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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-09


err with the store room for paper com
lsGasW prises the basement. OF this, 1920
square feet of room is given to the Press Room
proper, the most OF which is taken up by the
giant and smaller presses.
The first step toward the printing of The
Age4Herald is taken when the rolls of paper are
unloaded from the dray and brought into the
storeroom by means of chute. One hundred and
thirty two of these rolls are the average num-
Der used in a week in the printing of the paper.
Averaging the weight of the four sizes OF rolls
used, the approximate weight OF each is 10 2-3
pounds, making total aggregate amount OF
94556 pounds of paper used during one week IN
the printing of The Age Herald.
The approximate length of the sheet con
tanned in one roll is six and one-half miles. At
this rate the quantity of paper used in one week
to accommodate the readers of The Age-Herald
would if extended in a continuous sheet 80
inches wide, reach from The Age Herald Build
ing to Chicago and portion of the way back.
One hundred and twenty-six gallons are the
quantity of ink required in the printing of The
Age Herald during one week, or 1000 pounds OF
the fluid used to spread the news of one week
on "a 500 pounds of paper.
The barrels of ink are emptied into 300 gal
lon tank suspended near the ceiling of the press
room, whence the liquid is conducted to the
press 'fountains' through pipes
The rolls of paper to be used in the printing
are trundled from the storage room to the press
on wheeled conveyances Each of the heavy
rolls is then attached to "spindle,' an iron
bar which is thrust through hole in the center
of the roll in the manner of an axle. Instead of
by means of the ancient and laborious method
of chains and oman power heavng, the paper
is hosted to the desired position on the big
press by means of a patent hydraulic lift.
Through this agency the heaviest roll of paper,
weighing 1925 pounds, is lifted by the mere
pulling Of lever.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-09

LTHOUGH almost entirely devoid of in
'tricate mechanism, characteristic of
many departments of the plant, the Mail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-09

The ..pates' from the Stereotypng Depart Hs
ment on the fourth floor of the building are re III
ceved into the Press Room from an automatic W
plate-eeva by which they are hosted or low
cred in a few seconds These plates, which are
semcylndrcal in shape, attached to the
cylinders of the press, of which there are SIX
capable of holding 4S forms. The hiking of the
forms is done by means of composition rollers M
on which the ink is fed from " color fountains" 4,
OF these fountains there are ten, nine for regu HI
lar usage and an extra one for the colored sup Ill
plement deck. In the printing of a colored sup HI
pIement the ink Of the color desired is fed into Nv
this extra fountain. Nv
The continuous sheets of paper from the rolls Nv
are led into the devious routes they travel in NJ
the press, the mechanism is started and The w
Age Herald begins on its u mile an hour jour u
ney to the other end Of the press. A sheet of II
paper passing between two form cylinders is
thus printed on both sides. At the further end |
Of the press the sheets unite, pass the
'Fange bars and cut and folded in the ia
mar form by an automatic wheel knife, and
copies of The Age-Herald issue ready for the IA
public gaze The papers are fed directly from Ia
the press into a specially contrived belted IL
veyor system, by means of which they II
ried directly to the mail room on the floor above II
through an aperture in the ceiling. III
The smaller press is operated essentially III
the same order as the giant sextuple machine. III
1t is Scott three deck press capable of print II
ing $4,000 12-page papers per hour. Thus, i'll VI
of emergency, The Age Herald may be is n
sued on the two presses at rate of 90 900 copies
per hour. On this press is printed The Weekly
Age Herald, issued Thursday mornings
Ten pressmen employed on Saturday
nights for the printing of The Sunday Age Her
aid, while shift of five work during the other
six nights of the week g.. .- 4
The Press Room is lighted by So 16-candle-
power incandescent electric globes, a number of |
which are in the interior of the presses and % Ii
Tungsten globes. u
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ndentially that the woman's advent
was heralded, and that in every hotel
that she might go to she would be- ac-
corded the same treatment They re-
sarded 1T as quite just and fair to
warn the hotel servants along the
route that she was coming and that
she gave neStfps.'
reported the result of my investi-
cation to the unfortunate traveller,
thinking that il she were cognizant of
the system she would perhaps change
her policy But no, her temper was
Wen up by this time, and the knowl-
euse lhat the servants in the second
rate hotels that she was obliged to
patronlze We're banded together against
her placed her on a pedestal in her own
estlmation, and she positively began to
ENJOY the situation. Having performed
nay duty, l dismissed the matter from
my mind and did not see the woman
again during my stay on the continent.
