Show the moi office of the great greas english newsy aper LONDON septen Septon september ib pr atil ath I 1 have just return returned d from froni A a visit to the office of bf tile the times and you must understand d that I 1 ab ed ap n small under undertaking taix tail ing to visit the tho offices of american newspaper is no uncommon thlu thiu wo we should think thinh a person was wa rather stupid who did not know all the tho ins and aud outs cuts of our most important journals but tho the E english ii lish press evidently does not like to b be looked at else why does it wrap itself in such mysteries and masks masle this is one of the most marked differences between Engli english sli sll and american journalism the in accessibility had 1 I not been in the company coni pany of influential britons I 1 suppose I 1 should have been taken to a lunatic asylum today to day clay for innocently asking to see the editor of the times pm im suro sure my sanity was doubted such madness was never attempted by bythe the natives ii them A visit t to 0 the tile times is liter ilter literally ally aily a progression made up of many steps first you must vi ob tain taina an order from the tho printer of the paper giving permission to visit the office at an in appointed hour the answer to your application will depend defend sonje somewhat what upon who makes the application tho next step is to find the place and this is almost almos t too much for the bump of locality oven even of a london cabby promise premise that london is as crooked as ten and that nobody ever thinks of going to the times of filce office and you may realize that thal the second step in the adventure is somewhat perilous er ilous lious when our venerable driver had stopped the third time to enquire the llie way I 1 ventured to suggest that possibly lie had been imbibing too freely as is often the caso case with cabmen cabeen and had lost ills liis way gnot bisot at all said in my 3 friends these men racil are aro not supposed to know where the times is published cd 11 wonder where the poor cabby thought the tile times came from he surely could not think it of celestial origin but in in more than one sense this miraculous paper comes from nobody knows where like the thel papers of john whopper the newsboy at last wo we pass under temple bar la r mid visions of traitors heads swords and keys on past ludgate hill into water lane and jerothe lier he otlie rothe cab can go no further the rest of the way lies through ailey alleys 3 11 wind winding ng way ways anything but sweet finally wo we emerge from high dark walls wails into a small open court and turning to the left we enter a door over is inscribed the name for which we have been searching and tilis tills is the pilgrimage go all people who havo have ever gone t to see the times have made ever since the tile year 1774 1771 according to the chronology of our guide for a century then this wonder of the world has been content to abide in the same anic place without an any f regard to modern improvements or outside appearances oar our guide apologized many mady times for tile disorganize i condition of or biting ti ajun ling ting a as extensive repairs were being made anti and I 1 observed that the only object of tho repairs was security with not the faintest suspicion of ornament I 1 could not help contrasting aRting this tins dim grim and aged building our own palaces of journalism journ aalst 11 this I 1 thought isa is a good commentary on the character from fron the peasant to the queen there is no disposition to move out cf the ol 01 old oid d house into the new how such a people ever over made tho clia cila changes aiges recorded in their history is liard hard to understand it must bo be from oom a continued foice in one direction acting upon itself I 1 was vm surprised to learn that there nie aie al aie e but or copies coples of the times printed daily the price doubtless limits its circulation it costs three pennies while the other dailies dallies cost but one it is eminently preeminently pie pre the paper of the higher classes not only in price but bu ili in its general makeup make up tip this definition ot a wn frent tIemAn leman I 1 lle lie helid heild wi th oil other day A granger ws wa inquiring of a tr tradesman desman about the tho pe 10 lo of or a ift certain pari parl parish pariah ani and vi a informed it contained a 0 greit great ining many gentlemen lit ien ken whereupon of I 1 thi ote whal what ims vms IK bt gi it leinen leinon cc XVI r 11 was the in n 1 hem as take the timea times teal irby by tile tiie year yean and aud P pd s for it this i f indeed deceli an enviable reputation this thia speaks volumes for the wiver P power biver of tilo tho pless pie mc when a newspaper is made the tiie line of or between gentlemen and vulgar rians lanz but nut I 1 fear the ti adesman tradesman s definition lef ni would not ba acceptable to a all ali I 1 circles in en england 9 and in the f compositors room we found d about ab out loi iou type setters most of them thern young boys after