Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-17

ENJtsxH tlty IL not II unle NhSH i''dtc'
EssAxsy full slunibor Is in order for
those who are concerned in the bush
ness Of producing the PAPER. II is the
time when trained brains ana trained
hands are eXerted 10 the extreme limit
Of their capacity to get tie y"r! latest
news into shape into tyne, ia,o the
press, into tie mail wagons and son
the street"
And it is in the composing room
where the brunt Of the Nattle IS borne
in the final hours in which is complete
ed the record of Il worlds doinGS and
undoings for day MASSES of "vouy'
swirl upward in the tubes or nrr car.
ried in bF boys from the city editorial
room. The typeSrttinE machines CiivE.
click. click. in uurcaSiug monotuuy.
ana the prnotrcaGprS scan columns of
green proofs with rapidity. when
under pressure. thar would amaze the
un!nitiated observer The "makpup"
men cluster around the cuniherSou t
tables or stones" on which the forms
ara made up. lifting in tie metal ines
of type here. making corrections or
shifting cuts there and lockin" the
forms TO be shuu,nd into the stereotype
room, where the paper matrices VIII
be made. When the mntry is plHc ID
in the casting box the molten srrrco-
type metal Is poured in. and within Il
very few minutes the cyludricHl
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 duoGccUu,r
press and ready 10 Nhirl or over loo
copies of paper per second, al print.
ed. pasted. folded and counted.
Midnight in the Offices of the Ad.
vance On the night that ludse ilar,cl.
my's photograph was taken with So.
GOO of bride money In his hands fourd
the staff OF tie paper In all depart.
ments working as probably they tad
never worked before. EXCEPT on e'ec.
ton night, The story required con
siderable time for preparation. The
notes of Howard and Jeu. the two re-
porters who recorded the conversation
OF Brand and BarteMy. had To he
translated from shorthand Into ifnE'
fish. Then an Introduction and Il
head had 10 be written, and the art
department bad ~ hrFaE all previous
records in turning out cut made
from the photograph resulting from
the iinShliSht.
In the composing room men were
working like galley slaves 10 get the
great Bnrte!my exposure story into
typo and into the forms, the com
posing room IN the Advance lUIAus
was double hecker"-i. e., Il second
story had been built m the rea part
Of the room To nccommudnte the PROOF
renders. This second story WAS really
but half story, extending ont over
Il portion Of the composin, room, Nnd
the walls were partitions, the lower
half OF wood and the upper hall OF
glass windows.
On the lower lloor the linotype ma
chimes We're set In rows. A steam i1h,e
doomed Oh one side. On another tAui".
m ironbound one. rested the CalIeys
containing matter for the nights 'dl-
tion of the paper. At the eXlrpme lcit
~ the room II wooden puriilion SINUS
o6 the small office that the manA@lnE
editor used at night when he Superln-
tended the makeup proce@iiEsa
door opened into this small room from
the outer hall. close 20 "A door opcn-
Ing from the hall into the composing
room itself, At the opposite end OF
tho compartment a door opened INTO
the composing room. In his snall III