The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-23 00:00:00

THE WALTER PRESS.
:From the Scotsman.)

The first Walter Press other than those used in
printing The Times and the SCOlaii(111 is now at work
in St. Louis, Missouri, the proprietors of the Missouri
Republican having been fortunate enough, not-
withstanding the almost prohibitive duty of some-
thing like thirty per cent, on the value of all manu-
factured machinery imported into the United States,
to secure an arrangement for the manufacture, in
The Titnes-office, of one of these printing machines.
Copies of the Missouri Republican, printed on the new
machine, have just come to hand, and the reiults, in
so far as the appearance of the work is concerned, are
highly satisfactory. The issue of October 27 contains
a long account of the Walter Press, illustrated with a
large engraving, and the pr ductive powers of the
machine are spoken of in the highest terms. An
engineer and a machinist from The Times-office went
to St. Louis with the machine, which, it is stated,
was unpacked, lowered into the machine-room, erected,
and made ready for working in the short space of five
dart is satisfactory to find that the debt which this
country has so long owed to the United States in the
matter of printing machines—Hoe's machines, which
have for a long time monopolized the work of printing
the impressions of all the most largely circulated news-
papers, being of American invention—is thus beginning
to be repaid; and it is creditable to the enterprise of
of the leading Missouri journal that it, and not one of
the energetic and widely-circulated newspapers of New
York or Philadelphia, should have been the first to
take advantage of the wonderful capabilities of the new
invention. The paper used for the Missouri Repub-
lican in connexion with the new system has, we under-
stand, been manufactured in this country, papermakers
in the United Suates not having yet acquired sufficient
knowledge an to the mode of reeling paper in large
webs suitable for use on the Walter Press.
It may be worth noting that a Walter Press will
soon be in use in Vienna. one having been despatched
to the proprietors of the Vienna Presse, and another is
being manufactured forthe some paper. The catalogue
for the Vienna Exhibition will be printed in Vienna
upon the first of these presses, and paper for it is at
present being manufactured in this country.
In the course of a few days another Walter Preen,
the manufacture of which is just being completed in
The Times-office for the use of the Scotsman, will be
erected in the Scotsman-office and, when ready, it and
the two that have been in use for some time will be
worked simultaneously each morning in throwing off the
impression of the Seotsman, at the rate of nearly 40,000
copies per hour, printed on both sides. Two Walter
Presses for the proprietors of the Birmingham Daily
Post are likewise being manufactured, and they will,
it is expected, be at work in Birmingham in the course
of a few weeks, thus adding a third to the number of
newspapers in this country printed in this new way.

YOUTHFUL SKILL AND BRAVERY.
Mr. Richard Lewis, Secretary to the Royal Rational Life-
boat Institution, 14, John-street, Ad. Iphi, London, has sent
the following letter for publication :
I trust you will publish the accompanying communi-
cation, received by me this morning from my friend,
Admiral Craigie, of Dawlish, detailing a very daring
and skilful deed in the management of an open boat on
the part of a boy only fourteen years of age. His
noble courage reminds one of the lines—
As he drifted on his path
There was silence deep au death
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.