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Arizona republican., 1908-05-16
THE COUNTING ROOM.

Clifford H. Smith, who has charge of The Republicans counting room, has been especially trained for work of that kind. being a competent stem ographer and an expert bookkeeper. A native of Texas, he has spent most of his life in the south and in old Mexico his activities previous to his connection with The Republican, being in one department or another of rail- road office work, and sufficiently va ried to give him wide experience. He started as stenographer to the audi tor of the International and Great Northern railroad at Palestine Texas. From there he went to the superin- tendent of the Beaumont division of the Santa Fe. His next position was at Guadalajara, Mexico as stenogra- pher to the superintendent of the Mex ican Central railroad. After a year he was transferred to the office of Presi- dent Robinson of the Mexican Central as assistant to his chief clerk and a year later was made chief clerk to A. C. Hobart, superintendent of the same road. He retained this position for eighteen months, when he resigned to cOnsummate a matrimonial project in Fl Paso that has resulted most happily. The next year was spent in the office of A. N. Brown, general freight agent of the Fl Paso and Southwestern after. which MT. Smith entered the employ of the S. F. P. &
 P. railroad in the Prescott offices.
 Two years ago he joined The Re- publican force as bookkeeper and h,e l with eminent satisfaction the man. agement. He has moreover found time to further the interests of the paper by cultivating friendly relations with its advertising patrons, many of whom have been brought through his efforts to a sublime appreciation of
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may well be considered as one of the
 pay rOll'' institutions of the city, the contemplation of which brings solace to the general merchant and business man, for it is almost automatic that the money paid into a good newspaper is again paid back to the community where it is published, except that part of it that goes for material and paper. In the course of it's career in Phoenix The Republican has liberated into the channels of local circulation, a good many hundreds of thousands of dol lars. The men employed not only re- ceive their money promptly. but the wages paid are good and there are more employees receiving over $100 monthly than there are working for lesser remuneration, most of it to be turned back into the channels of trade. Next to the pay,roll the next heaviest expense of the newspaper is for roll print paper which costs an enormous sum in year, as the tonnage for a newspaper of this size is almost un- believable and the price of paper as most people know, is soaring these days.
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the confidence of the people but to no purpose and in October 1896 the paper passed into other hands. Two incidents of the Wolfley management will be perpetuated with pride by The Republican. One was the securing of the exclusive morning franchise of the Associated Press. The other was the installation of the Mergenthaler lino- type machine in 1895. The Republican being among the early papers on the coast to adopt machine typesetting as an improvement over the old hand set type. In fact there were no Mergen- thaler's in use on the coast, except in Los Angeles and San Francisco and but few of them there. In Los Ange- les at least the few machines in use were looked upon chiefly as an experi- ment.
 ON THE UP GRADE.
 What might be called the modern history of The Republican, began in october 1896, when the property was purchased by Charles c. Randolph. an experienced newspaper man of Wash ington, D. c. Mir. Randolph had wide acquaintance in the east that was
 
 to his new investment in the west. He endeavored also to so conduct the pap CT that it's influence would be felt even beyond territorial lines as represent tative of the coming greatness of the state to be.
 MT. Randolph found the property but poorly equipped and proceeded to re- haollitate the plant as well as to re- organize the business methods of the paper He did more than that for he taught the people of Phoenix what newspaper was and what it's mission should be Instead of being maintain ed by charity as an enterprise of town pride he insisted that its space was valuable to its owner or soon would be if the paper really had a mission in the world. But to become valuable either to the owner or the public it must be made a newspaper in fact as well as in name.
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Upon him depends on the one side the economical operation of the plant. through it's proper organization, while on the other he is confronted by the necessity of such business policies as shall insure the patronage of the pub lie In the former he must have an intimate technical knowledge of the business and of the capabilities of men. In the latter he must surround himself with able subordinates who may be trusted to grasp the problems of detail in the counting room and in the circulation and advertising de- partments. which in a general way are constantly under his superintendency. He must see that there is fair and courteous treatment for every patron. a proper demand for services render ed by the paper through advertising rates that are compensating for the expense and the results obtained. In all .hese respects Harvey J. Lee has served The Republican with signal success from the beginning of it's pe- riod of prosperity. Even before that time, under conditions that could not possibly result in financial profit, NIT. Lee secured his schooling for the inn portant place he now occupies, by in- innate association with the manage ment of the paper.
