Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1894, Page 21

1894--TWENTY PAGES. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 4, MMMWSNRHMSmflmymwfififiwm$mmmm:mmmmfimm%mmmmmHmwmwwwwmflmmwmMmmmmwwmmmmmmmmemmwmmmmmmmuNrflmunmmflm“u” WhICHEESHI retaing as a souvenir, and told | is adapted to operate beyond the speed of | the place of assembling, and by this means | hold up the particular matrix designed for | thom out over the keys, and with enly the = mechanical superintendent and others | most operators. matrices farthest off come into their position compartment e : =~ [the typesetting trade was sure to be revolu- The distribution of the matrices back to | a8 quickly as those which n,rr' n m-pln nw]. ey, placed u’. N|~|v‘n n~4lul|| :4'1 one k LR oL LA A p g joal Merve s tionized and that the typesetter would be | thelr magazines Is perhaps the mos geni- | being no transpositionof letters when the | the bar, are pushed along it by means of | ceiver at his side. One wondered how he in Jac! oford's First Experieno Mechanical Mervels RM?,"[IZ.A""”"TI‘“ superseded by the typecaster. This predic- ,,‘,’.ulr.,l;,"l'k.:.'r‘:',."f,.f; ,’,..',h,.'.':u“;nu"',‘.,::n:;k,.':. machine 1s worked at Its highest speed. longitudinal screws, each matrix remaining | could do it. He didn't scem ta know him- laptain Jack Crawford's First Experienco ag -l Bee Ncwnp.on‘},qmpmum, tion Is now being rapidly fulfilled. More | ture of this triple production of ore mind. The matrices, in the order in which the | in engagement with the bar until it arrives | self X i Fe : an Impressario, than 1,000 linotype machines are now in su After the llne is cast, a long arm comes | keys have been touched, are delivered to a | over its proper magazine channel, into which I suppose it's a gift,” sald he. “I don't mum] operation, The company now has | automatically from the back of the machine | slotted assembling block, G, ;\1.{.1,» I(Iu-lylnrn nr\ln-;mi |.‘\‘]ly for Y!F;‘ a .m‘m ('Im (.I v;x.llwn L:mrn w y‘y: v‘h'r- other feliows don’t do it just o three large factories running full blast, one | ¢ t atrices, picks them up with the | held loosely suspended by their shoulders, | of another line, he work of distribution | as fa 't seem to, RON Vi 4 A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT [ thres, larke factories running full blaat. one | to tho matriess, picks tiems wp, with the | heid Joosely Rspented by X" the line 15 | a thua. chrrlod on contimousiy, simuitano: | * Then he told his story. He s Leo Ratly, | BRONCHO AND MULE FLED AFFRIGHTED . Toronto, and unable to fill the orders to an endless screw at the top of the | belng formed, the spaces being dropped in [ ously with that of assembling the matrices. | and Is not quite 27 years old. He was born % As usual The Bee is the ploneer In intro- | machine, These matrices are all nicked on | position from th& space box, H, by touching [ The number of pleces with which each maga- | In Bowling Green, Ky., and learned the An Inventive Trinmph that Is Working & | ducing all the mechanical s in conn the principle of a Yale lock. As they slide | the space bar, J, in the same way as the | zine is furnis! to e r it cortain that | printer’s trade in Louisy having n nstic Reghnning of a Burns Celebiw Revolution in the Art of Making N tion with the art and business of printing | along the screws they hang on by these | type keys. As the different characters drop | there shall always be enough of each charac employed at the case in the composing tion in Arizona and lis Melancholy & in this section. It is a matter of history | nicks, which are anged that when | into place the operator can readily read and | ter for the line being composed, the one 1 of the Courler-Journal. When the old Uloso=A Waenting to ACoatiinh - o that The Hee brought into Omaha the XSt | ono of them reaches lts channel the nick | correct the matter as he proceeds, each | helng cast and the one being