Show SLEPT AT THEIR POSTS when the governor general of mos cow ordered that the inhabitants of that city must not go out of boors after 10 clock at night while the state of siege lasted the command proved highly in to all night workers journalists and all per sons employed on newspapers being particularly hard hit to go home at a lawt il hour meant leaving their work halt finished to go home when their work was done involved running the gauntlet of t ie pol ce who were not disposed to be merciful to any one connected with the press under the ances the sword was ad bitted to be mightier than tho pen and the newspaper workers of mos cow after finishing their nightly task refrained from venturing out anti inti the streets until the hour arrived when they could do so in safety without fear of either bayonet or bullet during the recent d bances therefore the men once the paper was printed lay don and slept on the scenes of their labors the edi tor in chief slumbered on an easy chair within reach of his telephone while the sub editors followed their chiefs example making a shift with the top of their office desks or with mattresses scattered pell mell about the office floor the compositors made their beds on the frames sup porting their cases of type an ar ran gement suggesting the bunks on board ship or the old fashioned beds let into the wall in the pressrooms the workers made themselves as comfortable as they could on the platforms ct the rotary machines or on the heaps of paper in the publishing department the workers had to content them selves with the large benches on which the papers are folded and packed tor distribution |