 MT Lee is a native of Michigan, dat ing back about :5. years, going to the Northwest with lds parents at Is, and coming to Phoenix in the winter of 1S93-4 In February 1894, he became associated with The Republican. then under the management of T. J. Wolf ley. soon after becoming identified with the business department. In 1896 upon the purchase of the paper by Chas. c. Randolph. Mir. Lee became the business manager, having served in that capacity continuously since
 then. With the next change of man. agement which was the advent of the
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 Col. McCowan sold his stock to pr. Vickers who has since conducted the paper as managing editor. Sims Ely shortly took up the pen as chief edi- torial writer which position he re- tained until he resigned to devote his attention exclusively to the service or Governor Kibbey as private secretary. MT. Ely was succeeded in an editorial capacity by J. w. Spear, the present incumbent, who has been connected with the paper continuously since 1896.
 Under the management of Dr. VIC kers and his associates above referred to, the prosperity of the paper has been more marked than ever and its expansion is a source of qualification not only to the owners but to the cit izens of Phoenix who, The Republican is proud to say, have been most gen erous in their commendation. The business of printing the news and Siv- ing publicity to the activities of local advertisers, has developed to such an extent that the paper long ago out grew it's business facilities. For two or three years past it has been con- viction of the management that new and better quarters must soon be ob- tained Various efforts to secure suit able location were fruitless and it was finally determined that the better plan would be to purchase a desirable site and erect a bona fide nome" for the paper. providing all the facilities of an up-to-d plant and with sufficient opportunity for any necessary future expansion.
 Having labored in season and out for the up-buiding of this valley, and possessing the confidence in its fu- ture that it has endeavored to impress upon others, and so successfully, it was conceived that no risk could be run in such an investment and at the same time the foundation would be laid for future that is pregnant with promise. The site was secured where on has been erected and but lately finished, the handsome new structure known as The Republican building, picture of which appears in this issue and which is fully described elsewhere.
 The pay roll of the paper amounts to over $30.000 per year and is met promptly with cash. The mechanical force is paid every Monday, and the editorial and business office forces re- ceive payment the first of every month. There is also a general expense account that will average about $1,O0O a month and which Is all spent in Phoenix. The Republican therefore
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vania is responsible for his nativity, along about the close of the Lincoln era. Drifting west the family was marooned in Illinois for couple of years and finally cast anchor in Kan sas In 1870. MT Scott received the rudiments of an education in a Kan sas corn field, rasping off the rough edges a little in a district school about five months each winter until he was 15 years old. Any later knowledge he possesses has been surreptitiously ac- quired. The year 1884 found him in Phoenix, broke and homesick, but with a job in the postoffice at a meager salary. Before he could amass the price of a railroad ticket, which was a long time, he became permanently located. Counter jumping in Phoe- nix and Globe occupied his attention until the panic of 1893, when he was given employment on the Phoenix Daily Herald and served that paper until it was acquired by the Republi- can and succumbed to strangulation. This occurred in 1899 since which time he,shas been continuously in the em- lplaY Of The Republican.
 fti The. main trunk of Roscoe M. Daw- sons family tree runs back into West Virsf1ia but noting its advantages for that purpose after the career of Abra- ham Lincoln, he selected Illinois for his birthplace. It occurred so near the rippling waters of the Wabash how ever, that he felt it incumbent after the completion of his college course, to spend a year ip each the Indiana and the Illinois universities. It was h, re he became infected with desire to write things for the paper" through some desultory work as contributor to the sporting columns of various journals. Teaching in the Marshall, H.. high school did him no discredit, but it lacked excitement and he was lured into the proprietorship of country weekly. Not wishing to become d ''malefactor of great wealth" he eventually disposed of the paper and turned his nose glasses westward. travelling slowly but always riding on the cushions. He gave number of promising towns along the route a look-over, but nothing seemed to measure up as it ought to until he landed in Phoenix five years ago.
 Mir. Dawson was employed at inter vals on the local papers. soon after his arrival, then for a period sought to break newspaper temptations. but about a year ago he joined The Re publican's staff, regularly since when he has done excellent work in connect ing with the elusive news item and presenting it to the readers Of the
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FIRST BIG PRESS.

The old Cottrell cylinder press, good machine in it's place, but of linn
 ited capacity, gave way in 1898 to a Duplex perfecting press, manufactured in Battle Creek, Mich, and which has now been displaced by a new and larger press made by the same con cern. This was also a great achieve ment in its day for at that time there was but one press of this manufacture on the coast and those papers not still numbering along with the old fashioned machines previously in use in Phoenix, were the few larger metropolitan pa pers in the coast cities which were ex- perimenting with the smaller of the large type of rotary perfecting presses now in use. The Republicans press attracted a great deal of attention even among newspaper men who have since equipped their offices with them.