On my way home I met her again in
scotland, and she showed me with inn
mense pride several notebooks COM
pieteiy flled with material for a book
which she proposed writing on her re-
turn to America relating her expe-
riences on her nontipping trip.
The former New England school
teacher is now in San Francisco, living
at one of the good hotels She has
changed her occupation, but not her
views on tipping, and she still relig-
lously practices what she breaches
Likewise she still encounters snags.
one or them fell across her path last
Saturday.
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When I'm in Rome I'm still an
American, and just for that-why,
aren't those your bags and things at
the gangway? When did you get
them ready? You're all ready to go
ashore and I've loads of things to do
yet How ever did you manager"
.'Oh, 1 tipped the stewardess last
night, so she feels friendly toward me
and doesn't have to- wait to be asked
to do. the things necessary for my
comfort" I answered, but if you're
not ready yet you'd better hurry. for
though it's pity to miss the scenery"
and ! was left alone watching the
action of the ship, the stewards hurry
gers-some of them nervous and exA
foreign country and others with the
joy of returning home.
At st. Pancras, where I was waiting
for the sScotchman for the north, I
gave the porter who had handled my
luggage sixpence, the equivalent of our
dime Ny sister in law. with true
sister in law brutality, admonished me,
What did you do that for, Mabel?
Tuppence was quite enough for the
man, or thrupence at the most That's
the way with you Americans-that's
why you who are poor are always
broke and you who are rich are always
ridiculous; you scatter your money
with the same prodisality."
There goes one who does not" 1
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said, pointing to the New England
school teacher who came stumbling
up the platform, laboring under the
load of useless impedimenta which
most women think it necessary to carry
with them on their first trip abroad
She has announced her intention of
making trip through Europe without
giving a single tip"
And yet, that woman at home'' an
swered my sister in law, will pile up
her children's plates with three times
as much food as they can possibly eat,
and great chunks of butter at two
shillings a pound, scraping into the
garbage can enough good food to feed
a workingman's family Oh l kept my
/ know how you do"
A moment later and we were of for
Scotland and I thought no more of the
New England schoolma' am. ..Three
months later found her at Lucerne, the
Gross Roads of Europe" She confided
to me that she was having a dreadful
time. and had never experienced SO
much discomfort in her life befone
even made, and as the valet de chambre
did not seem to understand English,
raving at him when she met him in the
hall did no good: her bell was never
answered, and she seldom had a fire.
Such an abominable country. She
would be well pleased when it was
all over and she could again set foot
on American soil, I spoke to the valet
de chambre about it and also to the
ladies maid, and I was informed con-
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Tied down to desk from o'clock
in the morning until o'clock in the
afternoon, with few acquaintances in
a strange city, the womans life Is not
very bright, and so when she came
home little earlier than usual, her
manner animated and her face radiant,
all the hotel people noticed it and won-
dered what had brought. about the
transformation.
To the maid whom she had called to
hook up her gown she conflded that
she was about to have rare treat. A
man acquaintance, the chief clerk in a
neighboring office, had invited her to
attend the opera and to dine at a res
taurant famous all over the world
which she had long wished to visit.
She dressed in state of great ex-
.citement and then sat down to await
the arrival of her friend. The appoint
ed hour passed and he did not come.
Going to the telephone she asked il
there was not some one waiting for
her in the reception room. or If no tele-
phone message had been received 1t
was the dinner hour, and the girls on
the desk were changing watches, SO
she could get no satisfactory informa-
tion. So far as any one knew there
had been no caller and no message. An
other dreary half hour dragged by. an
other and yet another, and the man
did not come Then she sat down to
cry. All her bright dreams had van
ished, the joyous anticipations of mu-
sic and warmth and gayety, a good
dinner and pleasant company, had come
to naught. Far into the night the
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in the summer, that they are framed
better in their satisfying environment
of tan than in any other way. She
knows that she has reinforcements
yoich summer and the beach alone per-
KIT. She is conscious of the irresistible
in the play of hands. in the tracing of
names and in their quick obliteration.
