from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 14) p. VII. "HENRY A. BARNES - Died Providence May 28, 1903. He was a native of Southington, Conn., and first came to this city in July, 1862, working in the Journal job office. He left shortly after to work in New London and Norwich, Conn., returning here in May, 1863. Hearing of opportunity for work in New York in 1864 he went there, but found a strike in progress on the Times, and came back to Providence the next day. He began work in the composing room of the Journal, later going to the Evening Press, of which paper he became foreman in 1871, holding that position until 1876, when he took the commercial 'sit.' When the Press died he worked for a short time on the Mail, and Jan. 8, 1885, accepted the position of Instructor in Printing at the Sockanosset School for Boys, holding it until he died. Under his administration the Howard Times was started as an institution paper. Mr. Barnes was initiated into Providence Union Nov. 14, 1863, its secretary from 1865 to 1870, and delegate to I. T. U. in 1871. Before coming to Providence he travelled extensively on the Pacific Coast going as far south as Valparaiso, where he worked at his trade. Mr. Barnes was a private in Company D, Sixth N. Y. Cavalry, from August, 1861, to June 28, 1862, when he was honorably discharged for disability. He was a member of What Cheer Lodge, No. 21, A.F. and AM.; of Providence Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; of Roger Williams Lodge, I.O.O.F., and of Rachel Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah. Mrs. Barnes, his wife, fed to the press the first Evening Bulletin, printed Jan. 26, 1863, through the pressure of war news. SIMEON E. BARNES - Died Providence May 26, 1903. He had worked for the R. I. Printing Co. as a compositor. WILLIAM C. BARNES - Born London, Can., March 24, 1844; learned printing on the Tilsonburg (Ont.) Observer and the Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel; in the summer of 1883 he worked in this city on the Journal; his reputation as a fast compositor was national. He took first prize in local trials of speed at Hartford, Conn., and Montreal, Can. On Sept. 10, 1885, in the office of the New York Times, for a money wager, he set 2001 ems in 55 min. 30s, and 2160 ems in one hour, which still stands as his best record. He won the first prize in the Chicago tournament held in 1886. In this contest Barnes's best gross time was 3011 ems in 1 1/2 hours; best time (after deduction for time consumed in correcting), 2954 3/4 ems in 1 1/2 hours. Total for 21 hours, gross, 40,675; time correcting, 58 minutes; total net, 21 hours, 39,225 1/4. In the Philadelphia tournament, held March 16 - 27, 1886, his best gross time for 1 1/2 hours was 3220 ems; best net time, 3174 1/2 ems; total for 33 hours, 66,783 ems; time correcting total amount, 42 3/4 m.; total net amount, 65,714 1/4 ems. Mr. Barnes made two records on work never before attempted by any other compositor. At Chicago, during the first national tournament, in one hour he set 1822 ems with the lower case reversed; also in one hour he set 1005 ems blindfolded, with but one error in spacing and one typographical error. At Philadelphia, during the second national tournament, he set in 1 1/2 hours 2744 ems with the lower case reversed, occupying but 30 seconds correcting the same, and in 1 1/2 hours 1635 ems, blindfolded, with but six errors. Mr. Barnes, with the assistance of Joseph W. McCann and Alexander Duguld, edited and compiled a book relative to fast typesetting, which they published in 1887. Mr. Barnes was 'makeup' on the New York Evening World in 1905." continued in part 15.