New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
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Justify each line. and then the line o'
matrices was borne TO the front Of
mould. where casting was effected
4 syndicate OF newspaper publishers
resolved TO give the linotype trial IN
their offices. The publishers were White
law Reid. Melville l.. Stone, Henry
Smith of THE Chicago Inter-Ocean.
and Walter n. Haldeman. Of The Louis
vile Courier-Journal.'
Mr. Reid. who gave the linotype It's
name. was the first to set its mechanism
I'm motion. In July, 1886. II began WorA
on the daily edition OF The Tribune ana
also composed The Tribune Book oil
open Air Sports. issued that year as
premium. other machines followed IN
quick succession, until, at the close OF
issG. a dozen OF them were busy IN Inc
Tribune office"
In the course OF the test defects APP
reared. but from The Tribune once
Mergenthaler received golden hints from
two trusty lIeutenants. Ferdinand j.
WITCH and Ernest Girod." Never saus-
fed. he continued making improvements
IL was clearly demonstrated that the lho-
TYNE was a money saving machine.
glance at the cut Of The Tribune machine
of 1856 shows how different that machine
was from the type used to-day and HUE
trates how many changes and improve
ments have been made in II.
ITS USES TO-DAY.
since Mergenthalers day his hnotsp.
has been adapted to composing books OF
the most exacting kind, mathemau.s'
treatises and the like. In the latest ihoo''
four magazines of matrices are a. an
ouerator's command. AS each or lnes'
magazines gives him choice or either
NJ two letters for every one OF his ninety
KEYS. he has no fewer than 40 dinereh'
characters at his inGerss ends' Io-o",
letters are cast in many languages an-
I'm sizes large enough Tor he"sP"PN'
headings. Manual composition III he"
paper and job offices has, therefore,
narrower field than ever. with prospe''
NJ total supersedure at no' distant Gay.
In its earlier models. the linotype oiie'e
hut one font for single task. Io-da!
M machine permits the union IN on'
line of eight or more diverse aiphaoe's'
some users have added a phonograph -
,hat the compositor can set directly iro"'
dictation. Is
Toward the end OF 1894 the inventors
health underwent marked chahse
the worse He was informed by MS pn.
stefan that tuberculosis mad Desu"
ravages. Mergenthaler at once re'no'o
IN the Blue Mountains, OF Maryland ""'
of,ervard took up his residence al o''
anac Lake. New York, in the Baker Wv
tape. occupied seven years prior 10y nv
OFT Touis Stevenson. Although he s"n"'
tires enioved days which promlseu
restoration of strength. these days "
came fewer and fewer Dreadihs '"' 10.
ors of the North, he concldaeu " w.,
mn his abode in Arizona. Thither nc
from Baltimore. in June, 1870
Prescott he built pavilion. where ~
lived for six months, with suioc d.
companion. Thence he sought
favorable climate in DeminS' ~
where in November of the next year y"
bouse with its contents. was desuo!0N
bv fire. He had occupied hihiso"
months in writing his Autobiography
based upon many records, legal an" ~
sonal, and hundr eds OF letters y" 81
up In flames. In April, 1897 Tic ia
from Deming to Baltimore. "he'e
wrote an autobiography much p'le'
compass than the volume burned l"
Mexico. In Baltimore his strength s'."s
lily failed. and he expired ON Sa,ulu
October Is, 1899. at his house, NO JOS 49,
I.anvale street. Three days la'el
burial took place in Loudon Park - -,
terry. Long before the closing scent 80.
heart was cheered by recognition VI -,
great talents lie was awarded H.
by Cooper Institute, New York; the 'o''"
Scott medal by the City OF Philadelphia
and the Elliott Cresson gold meda
the Franklin Institute. Phiiadeiphi>