Ad Alley.—The part of the composing room where the advertisements are set.

Add.—Late news added to a story already written or printed.

A. P.—Abbreviation for Associated Press.

Arrest Sheets.—The police record on which all arrests are entered.

Assignment.—A story that a reporter has been detailed to cover; any duty assigned by the city editor.

Assignment Slips.—Slips of paper containing assignments the city editor wishes a reporter to cover. These slips are made out daily and laid on the reporter's desk at the beginning of his day's work.

Bank.—(1) One of the whole divisions of the headlines, separated from the next by a blank line; called also a deck. (2) A table or frame for holding type-filled galleys.

Bank-man.—A helper in the composing room whose duty it is to assemble type received from the different linotype machines, close up the galleys on the bank, and see that they are proved.

Beat.—(1) A definite place or section of town,—as the city hall, the capitol, the police court, fire stations, hotels, etc.,—regularly visited by a reporter to obtain news; also termed a run. (2) See scoop.

B. F.—Abbreviation for bold-face, black-face type.

Blind Interview.—An interview given by a man of authority on condition that his name be withheld.

Blotter.—The police record-book of crime.

Box.—A rectangular space marked off in a story, usually at the beginning, for calling attention to the news within the box. The news is often a list of dead or injured or of athletic records, printed in bold-face type.

Break-line.—A line not filled to the end with letters, as the last line of a paragraph. In a head a break-line may contain white space on each side.

Bridge.—The raised platform in front of the magistrate's desk in police court.

Bull.—A statement or a series of statements, the terms of which are manifestly inconsistent or contradictory.

Bulldog Edition.—The earliest regular edition.

Bulletin.—A brief telegraphic message giving the barest results of an event, often an accident, unaccompanied by details.

Catch-line.—(1) A short line set in display type within the body of a story to catch the eye of the reader and enable him to get the striking details by a hasty glance down the column. (2) A line at the top of each page of copy sent to the composing room one page at a time: as, "Society," "State," "Suicide." Such lines enable the bank-men to assemble readily all the stories and parts of stories belonging together.

Chase.—A rectangular iron or steel frame into which the forms are locked for printing or stereotyping.

Condensed Type.—Type thin in comparison to its height; contrasted with extended type.

Copy.—Any manuscript prepared for the press. Blind Copy is copy that is difficult to read. Clean Copy is manuscript requiring little or no editing. Time Copy is any matter for which there is no rush,—usually held to be set up by the compositors when they would otherwise be idle, or to be used in case of a scarcity of news. The Sunday paper is filled with time copy.

Copy Cutter.—An assistant in the composing room who receives copy from the head copy reader, or editor, cuts it into takes, and distributes the takes to the compositors to set up.

Copyholder.—A proof-reader's assistant who, to correct errors, reads copy for comparison of it with the proof.

Copy-reader.—One who revises copy and writes the headlines. Not to be confused with proof-reader.

Cover.—To go for the purpose of getting facts about an event or for the purpose of writing up the event: as, "Jones covered the prize fight."

Dead.—A term applied to composed type that is of no further use; also sometimes applied to copy.

Deck.—See Bank (1).

Department Men.—Reporters who seek news regularly in the same places, as the police courts, city hall, coroner's office.

Display Type.—Type bolder of face or more conspicuous than ordinary type.

Dope.—Slang for any information or collection of facts to be used in a story; applied specifically to sporting stories, meaning a forecast of the outcome, as in a horse-race or a boxing contest.

Em.—The square of the body of any size of type; used as the unit of measurement for making indentions, indicating the length of dashes, etc.

End Mark.—A mark put at the end of a story to indicate to the compositor that the story is complete. The two end marks used are the figure 30 enclosed in a circle and a #.

Feature.—To give prominence to; to display prominently.

Feature Story.—A story, often with a whimsical turn, in which the interest lies in something else than the immediate news value; one that develops some interesting feature of the day's news for its own sake rather than for the worth of the story as a whole. Also called "human interest" story. See page 224.

Filler.—A story of doubtful news value included for lack of better news in a column or section of a paper. The so-called "patent insides" in country weeklies and small dailies are known as fillers.

Flash.—A brief telegraphic message sandwiched between two sentences of a running story, giving the outcome before it is reached in the story: as, "Flash—Smith knocked out in fourteenth round," when the reporter's story has got only as far as the eleventh round; or, "Flash—Jury coming in; get ready for verdict," thrust into the body of a story a reporter is sending about a murder trial.

Flimsy.—Thin tissue paper used in duplicating telegraphic stories as they come off the wire.

Flush.—On an even line or margin with.

Follow Copy.—An instruction, written on the margin of manuscript, to the compositor that he must follow copy exactly, even though the matter may seem wrong.

Folo.—An abbreviation for follow, marked at the beginning of stories to indicate that they are to follow others of a similar nature: as, "Folo Suicide," meaning to the bank-man, "Put this story in the form immediately after the one slugged 'Suicide.'" See page 15.

Form.—An assemblage of type, usually seven or eight columns, locked in a chase preparatory to printing or stereotyping.

Fudge.—A small printing cylinder and chase that can be attached to a rotary press; used for printing late news. See page 18.

Future Book.—The book in which the city editor records future events: as, speeches, conventions, lawsuits, etc.

Galley.—A long, shallow, metal tray for holding composed type. From the type in this tray the first or galley proof is pulled for corrections.

Galley Proof.—An impression made from type in a galley.

