The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-20

this election, that we cannot but regard it as the
most important event of the kind that ever yet
| has occurred on our neighbor's grounds.
| NEWSPAPER IMPRovEMENrs.-Ihe new ma
| chinery which Hoe & Co. constructing for the
more rapid printing of this journal, has already
made considerable progress towards completion.
The great central cylinders are cast and the small
ones, which will revolve like satellites around
planet, are also cast and preparing for their Sc
veral places
This new machinery, when completed, will
enable US to print the Herald at the rate of t,oelue
thousand double sheets per hour-equal to four
times what we can accomplish by the machinery
we now have in operation. Eight men and boys
will be. employed on each machine, in feeding and
taking away the sheets. 1t will require great
changes in our printing department, rendering it
necessary to throw the cellar and basement story
into one great room, with height between the
ceiling and the floor of twenty feet or more. Two
of those machines of the largest size, are con-
structing for us, and they will cost from twenty
five to thirty thousand dollars, cash down.
The principle of this ingenious invention has
been tried and tested by the Messrs. Hoe. The
ingenious inventor is now in Europe, trying to
dispose of his patent in London and Paris, and
is now in treaty with the London Times, for that
purpose, and probably, also, with some of the Pa
risian journals. When he first completed the in
venton, he came to us and offered US the first of
the new machines; but we thought it we'll to have
the principle tested before we should advance
such large sum of money as its price amounted
to. Accordingly, Messrs. Hoe constructed one
the same principle, for the Philadelphia Ledger,
which has now been successfully at work for ma
ny months. They have also constructed one or
two single machines for the Sun, of New York,
and they have been at worksfor several weeks,
with equal success. They are now engaged in
constructing two machines on the same princi-
pie, but on a scale more comprehensive and more
enlarged, which is required more particularly for
the character of our journal, its vast circulation,
and its peculiar attributes.
Mechanics would really derive great gratifica-
ton by visiting the mandatory of the Messrs.
Hoe, and looking at the progress he has made
IN this vast branch of machinery; or they might
it in operation, a small scale, in the office
of the Sun of this city, and we should think il
would be well for the proprietors of that journal
to allow people TO see it in action. We expect
that our own new machinery will be completed
and every thing re-establshed, before or about
| the month of April, that by the first of May
the Herald establishment will be the most com.
plete, comprehensive and efficient in the world
as a newspaper organ. AS it is, there is no paper
in this country organized on our principle, OF
with our means. We employ from twelve to six
teen editors and reporters in the Office in Ne "
York, besides six, and occasionally ten, writers
and reporters in Washington, and probably near
| ly dozen others in different places Throughout
the world, both in Europe and America. From
twenty-five to thirty-fve persons are constantly
employed in intellectual labor alone. In no other
journal in this city or country is there one
fourth part of this great number of persons en-
ployed. Thus we go. But we are nothing to
| what we mean to be-