Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-26

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S2zy full slumber is in order for
those who are concerned in the bust
ness Of producing the paper. 1t is the
time when trained brains and trained
hands are exerted to the extreme limit
of their capacity to get the very latest
news into shape, into type, into the
press, into the mail wagons and ION
the street.
And it is in the composing room
where the brunt of the battle is borne
in the final hours in which is complet-
ed the record Of a worlds doings and
undoings for day. Masses Of "copy"
swirl upward in the tubes or are car
ried in by boys from the city editorial
room. The typesetting machines click,
click, click, in unceasing monotony,
and the proofreaders scan columns of
'green proofs with a rapidity, when
under pressure, that would amaze the
uninitiated observer. The makeup"
men cluster around the cumbersome
tables or "stones' on which the forms
are made up, lifting in the metal lines
shifting cuts there and locking the
forms to be shunted into the stereotype
room. where the paper matrices will
be made. When the matrix is placed
in the casting box the molten stereo-
type metal is poured in, and within a
very few minutes the cylindrical
plates, hardened quickly in the cast
ing box by the pouring Of cold water
into the jacket. are locked on the CYL
inders of the gigantic duodecuple
press and ready to whirl off over 100
copies of paper per second, all print
ed, pasted, folded and counted.
Midnight in the Offices Of the Ad-
vance on the night that Judge Bartel-
my's photograph was taken with &c.,
900 of bride money in his hands found
the staff of the paper in all depart
ments working as probably they had
never worked before, except on elec-
ton night. The story required con-
siderable time for preparation. The
notes Of Howard and jeff, the two re-
porters who recorded the conversation
Of Brand and Bartelmy, had to be
translated from shorthand into Eng
lish. Then an introduction and a
head had to be written, and the art
department had to break all previous
records in turning out cut made
from the photograph resulting from
the 6ashlight.
In the composing room men were
working like galley slaves to get the
great Bartelmy exposure story into
type and into the forms. The COM
posing room in the Advance building
was double decker"-i. e., a second
story had been built in the rear part
OF the room to accommodate the proof
readers. This second story was really
but a half story, extending out over
portion Of the composing room, and
the walls were partitions, the lower
half Of wood and the upper half Of
glass windows.
On the lower floor the linotype ma
chimes were set in rows. A steam table
doomed on one side. On another table,
an ironbound one, rested the galleys
containing matter for the nights edi-
ton of the paper. At the extreme left
of the room wooden partition shut
off the small Office that the managing
editor used at night when he superin-
tended the makeup proceedings. A
door opened into this small room from
the outer hall, close to a door OPEN
ing from the hall into the composing
room itself. At the opposite end of
the compartment door opened into
the composing room. In his small in
closure Brand, the managing editor,
had desk and telephone. Adjoin-
ing the partition, which shut him of
from the composing room and on the
outside of it, was a desk used by the
copy cutters, who cut the pages Of
manuscript-after they had been past
ed together-into "takes." A take is
one Of the sections into which q story
is cut, 50 that several compositors can
work on different parts of the same
story simultaneously, resulting in the
saving of considerable time in setting
it up.