Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1921-02-11

port. At the same time the same
news is going to hundreds of other
afternoon papers from other bureau
offices.
"The service we take supplies eight
hundred papers. There are about 2,700
daily newspapers published, but they
don't all take leased wire telegraph
report.
"Well, when the news comes into
the office it goes to the telegraph
editor, who edits the copy and writes
the heads. The copy is then sent back
to the composing room and given to
a Linotype operator to be put into
type-"set up" as we call it. After
the copy has been "set' it is dumped,
a proof is taken, the proof read and
corrected. The type then goes to the
makeup man who arranges it in the
forms. Then the forms are locked up
and sent down to the press room.
They are put on the press, the papers
are printed, and given to the carrier
boys for local distribution and sent
to the postoffice for the out Of town
subscribers. -
1--WE have reporters who write the
local news. There are news centers in
Vicksburg, where you are likely to
get news every day. Also we have
people in different parts Of the city
who phone US in any piece Of news
Lots of time a good part Of the news
comes over the phone and is written
in the office. We believe we have a
mighty good news gathering organi-
zation and We seldom get scooped
either on local or out Of town news.
About Picture Service.
'In addition to our news service
The Post, as does most other papers,
makes a habit of printing the pic
lures Of interesting people and events
In our office we have thousands Of
pictures of prominent people, pictures
of all the ships Of the navy, and of
the greatest ocean greyhounds, pic
lures Of the royalty and public men
of Europe; .pictures .of f7ak prnminenk
buildings Of the United States and
foreign countries, pictures of the
president and cabinet officers, pic
lures of all the Senators and Con-
gressmen, and some local celebrities,
"The pictures come to us, not as a
photograph, but in the shape of ma
trices. A matrix is nothing more
than piece Of blotting paper with
several sheets of tissue paper pasted
on it. On this paper or matrix the
man or ship has been made. We file
these matrices away alphabetically
for use when required. We get news
over the wire that some we'll known
man has died, say for instance, An
drew Carniege. The telegraph editor
goes to the place where we have the
matrices stored, which is called a
"morgue," and gets out the matrix Of
Andrew Carnegie. The matrix is
given to the sterotyping man who
takes it to the sterotyping room
where it is placed in a casting boxl
Then molten metal is poured on it and
a cut is made. The cut is then ready
to be printed. The whole operation
takes only few minutes, and that's
how we are enabled to print mans
picture in The Evening Post on the
same day he dies, even though his
death occurs thousands of miles away.
Some papers are not equipped with the
necessary facilities for doing this
kind of work.
1--WE make our comic strip. "The
Doings of the Duffs" in the same way.
Also we make nearly all of the illus
trations which appear in the advertise
ments in the Evening Post. We have
hundreds of advertising cuts suitable
for all kinds of business and we
frequently write and illustrate the ad-
vertising for some of our customers.
Other advertisers write their own
copy.
More Material Than Needed.
Sometimes someone will bring in
a piece Of copy which is more nearly
an advertisement about his business
than it is news, and say "Here is
smething to help you help fill up with
today" He may believe this and may
be some other people do, but nothing
is further from the truth. No modern
newspaper ever lacks for something
with which to fill up its columns. In
fact the reverse is true. In our office
there are dozen of columns Of mat,
ter left out of the paper every day
and instead Of hunting around fol
something to put in, the work come,
n scanning over the mass of stuff
and putting in the best. There ar,
lots Of tastes to be suited, and w tr,