The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-10-30
Big ADDITION TO
HERALD EQUIPMENT
INTERTYPE TYPESETTING MA
CHINE, LATEST ON THE
MARKET, INSTALLED.
WILL MAKE BETTER SERVICE
MARVEL OF ALMOST HUMAN
INTELLIGENCE ATTRACTS
WIDE ATTENTION.

Ever since the present editor of the
Herald took the paper over three
months ago the question Of handling
the news and local matter which went
into the paper each week has been q
serious problem. Week after week
news Of Importance has been left out
because of the physical inability to
get the matter into type by hand COM
position. This condition made the ad-
dition of typesetting machine to the
plant imperative.
About six weeks ago we began to
negotiate with the various companies
for the purchase of machine and
after investigating several OF the
standard makes decided upon the In
tertype, manufactured by the Inter-
national Typesetting Machine Com
pany of New York. The machine is
now installed and this weeks issue OF
the Herald is composed upon this
acme of machine perfection.
The installation of this splendid
machine means a big additional in
vestment in the Herald plant, but the
cordial manner in which the new ed
itor has been received and the splen-
did patronage accorded by the bust
ness men of Sank Centre justifies the
expenditure.
The memory of the editor hanks
back a quarter of a century before
the typesetting machine became re-
alityl and at that time the old tourist
printers, in discussing the advent OF
the typesetting machine, insisted that
such machine was an imaginary Wis.,
ion of a diseased brain of some in
ventor, because, they said, "you can
not put brains into iron."
Well, the machine arrived few
years later and at the present time
there are thousands in use in all sec
lions of the civilized world. They
have increased the size and quality
of the modern newspaper and period
ical. Each year has seen improve
ments, and the Intertype installed by
the Herald is the last word in type
setting machine ingenuity.
In appearance it is not unlike the
No. 5 Linotype, but its quick change
magazine and other improvements
with selling price of several hundred
dollars less, is bound to make the
Intertype popular throughout the
printing world.
The first Intertype was placed on
the market in March of this year and
the serial number of the Herald
machine is No. LAG. 1t is the second
Intertype to be installed in. Mime
sofa, the Albert Lea Tribune Install
ing the first one ten days ago. Sew
eraI of the large dailies of the coun-
try have at least one and without ex-
ception the experts pronounce them
the best on the market.
Fred E. Stewart, erector and ex-
pert for the Chicago agency of the
Intertype Company, spent several
days in Sank Centre installing the
machine and the first slug cast was
perfect. Mr.. Stewart, besides being
an expert machinist and operator, is
a thorough gentleman and made a
host of friends during his stay in
Sank Centre. -.....
The Herald's machine has been
placed in charge of Hugh Wallace,
the 19-year-old son of the editor, and
the manner in which the youngster is
taking hold of the machine is most
gratifying to his dad. The first type
was set Friday of last week and he
has set practically the entire paper
for this issue. OF course he is not an
expert as yet but he appears to have
a splendid conception of the machine
and in the course of few months we
expect to be in a position to handle a
large amount of outside composition
for neighboring papers.
Quite naturally the machine has at
tracted considerable interest among
Sank Centre people. In this connec-
ton we wish to cordially invite the
people of this vicinity to inspect this
almost human piece Of machinery.
The craft at large may be interest
ed in the following description OF the
Intertype written by well known
expert in recent issue Of the Typo
graphical Journal:
"The Intertype model which was