Rotary Press Strikes Its Hundred-Thousandth Edition Before Dawn
From Our Night DeskThe Morning Bulletin · Vol. XLIV
The night shift filed copy until the small hours. By two in the morning, the rotary press in the basement was running its eighth plate change, the pressmen shouting line counts over the roar of paper threading through the cylinders. Three editions went out to the streetcars before sunrise; a fourth went to the printers’ ink-stained wholesalers, who would carry the news as far as the river.
By the time the day reporters reached their desks, the paper was already on a hundred thousand kitchen tables— a circulation record for any single edition since the founding of this paper in eighteen sixty-one.
Closing Market Quotations
As wired from the Exchange at the close of trading, Tuesday afternoon.
| Issue | Open | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Common | 112 ¼ | 114 ⅛ | +1 ⅞ |
| Atchison Topeka | 88 ⅜ | 87 ½ | − ⅞ |
| Standard Oil (NJ) | 203 ¾ | 206 ⅜ | +2 ⅝ |
| Western Union Telegraph | 61 ⅛ | 60 ½ | − ⅝ |
Top Stories on Today’s Wire
- City council postpones gas-lamp ordinance until the spring session.
- Trans-Atlantic steamer Britannia docks twelve hours ahead of schedule.
- Late-night fire at the Fourth Street warehouse contained without loss of life.
- Cable from London: opening odds on the championship prize-fight.
Weather Watch
- Morning: clear and cold, light wind from the north-east.
- Midday: scattered showers expected by the river.
- Evening: heavy fog along the harbor by ten o’clock.
Editor’s Note
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