distributed ioned linotype was Introduced in % Y U eylinder Hoe y the first Chambers news- | juto jts proper place in the magazine, ready | corresponding with the female die it bears | six matrices bearing the letter * all ' In f paper folding chine, the first automatic | o down again into the place of | on the opposite elge, The spacing, however, | other characters a fount ngg provid r Farly In the winter of 1885 some of the | Dexter folding machi nd the first v , a8 the operator may desire to ; presents o t the interosting fea- | in proport according o th | perfecting press. It was in the natural e o0 pe Is this system of d tures of t Each space bar well under f the trade, There of things, therofore, that the first type butic at no letter can get into the a compo: 1 sliding its top | is, therefc i ng s n' ting machines should find their use in Omaba | channe d the matrices are in continuous | and bott ts thickness is | of type, | s an excessive amount of | that had been perfected, and was a great im- | in The , c HANULCEL R L b bty ._l‘w| of an even m.y.‘m“- L in an ce where the use in u On Fe jary 19, 1885, Mr It i of a battery of twe hes, arra d i rel 1 of th task of ditril portions be matrices, ing metal may 1 used in th e, the in the cor water, the editor of The Bee, received a lot- S in a row on the north side of the composing 1 matrices, when | slightest motion of any one finger kept his end of | mithine piling up strings of type In the single cylinder Hoe press, the first double | joges | hold nd the matrix drops | matrix having on its back an impression | fixed upon the % larger newspay 5 of the country had their fnforest attracted to a type-setting machine which under the old system of hand setting | When, therefore, the operator — sees being remolted and doing duty over Tribine, where Rellly has 4 q room. 1t is a m hy of note, t00, | gecupied two or three hours every day. that ~ the line s so mearly full | again almost indefinitely, although it is rec which I8 lis speclal p ter from Melville E. Stone, editor of the Chl- | that no other newspaper building in America In fact the operator has his whole time ' that it will not hold another word or part [ ommended occasionally to add thereto a ¢ oy At - tiie: partiou cago News, on the subject of the new in- [ has the space to accommodate so large a | (o devote to getting up the matter, and ho ' of a word, he simply presses upon a lever | small quantity of bismuth, As the lino- | most convenfent. He did 1 vention. Mr. Stone had been juvestigating numh of the machines in the manner in experiences a gain not merely in the matter | at his right and the space bar types are used but nce, the publisher is | T ch to talk about W It v, the merlts of the invention, and in nis let. | WHCh they are arranged in The Bee office, | of gistribution, but in correcting the proofs. | do all the work'of justification, all of them | enabled to have a new dress cach day, in- | xa e boyar W R IET % and publishers who have examined the | myself 1 feel above them, and that isn't ter, in which was inclosed a printed descrip- | plants of the largest ne spapers in the NG R L nice. When a fellow thinks he's too smart tion of the machine, said count unhesitatingly refer to The Bee I _ b everybody takes paing to jump on all “The machine described In the slip Is all | plant e model in point of excellence > < blunders and make it unplea nt for him 1 as fr of _arrangemont The mackines were I'd rather work along quietly with the boys. i lar o ordered from the fastory In December and i HOE i e L AVETu on e (0 WeTtd W Wiory were recelved at Omaha the latter part of ~ about typese g, but I don't want to. 1 b n o from th the shops there and carefully examined and | January and put in operation on February 1 = > don’t know as the others work much dif D after indulging in Ueir high operated it. There can be no question that [ The twelve machines cost $3,000 each at the = = - ferently. Only I suppose they use one or recreation of murderiug a fe it dooms the trade of the compositor, and Js | factory. — The usual custom Is to rent the Z S two fingers and make more motions. Then, | * lad fled for safety into the fast- machines, but those in The Bee office were 3 too, the most of them strike twice for | NeSses of the Siorra Madre mountains in the bought outright, the management being as- g = doublo. lettors, but you don't have.