The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-10
(Coutinued.)


in the final hours in which is complet
ed the record of worlds doings and
undoings for Il day. Masses OF copy
swirl upward in the tubes or are car
ried in by boys from the city editorial
room. The tynesetting machines click,
click, click. in unceasing monotony.
and the proofreaders scan columns Of
green proofs with 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
of type r.re. making corrections Or
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 whir off over 100
copies of a 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.
600 Of bribe money in his hands found
the staff of the paper ID all depart
ments working rs probably they had
never worked before. except on cleo
ton night The story required con-
siderable time for prepare ton. The
notes OF Howard and Jeff. the two re-
porters who recorded the conversation
of Brand and Barteliny. had to be
translated from shorthand into Eng
lish. Then an Introduction aud 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 fashlight.
In the composing room men were
working Ike galley slaves to get the
great Barte!Ey exposure story into
type and into the forms. The com
posing room in the Advance building
was /; double decker. 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 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 ina
chimes We're set in rows. A steam table
loomed on one side. on another table.
an ironbound one, rested the saiiry4
containing matter for the nights cd
don of the paper. At the extreme left
If the room n wooden partition silEi
off the small office that the managing
editor used at night when he superip-
| 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
I the compartment door opened into
| the composing room. LII his small in
| closure Brand. the managing editor
! had desk and a telephone. Adjoiu.
4 ing the partition which shut him off
from the composing room and on the
outside Of it, was desk used by the
/ copy cutters. who cut the pages Of
manuscript they had been past
/ ed together-into takes" A take is
| one of the sections into which story
is cut. SO that several compositors can
work on different parts of the same
story simultaneously. resulting iu The
saving Of considerable time IN settin.
4 it up.
The typesetting machines clicked of
rapidly the words, sentences and para
i graphs of the Barteimy 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.
ton he had chosen to write himself
McHenry, the deposed managing ed
itor and now Brands assistant. was NJ
the forms with the makeup men.
A boy rushed in with cut for Nc
Henry The busy editor squinted n
it and waved the boy to one side.
why do they send MS this baled ha,
when we've got live one?" he sail
disgustedly.
Downs came in from the city room.
2 THAT Clinton street fire is gettin;
I better every minute he said TO Me
5 Henry. I'VE ought to have at leas
Y four columns on It"
r McHenry glared at the speaker.
e Are you crazy. man. he exclaimed
"Do you think we use rubber type
You'll have to keep it in three"
Downs was dissatisfied.
Q "All right This shop is going to til
L ID he answered, shaking his hea
:. negatively He went out of the con
d posing room.
d McHenry went over to one Of tn
d makeup stones
~ Where are the cuts for the Chicag
i. and Bryan Jump heads: ] cant fiji
4 them anywhere" ne asked.
% Here they are" answered one {