You always wonder if those names con-
tain yours. oh, she is skilffui. that
onei
Then by contrast you may think of
her in her gown at luncheon. The
mind strays deliciously at such times
you know it, Bill Now there are laces
and fiounces about her-she is the very
image of convention. She will play golf
with you in the afternoon, but she is
still the bathing girl, brief, delicious
sea <nympb snatched too quickly from
your enchanted eyes. claimed again by
civilization before your very glance.
That's just how it is.
Now covered by convention, she af-
fects modishness and prim propriety.
Unconsciously, intuitively. she offers
you another contrast. The hand you
took so frankly an hour or two ago,
Merry, is not for you now. She has
come again beneath the garments, the
cloaks-the- skirts of our conventional
world. She has vouchsafed TO you a
brief. a dazzling glance. but just at
present, if you please, she is out of our
reach, your glance; she is merely a
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woman wept. and morning found her
haggard and sick, with red eyes and a
heavy heart.
The reason? Simply the bellboy
whom she had never tipped. He saw
the taxicab stop, the man in evening
dress carrying huge bouquet of vio-
lets step out, and rightly guessed that
it was the man who was to take Miss
L. to the opera His mind worked
quickly; the girl at the desk had just
stepped into the back office, and the
boy, slipping into her place, stood po-
quired for Miss L..
WHAT She had just gone out? I'm
possibler' Oh. no. The boy was posi-
tive. Miss l. had gone out not 10
minutes before in an automobile with
a party of friends, dressed for the even
ing. Decidedly she would not return.
The mans face turned dark red,
and leaving the violets on hall chair
he left the hotel. The chamber maid
has the violets yet. I do not know
whether the matter has been squared
between them or not. Miss L. still
looks sad and tired when she drags
home at night. No, / have not men,
toned the matter to her. We discussed
the question of tips in Europe two
years ago and why refer to it again?
The proprietor of the hotel knows moth
ing of the affair. but the servants have
all discussed it pro and con. They
think she got what she deserved, and
perhaps she did. Anyhow, she is not
the first woman who has been a martyr
to her principles. -z
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EytN DEEP WATER zDit6 tie BATHING GIRL 8
Call

told me she had heard that I was o
f1irt I FASTENED to deny. possessed by
the riotous joy OF being suspected.
Not since met you." I replied prompt
Iy We kissed and there aneath the
board walk we came to the intimacy
of pressed hands while her mother SUI
pervised the younger members Of q
family in preparation for padding. 7
took a shell my love played vSh Gun
observed) and treasured II tor a full
three weeks.
She was the very spirit of the sum-
mer girl learning with cunning skill
the first letters of the message which
she would yet write to the world. You
come to me yet. Alice, tender bios
som. sweet fragrance across the
years.
OF different metal far was Celia. Celia
was % and IA. There had come some
passages to me with the intervening
years. There had been some inter-
lGdes- Celia was deep bosomed, kind
and not too infinitely coy Others Gas
fair perhaps) passed on the sands. but
saw them not. From Monday until
Friday she was mine. / confided to her
my hopes as she stroked my hair In
the sweet and unfrequented places.
She read my fortune from my hand,
peering with kind close eyes into my
very face I thrilled, trembled with a
sweet, invading Joy; my heart chords
struck by her fingers OF eloquent ivory.
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pealing fire. screened by appealing
wells. She had all the accessories but
hair. However, she supplied the de-
ficiency and went in. She was very
beautiful, as I say, till wave struck
her. She went down beautiful. She
came up-what? Well, don't know, of
course, I'm man; but when she came
up again her head had lost that well
weighted appearance which 1T had pre-
sented before. Two, three little islands
hairy little islands-foated up the
sea. Well, call them small, tragic con-
tinents. They were of that sort, you
know, which you see decoratively be-
slowed about the front windows of
lady hair dressers.
Quite Another Girl
y Well, our bathing girl is now upon
the sands drying out. Thus she looks
charming. Helen was not more fair.
