| OCR Text |
Show H THE LAST HOURS BEFORE BBBJ GOING TO PRESS BBBJ Any person sorvlng n nowspapor In any capacity usunlly Is mado to real- BBBJ iio tho need of getting copy Into tho BBBJ office on time. Occasional corrcB- BBBfl V jiondcnts, howovcr, and tho public BBBJ generally do not boo why their copy BBBI should not bo printed in full, even BBBI though it Is brought In at tho last HBSBb moment. BBBI An actual incident that happened BBBI n a well known exchange, u morn- H tng dally, Illustrates about tho way BBBI tho thing workB where copy Is do- BBBI Isycd. A country corespondent sent In BflBfl Sir. regular letter th news that a BBBI certain Mrs, Hook had been run ov- BflBfl r at a certain railroad crossing that H morning. Ills story ran along sotno- H thine Hko this. "Tho victim was tak- BBBJ -en to a nearby hospital, whoro Bho Is BBBI now suffering Intense agony." J Shortly after tho correspondent J sent his lottor, Mrs. Hook died. BBBfl Tlicro was still tlino to liavo got oft BBBfl' n supplementary lettor, which would JBBfl navo reached tho ofllco of tho papor HBBB abont 6 p. m. and would liavo been HBBB .In timo to have given the editor a BBBfl chance to iuako tho needed changes BBBfl flBBBj Rat tho correspondent had dolayed JBpflJ vending word, and It slipped his mlud BflBBJ until ft was timo to go to bed. Then HBBB) Be called up tho olllco by tolophono, BBBfl and Informed tho editor that Mrs. H Jtcok had died, und that tho Item BBBfl must bo changed, BBBfl It happened to ho a vory busy BflflflJ sight, and. tho forco was being drlv- BflflflJ on by somo omcrgency at top speed. HBflBJ Tho editor rummaged around nmong HflflflJ a plto of proofs, but things wero In fl nch disorder that ho could not Und HflflBl tho ono ho wantod. Ho wont out Into BBBBJ tTio composing room and undertook BflBBJ la mako the needed correction by BIBflfl -reading from tho type, an always haz anions proceeding ir ono la In a hur- flYflYfl BflflBB As tho result of his haste, tho dls- BflflBJ Tiatch'camo out uoxt morilng read- BBBBJ in jr somothlng liko this, which was Bflflflfl sot particularly pleasing to tho rol- BBBflfl hllrc.t HHHHJ Mrs. J. E. Hook wns run over BBBBJ this morning at tho crossing of tho Bflflflfl ' railroad. She yaa taken to HHHHJ the hospital, whero she died at HHHHJ 3 p. m. Sho Is now suffering Intense HHHHJ etc HHHHJ Moral Any nowspaper copy should HHHHJ 7o delivered to the olllco nt the HHHHJ 4inrllent posslblo moment, and tho H milckcr It guts the freer from HHHHJ errors como |
