The daily Alaskan., 1910-03-22
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CHAPTER MI.

sSsg ful slumbcr is in order for those who are concerned in the busi- ness of producing the paper. It is the time when trained brains and trained hands are exerted to the extreme limit of their capacity to get the very latest news into shape. into type, into the press. into the mail wagons and lon the street"
 And lt is in the composing room where the bruut of the battle is borne in the final hours in which is complet- cd the record of a worlds doings and undoiugs for a day. Masses of copy swirl upward in the tubes or are car ried in by boys from the city editorial room. The typesctting machines click, click. click. in unceaSiug monotony, and the proofrcadcrs sean columns of green proofs" with a rapdity, when under pressure, that would amaze the uninltlated 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 here, making corrections or shifting cuts there and locking the forms Co be shuutcd into the stereotype room. where the paper matrices will be made. When the matriN iS placed in the casting box the molten Stcrco- type metal is poured m, and within a very few minutes the cylindrical plates, hardened quickly in the east ing box by the pouring of cold water into the jacket, are locked on the cyl- finders of the gigantic duodccuplc press and ready Co whirl oT 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 BUrtel- my's photograph was taken with SlO,- GOO Of bribe money in his hands found the stan of the paper in an depart
 meuts working as probably they had never worked before, except on cleo tion night. The story required con- siderable time for preparation. The notes Of Howard and JeG, the two re- porters who recorded the conversation of Brand and Bartclmy had Co be translated from shorthand into Eng fish. Then an introduction and a head had tO be written, and the art department had Co break all previous records in turning out cut made from the photograph resulting from the daShlight
 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 deckcr"-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 a 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- tion of the paper. At the extreme left ! of the room a 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 Co a 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 Adjoiu- | ing the partition which shut him off from the composing room and on the outside of 1t, was a 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 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 1t up.
 The typesettlng machines clicked or
 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-
 ton he had chosen 10 write himself McHenry. the dcposcd managing ed
 itor and now Brands assistant. was at
 the forms with the makeup men,
 A boy rushed in with a cut for Me
 Henry. The busy editor squinted at
 1t and waved the boy to one side
 Why do they send us this baled hay
 when we've got live one:' he said ! diSguStedly.
 Downs came in from the city room,
 That Clinton street fire is getting
 better every minute" he said to Me
 Henry "We ought to have at least | four columns on it."