The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . h in the handling of the news and co-ordination of effiart. About the spacious room are department editors and reporters, each with hisindividual desk and typewriter, the latter disappearing when not in use, but usuallyadding its whirr and click to the medley of undertones. For punctuation there isnow and then the explosive arrival of prooft in a leather cartridge expelledfrom a pneumatic tube running from the composing room; or the sustained hissas the copy readers product is shot upw
The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . h in the handling of the news and co-ordination of effiart. About the spacious room are department editors and reporters, each with hisindividual desk and typewriter, the latter disappearing when not in use, but usuallyadding its whirr and click to the medley of undertones. For punctuation there isnow and then the explosive arrival of prooft in a leather cartridge expelledfrom a pneumatic tube running from the composing room; or the sustained hissas the copy readers product is shot upward through the same ingenious andefficient carrier, to be hastily translated into type. yWere alacrity a characteristic of messenger boys, their services would still bealtogether too slow for the bringing of telegrams to a metropolitan newspaperoffice. The labor cost of messengers may be judged from the fact that the privatetelegrams to The News average 9,146 words a day, and to this the three greatnews agencies serving the paper add 68,500 words which come from everypart of the world over leased o ?8 a -Sc
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