Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1901, Page 15

Always in Advance of the Newspaper Procession THEODORE W, McCULLOUGH JAMES B. HAYNES VICTOR ROSEWA WILLIAM EDWARDS ANNIN ALFRED SORENSON tor ten years The growth of the cir- .14 more rapid mechanical service The time of the Transmississippt exposition, Kind and establishing a new press roowm culation of the paper, however, made it jigogity experienced in getting the various With a new double supplement Hoe press of much larger size, while removing the maodern news- oo sary to supplement this press with a editions off the presses in time for the manufactured by the makers at their fac- steam generating plant to a separate build 1 a 1 1\ Im. large eylinder, Cottrell & Babeock, also .4 in 1885 forced the substitution of tory in New Jersey specially for The Bee ““{ AR S i h e purchased at second-hand what was then the latest invention—the This press, which was of the very latest Ihe presses discarded by The Bee, It may v e tens ANECT NGk all these early presses the work of woph o rfecting pres Whereas all pre- Pattern, including all the most modern in- be interesting (o note, are being used by hundreds of thousands of complete ”‘“”' the machines stopped with the impression presses printed but one side of the ventions and devices, is capable of print- its principal competitor, for whose pur cals at ¢ quickest bl Pt i 2 = S ’ ) ' P of The ) JORES [ ) 8 « feals at the qui : i o made Of the type upon the blank paper, which panie Gt g ime, making it necessary to IS paper he dimension f The Bee, poses they amply suflice No exam Hustrate " N“~" ’ p had then to be folded by hand. About INSL 0 Wiy separate copy into the presses from four to twenty-four pages, at a peed It is almost needless to say that The Bed better thun the history of The Bee, which o n g/ pan o ichine was put upon th twice. the new machine. by the use of the Which can only be gauged by the automatic is equipped with automatic typesetting has been the pioneer in introducing "”l” market, manufactured by Chamber O wlatotyiiik prooes transforming the type Counting register which s a part of the machines of the linotype variety I'he this section of the country every NOW Q%% g adelphia, who at once recelved an order ;..o eylindeical form. turned out & com- machine The capacity of this press 18 Bee's battery of twelve machines is the vance in mechanical processe and im from The Bee, which was thus equipped o o l'Hl!“"'""' both sides, cut, 24.000 paper per hour, of eight, ten or Jargest in the state, as well as the first to provement in typesetting and printing ma- o 00Tl rolder ever brought Into thi folded, pasted and counted in one process, LWelve page and half that number of be brought here They were purchased chinery state. This folding machine, being ey g with automatic feeding from o SIXteen, twenty or twenty-four-page papers from the manufacturers in 1850 and set up The first copy of The Be \\'l\. run ol (jprely separate, made it necessary to feed continuous web or roll of paper. This per- per II“I“.'. 1t i propelled l\x\.l ~-I~’-~H!-‘ in the magnificent composing room, wher on what was known as an old Cincinnath (he papers twice, first through the print fecting press had a capacity of 12,000 eight ]\n\\r!', transmitted without welting u}x the h‘”l'!.l.\lv' setting had previously been hand cylinder pre which had been pur- jpg press and then through the folder. page papers per hour, and a year later was shafting, by direct motor built in as part done I'his room was pronounced, only chased by the Redficld Bros. some yeal The next addition to The Bee press 100m gypplemented by another press of the same ©f the press. last month, by the president of the Inter before for $1,300 Its capacity \""‘ about capacity came in the form of a double ;ike and pattern, providing against o1l Pursuant to its usual practice of precan- national Typographical union, to be the 700 impressions, or 350 four-page sheets per ., press, to which was attached shortly pocginility of breakdown and giving The tion against accidents by having press ma- finest, most capacious and most comfortable hour, so that it took fully three hours ob piep 3 Dexter automatic folder, by which pee o .jp;...u for printing nearly 25,000 chinery in duplicate, The Bee a year ago newspaper workshop in the country negro-propelled energy to turn o out the ype paper when fed once into the press papers per hour. installed a second double supplement Hoe The press work of The Hlustrated Bee, thousand copies that were put into cireu= .ama out from the folder ready for mail press