Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-23

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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 S10,-
600 Of bribe money in his hands found
the star of the paper in all depart
ments working as probably they had
never worked before, except on cleo
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 a cut made
from the photograph resulting from
the flashlight.
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 a double decker"-i. e., second
story had been built in the rear part
of the room to accommodate the proof
readers. This second story was really
but half story extending out over
a 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
loomed 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 II 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 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 a desk and telephone. Adjoin-
ing the partition. which shut him off
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 a story
is cut, so that several compositors can
work on different parts of the same
story simultaneously, resulting in the
saving Of considerable time in setting
t up.
The typesetting machines clicked Off
rapidly the words sentences and para
graphs of the Bartelmy beat and
the other stories which had to be
crowded into the mail edition." Brand
was in his little room at the right,
reading the proof of the introduction
of the account of the accusation of the
! United States Judge, which introduc-
tion he had chosen to write himself.
McHenry, the deposed managing ed
itor and now Brands assistant, was at
the forms with the makeup men.
A boy rushed in with cut for Nc
Henry. The busy editor squinted at
it and waved the boy to one side.
why do they send us this baled hay
when we've got a live oneF" he said
disgustedly.
Downs came in from the city room.
THAT Clinton street fire is getting
better every minute" he said to Nc
Henry. 1--WE ought to have at least
four columns on it,"
| McHenry glared at the speaker.
Are you crazy, manY' he exclaimed.
do you think we use rubber typef
You'll have to keep it in three"
Downs was dissatisfied.
"All right. This shop is going to the
ID" he answered, shaking his head
negatively. He went out of the com
! posing room.
McHenry went over to one of the
makeup stones.
Where are the cuts for the Chicago
and Bryan jump heads? l can't find
them anywhere" he asked.
Here they are" answered one OF
the makeup men.
"All right. They go there" He point
/ ed to a space in one of the forms as
boy handed him another cut. Nc
Henry held it up to the light and hur-
ried into Brands office with 1t. He
laid it proudly on the managing edi-
I tors desk.
That's wonder, Mac!" pronounced
Brand.
| McHenry agreed.
Yes; you can almost count the
money in old Bartelmy's hand| he ex-
claimed and he peered closely once
more at the metal slab.
/ Brand meditated moment
I'm going to change the makeup on
that page" he decided Put this cut
at the top of the page, so that when
the papers are folded on the news
stands every one that passes by will
see Bartelmy offering a bribe of $lO,-
600 TO suppress the truth about him
self Is your story all up yetY'
"Yes. It's IN the form"
"Then go finish it off and send 1t
down to the stereotyping room"
ATouanrv tt1rna1 away