to do. and the
Tvpothete were much interested in it's
workings. This machinery. in the Six
tnenth and Hamilton streets building, is
nearly all on the second. third, fourth and
fifth floors. The almost human move
ments OF some Of the mechanism, par
ticularly that for turning out screws and
IL cd. olt<, tt1l
expressions of admiration The fourteen
thousandth part of ali inch is in the nature
Of mountainous elevation on some of the
parts Of the machine, 80 mathematically
accurate ia 1t in it's completion, and the fine
work OF the skilled operatives in reducing
metal surfaces to these minute measure
ments was watched by the visitors with
much interest,
on the FIFTH floor completed machines are
set up and each is run for several days to
test It thoroughly and to get 1t limbered
up before it Is sent out. The inonotype
provides new type for each piece of work.
!, and, In addition to that each type 10 separate
i and set up separately and not in blocks
pf lines. This enables the printer to correct
In error In single letter, precisely as In
the case Of type set by hand, without the de-
lay and loss OF destroying an entire block
Of set-up type to get at one defect, no mat
ter how small.
This feature Of the invention, as its work.
ings were observed in the machines that
we're being tested on the fifth floor, was
especially admired by the skilled printers
among the visitors. The matrix and mould
ing department OF the works Is in another
building. 1881 Callowhill street, and there
The delegates were driven after spending
nearly an hour in the building first visited.
In the Callowhill street building are the
executive Offices Of the works, together
with schools OF instruction for operators
on the machine.
tkat ho hA
Inonotype IN actual Use as it is in the print
ing offices. Pupils in all stages Of progress
at learning We're engaged in setting type,
those who had been at it for couple Of weeks
Icing in most cases ready to 30 out and
lake the places in printing Offices which
demonstrate that they know how to run
= monotype machine. The keyboards
themselves are made at Woonsocket r. l.
Each machine carries five alphabets (225
characters), upper and lower case, Roman
and italic, small caps. figures and pune
,uation marks for each accents, diphthongs,
as well as all the signs in general Use. All
of these. OF course, are represented on the
keyboard and it is in mastering this that
ne learners spend most of the time. Learn
ing to SET type, in other words, comes down
TO learning how to run an elaborated type
writing machine.
The monotype compOses and casts with
separate machines and in the Callowhill
street building the VISITORS not ollly sa"
in operation school of instruction in mono
type type setting, but in monotype casting
as well. The separation of the compositor
from the casting machine enables him to
work much faster and to concentrate his
entire attention on his copy and on his
keyboard. The casting machine works
automatically. and only needs a watchful
attendant.
There was so much Of interesting and
novel detail in the finer work done in the
Callowhill street building that the visitors
regretted that they were unable to spend a
longer time in inspecting it. They were
booked to leave the Broad street station at
AS o'clock in the afternoon and at that
forces augmented by the Philadelphia dele
CATION. The convention. which begins its
session tomorrow. will last until Friday:
This Is Typothet@'s seventeenth annual
convention. The next one. in June. 1904,
will be held In st. Louis.