Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-14
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

lis, after reading what the o. P. had to
say about applying asphyxiating gas to
himself and that Honolulu chimpanzee
writer, that either or both Superintend
ent J. c. Daley of the Home and l. T. U.
Representative Frank ]. Pulver would be
glad TO furnish the gas.
Harry Rapp, linotypist on the Post of
ancient lineage, has at last been made
the victim of a tragic circumstance. Last
Saturday he was compelled to work
doubleheader, the first time this has oc-
CURED in more than five years. 1t wa.
OF sufficient import to be posted on the
street bulletin board, and the usual
Saturday night crowd sent up a shout
of "Hurrah for Harry Rapp, the iron
mani"
Ed II. Baer, foreman of The Bulletin
composing room. is confined to his home
this week by illness, but expects to be
on deck again next week.
Harry Wander Perel is expected to
reach dear old Denver" today, after .
protracted vacation at the old home
town of Grand Rapids, Mich. That is
TO say he will arrive provided he gets by
Chicago and Port Wayne
William II. Nelson, head proofreader
on the Post. has returned from n sue
cessful exploration among the ancient
ruins of Routt county, just over the Con
tinental divide He confirms a previous
report published in The Bulletin of hav-
ing excavated A prehistoric proofreader,
which besides being identified by the
prutrusions on the craunium part Of the
skull. had well set upper jaw. The
bones are being suitably mounted and
will in due time be placed on exhibition
in the Colorado museum.
Thomas J. Duffy of the Hoeek-l
81
Pierce hotel with a serious attack OF
pneumonia.
George Nelson. formerly OF the Kistler
chapel. who left Denver some months ago
to take a job in the monotype school in
Philadelphia, has been promoted to have
charge of the instruction department.
Homer Z Dunn of the Chicago branch
of the Mergenthaler Ian type company,
furnishes this interesting lit OF infor-
nation in a letter to The Bulletin.
'w. c. Hercules of Denver is spending
a few days in Chicago shaking hands
and looking for land marks that were
familiar TO him thirty-five or forty
years ago when he was n comparatively
Young man. Needless to say. Here"
has not located any OF these places in
the loop, as in their stead have been
erected large office buildings, etc. The
writer and Mr.. Wildey entertained him
at lunch yesterday at the Y. NJ. c. A.
hotel Mr.. Hercules expects to spend
two OF three weeks in Chicago enjoying
the sights and inhal;nS the lake brecze.a
The Bulletin editor is in receipt of a
handsomely printed invitation to be
present at the fiftieth or golden ami
vcrsary OF Richmond Typogra phical I'm
ion No %. to be held in Masonic Tenn
pie. October II. 1915 II would indeed
be pleasure TO mingle With the Nir-
ginia typos once more, were the distance
and expense of the trip nos altogether
prohibitive.
Robert Higgins. proofreader on the
San Francisco Bulletin. spent four days
in Denver last week This information
may not interest the younger printer
very much. but to such old young fellows
as Walt Schuman. Billy Collins. John
O'Connell. Fred Cantrall and number
of othcrs, the visit was of more than
passing interest. Higgins was foreman
of the Denver Republican from 1850 to
1850.
Charles w. Deacon, for many years
superintendent of the Union Printers
Home at Colorado Springs. is now con-
nccted with the Mcrganthaler Linotype
company. Deacon is covering the north
ern half of Kansas for the company. His
headquarters are at Topeka,
Secretary Treasurer ]. Charles Deus of
Pueblo has mailed out printed proceed
ings of the recent convention, in Colo
RADIO Springs of the 1ntcrmountain Typo
graphical Conference.
Colorado Springs typographical I'm
ion No. SO has created 1918 convcn-
tion committee to arrange for the sixty
third l. T. u. session in the Home
Town next year. This convention will
commemorate the twcnty-fifth annivcr-
sary of the dedication of the Union
Printers Home. w. I. Reilly is chair.
man of the committee and f. d. Wood
worth is secretary. The members are
J. F. Chccly, w. '. Snidcr. Thomas Nc
Caffrcy. r. II. Suttle. Steve oDonnelI,
G. !. Hinkley. J. J. McCarty. Louis Al.
brccht. Z. s, Soncson. f, w. Stewart,
John c. Daley. II. A. Scholton and D. s.
Gilmore.
November the business office OF the
News and Times will be moved from the
corner of Seventeenth and Wclton TO
the McPhec building. Seventeenth and
Glcnarm. Editorial rooms and printing
plant will remain in the Welton street
building.
Dave Il. Coleman writes n letter from
Los Angeles inclosing the requisite for
renewal of his subscription to The
bui'c.'n' ana asks 10 DC emcmpered 10
"all the gang" Dave says the life lines
are breaking easy for him at present
and that he expects to continue going
the safe and sane way. He concludes by
declaring that "The Bulletin Labor Day
edition was sure some paper"
Wednesday. October Ia. members Of
ID. Il. u. No, 40 will vote in chapcls
and at the sccretary's office on the two
proposed l. T. U. constitutional amend
mcnts. The first proposition is to de-