Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-03-28
The "Model Ten" Linotype


Beginning with this issue the Free
Press, from now ON, will be "machine
set," that is, the type used in the
printing Of the paper will be cast on a
Linotype machine, thus giving a new
face Of type with each issue which
will give the paper q more handsome
appearance geographically than here
tofore has been possible in the use of
handset type.
1t is through the installation of
standard Model 10 Linotype machine,
the only one in Idaho county, that we
are able to make this great improve
ment. The machine, which has been
ordered for some weeks, arrived last
Friday, and was erected and placed
in operation by Mr.. C. w. Tage, of
the San Francisco agency of the Mer-
genthaler Linotype Co. of New York,
who has been in the city during the
past several days imparting knowl-
edge to the force regarding the ma
chine and its delicate mechanism.
About q quarter of century ago
Theodore De Vinne, one of the great
est printers this country has ever
known, ever in advance Of his trade,
and several associates in the newspa-
per business in New York city, seeing
in the printing world field for ma
chine to do away with the costly
and tedious hand composition, sought
out one Otto Mergenthaler, q jeweler
by trade, and possessed of great in
ventive genius, and placed him on a
salary with the understanding that
he should devote his time to the de-
velopment of a typesetting machine
Of some kind, and as result of his
efforts today finds the Mergenthaler
Linotype, q product of American
brains and enterprise, used in every
country in the world and standing
alone without peer as the only prac-
tical substitute for hand composition
While the manufacturers, the Mer
genthaler Linotype Co., Of New York
has kept in advance Of the demand
for improvements by keeping corps
Of experts developing new ideas, 9
significant fact which is indicative Of
the stability and practicability of tho
machine, is evidenced by the use to
day of the early models which were
placed in newspaper and job Offices
twenty-one years ago and are still do
ing good service.
On account of the wonderful success
Of the Linotype machine many mel
have wracked their brains in an at
tempt to provide something just a
good,n and, while the writer is youni
in years, he can recall a number o
such "substitutes, all of which hav
gone by the way after the usua
splurRe. In fact, the writer of thi
article has had some little experienc
with one Of these "just as goods.
It was away back in Iowa, however
and our grief was such with this prime
of type smasher that we do not wis
to open an old wound, and it is suff
. cient to say that others in the new
, paper field have also been there, an
| if they are not ~ honest as we are
is because their feeling is akin to tbs
Of the man who is bilked by the mai
order house and knows it but fears
make the admission because of tn
! chiding which his neiehbors will a.
!. minister.
The machine 10 . new one, just fro
;. the factory, and embodies all the late
Improvements in that wonderful m
lchiue. It 10 what is called tw0-le
ter machine. BY that term is meal
J. that it casts two different faces I
Il the same body without any change
. the machine, other than the trip of
lever, The machine 10 too complicat'