The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-13
HOES PRINTING PRESS MANDATORY.

HERALD that our presses powerful they are were NOS
able 70 keep pace with circulation, and that We
were having built new engines and presses OF power
much superior those in The ten horse power
engine which drives the presses OF the HERALD IL
10 be replaced by Of twenty five horse power,
and two four Under are to be replaced by
two Of cylinders. With the increased facilities which
will thus acquire will be able for many years to
come to keep pace with the wonderful strides which our
circulation 10 taking as will be able TO print from
10000 10 80 900 copies In the space OF time In
which we now print our edition OF 90 0t0 or 10000
The new presses and engines in question now In
OF construction in the iarfamed establishment Of
the Msssrs Hoe Of this city To these gentlemen
indebted for ability meet the requirements OF
constantly increasing circulation and TO them is tae
country also indebted for her great reputation abroad
tina, branch of manufacture should certainly be the
Of small pride and self qualification on the part
Of Americans that New York firm should be able TO
carry palm two such nations as Englsni and
France In the construction OF achnery-a trade which
both those countries have long cultivated, and their
improvement In which they achieved high reputa-
ton. Yet II il The Patrte spaper OF Paris and
the Times Iuatrdsd Ne,cs, and Lloyd's Weekly OF Lon
don all had the superior skill talents
OF the Messrs Hoe aud other French and Engsh jour-
mails will probably follow their example.
The establishment in which the works OF this firm
to Broome streets. and from sheriff to wilet. l.
built in 1885. The present members Of the firm are
Aessrs Richard NJ Robert and Peter Hoe, Of Mr..
Robert Hoe, joiner, who emigrated from England In
1892 and founded the business In connection with Peter
Smith, the inventor OF press which bears his
The business originally carried in portion OF tho
block bounded by Maiden lane, Pearl, Pine and William
stree Is, and subsequently 10 Gold street. whore the prin
Opal office still remains The business II confined to
the building Of lightning merely 1t extends also
70 the manufacture Of hand presses steam engines SAWS
type cases &C. The workshops very interesting,
and well repay the trouble Of visit From the foundry
where tho castings are made, 70 those work
rooms where the minuteh portions OF the ma
chinery are finished and polished of with
much accuracy wocld be used In the works Of
watch there Is much to excite wonder and admiration.
There lie not crank, rod, pin in the engine or
presses that not fashioned and completed and polished
by machinery ingenousy contived and adapted to tho
purpose In fAct among the three four hundred work
men employed on the premises there is hardly any
manual labor performed, except in the forge. Every
thing down TO the mnutest shaving Of line Ia
pished by machinery.
The construction Of tbs presses and engines for the
HAID employs 1t the present tme the strength the
Establishment. They are approaching completion, and
viii probably be in full ration in March nex The
frame work Of each Of the presses ID thirty feet long,
seventeen feet high and ak feet WIDE Each Of them has
ten ynders the main TO contain the type being
sixty inches In diameter Their united capabilities
win be from 40 900 TO 600 impressions per hour nde
pendent Of another six cylinder press in USE and
whSh Is intended to retain. the engine twen-
~ I've horse power, and Is Of beautiful model Il 10
supposed to be Of hanasome aud best ever con-
structed In the United states The hcssrs Hoe built
somewhat similar In dosgn for the Bible House of this
city and that "a the only ike II in the country
Its length II feet and ia tessnt 10 feet inches The
ten horso engine which TO be taken out 70
mske for Il; and We viii then OF fifteen
and Of twenty i've horse power The presses cost
1000 each, and the esslIs $500 These improve.
mens will altogether In the ncghborhood Of from
eighty 70 hundred thousand dollars.
The London Zines Is having built ten cynader pre~
Of the model The work ID beng done In
establishment in Manchester under the superintend
ence Of Of Mr.. Hoes men When ours are complete,
there is to be Of elk cylinders pat in hand for the
Iuusrdted London Reo;. Last month press was also
sent of TO Lloyds WEEKLY Newspaper.
The Erst Of Mr. Hoes lightning printing presses that
put up the United States hore In Janu
AIRY February lss7. The nrs that put up abroad
the Office Of the Paris Pdtrte In lsss. An agree
at time the proprietor or that
journal NJ. Do Ia Marie, and Mr.. Hoe, that the latter
should go md exploit this machine mo
owing 70 Louis Napoieon's restrictive measures
against the press, and probably TO the fact that
Mr.. De Ia Marre--vho bar ker-had all his atea.
lion directed TO operations on the Bourse
About the time Mr. Hoe proposed to the proprie
tore the London Times put up press for them Tho
proposal, however, Lot accepted. They ,her
having press built by Applegah, which put In ops
ration the fall Of 1870 Tho peculiarly OF this machine
that Us cylinders have vertical motion, not horizon.
pcpcd 10 meet q celebrated English macbnIst named
Whsworth, with whose frm Ia Manchester he had long
trsDfscicd business This Mr. wbitworih WAS then at
tending National Exposition Of Paris He after
wards sent to tho Exposition in this city Of tho
BrhSh Commissioners TO take notes Of the improvements
in nact merry made here when Mr.. Hoe met him In
Paris he was accompanied ~ Mr. Penn, n celebrated
Civil Engineer whose plan Of putting In wooden bearers
for the that Of boilers has attracted much attention.
They went with him the Patne once 10 examine tho
press. After they had examined H. Mr. Wnis~orth
said that he had the Applcgsth press, which
heirs built for The Tm>s and which not then quite
hnhed, and that be Of the Tius propretors,
could have bis way in the matter, nc would ei tho
whole Of that shirg 20, and get In pre-. bGil the
American system, as he termed 1t.
The Times did send PARTIES TO Paris 10 examine tho
Pote presr but iron the TACT that those persons
themselves engaged the Applegssh machine or inte-
rested in IT, they reported unfavorsbly. II Mr. Hoe had
had pfess in London some Of the Tina people had
gone themselves 70 In Paris there Is little doubt but
that the Efforts Of these Interested parties 70 keep
from introducing London would have been even
temporarily successful
Subsequently, when this same Mr.. whitwor,b 10
the United states, he examr cd the presses work In
this establishment and EXPRESSED himself highly pleased
with them. He sald that he had taken the occasion
Of telling the To proprietors what bis convictions
regard 10 The difference Of auaNy In the Hoe aud Apple
gath presses. ono Of the Hoes in Eoglsrd last
RUNNER and while there made con.rac, with The Times
70 build them aprcss They desired either thai shoald
be buI by Mr. Hoe in Engspd, that be should engsge
this same Mr.. whtvorth build al his establishment
In Manchester The latter plan adopted; and
arrangement 10 ihst end made with Mr. whhworth,
Of Hoes going out 10 supcrinscpd the work.