 This however did not occur until the second Mergenthaler linotype had been installed. With the advent of the new press the paper was able to enlarge to seven columns and print great deal more matter. In the meantime the people of the valley were beginning to appreciate that The Republican was to become a real newspaper. Its ad- vantages over it's competitors were al ready apparent and the patronage of the public began to swell rapidly. Not only was the subscription list length ened daily but large display advertise ments began to make their appearance, crowding out the miscellaneous matter previously printed merely to fill space" with something readable, that there was no business demand for. From that time forward the story has been one of constant expansion. Space was soon at a premium at going rates and in order to keep things in propor- ton and expenses within the income advertising rates were raised. That meant for a time, smaller space for
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surveyor general; Dr. L. c. Toney, su- perintendent of the territorial asylum for the insane. and a number of others at the time closely affiliated with the administration. It was a brave and heroic effort on the part of the lead ing republicans of the territory, to ac- complish what they should have fore seen as an impossibility. The territory was overwhelmingly democratic, its population being almost entirely from old democratic states, except for those gentlemen who held office by virtue of republican influence in the east, and the few others who were induced by their influence to settle in Arizona in those early days. Whatever the power of the press it could not materially change the political faith of the major part of the population in a twinkling and still less was the influence of the paper in that direction when it was known of all men that its promoters were of the office holding class, al ways somewhat jealously regarded by those of the rank and file and those of opposing political faith. The first editor of the paper was c. O. Ziegen- fuss, the first business manager was Ed. :. Gill and the first news editor was Jim McClintock, now Colonel J. H. McClintOck. postmaster of Phoenix, commander of the National Guard of Arizona. and previously captain. bre- vetted major, of Roosevelts Rough Riders.
 For reasons above referred to the paper entered upon a noticeable de- cline, that necessitated retrenchment. Messrs. Ziegenfuss and Gill severed their connection and were succeeded by W. L. Vail of Pasadena. who be- came editor and manager, introduced nOn-uniOn labor, decreased telegraph expenses and in other ways sought the lines of economy. His management for the ensuing months did not intro duce an era of prosperity and like his predecessors, he moved on to a new sphere of activity.
 WoLFLEY MANAGEMENT
 Vail was succeeded by T. J Wolfley, a relative of Gov ernor Wolfley, who at that time was one of the large stockhol .ers. T. J. Wolfley had pre- viously managed successfully the St Joseph Gazette and under his man. agement prosperity was expected. But whatever his talent in the business of flee he failed to meet the requirements as editor, more than ever directing his policies in the narrow groove of man agerial interest, until there arose di- vision even in his own political party. leaving him but a small measure of support. Repeated efforts were made for reorganization and a restoration of
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present general manager Mir. Lee was made a director of the company.
 The uninterrupted prosperity of the paper is his testimonial of success and 1t needs only to be added that it has been achieved by keeping abreast of the times to the fullest extent war ranted by the field The Republican is filling. Its patronage has been lib- eraI. the best evidence of the public's appreciation of progressive methods and frequent changes in system. such changes always being for the better and suggested by the constant evolu- ton of the printing business and the advances in the local commercial world. Mir Lee has kept in close touch with the practical operation of other newspapers, especially those of the Pacific coast with which Arizona is more closely connected than with any other outside field.
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paper ere it's crispness and freshness has deteriorated.
 A special feature of the paper which attracts no little attention, es- pecially among the women readers and in the home circle, is the So ciety" department appearing in the Sunday issues under the caption About Phoenix People" This de- partment is under the direction of Miss George Bailey, than whom there is no more talented or popular young woman in the city. And testimony to that effect it may be added. has been secured from disinterested sources. Miss Bailey though not a native of PhoeniX has lived here from childhood. is widely known. is conscientious in her work and it is appreciated both by the management and the patrons of the paper.
 Closely allied with this department also is that of correspondence The Republican has a reliable correspond ent in nearly every community in the county who is heard from as occa- sion suggests. There are numerous others from more distant points with and without the territory, and a ca pablo correspondent looks after mat ters of interest to the paper in Wash ington, D. c.
 There is one other who should be mentioned in connection with the news force and that is George Mac donald a high school boy of Mesa City who possesses notable artistic talent. He has recently finished an art course with great credit and has done some chalk plate cartoon work for The Re publican. It was most satisfactory and it is expected that in the days to follow more of it will be seen by our readers.
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perform it's function properly and to the engineer the measure of its merit is known but the world at large views only the operation of the perfected
 machine Nevertheless there IS lnd1- viduality in newspaper making ias in other things, or should be, and per sonality is not entirely lost, however inpersonal the product as whole may be. For the satisfaction of the curious, therefore, the following sketches are presented and The Re- publican feels that each in his re- spective sphere is worthy the trust reposed in him.