of the same size, speed and dimen- with its fine half-tone engravings, is done lation This same press was used for e without turther handling. In 1883 When The Bee removed to its new build- o000 qoubling its press room capacity, by contract with Root, the job printer. It more than a year, and until after the fire gpother double cylinder press was added, M8 this duplicate machinery "“_"“"" It L0 (hich is now 48,000 papers per hour, of requires two entire days of continuous of 1872 compelled The Bee to seek new equipped with two Dexter folders, raising ™Make the change without resorting to out= )y o or twelve pages, or 24,000 per printing to produce the edition quarters on lower Farnam street At this (he standard of the mechanical department Side assistance and without missing or even o, of gixteen, twenty or twenty-four Thus, through its whole carecr, The Bee time a new three-revolution Hoe press of the paper above that of any other paper dclaying a single edition. pages. has always had the best and the most im with a capacity of 3,000 four g¢ papers published in this part of the country at These two perfecting presses, which for The acquisition of this machinery made it proved mechanical facilities, adding to its per hour was purchased The nevw press that time, s a time seemed to provide mechanical facili- necessary to equip an entirely new press equipment as the fast growing demands of was counted a marvel in Omaha printing The rapid growth of The Bee's circulation, ties for all future requirements, have, how- room, abandoning that in which the Potter its circulation warranted And the prog cirele mdalthough it was bought at ung particularly that of The Weekly Bee, ever, been entirely outgrown and discarded. perfecting presses had been installed— ress of the past is the best assurance for second-hand it continued inoconstant use kept constantly demanding more efficient The first one was replaced in 1898, at the which wae then one of the finest of its the future . . JOlll’nallSth Wrecks that Have trewn the ay Omaha public the field wus occupied by tw The year 1881 saw another newspaper tracted its title to simply the Daily Demo- pets in the campaign of 1800 was part of a F THE character and success of established daily papers, the Republican newcomer in the Omaha Evening Telegraph, crat and its light went out the succeeding political contract calling for a sixty newspaper can be gauged inoany way and the Herald, both morning issues, but of produced by Donnelly & Smith, two men year issue, at the end of which the paper went by the stability of its career, then opposite political faith. To block the ris- formerly connected with the existing morn- For the third time a newspaper called back to its home in the town at the east The Bee must be accordel ing flight of The Bee two afternoon sheets ing papers. The Telegraph did not show the Dispatch came to the rescue of the M of the bridge. The Nonpareil and the first place of right among all the Were started, the Figaro and the Alta, even the hardihood of the News and died Omaba public, this time under the patron- Herald from Council Bluffs and the Jour daily newspapers that have ever been printed “in the Republican office, only to g premature but natural death age of J. C. Wilcox. The Dispatch eked "8l from Lincoln have occasionally invaded published in Omaha. While would-be rivals succumb at short meter, not surviving the In 1884 the Evening Dispatch was re- out a precarious exlstence and mistook for 'h¢ Omaha fickl with branch offices, bu of various pretensions have sprung up from year 1871, in which they were launched vived, at least in name, by W. F. Sweesy its elixir of life the Republican, which also DAV never succeeded in gaining a - foot time to time with grandiloquent promises The next entry went by the name of the 4y publisher. Shortly afterward the Omaha had been successively unl hold ded on a serles and cither avowed or veiled purpose of Dispatch, making its appearance in 1872 Pimes projeeted itself into the arena as of speculative publishers. Wilcox bought 1" 1898 the Omaha Penny Press was for monopolizing the newspaper field, The Bee It was supposed to be backed by Patee, the o)l and in 1885 the two struggling ven- in the Republican and merged it with the ® while distributed as a dailly paper in the has not only held its own, but kept con- lottery King, and was run off the presses yypreg tried to bafle fate by uniting with Dispateh, although retaining the former '"'erest of an anti-department store fight stantly torging further forward, never of Redfield brothers. The exits of Patee (ho pyphenated name of the Omaha Time name. Foolish and fanatical advocacy of \Psing shortly into a weekly, later com missing an issue or lowering its high and of the Dispatch were almost simul- pigpatch, but the juncture was no more prohibition in the famous campaign o 1890 P1¢telY extingulshed standard. The journalistic ventures pro- taneous reassuring and the paper disappeared. finished the deal and the Republican went | b 1\‘” the third afterncon paper to ‘." jected with the object of heading off The In 1873 the Daily Union came out as an The same year saw the birth of the to the wall, an example of newspaper sui- sl 'I.