Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1924 — Page 21

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Where Editions Are Set and Made Up

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stands ready to promote any good cause proposed by any organization or individual looking to the good and welfare of the city of Indianapolis, county or State, and will feel equally free to oppose any cause which is not to the community’s interest. The Scripps-Howard Newspapers, publishers of The Indianapolis' Times, is an organization owning and operating tWenty-seven newspapers in an equal number of cities throughout the United States. While the Scripps-Howard newspapers follow the same general course in questions of national and international policy, the widest latitude of action is left to the local editorial departments in the treatment of local and State matters. Each of these newspapers is being operated by an organization composed of citizens and residents of the city in which these \ papers are published. Nearly every member of the organization operating The Indianapolis Times are native Hoosiers, having served their apprenticeships on Indianapolis and other State newspapers. - >. • The Indianapolis Times is a part of Indianapolis and as such is a permanent and stable institution. It is its aim to produce a newspaper representative of the spirit which has won for Indianapolis a nation-wide reputation for enterprise and progress.

Etching Process Makes Possible Printing of Pictures in Newspapers, One of the mysteries to the uninitiated in publication affairs is how a photograph can bo printed in a paper. The picture In the paper is printed from a cut, a metal reproduction of the picture. The printing is from thousands of tiny dots, some heavy, some light, on the face of the cut, which reproduce exactly the objects mil the lights and shadows of the original picture. These cuts arc made in the engraving room. The pictures arc photographed first on wet plates, through a screen. The screen breaks up the picture In such a way as to form tfio (lota You can see these dots if you will look closely at a cut in a newspaper. From this negative a “print" is made. Just as a print of a photograph Is made. Put instead of making this “print'' on paper, as does the photographer, the engraver makes it on a sheet of sensitised rink. This zink is then given a nitric acid bath. The acid cuts out all the zink from the surface of the plate except the actual dots. When this proeerM is completed, the cut jis mounted on a metal block and put Into a form ready to be made up with the type* John Worley is In change of The Times engraving room. Trucks Used by Tlnw> A large number of trucks are operated for The Timee to deliver papers to newsboys and to the Union and Terminal Stations. These trucks are operated for The Times by the Service Transfer and Storage Company, 240 Hudson SL

A VIEW OF PART OF THE TIMES COMPOSING ROOM. IN THE FOREGROUND ARB FORMS IN WHICH TYPE IS MADE UP INTO PAGES

MUSIC WEEK PUNNED Times Giws Special Attention to Concerts and Recitals, Music and Fine Arts week will be observed In Indianapolis May 4 to 10. The program is being worked out by the tine arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which J. I. Holcomb is chairman. The Times pays special attention to musical events. Through the dramatic and music department help is given to further music and musical appreciation In the city. Indianapolis has three direct steam roads to the coal fields of Indiana.

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These Machines Sett! he Type

The A. M. Hall Machine Cos. 226 West Maryland St* Builders of Special Machinery General Machine Shop Work Our Mechanics Installed the Presses and Built the Special Machinery in the New Times Building

ly does it work that The Times Is on the street with an extra in less than ten minute® after the conclusion of a Speedway race, the final play of a World Series ball game, or a big news event. Beit Gives Service Every one of the sixteen railroads entering Indianapolis is served by a bolt railroad, fourteen miles In length, which surrounds the city and gives every industrial plant ready access to each radiating lino.

APART THE TIMES BATTERY OF LINOTYPE MACHINES

of paper are fed through. When all the casta are in place the presses are started and the papers roll out, folded, just as the reader receives them. Process Is Rapid They are then placed on a conveyor and lifted to the mail room, where Herbert Whiteman is fore man. Here they are wrapped in bundles for transportation or distributed to newsboys. This entire process must be gone through whenever an edition is printed, yet so rapidly and efficient-

modem newspaper Is done by machinery. Very little type, large or small. Is set by hand. Every letter in the reading matter part of this section and all but a small part of the advertising was eat by machinery. When “copy" leaves the bands of fha editors it goes to the linotype machines which have keyboards like a typewriter and on which type Is set, each line in a solid piece. Some of the beads are set on these machine* Others are Bet on another kind of machine, which also casts A Etna at a time Proofs Are Read This type is than assembled on 1 galleys and proofs are taken. These proofs go to the proof room where nan and women proof readers read rrmy word for typographical erThe type, after It la corrected, m rihead In forms, each the else of a tags and arranged, with pictures, fust as It will appear in the paper. Tbeee forma, when completed, are emit to the stereotyping room, where nsatstxes are made. This department is in charge of John Chryst, a veteran Times employe. Layers of paper are placed over the type and these are heated and at the same time kept under pressure. When the pressure Is removed a perfect Loaprmt of the page appears on the paper. This paper is called a matrix. Casting Is Made The matrix Is placed In a curvod form and molten metal poured over It. This metal cools extremely rapid ly and comes out la the form of half a cylinder. tThls casting is then ready to go t the press. It and not the type used in the printing of the paper. Wot a piece of actual type ever goes on the printing press. Xbs Times press room Is In the charge of Charles Lcfibaugh. Under fits direction the casts are clamped to cylinder and great rolls

The Excavating For the New Building of The Indianapolis rr\ • 1 imes j Was Done by ED. LEWIS 556 Fletcher Ave. Drexel 7570

The Structural and Ornamental Iron Work in the New Indianapolis Times Building Furnished and Erected by y * Geiget & Peters Structural Steel and Ornamental Iron Works Madison Ave. and Minnesota St*

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