Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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...hs v.,q.-- --va... , --ri,-- Q ye -..,..,- - TA - .-5 '--- '. .fz., T .- NY -'A NK ' ' ' 1' 41 21-411 . ,,,, 5i,.ii2 -1-,f .i:il5, temperature of 550 degrees, is forced into it. This forms a line of molded type which is dropped out at the side of the machine. The matrix with its metal letters then travels to the top of the machine and then across where each one of the letters, having been constructed like a key, automatic- ally falls back into its place, ready to be used again. The molded type that has been made on the linotype machine is then given to the galley boy who prints a long sheet known as the galley proof. This proof is given to Malrix the proofreader and mistakes are marked and then are cor- rected. Then two copies of the galley along with all copy set by hand, such as the headings and advertisements, are sent back to school to be further corrected. One copy is corrected at once and sent back to the printers, where the changes are made in the type. The other copy goes to the art department where Miss Fitch, the Art Edi- tor, and their assistants are hard at work. Does the school know who that football player is whose picture was in the last issue? Why of course! He's the boy who worked every afternoon until seven o'clock and gave us a winner last year! But does the school know who the lit- tle quiet fellow is who worked every afternoon trying to get just the right action for his picture and who then went home and worked until one in the morning, so that it would go to the engraver's the next day? No the school doesn't, but the Scrip would be essentially lacking if it did not have its staff photog- ' rapher. And someone has to draw those cartoons, The ' V- , Scrip has a set of decorative l initials all designed by pupils T R of the school. Then there is f 3 ,, i' the group of folks who begin 5 if nf 45,55 717, , where these others leave off. I, They prepare the illustrations again to be sent to the engraving ff'E5j.jiffj-, - company. The various pic- ,-'f my Q ' , tures and drawings are sorted ,,,, f over, a selection made, and the , if 4' proper size for insertion deter- 5 1 V 3 , mined. The cartoons are past- . ed in suitable groups: the 1 ' , -,-- ., photographs or enlargements -T 'I ,. ..... .u.. , i f :f A i of them are trimmed, arranged ,- -, I , N -.-, - K and mounted on a brown paper . 1 which is responsible for the W , 1 pleasing border which embel- s - f., f - lishes them when they appear u , in print. At the engraver's ... ..,s Galley, Dummy Page, and Page Proof 60

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-. if - f 5-.., - ,..,cq,- ------ -. , r-.,.?,, .4 -ff--f 'T-g-- . -. N -- 1 'J , I - if 'S fi n s-Stihl both have in common is to make their teachers think that since they are on the Scrip they are so brilliant that they don't need to study. Now if the Editor and Business Manager have both done their duty, all the material is in Mr. Smith's handsg and when he has read the copy and called for any necessary revisions it is ready to go to the print- er. Someone said, Oh, I thought you just wrote something on a piece of paper and the Scrip came out 2 In reality here is how the Scrip does come out. The Editor sees that the copy is taken down to 1427 Locust street, where the Firm of Buschart Bros. is located. They have been our printers for Eve years. There the First thing that is done is the making of a work ticket, which is an envelope seven by ten inches, in which all instructions for setting, printing and binding are set forth. It tells the number of pages and copies desired, the color of ink, and the style of binding. It also has a place for all the operators on the work, such as proof-readers, machine compositors, hand compositors, stone men, press men, feeders, folders, gatherers, stitchers, cutters, and wrappers. Did you think that the Scrip went through so many hands after leaving Soldan? The work ticket also specifies a place for delivery, or shipping instructions, and when to be delivered. The copy goes to the composing room where the lay-out man sep- arates it. , That is, such copy as the Tattler, which is printed in eight- point type, is separated from the general reading matter, which is in ten- point type. The advertising copy V ,, 1u is also put apart from the other so , that it may be set by hand. The other copy is then given to the oper- If , J ator who sets it up with the use of the lmotype machine. To me the fwlrig' A lmotype machine is one of the most I, Iizfgog WM wonderful of inventions. It is not -1-U very large, about eight feet tall and ul six across.- One man works this 4 fl ' machine in much the same manner as a typewriter is operated. There ' flwlwi ii iu ' is a key board similar to that of a L ,, y W ,p MX' typewriter, only small letters, cap- fl Q T' A 'M lll T illil l iii. 4 itals, and small capitals may be set. These letters are set in a line in an assembler, by matrixes, which later represent one line of reading matter. Between the words small metal spaces are inserted which regulate the spacing automatically so that all lines end evenly. When the assembler has been filled with type it quickly passes along the machine to where a molten liquid composed of tin, lead, and antimony, heated to the high 59 Linolypc Machine

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'-fgk? :if 'W. ff -f ' -Q, - C'-1 '- 1 ef iz ' fe gt: .,.g., .2-,g.'.-fi 459 2: 'fp -,. 1,.'1ff lQ be up they are photographed to the given size and either a zinc or a copper cut made for them. Reproductions of photographs which require different shades must have a copper etching, but plain black-and-white work like cartoons requires .only a zinc. The Edison Club made a trip through an engraving plant, an account of which was published in the Sctip of june, 1916. 'Several engraving companies have done work for the Scrip. Mr, Green, now of the Acme Engraving Company, at pres- ent on the job, also helped in getting out the very iirst Scrip that was made. But to get back to the galley. It is up in 327 with proofs of the en- gravings, and the cuts have been sent from the engraver's over to Buscharts'. In the art department the galley is now cut up and pasted on separate sheets to show each page form, with spaces left for the pic- tures just as they will appear in the Scrip. This page form or dummy , as it is called, is now returned to Buscharts', where the type has al- ready been corrected according to the galley sent back. Now the page forms are printed and proofs sent to Soldan for a final correction. When they are again returned to the printer's and the type corrected according to instructions, the stone man sets up the page form in a large marble encasement. The stone man is perfectly human and alive to all ap- pearances. I know his official title is misleading, but he took it from the marble slab just in the same way that Scipio took Africanus from , 1-if - 'X I l riljllflf 2 Q ni' ,i , ' A form looks like Ihis 61