-to’ | republic of Mexico. I had trafled the depro- capital Invested in printing offices, and es- | sured of the success of the invention, It is I = WitH that 6. turtied: €6 the . machines ana | drting band:tojthe bo i, and as pecially In newspapers, have so long sought, | also usual for newspapers fn adopting the 4 ) SloWed how. by, TenyIng.n. Koy for an aimast | 1t would! lio. a-violation ot ternat and so long awaited. machines to ]v»mp!u\‘ expert operators In \ . = G e s :‘m‘{‘,“,,‘ {0 wross over, 1 reluctaitly “The o o d a o atents cov~ | Order to get the full benefit of the machines N - mere touch a second matrix could be e back trail for the military post l‘r“lr'hll :l’l‘lxl’:“‘ ”l?:\x (::]nu'[h 00 "::l,‘_”“n‘ from their introduction The Bee did not $ i ., 3 37 thrown down, and a strin of them for which I was at . e kb Mo b > | follow this custom, but selected its operators Yy, ! = that matter, <in the exact number required A LONESOME CELEBRATION are In the hands of a company having its | from the union printers who had held cases : HNS > by a slightly longer but carefully regulated | One morning, when but a day's ride from office in Washington. The goentlemen in | under the old ofder of things. In this way - 2 3 pressure. He could throw several down | the post, I had packed my paokomnlo, sad the company are not familiar with the trade, | Mmany of the regular caseliolders of the paper X $ i § in this way before he could have had time | dled my he A USE T bstore MOURtIng but iave taken the stock as an investment, | WEE BITER cioplodment, the teduction of the i P : . 4 o make a second strake fad his fnger ed my diary (o JoUown the happenings ¢ A ompor com force affecting chie : once been fully removed the previous day oted tho The history of their connection With it I\ substituie printers who ware'not regularly B Y I i iy fop i pravlouy “:” L plneted tho d o, do not consider it necessary to relate now. | employed. The scale of s larger R : . o} o ] - to show his skill, for he was laughing and | that it was the dawn of the natal day of The point is. and to properly advance the | than that earncd by the hand compositors e 5 ‘ ; [ e IC G QLU AL of the watal day o use of the invention, they are willing to | under the old system. The operators are ) l 4 > ; 2 7 T pe A B B S R L e S AT Pacte place with a party of gentlemen engaged | puld $1 per night for work on the morning ‘ 2 Y f 4 land almost on edge at the keyboard, in- | horse unsaddied, for I determined that. in the newspaper business, one-cighth of i paper and $3.50 per day for work on the ! \ /AN s SR stead of dircetly over it, and there had un- | though alone in a wild country. many mik the entire stock, and to that eighth dele- | evening paper. No operator works more A | I = \ ) Ui ; R s A e A S D LR e il gate by a suficiently binding contract or | than cight hours a day and has no distri- e 7 3 e 7 pir g ¢ Ry lower case letter most used, [ day and do honor to the memory of agrecment, a majority voice in the board. of n. which required at least two hours A e AN \ e 0\ B i E while he struck leiters and spaces indiffer: | whom my father and mother, now in (0 directors. ch day under the old rule and for which i f } i 0] Sl N AN ently with the second finger of either hand. | realms of the blest, liad {aught me to lovo “The capital stock ‘of the company lIs | the printer received no compensation. As- Dy BN ; e P 174 o ./Yr g -2 : The right hand he used mostly for the fig- | and reve b ol LA $1,000,000, This