White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-09
MOVING DAYS
FOR THE NEWS
LEADING JOURNAL OF THE DIS
TRICT ADJoURNS To LARGER
AND MORE COMMODIoUs QUAR-
TERs-LISTEN TO Us.

The White Pine News Is now en-
seonced in its new quarters in the
civic center of the city of East Ely,
having moved from the downtown
district. from the noise and hustle of
incoming trains, the shrieking of
whistles and perpetual ding-donging
of locomotive bells. IL was an awful
task, that moving, and only one who
has been through like experience
or who has lodged a cyclone can
form any definite idea of what mov-
ing the plant of a metropolitan jour
nal really means.
The master mind of the movement
was r. Il. Hildebrand. Not TO know
Mr.. Hildebrand means that you are
in dense ignorance of the intricacies
of moving a metropolitan plant. They
started moving the type the a. b, e's,
the semieolons. the colons, the
commas, and car TO a full stop
when Win Fulmer asked all hands to
have drink. Then they turned
loose on the big press. taking 1t all
apart. One of the workmen was
struck with brilliant thought in the
midst of this, suggesting to Mr.. Hill
debrand the uselessness of taking
the machine apart when II had to be
all put together again.
The big machine was down and the
railroad reporter, the police repor-
ter, hotel reporter, mining editor,
society editor, city editor. paragraph
er and managing editor were all out
of a job. The staff had a day off.
and all became superintendent, full
of ideas, none of which were accept
ed, and the moving went on in spite
of them When night fell there
seemed to be as much left in the old
quarters as had been transferred to
the new. II looked almost hopeless
that there would ever be a job for
anyone again. Still the trains came
and went, the whistles whistled. the
bells changed, the locomotives went
loco. and the cry of: "Ahl abordde."
sang out the dirge of departure.
Three more presses were moved
on the following day. and two big
stones each weighing a ton went in
their wake. Then came the big
cutter Some of the men wanted to
cut the stones down in weight and
they did break a piece off the cutter
Just to be obliging. Fonts of type
type cases. proof galleys, lead cut
ters, desks, typewriters, tables,
chairs, paper cutters, forms, stock of
all descriptions. and finally the limo
type. II took Operator Boyce two days
TO pick up all the misplaced periods
and exclamation pointsl
The only thing lacking on the third
night was the power for the plant in
the new quarters. Ii takes a great
deal of power to keep going an i'm
mense plant like that of the White
Pine News, but on Thursday every
thing was going including the edi-
tors and reporters. Typewriters
were clicking, electricity was singing
-linotypes were humming and the
presses were roaring-putting up
the news, eating up the news,
spreading out the news. A wonder
full thing Is a newspaper. A thought,
word is woven into story, stereo-
typed into metal on the linotype,
more thoughts and words follow
through typewriter and linotype until
securely locked up in the form, the
forms put into the press and the news
of the world is ready for you al
breakfast next morning.
The new quarters of the White
Pine News are most conveniently To-
Gated; the Steptoe hotel adjoining
the East Ely auditorium on the cas-
and the Copper National Bank just
step across the street ready to
furnish draft In the warm summer
time. Now is the time to subscribe