“‘ HOWATEANIA I DY “H QnEAR Bee or breaking it down have one by one afternoon paper. It was printed and pub- Omaha Daily World, which five years later cide, penny PR fallen victims to their own folly and these lished by a committee representing striking cought to bolster its failing fortunes by As “.“'"'.‘" stated, fhumuh all these mu newspaper wrecks strew the roadside along printers, endeavoring to bring the other gmulgamation with the Herald, the latter tations, extending over thirty years, The Two years later an attempt was made to float another daily newspaper scheme in Beo has stood firm and unshaken in the which The Bee has made Its steady onward papers to terms, and did not outlive the paying endured the flings of fortune through the Republic, and still another in a second van of Nebraska journallam, the model and march. For thirty .\..n.» I'he | h:.m been rike successive changes of owners after the re- Noews The two weaklings imagined they (he envy of competitors \v,,n.. brageart published under direction of its founder In 18Ty came the first Bvening News, un- tirement of Dr. Miller, its original pro could find strength in union and the News- Republic was the result Two years more 1 to eke out an existence for more In the meanwhile the Daily Interstate of sporadic publication and the venture than two year when it was forced to give Democrat, propelled by Walter Raleigh had stranded all connect up the ghost, being swallowed by the old Vaughn, who moved across the river to died unwept and unmourned Republican, on which Nye took a place ag reach Omaha's When The Bee made its first bow to an associate editor alongside of Datus Brooks without a single change of management gep the editorship of Fred Nye rivals were borne off (o the newspaper ind without merging with any other paper graveyard, The Bee has expanded and im proved, pursuing a consistent policy for with 1t and it the upbullding of city, state and nation The News prietor, maneg while of the long list of its contemporaris searce on has escaped transformation shslldating ‘nx oamslats astincbion and weathering storms in which Institu consolidation or complete ( P I o ) nsoli nl 1, had in 1880 The Omaha edition of the Council Bluffs tions of weaker foundation and le offered to fill a long felt want. It soon con- Nonpareil heralded with a blaze of trum- bility have suced sslvely foundered Gauges that Test a Paper’s Influence and Standing not long ago that the New York Evening own neighbors journalistic s ier sta 0 a newspaper impresses cause they know they get their money's schools against abuse and maladministra ROM the pure newspaper stand- Post referred to The Bee as *‘the leading its worth most forcibly upon the people of worth when balanced over agalnst results, tion. Every public enterprise making for point the influen ind standing of republican paper of the west,” and The jts own home. Ever since it has been firmly and The Bee gecures better prices than its the prosperity of city and state has had in a4 newspaper is most accurately o Bed editorials may be found from time to established The Bee has led in clirc ulation would-be competitors because its advertis- The Bee a ready champlon; nor has it been flected by the esteem in which it is /We reprinted in whole or in part In such n fts own local field. For twenty years ing space I8 more valuable Day in and day content to Indulge merely in brass band pap as the Boston Trascript, the Spring- he ' held by ontemporaric concededly ¢ statutes of Nebraska have contalned a out The Bee carrles the largest and most charity or to be a deadhead in the call to law requiring notfees of liquor license ap- representative di play of advertising in- publie spirit, giving only of other people’ plications to be published in the paper hav- nouncements of any paper in the same ter- contributions, It has shouldered s shar Ing the largest circulation in the county and ritory. This is true both as regards foreign and more of every