Gothic.—A heavy, black-faced type, all the strokes of which are of uniform width.

Guide Line.—See Catch Line (2).

Hanging Indention.—Equal indention of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which extends one em farther to the left than those succeeding.

Head.—Abbreviation for headline.

Hell-box.—The box into which waste lead is thrown for remelting in the stereotyping room.

Hold.—An instruction written at the beginning of copy or proof, instructing the make-up man in the printing room to hold the article, not print it, until he has received further orders.

Human Interest Story.—See Feature Story.

I.N.S.—Abbreviation for International News Service.

Insert.—One or more sentences or paragraphs inserted in the body of a story already written, giving fuller or more accurate information.

Jump-head.—A headline put above the continuation of a story begun on a preceding page.

Justifier.—A short story of little or no news value inserted at the foot of a column to fill it out evenly.

Justify.—To make even or true by proper spacing, as lines of type or columns on a page.

Kill.—To destroy the whole or a part of a story, usually after it has been set in type.

Lead.—The initial sentence or paragraph of a story, into which is crammed the gist of the article. See page 68.

Lead.—Thin strips of metal placed between lines of type to make the lines stand farther apart, and hence to make the story stand out more prominently on the printed page.

Lower Case.—(1) A shallow wooden receptacle divided into compartments called boxes, for keeping separate the small letters of a font of type; distinguished from the upper case which stands slantingly above the lower case and contains the capital letters; hence (2) the letters in that case.

Make-up.—The arrangement of type into columns and pages preparatory to printing.

Make-up Man.—The workman who arranges composed type in forms preparatory to printing.

Morgue.—The filing cabinet or room in which are kept stories and obituaries of prominent persons, photographs of them, their families, and their homes, clippings of various kinds about disasters, religious associations, big conventions, strikes, wars, etc. See page 9.

Must.—A direction put on the margin of copy to indicate that the story must be printed.

Pi.—Type that has been so jumbled or disarranged that it cannot be used until reassembled.

Pi Line.—A freak line set up by a compositor when he has made an error in the line and completed it by striking the keys at random until he has filled out the measure and cast the slug: ETAOINS

Play Up.—To emphasize by writing about with unusual fullness.

Police Blotter.—See Blotter.

Pony Report.—A condensed report of the day's news, sent out by news bureaus to papers that are not able or do not care to subscribe for the full service.

Proof-reader.—One whose time is given to reading and making corrections in the printer's proof; not to be confused with Copy-reader.

Prove.—To take a proof of or from.

Pull.—To make an impression on a hand-press: as, to pull a proof.

Pyramid Head.—A heading of three, four, or five lines,—usually of three,—the first of which is full, the second indented at both sides, the third still more indented at both sides, all the lines being centered. See Head.

Query.—A telegraphic request to a paper for instructions on a story that a correspondent wishes to send. See page 240.

Quoins.—Wedges used for fastening or locking type in a galley or a form. Release.—To permit publication of a story on or after a specified date, but not before. See page 54.

Revise.—A corrected proof.

Rewrite.—A story rewritten from another paper. See page 218.

Rewrite Man.—A reporter who rewrites telegraphic, cable, and telephone stories, or who rewrites poor copy submitted by other reporters. See page 219.

Run.—See Beat (1).

Run-in.—To omit paragraph indentions for the sake of saving space.

Running Story.—A story which develops as the day advances, or from day to day.

Scoop.—Publication of an important story in advance of rival papers; also called a beat.

Sheets.—See Arrest Sheets.

Slips.—Slips of paper hung on the police bulletin board or pasted in a public ledger, announcing such crimes, misdemeanors, complaints, and the like as the police are willing to make public. See page 35.

Slug.—(1) A solid line of type set by a linotype machine. (2) A strip of type metal thicker than a lead and less than type high, for widening spaces between lines, supporting the foot of a column, etc. (3) A strip of metal bearing a type-high number inserted by a compositor at the beginning of a take to mark the type set by him. (4) The compositor who set the type marked by a slug. See also Catch Line (2).

Solid.—Having no leads between the lines: as, a solid column of type.

Space Book.—A book in which the state editor keeps a record of stories sent in by correspondents and space writers.

Space Writer.—A writer who is paid for his stories according to the amount of space they occupy when printed.

Special.—A story written by a special correspondent, usually one out of town.

Stick.—(1) A small metal tray holding approximately two inches of type, used by printers in setting type by hand. (2) The amount of type held by a stick.

Stone.—A smooth table top, once of stone, now usually of metal, on which the page forms are made up.

Story.—(1) Any article, other than an editorial or an advertisement, written for a newspaper. (2) The event about which the story is written: as, a burglar story, meaning the burglary that the reporter writes up.

Streamer Head.—A head set in large type and extending across the top of the page.

String.—A strip of clipped stories pasted together end to end to indicate the number of columns contributed by a space writer.

Style Book.—The printed book of rules followed by reporters, copy-readers, and compositors. See page 249.

Take.—The portion of copy taken at once by a compositor for setting up. See page 13.

30.—A telegrapher's signal indicating the end of the message; also put at the end of a story to indicate its completion.

Tip.—Secret information about an item of news valuable to a paper.

Turn Rule.—A copy-reader's signal to the composing room to turn the black face of the rule, indicating thereby that the story is not yet complete and that more will be inserted at that place.

U.P.—Abbreviation for United Press Associations.

w.f.—Abbreviation for wrong font; a proof-reader's mark of correction, indicating that a letter from another font has slipped into a word: as, the u in because.