The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-27
NEWS SC|M|TAR
MOVES WITHOUT
MISSING ISSUE
Paper Now Established in
Modern Plant on Union
Ave-, lust East of Third.
"Ready for Business"
READY for business." !"

Ready Tor business.
That was the report from every
department Of The News Scimitar at
z o'clock Monday morning when the
task OF getting out the first Issue in
the new building, Union avenue, just
east of Third street, was started
The plant and business offices Of
the paper were moved from the old
location. Madison and Third, during
the Christmas week lend. Despite
the fact that showing a newspaper
without missing "a single issue Is a
considerable task. the removal was
accomplished as per the schedule
mapped out weeks ahead.
A Christmas edition Of the paper
was issued just before noon on
Christmas day. Edition time was
mot moved up because OF the re-
: moval. The earlier time was or
dered so employees might enjoy q
half holiday. This was the last edi-
ton issued at the old plant. S
With the exception Of four limo
type machines and one huge press,
every bit of the papers mechanical
equipment had been taken out Of the
old building by o'clock Christmas
night. These four linotypes were
moved Sunday morning.
Facilities Enhanced.
Every facility for getting out a
metropolitan newspaper was en-
HANGED when The News Scimitar
plant was moved to the new build
ing.
More ROOM" dream of each in
dividual department head for many
months, finally came true.
tHa
fold by the move. Not alone more
room for each crowded department,
but vast Improvement in the manner
in which each issue was gotten out,
marked the first day in the new
building. The News Scimitar plant
today is modelled along the most ap-
proved line-that of continuous mo-
ton.
Perhaps the practical, or mechan-
ical, method of handling news under
the new system best is illustrated by
taking an imaginary story with suf-
ficient news value to entitle it to
a plpce as page one lead" Let US
say the story breaks" at central po-
lice headquarters big murder hap
pening at noon.
The police reporter flashes" the
office through the direct wire from
headquarters to The News Scimitar
switchboard thence to the "city
desk" b
Reporters Scrrry.
The '.flash" into the office. the po-
hce reporter is off with the detec-
tives assigned to investigate. Mean
while, from the newspaper office,
emerge other reporters sent out on
various angles OF the story by the
city editor--some to interview rela-
tives, some to get photographs, some
free-lancing, Independent Of the po-
lice investigation.
AS the reporters gather the facts
and the theories on the story, in the
various parts of the city, they tele-
phone the office, where a "rewrite"
man, seated at telephone, assem-
bles the loose threads.
Sufficient material on hand to
splice into q readable story, giving
every known late development Of the
crime. the "rewrite" man grinds out
copy from a typewriter.
As the story develops, page by
page, from the typewriter, ii goes to
the copy desk, where headline wri-
ters and copy readers edit it.
Bit by bit. the lead all murder"
and first, second and third add mur
der are showed into a pneumatic
copy chute, the source of which Is
the city desk, the mouth the desk
OF the copy cutter in the composing
room.
Ready for Page One.
Here "Baldy" Baldwin, expert scis-
sors wielder, clips the story into
takes" for the linotype operators
and the head settlers.
Piece by piece, the type and head
lines are assembled. When the
whole story is in type 1t goes to
Bob" Ralney, who pulls proofs for
editors, the desk and the proofread-
ers. The type, with head on 1t, Is
flopped onto the makeup stone.
Nearby is page form. The news
editor stands at what later is to be
the bottom of page one, while at the
top is Zoe" Dickey, makeup man.
The news editor has placed dunn
N.Y. of page one on hook along
side the page form. The first two
words of the headline indicate on the
dummy" the position of 6he story.
The makeup man lifts the type
into the form, Other stories marked
"P-1," which Is short for page one,
are put into scheduled places. Mean
time inside pages are being made up
by other makeup men, display ad :
yertisements going into "hoies'
planned for them the rest of the
page being filled with news. Page
one, which contains the latest and
biggest news, usually is the last to
"go in"
Motion Forward.
From the start of the story to the
finished type, the motion taken has
been forward continuously. From the
linotypes to the makeup stone is one
way motion-fOrward. To the make
up form is another forward motion.
Let us follow the form:
Locked tight in the form on a
steel top table set on castors, page
one is propelled by sturdy Joe up a
slight incline a few feet away. This
leads into the stereotype room, where
the plates for the press are made.
The ready, waiting hand of Ami
Aeschleiman, foreman, whirls the
table and form into the stereotype
room. Jam against a matrix roller
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