| Show type setting machines cow boiss democrat machine nei fur for setting type have at it last been brought to perfection after long ye arsand fortunes have been spent in its oi direction so that they will shortly do 10 the tile principal composition in all metropolitan printing offices the new york tribune is almost wholly pet set up by one of these machines mark alark twain is at work perfecting ft A typesetter bis his own invention and has atif already I 1 spent two hundred thousand dollar dollars onit on it it doea does good work 1 I 1 wai A il AL but he says I 1 it will take fifty thou band dollars more to make it as he be we ats it the hartford post has another kin kind I 1 of michile michi ch itle ue the throne typesetter which is raid paid to be a wonder it hag has four of them tin in hut but rarely rare y uaea uses more than three as one sets from one ODO to two columan per hour the post lays fifty its machines are started started at half past seven every morning a small electric electrio inetor furnishes the slight power needed each machine baa has a keyboard similar to that of a type writer and at each board sita sits a young lady operator before her is spread the copy which she site is is to put in type and her he r nimble fingers fidger pasa pass with such rapidity OD the keya key that she is able to set aa RZ much type on the machine in a given time aa as three or four c compositors would by hand her case is always full for the machine automatically keeps self itself it constantly supplied with type and thus no time is 18 lost I 1 0 8 t in dis d 1 a tri buling should it be necessary ry to change copy at any moment or any ally number of times it can be done in in an in instant stant and the int eruption of rushing in ili at an item iten a at t the lait moment when ben the machine happens to be otherwise employed causes not the blighted sligh inconvenience or delay with or diary care few or no errors are made the machine I 1 ot make a mistake and all fill errors that occur are the result of sufficient attention or undue haste on oil the benjou operating it I 1 livery letter is 13 deftly direct directed ed to its proper petition position by the tile ingenious little packer with as much delicacy and as if it possessed intelligence inte irence and wih wish such daintiness of touch as to render injury to the types almost beyond possibility the machine i is simple in its design and ad D court ruction ita its part parts are easily accessible and it rum runs hour after hour without giving its attendants tend ants any trouble beyond supplying it with copy and taking away the galley after gally galley of ol 01 perfectly set get ty type lie which it arx produces aces uces during luring the eight working hours of every day lay |
