The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-04-11

morning paper. The making Of a
matriX, molding and stereotyping, and
printing and folding of 10000 eight
page papers per hour We're observed
with great interest. The whole force
of the Press from editor to ~stereoty-
pers and pressraen Were very courte-
Gus. and by the turning out OF a SOU
venir edition for the students made
"a decided hit with the Bookings
boys.
Other points of interest which were
visited were the mattress factory
operated by the Martin Gibson Bed
ding Company, the Wisconsin Granite
Company, VIII A. Beach Printing
Co, Brown and Saenger, printers, and
that most worthy institution, the
Children's Home. At each place every
courtesy was shown the visiting stud
ents.
The visitors are loud in their praise
VI liz plohA Wal Siub,
the manufacturers and editors. 1t is
rare for visiting students to be &C
corded such royal treatment. Sioux
Falls is a city OF boosters. Everyone
there boosts for the packing houses,
the biscuit company, the wagon fac
tory, and the newspapers. That is
Il -. 49,. I-l1- a.
Sioux Falls is bound to grow, and
Secretary Schlosser's prophecy for a
population of $4,000 for the Power
City in five years should be no pipe
dream" Sioux Falls has power and
the natural advantages to handle all
the commercial raw materials which
are often shipped to industrial points
outside the state. She is making ex-
t~ensive civic improvements in miles
of paving, new hotels and public
buildings, and with her 65 factories
employing $500 hands and other in
dustries coming, predictions for her
future should be liberal. Here's to
Sioux Falls; she is all there and
over"
The Sioux Falls Press has the fol
lowing to say of the boys visit:
In order to see with their own eyes
how newspapers are made in modern
newspaper plants, the group Of
editors in embryo, students Of the
class in journalism at Brookings Col
lege, spent several hours in The Press
building during their two days junk
citing trip to Sioux Falls. They were
caught by the camera just after The
Press new high speed %perfecting
press had been put through its PAGES
for their special benefit. AS they were
being arranged in place by the photog-
rapher, Robert Emmett Dowdell, of
Artesian, president of the National
Press Association Of America, and
George Schlosser, secretary of the
Sioux Falls Commercial club, and
veteran newspaper man, dropped in.
These W old-timers were compelled
by the fedglings to get into the pic
ture.
THE students watched, at intervals
during their visit, every process of
newspaper making. They saw copy"
prepared and headed up by the tele-
graph and city editors, set in type
by the linotype machines, "made-up'
by the makeup men, nodded, cast and
trimmed into semi-circular plates,
clamped to the cylinders of the big
press, converted from 1000 pound
rolls of white paper into the finished
newspaper at the rate of five every
second and then wrapped and STAMP
ed" by the mailers, ready to be turned
over to Uncle Sam for distribution in
all corners Of the state.
And they were all keenly interest
ed, as only intelligent students can
be. These young fellows, who will
some day become reporters and then
city editors, telegraph editors, a
aging editors and perhaps publishers,
have seen the daily routine Of a mod
ern newspaper plant.
During the course Of their journeys
about the city, the boys visited pack
ing town, the industrial and manufac-
turing districts, the big retail stores,
the wholesale establishments, and the
public institutions. They have seen
Sioux Falls"