Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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pink galley is then taken in hand by the editor. An old Prospect of the same number of pages as the pros- pective book is procured from the files, and the dummy, as this is called, is made. The editor has decided before- hand, though in a rather general man- ner, where he wants each article to go. There are two columns to a page and he cuts up the pink galley to lit these columns. Most of the time, however he has a great deal more material than he can fit into the dummy and hence he has the added trouble of deciding what to use, besides the difficulty of arranging it advantageously. The whole job is a most trying and time consuming one, well calculated to try one 's temper. Oft times there are spaces left at the end of an article which cannot be used. Hence a joke or witticism of some kind is introduced as a space filler. Of course it must be just the size required. V VVhere the old cuts, which, by the way, are the drawings prepared for use in the Prospect, are to be used, the edi- tor tits in his galley so that they will appear in the proper place. But Where new cuts are to be used, he pastes in proofs of them where they will appear to the best advantage. The advertise- ments, on the other hand, are arranged in the dummy by the advertising man- ager, usually according to the position called for in the patron's contract. And now that the dummy is made up, it is sent, along with the corrected galleys, to the printer. He makes up the page proof as indicated by the posi- tion of the articles in the pages of the dummy and sends it back to the Pros- pect. We now have a sample of how the publication will appear in print, with Twenty-two the exception that it is not bound in book form. The page proof is proof read by the editor and the teacher in charge. As soon as that operation is completed, the corrected proof is sent back to the printer, who now proceeds to print the pages and to bind them in book form. All that now remains to be done is to distribute the books by means of the circulation depart- ment to the students. Though not directly concerned in the making of the Prospect, the busi- ness staff is just as important as the literary staff, for one could not exist without the other. And because of this it is best to save an explanation of how the Prospect is managed and circulated for a future article. All that now remains for you to do, since the publication is made, is to procure one dime, buy the book and realize and appreciate the Work of the more than thirty people concerned in its production. Willian1, said the Sunday School teacher who had been giving a lesson on the baptismal covenant, Can you tell me the two things necessary to baptism? William- Yes'm, Water ' and a baby. 77 Nicoll who assists Dr. San Giovanni with the late-comers, was one day ac- costed thusly. What time shall I write on my slip? The clock on the desk says 9:07 and the clock on the wall says 9 :01'? What's the odds! replied Nieoll. You should have been here at 9 any- how. VVar is --. Sherman translate.

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The Athletics Editor comes next. It is his duty to report every Manual athletic event of importance and he docs this by conferring with the teach- ers in charge, the captains and the managers of the various teams. It is best, for a good report, that he see the games himself and this he does whenever practicable. Newspaper clip- pings also furnish a valuable aid. The Girls' Athletics Editor gets her mate- rial in essentially the same manner. Manual likes to keep in touch with ner graduates so the Alumni Editoi takes care of that. lle writes letters to the graduates at the colleges and they send him information of our old students. Teachers in the school who keep in touch with former Manualites also help out and newspapers and a number of associations form good sources of news too. We receive a number of exchanges from other schools every month and so an Exchange Editor reads them and makes comments as to their worth and opportunities for improvement. He also suggests, by comparison with these, how our own book can be altered benefieally. The Joke Editor scours the school for choice samples of students' origin- ality, though he gets humor from other sources too. The Art Editors are very important as they must make the cover design for the issue, in case there is no con- test on, and all cuts, up to the ex- tent for the money appropriated for such work. The ideas for these cuts come from the material being gathered, for the editors must confer with the rest of the staff in order that their work be appropriate. The cartoonist does not adhere so much to that idea for he takes any likely notion that fits well with the happenings in school. He is more or less of a free lance. Now, in the meantime, the editor-in- chief has conferred with the business manager on the subject of the size of the book, in other words, the number of pages. Usually forty pages are wanted but sometimes forty-four or more are desired. As this publication is run strictly on a business basis, it is absolutely necessary, in the latter case, to consult the business end. He in turn, is governed by printer 's rates, engraver's rates, advertising returns, circulation and the amount of money to the credit of the Prospect. The de- cision is given and when the time comes the book is made up in ac- cordance with that decision. The date at which copy, our name for the material, is due arrives and the task of correcting it is begun. As each assistant editor has charge of a department or departments, he is re- sponsible for the correction of the copy of that department. The editor and the teacher in charge help in copy cor- rection to facilitate the work. The aim is to rectify not only grammatical er- rors but erroneous ideas. In case the article is unfit for use it is revised if necessary. All the acceptable material is then sent to the printer, who prints it on long narrow sheets of numbered pink and white paper, of about the width of a column. These pink and white proofs are called galley, and are duplicates of each other. The proof is sent to the Prospect and the White galley is corrected, or proof read by means of proof-reader's correction marks. The assistant editors perform this duty with the aid of the editor and the teacher in charge. The Twenty-one

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A Page From Poe Strangers always take me for a man of fifty or sixty. ln reality I have just passed my thirty-fifth birthday. My gray hair and many of the deep lines in my face were made one terrible night last winter. That night rc- occurs in haunting nightmares now- and always will. Mr. Robt. Cornelius, 295 Bleecker St., N. Y. City. Have important invention. Come in- spect personally. Please wire. John Kcllner. Such was the telegram that l re- ceived late in the morning one exceed- ingly cold Saturday towards the end of January. lt had come from Luzon, New York. The last time I had seen John Kellner was the day I called him into office to show him an invention oi' mine. The telegram brought the pic- ture before my eyes of his short, squat figure, his dark skin, his unruly black hair and his eyes dark and piercing. He always seemed to be looking for something hidden. I often thought he could pierce the very walls of death if he willed. Probably it was his invent- ing mind, making itself felt. At any rate he had invented several import- ant things for the firm, always insist- ing on showing them to me in private first. I never understood this, but humored him. As I was saying, before, I got side- tracked, John Kellner came in at my bidding this time lo see my invention. It was a small improvement that I had patented, nothing really important. I invented that, he said slowly, You stole my idea! and he drew from his pocket a model almost the duplicate of mine. He explained heat- edly that he had thought of the ap- pliance a month before and had com- pleted it the very day. In return I told him that I had applied for a patent about ten days previous. He looked at me, half-opened his mouth as if to speak and left the office. I shivered at the way he looked at me. The telegram was the first word I had had directly or indirectly from him since that day. It seemed clear to me that he had gone off to experiment in secret for it was not at all unlike him. If John called it important, I decided that his invention was worth investi- gating. Yet something told me to send an employee. Ilowever, I knew John would show it to me only so I hunted up Luzon. If found that it was over a hundred miles from the city, on the O. and W. R. R. There was a train leaving at 3 P. M. I wired John and took that train. ' It was about a quarter of eight when I reached Luzon. As I got off the train I was addressed by a thick-looking countryman who said he had come from John's. Witliout stopping to eat I went with him to his buggy. As we rode through the town I inquired about John. The fellow muttered some- thing half unintelligible about queer doings. Naturally the country people Twenty-three