the tiie proof lias ha been corrected each ad acl ditl ohai ohal inis mistake take tahe is fined a shilling this rule though hard upon tipon the til poor boys at first proves an admirable discipline greatest care the tho process of making the moulds and the c casts ests wa was the most interesting sight in the building we witnessed witness ea the ma making mug M ung ug of or the times of september oth from the paper emulsion forming the mold the molten lead poured into this m mold and pressed by a cylinder to the issula issuing of the fresh tresh damp sheets from ile lle the press at the rate of 20 copies coples per hour I 1 expected tw to see several common presses in this office but instead found but four double cyll cylinder rider wal wai walter waiter ter presses I 1 was informed thata that a ten cylinder press was formerly used but that it required fifteen or twenty hands and could not work so rapidly as the two cylinder hence it was abandoned there were in n th this is room also two of davies patent fol foi folding dill machines machillo s that worked with the eare caro of or ii fiuman uman hands though far moro more rapidly the presses are worked by two twelve horse power engines the readers and reporters rooms are at the top ot of the tho til building C and tile the peli pen soi sol scratching that is p perpetrated there is beyond corp colp computation thi uta tion the Tho publishing room is the tho only one that isaiall is at all ali american here tho the rush of tile tilo news vendera vendors for the tile first chance is so 0 great that pollee policemen aro are necessary to keep heep the peace I 1 tried to ascertain tho average daily cost of all this lut int hut iut no one in the tho building ing luz knew anything outside of his ills bian wian own depart department departie me i nt I 1 never saw such perfect illustrations of working in a groove its the tiie poor mans only nilly cli eli chance aiice alire lie he ilac has but time to learn one thing and it is at the peril of starvation that lie he thinks of an anything 17 thrig eise else the law lar larger largen ager tho the city th tito deeper the tile grooves and the harder to get into or out of them the tile employees in the building number aboul about four hundred bundled and I 1 believe not a woman among them the times office is the tiie last place in the world in which to look cio clo kloran for fon an experiment things must bo be tri trl tried c a and proved to gain admission ther there e two telegraphic machines aro are cm employed edthe in the tho office one communicating catin with the tiie house of parl pari parliament a the other with the continent contine 1 1 t for the il lie me ilc c of foreign corres correspondents pon pou d As I 1 looked upon tho the hundreds of or bound volumes of this tilis great advocate of greal great britain I 1 thought of the history they contained the life of the world for one hundred years just as though a photograph photographer might take taken a picture of you c each a eh day of your life from your birth recording 0 eacil each passing change that you scarcely thought a change till you had llad compared the first with the last picture so in a certain sense may the tile world find itself in an in upper room of the office of the times photographed graphed in all its varied expressions expression and changes of counte nance all its boasted improvements in looking upon the first picture pie pic tuie tule and the them one we have seen taken today wild who can say which is the bettor better world ono one leaves this ollice office impressed that it is a where the greatest possible amount of work wak isaccou is accomplished with the least lewA possible show after affer we had retraced retrace ik our step steps to the ludgate hill station I 1 said sald to cne enc of our party parts can you fell tell viliore the tile Times office is its locality being still a mystery to me for fog I 1 caw saw gaw no jio names on ori orl the alleys alloys or court to which they led jed d less the place has ii w a nam name C which I 1 am informed is printing house square Blackf nars cor chicago dos post pos t I dr Lieder liederman maii mali director of or tilo tile united states mint is another fl financier theoretically at least who is of opinion that the financial crash will hasten the resumption of specie peele cecle payments he is represented as saying that lie iio would not be surprised if it this consummation were brought about within a month and silver coin should be a 1 I medium of circulation at currency rates lates ho he lias has issued the requisite orders to all the mints for largely increasing inci easing casing the coinage coinage and says bays that more bullion will be coined durin during tho the next three months than at any previous time in the same period 1 in view of tho the prospective return of specie it mi might lit be well for those who expect to luig lug around a pound or so of quarters half dollars and dollars to get got their pockets krep kren strengthened be fore they load up afa nna star scar |