Show f- f fi i ty Pioneering in the newspaper per field and awa away up until the late eighties was a difficult problem in Utah hile telegraph service ser was had it was vastly different from the pres pres- cat ent Storms torms in winter and there were wele many of them delayed the press report which in the early days clays was furnished by the old Western Vestern Associated Press the forerunner of the present Associated Press The report which was sent to Salt Lake I consisted of around Words a aday day The Tribune and Herald supplemented sup sup- this by the drop service ser ser- vice that vice that Is telegraph stories which were transmitted to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner were taken at Ogden from th the wire and and the matter was then s sent nt by mail mall to Salt Sail Lake Lalie The regular press service was taken by expert operators with a stylus on paper which could be flimsy it was vas called in those daY days But Bu t what beautiful writing did those telegraph experts show It w was s perfect perfect perfect per per- as copper plate Ten len to fifteen fifteen fifteen teen words per minute was their average Compare that today with the telegraph printing rna machines hines of It the Associated Press which are re in use In The Telegram and which have at times i reached cached as high as sixty seven words a minute or more than a word a second REPORTERS USED PENCIL Then reporters turned In their copy in manuscript now it must be typewritten In the long ago this copy was furnished the printers who set the matter by hand Now Mer- Mer typesetting machines handie handle handle han han- dle die the copy one machine being equal to seven men in the old Way A battery of 01 thirteen machines now does the work ork on The rhe Telegram which under old methods would have required the servi y l men JV s t. t The Times Herald id 11 d Tribune De were the first new p 1 in fiTe ipe ie Intermountain country countr to to torin rin install m perfecting presses and and- these three papers put In Goss perfecting e presses presses' at the same time the News came in later with a u locI perfecting press No o con com comparison rison can be made with the present giant presses like those in in- use b by The Telegram which f turn rn out thousands of copies of twelve to two thirty-two pages an hour In looking forward one wonders if the method of getting out out-a a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper will w-ll improve in the next few years as it has in in the tle past As matters now stand the cheapest commodity that one buys rs is a news news- paper And perhaps in no other business is the same amount of energy shown and the same steps taken talen to verify as is done b by bya a newspaper ILLUSTRATIONS APPEAR The illuminated pages of the modern newspapers came Into use useIn useIn usein I. I in about 1900 and we were were then printed printed print print- ed on or fast last presses Prior to to that time the pages which were vere to be Illustrated in colors were turned o out edt t by a a slower pi press ess At At that time it was the custom to to insert a zinc etching in the stereotype plate and print from the plate but this took tool a great deal of time and the difficulty difficult was finally overcome b by the use of a coarse screen in photographing the picture to be I etched for insertion In the stereotype stereotype stereotype stereo stereo- type plates It might be remarked that the first pictures printed inthe inthe in inthe the Salt Lake newspapers were made from chalk plates The ar aI artist artist list who drew the sketches of the subject in the chalk was Mahonri Young who now ranks with the great sculptors not only in the United States but with those in the theold theold theold old world Following the chalk challe plate came the zinc etching the picture picture pic pie ture being drawn on cardboard and ane then photographed on the zinc which afterwards went vent into an acid bath and was etched out out- for print print- ing Among the earliest aI print print-I on the Salt Lake newspapers was Charles Worthington a who ho Is still a resident of Salt Lake and whose cai cartoons were striking striling Another was Al Lovey whose cartoons am and pictures were also most striking He has long since gone to his re ward |