Douglas Island news., 1921-06-03
MANY PRINTERS
 BECOME FAMOUS
The Wandering Typo Furnished Many Interesting Characten
 in Days Gone By

nation. Che country has naturally boon awakened to keoncr interest tn Che Cart prc.orvptIyc.' and hes focused attention on 70 craft which has provided bis mon for every DOC siuon in ufc observes writer in
 Che Christian Science Monitor
 Where is tho old-pshioncd prIut- crq With his disappearance nc world loses type of worker who from Bon Franklin on has furnished Che country with men who have made her influence foll not only as master printers and master jour- naIIsts. but who. through Che ubcraI education and Ideas acquired n thc'r training. have swcllod Che ranks ot
 Che learned professions and become actors ministers. authors. humor.sts and leaders In various lines
 Tho first and most important claw was composed of Che elect, the we'll born and wcll-brcd. Che ambitious young man who desired a higher cd- ucauon. and who entered a printing odico with Che intention of learning Che business thoroughly and dttue himself for a position of imporncc The printing on.ce was Che poor mans university. and highly @- tccmcd as such
 A newspaper o1.cc was Che nate uru forum and gathering place for au Che brightest thinkers and oi men in Che public eye.
 To now almost extinct class ol American printers belonged such shining lights as Bayard Taylor Bret uurte. Artemus Ward William Dean Howcus. Ben shu'abar op.c
 Road. Charles B Lewis and whole galaxy Of good men and good pr.nt- CTS That Che system Of becoming printers and writers "throush Ho meeu" was splendid one. Che mer. recital Of these few names among many. is evidence.
 10 was natural for men of tns stamp to seek Co enlarge thcIr movi- edge by travelling about the country while they worked at their cho.m calling. studying types gathering io- caI color and satisfying their desire
 "suunec places to scc.
 Travelling in those days was mot a. easy and universal as uov pr.ut- CTS travelled aioot whom thcrc wa. anything Go sec. bclr or learn thcr.- by They pauon.zci Che railroads whom Chat best served ther un
 They were respected and repcrta- blcthey paid their vay and If thc. wero not wealthy Why nobody else was either When they haI absorbed Che atmosphere or sights ol ono placc they took Che next in which they were interested. They
 were in uo ecuso "uamp printers as most people understand thc lcrm When Che travelling printer o. this dut class found h.e niche hc sct- | Iod down and fIed it.
 It was in this manner chat Hay- ard Taylor hc famous author tnv-
 cler and diplomat covered One United sutc. and Europe X more polished gentleman and more graceful writer and poet it would bo
 hard to Gud m thi day. and chat | his "Vicws Afoot' were acquired | while continuing his work m % printer added rather chan dotrac.cl
 from hcir value.
 Most of Che o'd-Ume printers were
 writers as we'll They erauutol naturally into tho writing profcs. sion. Not iufrcquondy too. ncws- paper mon and Che hmouata who conducted or contributed columns of humor. set much of tbs matter fright outor ner hoads at Che ease. 10 seemed at one umc aa though every good American humor- ist had been travelling printer at one time or another
 Ben smuabera "Mra pmunr,on and uko" made their debu. In thc columns of Che Boston Posl hr.omm Ward biked an Che way from port- land Me-. Go Boston and chen by easy stages to Cleveland. Oh.o Eu route he studied human nature. gathered local color making tao ac- 1ueiruucc of theatrical and circus
 people Of every type. gradually wis., ualzug In hs own imagination chat snowman through whose mouth he
 later launched hImso'f into fame The idea which he acquired as a travelling printer came to fwuon while he was on Che piaiu-Deaior of . Cleveland
 "Tozas Jack' was another aris- tocrot of pr.utcrdom who elected Go
 travel After walking from Spring
 field he entered a Worcester ONa@l r..f.. .......... ....... and ..I.H f.