The Springdale news., 1909-07-30
NEW MACHINE INSTALLED IN
 THE NEWS OFFICE
This New Addition Makes The News Office One of the Best Equipped
 in this section
in this section

Our linotype machine is now i'll operation,a a portion of the matter
 appearing in this issue of The News l having been cast on the machine. Although no one in the office knew l anything about the mechanism or | put up by the force and had been operated to some extent when the
 expert machinist, P F. Harklotz, I arrived Friday morning from New Orleans and put on the finishing l touches. The frame of the key | board had been broken while in | transit, and it was necessary to disconnect all the wires and have | same repaired before the machine would work, but this was done sue
 cessfully. therepairing being done by l Springdale's skilled maehinist, s. l M Graham Mr Harklotz comp1-
 mented \. Graham and the News l force, and stated that We had done something that many expert lino | iy pt lHtu nou Have Htolldltu dl | before tacklng MT Harklotz re- maned with us Friday and Satur- day, and since that time the ma chine has been operated by the reg ular office force, and so far no l difficulty has been experienced
 Contrary to the popular idea, this is not a type-setting machine. as 1t does away with the ordinary l type The machine makes it's own type. and each line of type is mould
 ed into a solid slaghence the name, linotype These slugs are
 ready to print from as they are de Iivered from the machine The ma
 chine is operated by a keyboard very similar 10 the keyboard of an
 ordinary typewriter. By touching
 one of these keys lightly the letter.
 or more properly speaking, the mat rice. drops into the assembier where the line is formed Each maurice Is formed Of a brass plate on the lower end Of q steel band and sunk into the brass of the lower end is
 the mold of the letter. At the opposite end is a steel hook or loop by which it is suspended on it's own wire, and the end at which the
 maurice hangs is the highest, thus when the key is touched matrie is released and slides by gravity
 on it's individual wire to the low est point The lower ends of all the matrices line up together. and to do this their length varies in conformity to the height of the
 wires upon which they slide. When the line has been assembled the operator touches lever, which puts the machinery in motion and the matrices are carried to the rear where Is located pot of melted
 metal and pump forces this metal into the matrices and immediately delivers d line Of perfectly formed type, knives trimming it to the required height and thickness. The
 
 ual wires. and after the line is cast, the machine carries them on around
 to the starting point. While all
 this is taking place the operator has
 been assembling another line, and
 thus the process is repeated, the
 capacity of the machine depending
 entirely on the speed and ability of the operator After an operator becomes skilled in the use of the
 machine he can do as much as
 three eompositors by hand Fay
 Stafford will operate the machine in this office, and although he had never seen one of the machines un- til last week. he cast two galleys-
 about two and half columnsof type Tuesday afternoon.
 The machine looks complicated, and is complicated to the unini-
 tiated, but when once understood is easily operated, but requiring care
 ful and intelligent attention. For machine that will do what it does, it is just about as near 'fool-proof
 as anything can be, as it is 50 con
 strueted that the mechanism imme
 diately stops when it becomes clog ged. or anything goes wrong.
 With the machine we have two sets of matrices. eight and ten
 point this article being set with the
 eight point Each set of matrices is provided with black-face letter in
 addition to the ordinary Roman. ana
 the operator has only to turn lev
 CT to set line of black-face type
 like this This letter is useful in setting the headings of different ar
 ticles and for ads It requires only
 moments time to change from
 eight to ten point type. The ma
 chine also casts borders dashes,