The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-20
PUBLICATION DIFFICULTIES
PATIENCE, GASOLINE, PROFANITY AND BOOZE HECEEss HEECEs
SARY INGREDIENTS TO INSURE APPEARANCE OF
CARSON CITY5 LEADING DAILY

Since the big food the work OF
getting out daily newspaper is at
tended with enough difficulties to send
men 10 the nearest asylum.
On Monday the Appeal was out of
electric juice and obliged to resort II
hand composition and job press.
On the following day the power was
on part of The time and off most OF
the time and one compositor in his
heated mental condition took refuge
in strong drink.
In the evening the power was prom
ised and the News establishment
moved down here while an Old dis
carded gasoline engine was dragged
from its obscurity and put III com
mission.
This old machine had been three
years in disuse had its joint oiled up
and being fed with gasoline for about
an hour woke up like a man reused
from a drunken stupor and began to
cough its eXpostulations.
1t ffinaIly concluded TO go for about
an hour spit out sufficient power 70
keep the Merganthaler going and
every body was delighted when the
old piece of junk began Ia balk and
slowed down entirely.
More oil, profanity and gasoline
and she took another squirt.
1t was something in a News edi-
toriaI that caused it to baIk but we
stood it as it had frequently acted
that way with Appeal statements
years ago.
While the engine was being doc
tored and coaxed and hantged and
cussed the machine man drifted out
across the street and proceeded to
fill up.
THESE were trying times and then
the machine got On its good behavior
and was doing things at a great clip
when the oil gave out and a boy hal
to go and wake up the Meyers Mere
hantile Company and get some mort
dope. Result, small quantity of gaso
line and large explosive language from
the man woke up.
About three this morning the New;
gave up the fight with the chug ma
chine and tried to run the linotype
with an auto engine, borrowed afte
waking up Hal Lemon.
Lemon quite amaible and furnlsheF
the engine and some electric storage
atteries with pleasure and apollo
gised for not getting up sooner on
ainy night. If burglar were t.
wake Lemon up he would apologis
for having the door locked. For
mechanical expert in times Of distres
Lemon is the boss.
Today the Appeal attempted TO ge
it's edition out with the auto con
traptiOn, some more gasoline, IN
cough engine the electric compan
and two quarts of booze.
One or another of the various thing
mentioned were working short shift
part of the time.
When a machine compositor Shove
any signs of heart failure some OF tn
Hunter Rye that advertizes in al
other column was administered.
At present writing the day is
dark that tallow candles are struc
al over the machine to enable MI
to read the letters in the matrices
The candle greese runs down an
clogs the key board and has to 1
scraped off with a jack knife.
In spite of these draw backs IN
poverful engine of thought and pol'
ical moral reform still proposes
keen TO tie track and let the publ
know what is going on and OIL.
People are running in every le
minutes borrowing back numbers
the paper which is very encouraging
The harder paper is to get o.
the more people want it.
People who berely allowed the "A
neal on their door steps are after
now. They probably subscribe to g
chance to cuss the editor for n
landing it earlier.
Yesterday the carrier VINO rlue
along his route on charger ran
animal into a mud hole in one OF u
hack streets and says that horse
still there if no one has dug him OF