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THE REPORTERS.

The reportoriaI staff of The Repub- lican consists of c. $. Scott and Roscoe M Dawson. as desk men. and about five hundred men and women in Phoenix who have been so harrassed by the reportorial augur that in self defense and through love of The Re publican as their family paper, they have been taught the duty and advan- taGe of putting the reporters wise" when there is anything going on.
 The ancestry of Mir. Scott was Yan- kee. with the proverbial cerulean ab- dominal decorations, though Pennsyl-
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STAFF ORGANIZATION.
Little Sketches of the Workers Who
 Turn Out the Daily Issue.

It may be of interest to readers to know something of the personnel of the toilers by day and by night, upon whose energy and cooperation de- bends the appearance of the morning newspaper with certainty and regularity. It is not in tended to weary the readers with long biographies. nor would that De possible in describing so large a working force. The scale of activities in twentieth century methods, in re- spect of newspapers as well as other things, has grown so large that per sonal identity has become d lesser factor in all larger enterprises, so far as the public is concerned. Each wheel in the engine Of progress must
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composing the forms that are locked in chases and then transferred to the press. Both the news matter and the advertisements are deposited here for the makeup man who places each where it ought to go. generally. Some times he makes a "bull' of things and gets funeral headline over a wedding story. But people are fOrgiving and lots of them know how newspapers are made and know that any one of five hundred things might happen at any time to interfere with a well laid plan. The wonder is that there are not more ludicrous mistakes.
 The ad alleys are the rows of old fashioned cases such as are found in every printing office, the one sacred fundamental of a print shop that has not been materially changed from the beginning of the craft in modern times. At d case like these every printer first learned to stick type" When ma chine composition arrived the setting of the body type" of the paper from the cases was a thing of the past, but the display advertisements which con tain all sizes and styles of type, to- gether with rules, leads, etc, still have to be set from the case where the printer selects such material as his artistic sense suggests. The cases in a similar way are an important basic feature of a job printing establish ment
 THE MAILING ROOM.
 In the southeast corner of the build ing is the mailing department where the papers are wrapped, addressed and sent by the sackful to the postoffice, and where also the papers are counted out to the carriers on the several city routes and sold to the newsboys.
 The remainder of the lower floor is given over to lockers for the safe guarding of the more delicate machin- cry. the accommodation of machinists tools and supplies. big furnace uti- lized in the casting of cuts for cartoons
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THE BUSINESS MANAGER.

The most important functionary in connection with the financial success of a large daily newspaper. though one who is less in the limcliSht of printed publicity, is the business manager.
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and advertisements, the sink for the washing of the forms and numerous other details to say nothing of ample room for the storage of a couple of carloads of roll printing paper to sup ply the voracious appetite of the big press.
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each advertiser, but approximately an equally large showing and ii due sea son the management began to find the balances on the right side of the led ger.
 SEVEN DAYS 4 WEEK.
 When the second linotype was added to the office equipment the paper also began the issuance of a Monday morn ing edition making 1t then a real daily. or seven -days-a- week paper, resuming the custom which had been started by the initial management but which sue cumbed shortly after with the subse- quent stringency. The new press be- side answering all the needs of a growing circulation enabled the paper to issue additional pages when special occasions demanded them, without em- barrassing hindrances. This feature has grown with every other feature of The Republicans business until the larger papers are looked for on Sunday mornings and many other times during the busy season. Though originally an eight page paper during the last year it has most of the time carried from ten to fourteen pages.
 COMPETITOR ABSORBED.
 The only recognized competitor of The Republican in those earlier days was the Phoenix Herald an afternoon six-day paper of republican faith. In 1899 this newspaper was absorbed by The Republican together with it's en- tire equipment, job office, etc. The chief mechanical advantage of this move was the requirement of the Herald Mergenthaler linotype, which then gave The Republican an equip ment of three machines which have been in constant use to the present time. One of these old machines has now been supplanted by the latest model linotypes which gives The Re publican a larger typesetting capacity than any other plant in the territory.
 THE NEXT CHANGE.
 In November 1900, The Arizona Pub fishing company was incorporated by Dr. George W. Vickers and Col. S. NJ. McCOwan, each owning one half in- terest, for the purchase of The Re publican of Charles '. Randolph, the latter returning to his former home in Washington D. C., well satisfied with the success he had made in the re- building of the newspaper. Harvey J. Lee, who had been connected with the paper since February 1894, and who was made business manager on it's ac- quirement by Mir. Randolph, was re- tained in the same capacity by the new owners and is still serving in that office. Col. McCOwan, then superin- tendent of the Phoenix Indian school, assumed editorial management, but in short time he was transferred to a