Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . ntedpages, a perfected press, invented bythe third Walter, is used. The mainfeatures of this are simplicity and com-pactness, combined with enormous speedin working. A large reel, covered with acanvas roll of paper, revolves at theone end ; a
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . ntedpages, a perfected press, invented bythe third Walter, is used. The mainfeatures of this are simplicity and com-pactness, combined with enormous speedin working. A large reel, covered with acanvas roll of paper, revolves at theone end ; at the other end the printedsheets issue, folded and printed readyfor llie publisher, at the rate of fifteenthousand copies per hour. The i^aperon the reel is four miles long. In lessthan half an hour tiiese four miles of 618 EUROrE IN STORM AND CALM. paper are converted into newspapers. Every night, says Mr. Rae, whenthe Walter presses are running in TiieTimes office, a quantity of paper weigii-ing ten tons, and representing a roll onehundred and sixty miles long, is thustransformed into newspapers. The the civilized or partly civilized world,constitute one of the most wonderfulintellectual achievements of moderntimes. No matter how tremendous theexpense and effort attendant upon thegetting of telegi-aphic news, TheTimes never blusters about these. SALVATION ARMT. editor of The Times is no longer aone-man power, striking terror becauseof his very mystery. Much of the workof decision is done in council; but thereis still an enormous amount of detail,which falls upon the shoulders of thechief; and it is no secret that , the late editor, who has beensucceeded by the able Mr. Buckle, diedof overwork. The telegraphic pages ofThe Times, embodying as they fre-quently do on a Monday morning,lengthy dispatches from every part of things, but prints, in its bright, cleartype, on its immaculate paper, the newsof the world. There are alwajs causes to takeup much of the attention o
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