Show A WORKING fORKING NEWSPAPER One of the features of the San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco disaster has not been properly i placed before the public This is the part taken by the Oakland newspapers in extending courtesies to their San Francisco contemporaries The he plants of all aU the San Francisco papers were destroyed and they began at once a frantic search for facilities The Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land Herald promptly tendered the use of its plant and it is doubtful If In all aU aUthe the history of modern newspaper mak making making makIng ing attended as it Is with strenuous work wort there has been as much continuous ous activity in any newspaper plant as asin asin asin in that of the Oakland Herald since the disaster r The second morning after the catas catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe the San Francisco Call CaU and the Chronicle began using the Oakland Oak and Herald plant A day or two later the San SanS Francisco Bulletin also found a ahome ahome ahome home there When it is remembered that all of these are great geat are reat metropolitan n dailies dame requiring an enormous amount of composition and mechanical work w rk the feat of getting out the three of them in addition to the regular edi etlI editions of the Herald and occasional ex extras extras extras tras besides is Js altogether phenomenal The Herald Is an afternoon paper To meet the usual requirements the Heralds mechanical department was compelled to begin work ork at in the morning continuing until in inthe Inthe inthe the afternoon Then the Bulletin also an afternoon paper takes charge of ot the plant and by using part of the th Herald matter gets out an edition at 5 S At that hour the Chronicle force is put in possession of the plant plan t for its morn morning ing lug edition of ot from 16 to 24 pages The Th Tb Call CaU a few days after the fire secured secure a plant of Its own In Oakland Even with that much of the burden lifted lilted the presses of the Herald are in operation many hours a day and the linotype machines are working contin continuously con continuously tin u through the hours Lately too the Chinese daily published in San Francisco has been using the Herald equipment the edi being printed from etched plates Altogether nothing more remarkable has been done in the field of modern journalism |