The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
HOW THE BIG NEWSPAPER
 REACHES ITS READERS
BY J. H. KEN NYRRooK.

Have you ever stopped to think how the nicely folded papr. with it's breezy news from all parts of the world and various local items gathered up by the busy reporters from all parts of city and district is printed?
 am convinced there are few who re- eeive their daily paper every morning by daybreak at their door and others hundreds of miles along the railroads who know the wonderful rapidity with which the news is passed from one de partment to another until it reaches the hands of the eirculators. Each local reporter is designated to a regular beat to cover and gather all the news that can be had for his paper
 After the news is written and prepared for publication by the reporter, the copy is then turned into the city editor. The city editor goes over each article care fully to make corrections and to write headlines for each story. After all cor rections are made and the headlines are written the copy is rushed to the com posing rooms and is handed to the copy cutter, who cuts it in various sections and places it upon a hook for the men who operate what are known as the Limo type machines. The most remarkable thing in a modern newspaper is the type setting machines, setting type all sizes and all styles. If you don't know how it is done it Is quite a revelation.
 The machine operators procure their copy from the hook. They have no choice. It is taken as it comes.
 Instead of setting type up by hand as they did in the olden times. the printer comfortably sits himself down to one of these machines which resembles an up- right piano and has keyboard similar to a typewriter and every time the oper- ator presses a key a little brass form, which is called a nnatrix, comes swiftly down through a brass channel and lands in it's proper place with the impression upon the surface indicating the letter wanted.
 When the end of the line is reached the operator presses a lever, sending the line up in what is known as the elevator. The line is then swiftly moved by cnm- pressed air to the mouth of the mold where q hot stream of melted metal is cast into the type molds on the matriX, making one solid bar of type with seven to eight words to a line. When the line Is cast and properly put into its right position in the receiving stick, an Iron arm from overhead comes down and, taking the matrix to the top of the large channel. distributes each individual letter in it's proper place.
 After the story has been turned into type the operator dumps the lneS Into a brass tray, called d galley. The type and the original copy are then in charge of the galley boy, who places the heads, which are set by hand in large type, over each story. Several proofs are taken and handed to the proof reader; the proof reader reads every line carefully to cor rect all mistakes that are necessary. and returns it to the galley boy who hands 1t to the machine man to be corrected.
 The proofs are corrected and the type is put in the form by the foreman or his assistant. These forms have adjust able sides with several large screws which can be frightened or loosened as desired and are locked with brass key in the shape of a crank. The form is the size of the page to be used and they rest upon a solid iron table with four rollers. They are about the size of an ordinary center table,
 The plans and arranging of the pages for cuts and head lines, are under the personal direction of the news editor and the foreman of the composing room, who sees that the proper style of type and position are given each story, ' When all the news matter and the ads for the page have been placed in the form and fastened up, 1t is then sent to the stereotyping department, where it Is immediately removed from one iron table