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"Forced!" muttered the managing editor, as he waited on the office 'phone to get the, composing-room, so as to hurry up the few lines in red ink on the first page and beat our rivals on the streets with the first extras. "Why, he's been working to bring that about for the past two weeks.
"Kind of help to fill up the paper," says Mr. Swope, covering his retreat. "Sure," replies the editor. When Mr. Swope is good and gone, he says: "Dog my riggin's if I didn't forget all about writing up that fire. Been so busy here lately. Good thing he come in. Hay, Andy!" "Watch want?" from the composing-room. "Got room for about two sticks more?" "Yes, guess so. If it don't run over that."
He had managed to save a tiny sum, and that night he disappeared and fled to St Louis. There he worked in the composing-room of the Evening News for a time, and then started out "to see the world" New York, where a little World's Fair was in progress.
If they want a piece of news kept out of print, they tell the editor so, and you bet it's kept out. Otherwise that paper loses the advertising." "Has it ever been done here?" "Has it? Get Veltman down to tell you about the Store Employees' Federation." "Veltman? What does he know of it? He's in the printing-department, isn't he?" "Composing-room; yes. Outside he's a labor agitator and organizer.
He's foreman of our composing-room." "She's been with him a great deal lately." "Why not? They're old friends. No harm in Veltman." "He's a married man." "That so! I never knew that. Well, 'Kitty the Cutie' ought to be keen enough to take care of herself." "There's the difficulty. She doesn't seem to want to take care of herself. She's lost interest in the club.
When he went into the printing-business and bent all day over the formes of type in the composing-room, hand-setting up the columns of the North London Half-penny Herald, to the tune of three-and-eightpence a day, the hollow chest grew hollower, and he developed a "corf."
As a result of this state of affairs, we found a brother of the foreman occupying an easy position in the composing-room, a brother-in-law, two nieces, two nephews, and a son occupying easy positions at good salaries in the press-room and various other nephews and other semi-dependents working away under foremen who were related to them in the various departments.
There was the tramp of many footsteps on the stairs, and above the confusion they heard the voice of the city editor telling some one to "run to Madden's and get some brandy, quick." No one in the composing-room said anything; but those compositors who had started to go home began slipping off their overcoats, and every one stood with his eyes fixed on the door.
Then he suddenly became aware of the fact that he had visitors, and turned inquiringly to the two boys. "Mr Richmond " began Horace, in answer to his look. But the manager cut him short. "Oh, ah! yes," he said. "Nuisance! Go to the composing-room and ask for Mr Durfy." Saying which he sat down again at his desk, and became absorbed in his papers.
Amidst a buzz of telephones and a mighty scurrying of messengers the staff of the "Clarion" was gathered into the fold, on a "drop-everything" emergency call, and instantly dispersed again to the hospitals, the homes of the health officials, the undertakers' establishments, the cemeteries, and all other possible sources of information. The composing-room seethed and clanged.
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