Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-01

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 To sell this machine to The Gate way, Eugene B. Merovitch, mechani- cal engineer and representative of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Brooklyn, N. Y. travelled 5000 miles. Leaving New York June 12, on the President Garfield, MT. Nero vich came to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal He sailed from Seattle July 19 for Alaska, going by way of White Horse, down the Yu- kon river to Dawson, where mach inc was sold to the Dawson News, the pioneer paper of the Yukon Val ley. Thence MT. Merovich left by boat for Nome. crossing Norton sound under very unfavorable wea- ther conditions, and nearly exper- iencing a shipwreck as side experi- ence. From Nome he came to Sew ard on the freighter Nabesna, and then left for interior Alaska by way of the Alaska Railroad.
 While in Seward MT. MerOvich booked an order for new Model IA Linotype, with electric pot and com plete attachments, carrying 15 faces of late types and capable of the most intricate job composition. The machine was shipped from San Fran cisco and arrived Saturday, Novem- Der 22.
 The Gateway last spring mad in- stalled a new Model 8, and the recent addition to it's mechanical equipment gives the Gateway the best compos- ing room machinery in Alaska, and better than in any town of ten thous- and population in the states.
 The owners of the Gateway, MT. H. V. Hoben and Mr. H. B. Selby have great faith in the future of Seward, and the installation of the Model IA is silent testimonial of the pros perity of Seward and the westward country. And that the good people of Seward and vicinity are appreciat- i've of our efforts to keep abreast of the times, is shown by glance at our advertising patronage, which has be- come so great in volume that today we enlarge into eight pages, five column, tabloid style. This form of paper gives us nearly twenty col umns more space which will be de- voted to news, and also our advertis- CTS to have a better display without crowding It is our belief that the Gateway by spring will be compelled to go into an eight page six-column paper, though preferring to remain the five-column size, as it is easier handled, and gives the customer a better return for his money.
 A glance at the illustration of our new Model IA will show the compli- cated mechanism involved. The Lino- type comes knocked down in four large boxes and is lavishly covered with c0smoline to prevent rusting. These parts must be unpacked, clean ed and assembled, and it is needless to say that the smallest mistake in erecting would force the machinist to take the parts down again. The Gateway is pround of its force of me chanics, we believe the most versa tile in the Territory, as every man beside being expert with the mechan- ism of the linotype and it's operation, is also a competent man on advertis- ments, the presses and on conner cial printing and embOssing.
 This paper owes much to the abil- we trust our readers will pardon the Aggression from the subject in hand.
 When the present owners took over the Gateway four years ago, 1t was practically in a state of innocuous desetude, being hopelessly in debt, of scarcely worth reading. The first thing done was to clear out the old machinery, which was obsolete and install modern equipment. A ruling machine and bookbinding plant was added, a large quantity of new type faces, new presses, folders, punches, perforators, until the plant was thus equipped to handle any class of work save engraving and the higher class