sub cription list in durl the whole period no application and local advertising A comparison of the worthy public cause It bheen re ted relying on publication in The Sunday editions of the various Omaha news cason The Bee ha Bee to fulfill the legal requirement. Sel- papers any week from the viewpolnt of the public and private dom hz field 1 blic cupying the for«front of journallsm. (he New York ew York Tribune Evening Post, the Brooklyn When you find a newspaper whose Ragle, the Philadelphia Press, the Phila editorial opinions are constantly quoted or delphia Ledger, the Baltimore Sun, the cited In the principal papers of the coun Baltimore American and all the leading papers of Chicago, St. Louis and interior When any great event of special ecason and out of been found advocating try, whose columns are relied on by the Improvements and the exchange editors of the great dailie for al or industeial signifioance opcurs 48R 21 qp’,.]jl‘l,l..;i":-y .:;’ I’I"h'- ':“1“.'”'1] 1;.;4 l)t:l])l» “‘1\':‘;‘21 ~: .‘-"H.l.qulnlal.' l‘lh-v\\ ‘I‘hv“v |‘Ilnw.u ‘I!- ‘ “‘l“,m nt of latent resources for the up bright sketche and attractive reports of a presidential nomination, th tion even been conte ,'.:| ’ 1 o r-‘ 4 e v ..‘.1. o “ .““" anis who iidiag of Gmaha, backing up its apinlons exclusive news items, whose special origi i1l election, the ratification of the én be ontes and never success !uu. wares to sell and who regularly award as the most tangible evidence of its own . : \ treaty, the Porto Rican decisions, fully. The character of its readers must The Bee from two to four pages more of good faith by the erection of the monumen nal features of pen and picture are freely S TiE artllEols Mallsitan fan tate- 8180 be taken into account. The Bee has their advertising than any other Omaha tal Bee building, and the results of its per copied In other cities with or without com of its position by all the large dailies POVEr consented to be a cheap paper for paper. Announcements intended to reach Sistent campaigns may be seen on every 1 entary dit, you can put that paper eck to give their readers a symposium ©Deap people—and that its efforts to pro- high class patrons who lay stress on quality sid The leading part it played in the in jown as Influential abroad as well as at public opinfon representative of the 9uce the best possible newspaper the com- rather than price are usually given exclu- ception, promotion and successful culmina home popular verdict. Consult the reading rooms MUnity can support are appreciated is at- sively to The Bee ton of the marvelous Transmississippl exs ecaders of The B who are in the habit of the great libraries in the large popula- tested by the demand for The Bee from the As a political factor and as an agency for position will not be soon forgotten by those of rusing eastern papers or people ac tion centers and you will find that where a SUbstantial classes and industrious wage promoting the material growth and educa- who enjoyed the beautles of that wonder customed to travel in different parts of th ewspaper is kept from Nebraska and its €arners who will not be tempted by sensa lonal progres of the community the city. What is more to the point, the influ countr ling on paper published contigu tes The Bee is invarlably the tionalism because it comes cheap wehievements of The He fford the best ence of The Bee for progress and pro vlong the rout ueed hardly be re- paper that has been selected for the files A8 an advertising medium the superfority criterion of its Influence. Founded to up- perity, for right and good verument, for - 1 that they see The HBee more fre- I'ut it down, too, that a newspaper that is of The Bee over its competitors is demon- hold the law on which the structure of our material and moral fimprovement \\hlx-hv ha quently quoted than all other paper ak at home s never strong abroad strated every day. The Bee does not give public school system has been reared, The been cxerted continuously from day to day printed in its territory- more frequently Tested in other directions, the influence away its advertising space, because it is Bee has steadfastly worked toward the up- for thirty years may counted on to con- than any other paper between the Mis of The Bee comes up to the highest st m\? valuable and commands value for its use. !ifting of the people by the diffusion of in- tinue further throughout its whole future sippl river and the Pacific oast It was ard As a man Is valued most truly by his Advertisers patronize The Bee freely bhe- telligence and defended the free publie carcer to which no time lmit can be set