Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26
EDtoRS CORRESPONDENCE.

The HstorsPf the Improvements IN the Po'Ssr
Printing Rress.-R. M. Hoes lightning press,
or .Hos Last Fast Press."-IHe Hoes prinsl
ing pressh,d saD-making establishment, &c.
NEW YoRK, JULr ls, 1851.
Among the echanica wonders Of this and busy city
none receive bore attention from strangers than Hoes
Lightning Phng Press" therefore conclude that can
select no subject for this letter Of my series
than some accn Of the invention and operation Of the i'm
proyeen Of e printing press and Of the now celebrated
msnufactory othe Brothers Hoe
Their athet,he founder Of the business house. came TO
Aefisa 10 l3s ss from Leicestershire, England
eighteen yea pf age, having bought his ind INJURIES nom ms
master io;Det shortly A4 wiirv .sarking a.
journey work in this city, and bourny in the house %
Grant 1horbum (Lauie Tod,) gh not Of age NC NC
commenced business on his account in Westcneser
county, New York. where 10 was frinci ay engaged ~
building bridges. He married there, and returning 70 ~,
city in res or 49, went into business carpenter a''
joiner n 1902 3 he took into parneEsh two 0ron0.
Of his vie. One Of them Mr.. Peter Smh D.
of Yale College, who you will recollect, afer Va1os o,'
a man d note the inventor Of the "Smith r'o'',
other machinery. In 1905 the firm began TO manuia''u
III ~. .,...; ,an,. .vs nsn., and ,vne carrying o.
r,,s .h;l. ;, i.,r., e,,.n, n. any othe
IN. ,.- n. 80. ~, -, the onl
.-,..r.L h,, ;a. of ,hs Atlantic p,.nuf.c. urng ro
80 - ,,,ont Walls ~ Ha,,s,rd J; wing it .
A.' - 80 ~ -. AZ, p. - ph;, ,dephi.
confnink bis business the construction Of screw
made inpau Of wood. !, .
In lsjs GEoReE CLrNER, Of Philadelphia, invsn, %
q Columbian Press" which patented in this count
England. and came extensively into here st ess
was the st press employed in this country whose com
ton Of letters was so arranged as by single "pul Of
bar" to triu two pages Of the newspaper at once, and
certain that il did its work expediously, and with
less labd than the Ramage press then generally in use
the Unitd States.
In 1919 or 20 the firm Of Mr. Hoe commenced building
power pIesses with but Indifferent The London
Times daims to have first used them in 1914 butt beyond
doubt the that Mr. Walker then and the publisher Of
the London Weekly Dispatch, had such machine in |
successful operation in advance Of the Times After Hoe
Co. had pursued their experiments for some Tresdwe
Of Bost.n produced machine, which, answering WELL
they gse up their projects pocketed the expense, and,
tracing with Daniel Fanshaw Of this city, then the printer
for the Bible and Tract Societies. who had purchased an in
teres 10 Treadwes patent they commenced to construct
this machine building the st for the Tract Society, and the
next for the Bible Society. Their third order from the
office Of The National Integencer, for set Of bookpesses
on which the "Amercan State Papers and some other
works were printed Immediately afterwards the Boston
purchased one: mus
The Treadwel press stood without rival in this country
until 1925 or 49, when Mr. Walker, Of the New Yo'k Daily
Advertiser and Mr.. Charles King Of the New York Ameri
cam in conjunction, imported from England the first double
cylnder press worked in the United States Tapes were
used on this machine for carrying in the paper at present
generally in England. Our paper being thinner than the
English the tapes found very troublesome other
precisely such press brought the Atlantic. This
N.pers original double cylinder invention.
10 the course Of 1929 80 the popeto Of the National
In,elgence imported from England single cylinder press
but owngt pecunay losses were unable
10 release il from the New York cusom-house While lying
heren the late Major Noah hen surveyor ofthst por had
put together BY the only personMr Hoe-who could make
work Previous to m eshpment TO Europe, the duties upon
il mo-. being paid, the Major authorized Mr. Hoe to make
models Of It's parts for bis Pattern-shop II was found to
s~sr far be,sr than any thing in among so others
like Il were soon ordered for the Commercial Advertiser, Of
New York, and the Phlsdsphis Chronicle. And subse-
ouen.y thst particular design Of Napier press worked oil
others out Of 2ss for newspapen Of large editions.
Shortly afterwards Mr.. Hoe dispatched his foreman.
Serene Newton e suhor Of Of the best books Of tables
on mill gearing pubshed,) to England, to examine all
improved machinery there known for printing, and to bring
out samples Of such he thought might b introduced hs
with advantage This Mr. Newton, besides being Of the
o skisl and iossaioss nschinss who have AoUiished