Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-03-10

IA a IIDNIGHT in the rooms Of \
wv leading daily paper in a BID
ESIs1 city is not time when peacsI
49, full slumber is in order al
those who are concerned in the buSI
ness of producing the paper 1t is tk
time when trained brains and trand
hands are exerted to the extreme Limit
Of their capacity to get the very lated
news into shape, into type, into tkI
press, into the mail wagons and uI
the street."
And it Is in the composing room
where the brunt of the battle Is bon|
in the final hours in which is compa
ed the record Of worlds doings adI
undoings for day. Masses of "coW'I
swirl upward in the tubes or are carl
ried in by boys from the city editohi|
room. The typesetting machines cnt
click, click, in unceasing monotOly
and the proofreaders scan columns
green proofs" with rapidly, wha
under pressure, that would amaze u
uninitiated observer. The makeup
men cluster around the cumbersou
tables or "stones" ON which the forA
are made up, lifting in the metal lin
Of type here, making corrections
shifting cuts there and locking h
forms to be shunted into the stereotN
room, where the paper matrices VIII
hn rnndn "hAv, hA otriv 10 MANN
in the casting box the molten steise
type metal is poured in, and within !
very few minutes the cylindnrI
plates, hardened quickly in the cas-
ing box by the pouring of cold waite
into the jacket, are locked on the rF
inders Of the gigantic duodecups
press and ready to whirl of over J"
copies Of paper per second, all prR
ed, pasted, folded and counted.
Midnight In the Offices of the Az
vance on the night that Judge Bans
my's photograph was taken with SH
600 of bride money in his hands foun
the staff of the paper in all depar
ments working as probably they W.
never worked before, except on ei8'
ton night. The story required GU
siderable time for preparation.
notes Of Howard and jeff, the two
porters who recorded the conversau
Of Brand and Bartelmy, had
translated from shorthand into wy
fish. Then an introduction anu
head had to be written, and inc
department had to break all pre'~
records In turning out a cut m
from the photograph resulting Nv
the flashlight.
In the composing room men W.
working like galley slaves to ge'
great Bartelmy exposure story
type and into the forms. The ~"
posing room in the Advance pupu
was a double decker. e., se'e
story had been built in the rear =.
Of the room to accommodate the pm
readers. This second story was f'.
but a half story, extending out '.
a portion of the composing room,
the walls were partitions, tine wv
half of wood and the upper nan
glass windows. =.
On the lower floor the linotyW ~
chimes were set in rows. A steam N
doomed on one side. On another n.c
an ironbound one, rested the s"
containing matter for the nights -
ton of the paper. At the extreme IN
Of the room a wooden partitDu s,n
of the small Office that the man.d
editor used at night when ne sor
tended the makeup proceediiie, rcs
door opened into this small roo1n Non
the outer hall. close to a door oS I'm
ing from the hall into the COMP h
room itself. At the opposite CIV I'M
the compartment door openeu b
the composing room. In his sn "aitd
closure Brand, the managing ~