New Britain herald., 1923-10-27
OBSERVER
Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People

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 The publication Of the newspaper eliminating the important factor or disifihation-is in inc hands Of three dsparimenis. the stan which gathers the news and advertisements and writes the eepy. the composing force which sets the news in type and the press room where are located the sierseiYping machinery and the press The day Of the editor.repofter who wrote his copy in pencil and also set it i'd type is gone. Today the hewbE gathering and editorial department work along lines which make for greater speed and which make it possible 10 cover broader field. So has civilization become that the reporters must react snbcon. sciously to the news value Of an inci- dent, whip 1t Into English on type writers and put it on the city editors desk. where it sometimes undorgoes a metamorphosis which astonishes the man who wrote it. It then goes 10 the type setting department. Prac- tlcaliy the same process takes place in handling Associated Press news. which Is received over a telegraph wire by an A. P. operator and handed To the telegraph editor. The Her ,ld" has within the past week in- stalled two Morkrum's "Teletypc" machines which receive news auto from the New York office ,f the Associated Press and type it without any hand to guide the mech lnism., The machine resembles q typewriter. but Is operated entirely rom tho New York end. It produces copy at the rate of 52 words min ,te, complete in every detail and 'eady for the type setting department.
 When the copy reaches the com posing room. 1t is distributed among he operators of the type setting ma ,hines. There it is swiftly trans- ormed into type and placed in an ron frame, or chase, until page is eady for the press room. Tho page 8 then cast into a lead scmi-cylindcr y the stereotype crew and placed on he press. When the required num- Ter of plates, each plate reproducing page, have been fastened on the 'ress, the power is turned on and the 'apers are ready for distribution. The Herald" press has capacity of 24,- % copies an hour.
 The layman can gain an idea of ihat modern newspaper publishing 1eans when he is told that practically Il the type which is used in printing he "Herald," including advertise nents, is set on the day the paper is ublished. Readers of the Observer" olumn are invited to come to the of- ce any weekday to watch the paper in the making" and to see at first and the machinery and other equip lent whoch makes 1t possible.
 Davy FitzGerald. to whom the nell of battle smoke is fragrance, as renominated for mayor by the ew Haven democratic party last fight. If he is elected he will en- 1T upon his fourth term as chief ex- cutive of the City of Films.
 Opposing FitzGerald will be b harles M. Walker, who is reported h , be fine fellow, good vote get C 1T, good winner and good loser. T [e will try to place the republican J andard in the city hall to which it |