Show PRINTERS WHO DEFY TIME Being a printer In the days gone by b was thought to shorten ones one's life liCe but the tho discovery o ery has has has' been made by a committee searching for veterans to be awarded medals for tor long service at the trade that there are 20 printers in the United States who have been on active duty from 63 to 73 years The winner of the the gold medal med l is Major Philip T. T Coghlan He lIe en en- entered entered a newspaper plant in 1848 ISIS or orthe orthe orthe the year after tho the first pioneers came to Utah and he is still 1 set set- setting setting ting type I The major has spent nearly U H Hof of his 79 73 years in tho the trade in the composing room of the St. St Louis Post Post Dispatch On the tha same floor works his llis son Philip C. C Coghlan who is 11 72 years old H H. H th the staff some few forty years ago a o A Ayoung Ayoung young brother of the major was wa the late Inte Rear Admiral Joseph B B. Coghlan who was a captain under unde Admiral Dewey Dewcy at Manila in 1898 1818 Louisville Kentucky was th the birthplace of Major Coghlan II Ire grew up in Belleville Ill and learn learn- learned ed to set type type- in the office of th the Belleville Ie Advocate ocate In 1848 h he went to Bt St Louis and there became becam president of ot the Typographical Typographies union During the civil war he wa was waa wasa a second lieutenant in the Fortieth Missouri 1 regiment He has eight elgh grandchildren and seventeen great great- grandchildren J. J J C. C C Graham second prize win win- v ln ncr nero has worked practically his en en- entire entire tire life lICe in the states of Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas Most o othe of the editors and shop owners by whom he was employed have pass ed cd away William WI Perry Pem third honor wa waborn was WIlS born in Devonport Davonport Plymouth Eng England land and received his bis early train train- training training ing in Plymouth later going to Lon Lou don While with William Clowes Clowe and Sons Charing Cross branch he ho set up the original orl copy of Lor Lorna na nn Doone about five hundred copies of which h were printed on a hand press He Ic sailed for America in 1873 settling in Maiden lalden Mass and In addition to following hi his trade wrote articles and editorials for the thc Boston Doston Globe Transcript Transcript and other publications William H. H Bates the fourth award says Bays he contemplated putting in seventy five years ears at the case as ns well as press work Bates I Ifor for more than 40 years ears has been In n the newspaper business as a typesetter and editor and has been setting type for nearly 71 H years The longevity of those men and their heir ability to go on tends to prove that hat even the tho work of a printer does not prevent a roan man an from living his more than three e score years jears ears and ten |