Triumphs of invention and discovery, &c. &c. / by J. Hamilton Fyfe.

  • Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton), 1837-1880.
Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Triumphs of invention and discovery, &c. &c. / by J. Hamilton Fyfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the advertisement office in the corner, where people are continually going out and in, and the clerks have a busy time of it, shovelling money into the till all day long. But come back in the evening, and the place will wear a very different aspect. All signs of drowsiness have disappeared, and the office is all lighted up, and instinct with bustle and activity. Messengers are rushing out and in, telegraph boys, railway porters, and « devils of all sorts and sizes. Cabs are driving up every few minutes, and depositing reporters, hot from the gallery of the House of Commons or the House of Lords, each with his budget of short-hand notes to decipher and transcribe. Up stairs in his sanctum the editor and his deputies are busy preparing or selecting the articles and reports which are to appear in the next day's papei*. In another part of the building the compositors are hard at work, picking up types, and arranging them in stick-fulls/' which being emptied out into galleys/' are firmly fixed therein by little wedges of wood, in order that proofs may be taken of them. The proofs pass into the hands of the various sets of readers, who compare them with the copy from which they were set up, and mark any errors on the margin of the slips, which then find their way back to the compositors, who correct the types according to the marks. The galleys are next seized by the persons charged with the making-up of the paper, who divide them into