is divided into 40,000 shares | sistants to the operators, known as floor- - ke ) H o | Bk e Uk > e ht i g S A of $26 each; The stock has advanced to | men, receive tho same wages that are paid " g i G e . e akiLb b ie (i 1NVAB o AAS R e ae st UL SRR Kokt o double par, and is still rising. Nonc of it | the operators. J 2 “ J 4 iy | z = Diod 1o ot niatrices to: (o caatlig nDERFa: | e atrh s wielijgrew, alork to beu- be nad-for 1ess, LOE tils Thave sntisffed o = : FREE > \ 2 = S— tus. He assembled these lines so rapidly | formed a littlo duty which I had overlookal EYARI AU I L DORSCE 010 L WL LOr B LS 3. ' e 4 ST ¥ = = that unless the machine was geared to run | Lefora breakfast: 1 washed ey faoe ked toned at that figure, conditioned that it | How the Mergenthaler Docs Tts Work with 3 k 4 J fid ANVEY 5 for a line to be east to allow a new one o [ Wil enjoying. (hi lie dancin brook ghall be placed with men in the business a Single Operator. i C — tiko! s/ Dlaco and! giva Wit o chancs 0. g0 | 1'jc enloving tiis seml-oceasionai luxury for the prpose T have named 1 tho pro- | The machine fs named after its Inventor, g : - = onsotting. Even wihen sotting at (s rate tI6LaRitHSEnivelciot:bieiwaCersyas: thoy posed syndicate be formc WoultlltaKe kKo s yatohina i are A b e 7 3 he watched his matrices, and often wou i 0 {5 e e fa 500 shares for myselt and Mr. Lawson, my | * 1} Cmakemmamodihoreontlielor: ¢ : A o aasoIRGGAB IBLsT AL kAt I sight | merrlly adown tho rocky bot partner. I wish you would join and take Is a mass of invention, fairly bristling A : = / & without waiting for the proofreader to de e AL G a similar amount.” with ingenious contrivances to do tasks that Z R Z ¢ 3 toct, the blunder later on. This habit saved | Tts tonas with sos an drmoa I8 e laden— The cditor of The Bee was not in position | many men have said never could be done by 3 VB s / much time for him. in the end, for every mis i otk and dreamy imusio lnden at that time to foin in the proposed enter- | machinery. For instance, there is spacing P s - R O (e B G YA Yiille) dancing near;my prise, but took a lively interest in the inven- | out. Upon closely scanning a printed page it i I Q = = : the setting of a whole line and the hunting [ As the trillings of a merry § i Rions tion which hus since taken the place of the | will be scen that some of the lines are 3 ) i up and placing of it in the proper p! in ~Why not celebrate the day not hand compositors on The Bee. Soon afier the | spaced out wider than others—that is, that { | =1 the string of type. s the s of Scotland and deliver an first leiter fiom Mr. Stone Mr. Rosewater | the spaces between the words are wider t \ \ / = Anothior cloment of Rellly's rapidity fs | oration to my animals, to the wolves that recelved the following invitation in other lines. A printer setting by h . i y a1 tor e hilatmeinory, i Helentchies a prowled .wa‘v‘ waiting for my departure to ' E = 3 ber of words of copy at a time, and sets | Snap up and quarrel over any scraps of CHICAGQ DAILY NEWS. : y \ % || hemy without watehing nfs hands at all, | meat 1 might jeive benind, and to (he song PERSPECTIVE OF THE MERGENTHALER MACHINES OPERATED IN THE BEE COMPOSING ROOM. keeping his eve onithe brace glinal a8 tiey{CbIiC it fflted ifrom LOUSHA O AYRN 1 { ERSPECTIVE OF THE MERGENTHALER M. ERATED IN THE BEED COMPOSING OM. come tumbling into place and sceing that | the trees which marked tho course of the EDITORIAL ROOMS = —— == s — —_— Lo they 1l right. By the time he is at the | str To add Interest to the program I 2 e LR e SR 3 3 end of his phrase, however, without the | might even dance a Highland fling, and, as. In the first place there are no errors results | being simultancously closed up sufficiently | stead of being compelled to use old and dull | Fi G5 (0 BEEE ERNET G, 0 | Was ot at all probable that Tndians wora 7 ing from faulty distribution, because the | to lengthen the line to its full predetermined | faces as in the case of ordinary type re- ‘ caue D Ol AL ible ¢ . WA} 6:_ 1§82 machine, being perfect in action, cannot | measure, with absolute certainty that the | quired to do service for long periods e f\‘;':‘{x‘\: o 1 40 ‘,\;."illl"‘)\ CEh L ,“;fi“‘..'