Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-12-08
TYPOGRAPHICAL PLUMBERS.


SET the publisher and printer, con
denim with seeming eladness any mts
take they may happen To observe on
the printed page Ii Is, Of course. q
tribute 10 their own pcrspicacity
and cleycrness that they can detect
and could. II II were necessary, cor.
rect such an error.
# follows as a corollary that they
are much better equipped TO get up a
newspaper than the people who do H.
Some Of the critics rush s~traightway
10 tho newspaper office 10 inform th9
publisher how his work should be
done,
IL IL a fact that very few realize The
difficulties which beset the makers OF
newspapers and Of books, SO grea'
are they that the errorless book or
paper IL yet 20 be published. An east
ern daily gives the best explanation of
1.-THE subject we have seen. IL follows:
ON days gone by. when type YVES
set by hand, one letter at a time, 4
purely typographical error could be,
IN some respects, a simpler matter to
adjust than II ia now under the new
regime OF the Wanted linotype ma,
chine. N n letter In a line was
wrong. the mistake might be rectificd
simply by taking out the Objectionable
letter and putting another In It's place
without disturbing the balance OF the
line. II a second error happened 10
be made In the process OF substitution,
It might not be, after all. any worse
than the first.
But under the vogue Of the limo
type II IL different, To correct The
smallest error In type that Is machine
| set involves the making anew OF the
/. entire line OF type. The old line must
! be taken out entirely and an entirely
new line substituted for II. Here
arises a double risk. First, further
!, errors may be made In making tbt
/, new line Of type, Second. the new
line. when made. may be put In IN
wrong place In the column. The con
: sequences OF the latter error are some
times destructive Of the whole sens
~ a sentence. paragraph, or. indeed
of an article. II were often bette
!. thatsno attempt had been made TO COZ
rect the original mistake, 20 destrnc
!. tive of sense and meaning are ",
possibilities resident In the misplaf
!, ing of a whole line.
Yet, in the necessary hurry OF max
ing a daily newspaper, II is next L
) Impossible 10 keep out the variou
errors described, This Is as trie @
\ the alleged metropolitan press as u J
Of tho so-called provincial nowspa
pcrs. Trained inspection of Phtlade
phia and New York newspapers wi
daily establish the fact alleged Bn
: that doesn't alter the truth that I'll
slips 10 lie a~pprehended are PECULIAR
!, exasperating
!, III they are provoking TO those VII
contribute to the press. they are do'
bly,, trebly and quadriply so 10 thos
who are responsible for the daily on
put If The press az they cause nc
only wailing but gnashlng of teet
!" and %sulphurious emissions from ed
5 tors to galley boys
\ knowledge Of conditions, how
ever. can holt eyea the laity "a SOM
! mitigation OF consequences in givin
d clow TO what might otherwise seer
Il hopeless maze,
al first glance, nothing appear
more hopelessly senseless than a pa
!, agraph that has, let US suppose, tw
!, lines %transposed right near its miC
die. But IL the reader II forewarno
and forearmed, 1t oon becomes a
easy trick to read the transpose
lines in the order properly belongin
10 them. The apparent jumbo thu
becomes, to the Intelligent reado'
a simple thing to straighten out. an
all l. not lost after all.
1T Ii true that In theory Their
should be no errors. Printed matte
should be letter perfect. In book an
periodical work, where pIensy OF tirn
Is allowed. the obligation is even In
more impressive. But IL the oaisGe
could look into a daily newspaper .
flee. near the press honr, and nndel
stand what Is expected instanter 2
men who daily fight battles as nerve
!. DESTROYING as any ever fought In M
Mia Bay or the Yellow Sea, he woul
!, wonder that the errors made are 5
few.
" Bodily pain loses It's terror II you'v
y. a bottle Of Dir. Thomas Eciectric o
In the house, Instant relief In case
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