Our lady looks like lissome, glad Ca
lypso, and probably knows it. She
knows many things, our bathing girl,
even to the time to get out Of the water.
And that knowledge is one OF the essen
tial differences between man and
woman. Man will get out Of the water
chattering, blue Tipped; woman never.
She Is glad when she enters, charming
when she leaves. Even when covering
herself with sand she can be a statue
man is evidently clod. She can
make pretty play of arms that
way, and of eyes. She knows that her
brown eyes are always gilded with gold
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girl again. You are human. You re.
gret. You remember the bathing girl.
Perhaps. in the glamor or recollection,
of hope, you propose. Men do such
things. Which makes one think how
really primitive and seriously simple
was even Maehiavelli beside hini-or
her-who first. conceived and brought
to use the bathing girl.
1 speak feelfngly of her-our Bath
ing Girl-becauseSs eSshe happened to be
my first affair.stI was and she was
IA, as years are measured, but really
how old know not. That is the secret
of woman even at 19, and she never
tells. Her eyes were brown that the
sun had gilded and her name was Alice
Nervously I made her the first Offering
had ever made to the shrine of
womanhood. and then straightway
wished the sands would swallow or the
clamorous seas enfold. 1t was a box
of chocolates, I remember Cat price
dollar), which 1 had been carefully pre-
serving for a tribute to the baseball
champions of those other days. She
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her seek just the proper protection, if
need be tshe always does), or If she
frankly flies I'm very, sure she won t
sit alone upon the sands so very long
IL you have the stamp of tactical talent
give you credit for. Merryweather,
you'll be there.
There she may dry her hair out if it
isn't very wet and is very, very beau
tiful. Her hair is sort of modern
SIRENS net Let it gleam in the sun,
little lady, showering brown or ripping
gold to dazzle your adorer. OF course,
you understand, it won't be very wet
1t would draggle thus, and of every
abominable thing in this great universe
commend me to the draggled hair. I
class it with a draggled petticoat. But
you will be skillful enough, I've no
doubt. You will wet about five inches
OF 1t. never more than six. Simply
enough excuse to spread it out, youaun-
derstand? Then watch him wonder
there and marvel Sometimes / wonder
If he marvels yet-marvels at how you
got him, little Bathing Girl
Now, in the matter of the headdress,
please be very careful. Wear your own
hair and you will please me. Never,
never trust rat. Let me tell you
something. Once I knew young per-
son who was very beautiful. She had
that complexion which the morning
would (doubtless) have if it happened
to be woman. She had eyes like ap-
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Cleopatra Was Essentially a
Bathing Girl Herself

server Alfred) to trace the radiant
progress of her rippled way. She
shines with all those subtle scintilla-
tions which make her first among the
goddesses of summer. In other days
she would have claimed, undoubtedly a
precedence of beaus. Paris would have
chosen her. She is a thing of charm
and art-particularly art. Nature is a
mere suggestion of her graces. She is
a breathing principle of natural selec-
tion made perfect in her winsomeness.
Take her as firt-and I do not use
the word lightly; use it in the solemn
sense, in the sense that it is but the
here, the first and airiest grace with
which she writes her scroll upon the
missal Of the universe.
Then I will permit her to trip past
you. 1t is early morning and the sun
stares in his mirror of the sea, think
ing, doubtless, what a fine fellow he Is
He kisses her hair-their hair Qucky
old boyD. They have sweet little
blouses at this time and dainty little
skirts (Which the morning breezes
don't forget to 1utter) and from which
little straying spots peep out, only to
veil themselves again. Sometimes If
you are lucky, you catch the CLEAN of
something silk. Then the breeze kisses
her hair. They stand head down and
wisps of 1t silhouette against the white
Of higher sands. Such is the prologue
of their day.
The sun says noon. He does not
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glimmer any longer at the sea. He
makes a much better use of time-he
looks at the bathing girl, and she is
argleam. No nt1ie -.,.,
mice--peep now from lluttered SKIRTS.
She becomes glorified by fuller realiza-
tion. Down there the water pats the
sand, that sacred earth where fairies
feet have trod-tread even now. The
water is clamorous with its invitations
to enter. But really it should know
better by this time. 1t must know that
she will not go in-just yet. The bath
ing girl is a mistress of inaction-at
the proper time. I would not be sur
prised even if this were the time
think she may be even striking the
first chords of her gentle prologue.
