Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-17

for the Memphis outing. y session
of the association vas held on the |
journey, at which the committee on
contests awarded prizes the list Of
which we have misplaced so can lot
publish but will state that tie
Leakesyiie IlrraIl secured one Of
these prizes.
Our party arrived in Menphie near
the noon hour in Il drilling rain. and |
we were stopped imme lately after !
getting out OF 5Le train-yRfd gate by |
the Official photo raphep Of the Com
mHrciaI-Appeal staff, who lined Is
up and took our picture which they |
wanted to adJru thei? next morning
edition.
A street. car to bear us away. to
the business portion Of the city stood
rea ly rs VIC emerged from the depot
and the expense Of it was borne by
the business Mems Club of Memphis.
Ibis as well IL other co,mtcsles were
provided for US; thanks to tie fore
thought of G.. VI. Mccormick, the
Assistant Managing Editor of the
Commercial Appeal, who had attend
ed our convention at New Albany,
gave it proper WritCuCs in his p, per
each m0r.,ing and was now plotting
Ms into the hospitality extended arms
OF his city. BY the way Mccormick
Is product of our part of Mississippi
being born and AIRED in Jasper
'c~unfy, and married u cousin to our
II. p. heidelberg. lie first entered
daily newspaper work, 50 Hinke tells
US, in Meridia4.
Oar party went ut once TO the
Spicudjd new building uf the Com
merc.ai- Appeal, which we made our
headquarters for he day, McCor-
mick kind y taxing charge. of our
hadd baggage. SURF, pder,ng his pri-
vate Office as dep, tory +or same.
We were shown thr ,u2h the eutueI
plant of this modern news pape IN |
expression Of the day in rapid fire
journalism They had the largest
number OF typecasting machines we
had yet seen in one office Their
multiple presses one of which had |
in it some Of the comic supplement
cOored editions. we're all interesting
and uptodate IN tAer mechanism,
aud showed az immense possibility
for speedy turning out Of heavy is
sJcs 81 this great metropolitan news
ia. ci
After we bad sufficiently inspected
the Conmercial-AppeaI plant Mr.
'Iemcni, the MANAGER of the after
n joa paper, the News Scimitar was
ntrcC uced and took us in tow for his
Here we saw the process of
putting out a great daily paper &C
5ually in operation. The Commercial
Appeal had cotton off their edition
or that day before the shadows of
right had altogether fled away, but
lere we found humming hive of
newspaper industry as the type
writer's 10 the editorial rooms were
with Il confusion of clatters.
ma in the composing room the hum
VI the row of mCrgenthaler typecas-
ers greeted our hearing as we walk 4
ID into that department. To demon
tra5e how rapid they work, will re
ate about the wliteup of cur party.
ust as we walked into the front of
he building we say the copy being
which gave an account OF /
'dr arrival aud list of our names
nd papers etc. We past this copy {
making as they werN pounding it up I
With tightening speed on the type l
writer's aud went into the composing ]
o0m, rs started to tell about just {
ow. While We were making the :
ound inspecting these very human /
Ike machines form type line by lire,
he copy-boys came running in with l
his Press wrileup, which was ext up /
lto takes and distributed among the {
lachIne operators who soon were re- /
ucing into type Osfore our very G
yes. From here we wandered into c
he ereOtype room where speedily I
rucks followed US bearing this same /
'riteup now in type form, and i; Q
as soon under the skilful hands of :
ne stereotyppers converted into
ircu ar plates which the pressmen
ere locking onto the huge multiple
resses about the same time we had l.
our walk into that part OF
1e plant. The word was quickly !
wen and ere we could step round to z
Z
le end of the mammoth press, papers !,
ere rolling out of it like corn into ,
he hopper and here we We're handed
pies which told all about ourselves
Memphis, when we had been there :
it something over an hour. +