.‘,l‘ ],“‘,(',',’.‘,’l'l; i "ll'l' Anamory ol Ui mako mistakes. It cannot set a létter ups | spacing will be entirely “even.” At the | The usual heavy investment demanded in | PO GEICEE GHEEC S AREE l o Bakion and friend of all western men. my side down, nor can it get a wrong font. ame time the line of matrices Is automat- | purchasing and renewing type is also wholly [ o e P Y AR BR0 L 0 e Tribune | Winchester rifle. 1 began ‘l'”'“"_l"“ 1 ;’;V A GEING INE)BEALY ically engaged b mps and transferred, as | avoided, as is the great loss from the break- | cot SRS FEF SR 008 W0 nonpa- | i earnest over the 1 G G EE I8 NE IN DETAIL, L ; s K- | composing room ¢ 200 “ems” of nonpa carncst over the novel idea, and to shown bygthe arrons tojtheface ofya Verdl-fjfase and woar of type,- - Thoymold swheel) dt ivaiy;snot morasthanionc:tourth iof which destroy the impression that ¢ be a cal mold wheel, K, through which extends | the illustration, is represented as having | fieiaed,” in six consecutive nights o umiing shape 1 your brain, my doar brothor ; I}I”“ i R “WI»(L ('W)Si“l. e of | but one mold slot, or mold proper, but these | youps each. His daily record wa da cot, that 1 was drinking, 1 will asnure which the row of characters in the matrix | w re now being made with two and s 0 tec *" composi- | you tha ar Th accompanyiss liatration’ ta trom o [ 12Achy he T2 of charestere by e MALEL | wisele are no belng imude i ¢ seven houra aad oltson,mioiles’”compost: | you it I sever ook rini o It photograph giving a front view of the ma- | behind the mold wheel is kept in proper con- | resenting a different size of - Seon R e ey aga o tby chine as now buiit, dition by a flume from a gus burner, and a | type. T number of “facos” e N D St ST channel from the pot leads to the rear face | made for the machine in- Tnoat D AON Gy X BNl be SRpAe glance, and a5 | o the miold. into which the wolten motal | cludes all tho regular typo - i L conaludedithalythe RerEaRoniehw liaiho gEegtollibyALS Mame;ReinotyRe, PrO- | jg forced by means of an automatically work- | sizes, from agate to small pica, i Id be a proper opening of the progrim, duct of the machine is a casting represent- | ing plunger, when the line of matrices is S easinaf boin BoBIAte - i ning e scale I eomewhat startling ing a line of type, the assembling of the | presented and locked against the face of everyliohetlaniant toriench nes to oo If my volce was in tuno e Attladt foneachilatt anidmahnracter: oh | the mold. The metal is easily kept at the .. To ‘change one maga- pteca hatim i otee .ywlml )I%“I‘\‘»*‘;nl‘n\) and the proper placing of the s, | proper temperature by a simple ice, but | zine for another on the ma- i i e A T e »:\“\M‘n‘v . betag effected by the touching in pr ravely requiring any looking after when | chine is the work of less g O Ahev el HenIUR IR s 8vs) der Bty marked keys, as in operating a | once adjusted, and the cast body, being of a | than five minutes, when it 4s 5 R BT 11§ 1 G B AT P T BRBE T i Rk o typewrite rest of the work being auto- | thin picce of metal, solidifies almost as s00n | gesired to change to larger or % o il At o 2 B 1 by the machine. — There ; A ithtolchenCis v;w;L llm" lyll\fll<\1\“\\‘!:~-l smaller type, the mold wheel 25y \en makes a partial revolution, when « | being at the same time ver tlio row of a sand Wil near by, I his being the capacity of the regular ma. | blade or plunger pushes, the linotype oul, | turned to a different positior ’ | {lisedamor ng ta bide SOl pUbLcL Hiow e 2850 the mumber of different types | and between trimming Knives, depositing | to Lring into proper place the ! stinetively ¢ B 0 R S represented in upper and | It galley at the