Watch her tip with daintyNtoe the lit
tie sprays of sand in front of her Yes.
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notice that you do. You watch her
movements and that little foot and
well, that CLEAN of flashing ecstasy, IL
| may put 1t that way. or course she
is unconscious of your regard. She
does not emphasize the graces of those
curves, believe me. She does not draw
attention to them framed gloriously
there in that intensifying sand. Mo-
no, indeed Besides, why should she?
You would look in any case, Bill; you
know you would. Men aressuch brutes
This, however. is but her first in
structieh in the science. the skill. OF
charm. Take her (Alfred, old chap in
the sea, which now becomes imperative
This is her very ~amphitheater of skill
How sweetly she can scream upon the
edge of waves before she ventures in,
How She can. graciousIY allow the
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ners and the sweets OF youth. So you
must really not condemn the freckle.
Kept within the proper compass 1t is
not only pleasant; 1t is uplifting and
inspiring. or course it must be gov
erned. but SO must most things. A
single swallow does not make sum
mer or a freckle q Fitzsimmons. Don't
be little goose. then, but let us come
back to the beach and consider the
bathing girl
Sitting upon the sand is Il am per-
suaded) the best place from which to
see her. She comes brilliant comet in
the consultations Of her shining sisters
and it is possible Of you are an OBJ
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felt that I was all to her. while
was but the present fitting blossom OF
her preference. BY Friday night the
world was mine and all that in IL was
And then came Saturday and other men,
and Celia sat in unfrequented places
yet, but not with me. My day had
gone Celia was practicing the chords
of ecstasy upon. college boy. As
look back over those interrupted years
l see now an eager boy, daughter OF
tice.
What's that you say? 1 haven't said
a word about swimming? My dear,
was talking about the Bathing Girl
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A S we approached the harbor at
n Southampton three Or four
4 n women crowded around my deck


4 n women crowded around my deck
chair.
Mrs. n" said one of them.
we want TO ask you something. How
much shall we give the stewardess?
You see. this is our first trip over and
we know that you are a seasoned
traveller and familiar with all these
little points"
What" I laughed, "you have been
reading Baedeker all the way over and
don't know that yeti"
OF course" was the reply. -'sBaed-
eker says $3.50. Now that may do
very well for wealthy people. but the
woman hasn't done a thing for me;
you know / haven't been sick at all,
and don't see any reason why I
should give her $3.50"
Well I replied, '-she has certainly
brought you your tea and toast every
morning at Z O'clock and prepared
your bath at 8: that seems to me to be
something"
Nevertheless" continued the
woman. who was a New England
school teacher and had a great deal of
stick-to-it-iveness about her, its
against my principles to tip and /
don't propose TO be handing out money
ell over Europe just because it's a
foolish custom. I'm too much Amer
ican' for thatw
When you're in Rome" I began,
but she interrupted me with
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waves to circle her. "A challenge to a
battle of splashes is sweet avowal If
you have intelligence enough to know.
Her very dulcet cry, I'm -scared"
means but that you shall lead her (by
the hand, my Alfred deeper in. The
sea, my boy, is the very potentiality OF
matrimony If you only know how to
manipulate 1t.
A Little Farther In,
Then the possibilities, the graces, the
insidiousness of learning to swim Can
you not see Mr.. Merryweather telling
the dear creature (Dorothea is her
name) to hold her head back while she
strikes out. and holding it himself?
Can you not see the possibilities of
helplessness. of every art the. most In
ducing?
How many golden rings. wonder,
have been won by the dulcifying help
lessness of the really pretty girl, by
coy but exquisite timidity? You can
hear Merryweather saying quite dis
tlnctly: Come on-a little farther in,
You can-see the pretty shrinking, the
timid, but appealing. terror of eyes
which nave not forgotten--can not for
get--to look effective You can see bold
Merryweather grasping her by the
hand In masterful Inducements thing
am very sure she would not permit
In any other circumstances whatsoever.
Then take her In a battle of splashes
and know you will; you'd take her
under any conditions-but there, see