The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-23
THE STARS NEW sANCTUM

rather new workshop, and it hopes
its readers will pardon it if it brags
about it little. The Star is not suf-
ficiently we'll versed in Dragging to
do it gracefully, so it had perhaps
apologize for its Boosting before
hand.
The Star has never been very
sanctumonious paper, SO it's new
workshop looks more immense to it
than it does to anybody else. Its
such surprise to have things mode
rately convenient and roomy that the
force is in state of somewhat un-
due citation, which Will wear off in
few days.
As aforesaid, sanctumony hasn't
been the Stars long suit Messrs
r. r. Carroll and A. L. Harding
founded the daily a little over nine
teen years ago in corner of the
Florida Baptist Witness Office Mr.
Harding was editor. His editing was
confined to clipping selections from
his exchanges at his home at night.
tending to the Witness job office, of
which he was foreman, to do much
of anything else. He didn't even
have a desk. When he read a proof,
he would turn galley upside down
on case and lay the proofslip on it..
Mr.. Carroll, who has made and car
ried on the daily Star, would scout
around on the streets and pick up
news, which he would note on the
ibacks of envelopes or paper sacks
appropriated from the stores. He
never could think to put note book
in Fhis pocket. When he got all the
notes The wanted, he would go to the
ONCE and sit down at the extreme
corner OF "a table, or on a stool by an
imposing stone, If he could find one
cleared of, and scratch away. AS
the paper grew, he had a table in
Ehe Witness editorial ofice-a table
on the west side of the building,
where the sun shone in the after
@nnn hot enough in summer to fry
eggs on the window sill. After a
couple of years of this, he became
tireda gaIloping up and down stairs
forty times day, and removed his
liable to the room downstairs that
has been the Stars business Office
ever since. Shortly after that his
handwriting became so bad he
couldn't read it himself, SO he In
rVested in cheap typewriter, which
he learned how to run in some sort
sDf fashion in less than week.
About that time HE annexed desk,
and his journalistic Jerusalem was
right there attained. Bob isn't much
on style, but If you see big piece of
news light off the bat in the Star, it's
safe gamble he wrote it, for if any
ching happens, he is sent after the
story, provided he hasn't gone be-
fore anybody else in the house knows
anything about it. When he arrives
where the news DIS, whether 1t be a
murder, fire, lynching OR railroad
smashup, he looks at it and takes
notes on any pieces of paper that
happen to be handy. One time, at
tending an occasion out in the woods,
and being utterly unable to find any
paper, he induced gentleman with
him, who wore a white shirt, to
take OF his coat, and wrote copious-
Lri upon his back. Why he takes
these notes is mystery, for on
reaching his desk he lays them down
by him and never looks at them
again, but proceeds to indite his
story without seeming to have any
other end in view than to get thru
with it as quick as possible. His
secondhand typewriter has giver
he runs it like the Irishman play.
+he ffddle-that is, by main strength
When he starts on a big story abou
the time the paper ought to go tt
1t out of the machine and holds i
out in one hand while he grabs fol
a fresh sheet with the other. Some
body-the devil the editor. carries
boy, or any person of little impor
fance-seizes the sheet and does I
hotfoot for the linotype. As soon a.
the hnotyper gets hold of the frs
sheet. race ensues. of the big ma
Gsline upstairs trying to catch III
with the little one downstairs. Some
body, Or two somebodies, brings tn.
copy as fast as the typewriter reel.
1t off, and If the big machine catches
mp its because the linotyper uses al