| Show tur THE LONDON TIMES establishment A ISIT tor TO PRINTING HOUSE USE SQUARE if there is anything that I 1 hate bate it i is s the london times and all for its unparalleled abuse of my country yet I 1 must confess that a visit to its printing establishment excited my admiration tile the ad admiration ammirati on was vas for the machinery the hate bate for attic the devil that possessed and used it with its tremendous power the times lynies comes nearer to air all embodiment of satan than almost anything that I 1 have seen it has bas a sort of Ifil tonic grandeur in my estimation enabled as I 1 have leave been by extensive observation to measure its influence are few potentates in in europe so mighty it has been well said that in ih england there are arc three estates the lords the commons and tile the times it is marvelous marv clous how bow much heed beed is given to it on the continent I 1 have seen german papers reproduce one of its leaders or give its analysis again and again and comment on it as if it were a speech from the throne en englishmen g lis limen are arc always telling you that it does docs not represent the country and yet if there is anything that they believe in and live by it is the times I 1 should hardly have wondered if some sunday I 1 had heard it intoned in some cathedral or said in some parish church 1 I believe in the Times 19 As an illustration at an english meeting of tile the evangelical alliance at geneva when it was proposed to adopt resolutions of sympathy for america an english clergyman exclaimed 0 dont let us pass ic le solutions there will be something about it in the times for Ws this I 1 give you my word printing house square a little out of the way half balf enclosed nook at the eity city end of black friars bridge is tile seat scat of the timers empire tile the dingy piles of brick are not in the least im posing yet there is about the place a quiet scholastic air which makes you feel that you are in no common spot at the light hand of the square is is the office for advertisements ad verti looking for all the world like a busy and crowded post office the advertising business of the times is immense each day a quarto larger than tile the whole evangelist is filled d with announcements noun cements which pays no mean sum everything about the times 0 office effic L is done with tile utmost system and therefore economy there is a place for everything and everything in in its place there is a perfect division of labor avida aud a place for each division you enter a long room on the first floor where is got ready for stereotyping fur for with the exception of a single page left open till the last moment for tile the latest antell intelligence irence every particle of the paper is ia stereotyped before it goes to press A part of this tin s room as well as one of the same size above it is used by the typesetters type lype setters these are always at work day and night there being two sets I 1 was interested in the relative izes of the type boxes in ordinary work c is the letter most used its it box being nearly twice as largo large as any other my conductor assured me that m a theological article the letters most used were quite peculiar here IV t predominates after it w and ily y 2 the ys js lie ho said were used because bebau SC of the frequent recurrence of you tile the proof ceita certainly of a Northern like directness ness the wasly ws doubtless have a logical squint towards the ghys whys and the wherefores in the alie first room were apparatuses apparatus es one communicating comin in muni cating aji with th tile office of reuter renter the king of telegraphers felegi alphers ap hers and a german the other with the house of parliament what comes from louis napoleons or brain is here almost alli lost as soon Is as it is there the times is the great broker and breaker of the worlds news without the inter bention of music or steam news is everything the department of the proof i coders headers is prominent every woid and point undergoes the utmost scrutiny A single typical error in the times lames might subject it to heavy damages in law the stereotyping was t to 0 me the point of culminated culminating 0 interest this is to save time and money these forms must be had for the press as soon as possible to set up a single page of the times lymes takes six men eight hours and there are 16 pages now from the moment that a form is finished till it is reproduced in stereotype is exactly 25 minutes away it is whirled to press another is made and lo 10 I 1 the whole preparatory work is completed for the colossus of newspapers I 1 in stereotyping tissue paper is laid on the types and over that pasteboard paste board mlle the whole is subject to pressure the impression mp thus obtained is enclosed ina in a mould ithe the metal is poured on it and the work is done sixteen tons of paper is consumed each day each day there are arc sent out sheets in the pressroom press room I 1 was proud to see hoe hoc of new york U S A taking the chief place I 1 must not take space to speak of the luxury of the reporters rooms of the library or of a multitude of things curious and useful and now said 1 I when the gentlemanly conductor had taken me through the establishment I 1 ian can you let me see JUPITER V I 1 the head lie he answered solemnly is invisible ile he is to be communicated with only by writing |
