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RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1915.

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The making of a modern newspaper is an art. In the last few decades the whole process has undergone a radical change. Complicated and costly machinery has replaced the old handstyle method of putting out a newspaper. The whole newspaper plant has been divided into departments, which operate separately from each other, and yet are organic units of one whole which at the end of eight hours of work gives to thousands of readers news from your city and county, the state and foreign nations, and a display of advertisements containing store news really worth while. The newspaper has become a necessity to the American people. You cannot get along without it. It is part of your life. When you return home from a day's work, the first

thing you want to do is to scan the! newspaper and see what has happen- j ed in twenty-four hours in your city

and in the world. Palladium in Model Home. The Palladium has In operation one of the model newspaper plants of the country. Housed in a building, constructed to permit the greatest efficiency in all departments, it has completed the installation of time saving and labor saving devices that are the last word in newspaper making. The business offices are on the main floor facing North Ninth street. As you enter the building you see the desk where the bookkeepers carry on

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the business details of the concern. Copy chutes connecting this office with the composing room permit the quick transmission of want-ads to the composing room, while an inter-communicating telephone system enables all departments to get into touch quickly. Behind the business offices, on the same floor, is the advertising room. Here ad copy is written, display ad cuts and mats are kept on file in systematic manner, while index systems give rapid access to material that is wanted. Here also are the desks of the men handling the circulation department of the city, county and out of town districts. Manager Near Center. Mounting a short flight of steps you reach the floor devoted to the editor

ial, news and composing rooms. Thei

office of the general manager is conveniently located near the entrance of this department. The intercommunicating telephone system permits him to reach the department heads without leaving his office. The editorial room lies between the general manager's office and the news room, the latter, a large room facing the south. All the conveniences making for speed and access to material wanted and needed in quick transmission of news have been installed. Back of the news and editorial rooms is the composing room, a large, well lighted room, equipped with the"

Palladium Equipped with Latest Machinery to Give Readers Latest News in Approved Journalistic Form Labor and Time Saving Machinery Installed in All Departments Duplex Press Runs Out Printed Pages in Incredibly Quick Time Equipment Is Complete.

latest machinery, including linotype and typesetting machinery, a typecasting machine and cases of type. In the basement is located the press, stereotyping room and the mailing department. An elevator is used in sending the "forms" from the composing to the stereotyping room. These rooms have plenty of light, and, like the other departments, are on the inter-communicating telephone system. In Composing Room. In the rear portion of the building is the composing room. Here are "the linotype machines, the rows of type cases, the make-up tables, and the compositors whose duty it js to transform news and ad "copy" into food for the press. The battery cf linotype machines is lined in a row at one side of the room. The copy is sent in a chute from the editorial room. The foreman dis

tributes it to the machine operators and the men in the "head" alley set the headlines. In a chair before each machine sits the operator, eyes intent on a bit of light-flooded "copy," his fingers running deftly over the keyboard. At every delicate touch of his fingers a matrix drops from its compartment in the slanted case above and tinkles its way down into a steel rack which is exactly the width of a column. Matrix Makes Type. The matrix is a thin, narrow piece of brass, in one edge of which is cut a letter or other character used in printing. When the line of matrices is complete, the operator trips a lever and the matrices are carried to the molding position before the slot in a large cogwheel, called the mold-disc. As they arrive in position the plunger, in a pot behind, forces molten metal into the mold, and a "slug," carrying on

its upper edge the line of type characters, is formed. The cog-wheel whirls around, trims the sides and back of the slug, and deposits it in line behind others of its kind. At the same time a long steel arm swings down, seizes the matrices and hoists them to the distributory mechanism. There they are run along a bar, grooved in such a way that it permits each matrix to slip into its proper compartment. The operator has nothing to do with

casting the slug and distributing the!

matrices. Driven by a special motor, the mechanism of the machine performs that part of the work automatic

ally, while the operator's fingers on i the keyboard are marshaling a new !

line of matrices. Machines Work Fast. With every piece 01 machinery in

this battery of linotypes in action, the ;

process of turnin "copy" into type is swift. On the average, each operator can do nearly ten times as much as the printer of the old days did in set

ting type by hand. The sight of the j battery at work with the accompany-! ing pounding of the shafts and din of wheels, the tinkle of the dropping matrices, and the swift movements of fingers over keyboards, creates in thel

observer a potent Impression or the composing room's invididuality. As the operators complete their copy they deposit the type in the "galleys" provided for the purpose

on a long table conveniently placed. An ink-smudged galley boy, with the languid, dont-care-if-the-paper-never-gets-out air that only another galley boy can exemplify to perfection, places the galleys of metal in a proof press. He passes an inked roller over a sheet of white paper placed on the type, and a proof is ready to be read. All copy is saved after the proofreader is through with it, and a record kept on all the work, so that responsibility for even the slightest error may be definitely placed if necessary. Type Put In Forms. The galley boy carries the proved galley over to the general makeup table. As fast as the type comes to them, the makeup men are fitting it into the "forms" for the different pages. Each form is on a separate iron table mounted on rollers. The editor stands over the makeup men and directs on what page and what part of the page each "story" shall go. The "ad" setters, moving about among the type cases, have been preparing their designs in type by hand. This is true, however, of the "display ads" only, for the classified "ads" and "readers" are set on the machines. Infinite variety of the work thus far has prevented the "display ads" from reaching the machine stage. More art is connected with "ad" setting than with any other part of the mechanical work. Even when the "copy" has been Continued On Page Three.

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