front of the machine. | pody mold corresponding to : 5 (11773 % S R er case letters, figures, s is done the knives leave shallow | the face on the matrices in ¢ I forauie andiy agHl(ore x[ punctuation marks, ete. ribs on the side of the linotybes, | the magazine. One iden, how- Lo Bachiof these: clidracter or slugs, and it has been found that th over, - in. making ; (he o nelwenmame dounory s ibogen s borne upon a thin s | ribs serve a valuable purpose, giVIng air | creabed *wumber of molds in and chopped the wir about “into diss matrix, shown in one of | spaces, facilitating the drying of the papier | the mold wheel, has been to o DTt E T h bR NI it wstie an @, the figu the mold or | mache stereotype molds now used by most | enable the same machine, IRl raomentad gre Toieng matrix proper for forming | of the large daily newspa A vibrating | with one magazine, to pro- ¥ A BRI e " o B the face of the latter being | arm advances the linotypes along one after | guce both “solid" and “led Uirklie motes of Sxeia, diin Dias el at “a in one vertical cdge | the other upon the galley, so that they thus | Jinotyptes, this being e the adjacent hills and shot in vocal streuks of the piece, while in lts | come togetlier in column form. fected by using a body propor- N up and down the erstwiile peaceful valley upper end a series of After the casting of line comes the | tjonately larger than the X my animals, in affright or e, I am sure I teeth, “b," by means of | distribution of the matric in to the | faco, s a brevier face on a | | D L e e R RS which the matrix is re- | magazine, the operation being entircly auto- | jong' primer body, ete., such i b ARt LA0 in ik GamInR) veunalaE i iktat fantn! turned, after the casting atic, and being one in which the eminent | change from one to the other agt it o e ey e s aa st Lo R Ea Y is made, to the m "8 | superiority of this machine is most con- | Leing then effected by e sl R RO The magazine consists of a casing sup- | Spicuo! For this purpose an arm lifts the | gimply readjusting the mold h J fell over and over, his cxperlenced hind that is claimed for it, and more. It was made In Baitimore. I have myself visited,| actually the thing which all persons having on the Process by Which the Work is Done Fully Explained, v the same time a wolf disappeared ver the brow of a sand hill near by, his assumed dramatic pose and beg ported in nearly vertical position at the top line vertically, (see illustration showing | wyeel, loks Kicking atisomo : Inaglnicy.oblaot: In 1 —— — the air above him, but whether he stumbled T 2uet 3 or fell in a paroxysm of fright 1 have never A recent feature in the | tion, 65,000; Saturday, nine hours and thifty | yot been able to learn. The last view I development of the machine | minutes, 72,000; Sunday, seven hours and | fecured of the long-cared beast of burden - and its adaptation to news- | thirty minutes, ; Monday, seven hours | e went over the top of & hill with his tail At that time Mr. Stone was one of the ) comes close to the end of a line and finds A & Tt paper needs consixts in the | and " forty-five 3 Tuesd pointed rigidly at the mysterious realms Qroprietors of the Chicago Daily News and [ that he cannot get into that line the next 5 i furnishing of a magazine | eight hours, 74,600; Wednesday, eight hours | above and his hoofs beatinz ureat clouds of is now general manager of the Associated divisible part of it, and he at once = % speclally adapted for the | and five minutes, $3,700. Thus it was just [ qust from the historie sofl of Avizona, press. On the day designated in the invita- | proceeds to drop extra spaces between the = L composition of display heads. | five minutes over the six days of cight hours R8T ST TP . | | tion about twenty pronfinent newspaper men | words un(il the line is full. The Mergen- X : This maguzine has one fc ach jn which he did the work. His copy | 3 1 ; gathered In Baltimore to insnect the first [ thaler machine does this automatically, not \ X 7 of capital lett i wan taken from the hook as It came, just [ The horse came catiously back in a cotiple Jinotype machine. Among those present | by dropping in extra spa but by an sized type, say a pica gothic ot liours to sce I 1 had got ovar the f were: Whitelaw Reld of the York | equally simple and much quicker plan.” The E condensed, another of upper | men. cumo slowly, wiep by step, woemingly ready; Tribune, Stillzon Hutehins of jng- | machine spaces are about four inches long > and lower case in compara- | Reilly's ordinary work Goes not, of course, | U 454 Should the cirvimstinies v ton Post, Richard Smith of the Cincinnati [ They are made like a wedge. By touching 3 LY auire It~ Ly koft words and “expreasions Commerclal-Gazette, Bdw Rosewater of | the space key they are dropped into the e — ot deon o or what tind occurred T The Omaha Bee, Mclville B. Stone of the | proper place. If the line is not full the S/ succooded R Allg eonfdgnos, an Chicago News, William N. Halderman of | wedge-shaped spaces move up until it is full. mounLing : hgarliat : the Loulsyille Courier-Journal, J. M. Abel | Then the line moves swiftly to its mold. < lonkey 1 him two milex of the Baltimore American, Henry Smith It must always be remembered that the 3 A from camp oachod he dnised then general manager of the Associated | jine set is not of type. It is of little bru ? press and W. F. Rand of Rand, McNally | matrices, one matrix to each letter or 11g! & Co. and t trices form a mold from which a X The parly was taken to a small shop, | solid line of type is cast by the machine. 2 1 e 3 It | would siy which served as the first factory the ' Sever ! - i AN ¥ \ j 1L wouklieny: 4 2 2 § i aid not car of K floue ar ieh, in tho mind of y nad won 1,000 medals in s many o bicon of great which had lost none vitality throush long isolation from its of men, and colleo of the usual 8 muscalarit That was my fr fan i the cel- ebration of a Buins a ary. my friend. Yours will be the nd, if you are really serious 1 your assurance that I shall have a litte corner in the progcam. It will bo well for you to warn your people against litching Norses near th v of the troubie, and caution thew not o drive by while I am in an active state of eraption New Antidote for Morphine, Dr. William Moor of New York, a spocials ist on therapen nas discovered that pers L) manganate of potassium 15 an antidote for ASSEMBLING THE MATRICES morphine poisoning and that it will counter -~ act within a reasonable ler time the effects of any of the salt plum. Dr. tively small size, as non- | keep up to this spurt, but his daily average | y (I Pyl LR pariel full face. With this | right along is from 44,000 to 65,000 ems a | or he West Side Germa Ty magazine the regular “di day, while that of the next best workmen | 1o January 9, swallowed Sraanily play” heading, as seen in | in" the office—and there are many expert AT P T T R many newspapers, may be | compositors there—rarely averages Oover | {ioians attempted t e quickly formed with lino- | 88,000 ems a d e bR s % -~ e vt s Keputatl not countenance guch GAS et 1 TRAIAn Al Toa e S e i AT But Dr. M ed in commit- | In the same way tlat it was taken by other o /MATRIGES e o BRBE £l G - s - EE—— - the eitizen with the lafge neck, as he put a | W08 “RRCEE 1 his new found an- T e stubby finger down on i copy of the pape i Mergenthaler linotype machine. The first [ the machine complete and several of its most | of the machine, the top and bottom plates of | operation of the machine) and then shifts HOW HE HANDLES THE KEYS, Atulby. Qnmer donntan i 6o ’wl’ she. paper, tidoto. Deadly languor and death must hive machine was there exhibited by its inventor, | interesting parts. By studying the one which | such casing being properly grooved to form it laterally until the teeth at the top of the —— R 9 lowed ordinar Mook swa lowod Mr.. Mergenthaler, who took great pains to | represents the melting pot and the mold a | channels in which the matrices lle loosely, | matric ‘engage teeth on a carrier plate, | Marvelous Speed of the Champlon Linotype BRI e R A T SN | y o ‘., explain the machine and Its various parts [ person not a mechanic can got a fair idea of | on one edge, the bottom of the matriX | R, as shown in dotted lines, this plate, with Operator of the World. Thartaads AR SN8 AN T A rsensitive ta and workings. Compared with the latest | how the line ls cast. The metal pot 1s | (ouching the top of the one below it 0 that | the line of matrices, being then raised to o itat ' e et hatara dahino. | pant rmanga improved linotypes, such as in service at | equipped with a pump which moves auto- | they slide down freely when released by the | the distributor bar at the top, of the maga- Ne i S i ; S8y n s TR AT S 1 e 2 1 n 1‘ e busi- The Bee office, this original machine was matically and squirts m portion of molten | key, = There are two escapements at the | zine. The spaces remain behind when the | type machine striking the keys with an al- W00 lon Tne® v s come out, wil ol the exs very clumsy and complicated affair. 1 metal up through the curved passage to the } mouth of each channel, at its er end, con- | matrices are carried up, and are transferred | most fmperceptible of every one of X than Dr, sayin' what de contrac' was, about half main features, the typewriter keybo: 4 and | line of matrioes, which form the mold. In a | pected by a rod with the key lever, their | latcrally to theiribox or holder. The dis- | nig fingers, and Ing the little brass | frien's will tink I been sent to de pen the lin-casting mold wheel, were the same | moment the line Is cast, released from the [Wym being such as to insure very rapid oper- . tributor bar occuples a fixed position above | b rom which th e Thr S as on the machines now in use, mold and thrown out in regular order, f01ow- | gtion and still prevent the of more | the open upper ends of the magazine chan A Now Bivie 'On the hoels of this inspection of the wma- | IN& those Which preceded it than one matrix on the key being touched. | nels, and on its: lower edge are form chines the company was reorganized with Distribution of the matrices after re | In leaying the mouth of the magazine the | longitudinal teeth, or ribs adapted to engage | from an elevator chut crybody sald he large amount of capital to push the manu- | used is another dificult task most matrix drops down a vertical chute, whose | the teeth on the ops of the matrices. But | was the fastest \ the world, facture of the machine. In this company | ously accowplished. The method is explained | front is covered by a glass dvor, the vhutes - a matrix bearing amy given letter differs, as | and one who did not know was not Inclined were Willlam Henry Smith, Richard Smith, | below at one side being of gradually Aiminishing to the number or arrangement of It teeth, | qoupe i after watching his dexterity, which Whitelaw Reld, and a number of other pub. The action of the machine after touching | length, so that the bottom of the chute sc from a matrix bearing any other letter, and | SHEV UL 8 eF WATREDR 8 CHE SN YL B CH jge ) Mshers were induced to take stock in the | the keys. s entirely automatic. The opera- | tion formsa slight Incline, just below which, | the ribs of the distributor bar vary . v . Fa L %o it: 1o, the kitohen & | ) Ve aihg snterprise. tions of composing one line of matrices, cast- | and at a_corresponding inclination, is a fast | spondingly in number and arrangement girls who work at the typewriter or those | pid FOUF CR G v e g e S Ou Ljs return from the visit to Baltimore, | ing irom anotbher and distribyting § $higd m‘J ryyaing belt, The eblegt of x”“’. prrange qum.-(cul polnts in its length, the ribs belng | whose hands Oy lghtly over plane keys | s, aoyhow eral degiecs the tuiuperature of the city atresin ling down from their reservoirs like wheat