The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-16


We have now for some days had our new ten
cylinder presses at work, with the most COM
pletely successful results We can print over
t~enty thousand an hour; our edition averaging
something in the neighborhood Of 10000 is
printed every day in three hours aud half ia-
GLIDING etoppages. This is rate of speed which
we believe to be unparalleled in the annals of
printing
The vast machines which perform this work
are some thicty-ive feet in length. They are
models Of intricate and neatly adjusted ma
chinery. 1t requires long aud arduous study to
form even rude conception of their mechanism
and their operations; and it would be impossible
in words to convey an idea Of either. Suffice it
to say that the application of steam power to the
huge masses of wheels, bars, belts, joints and
steel causes the large cylinder to revolve with
such velocity that, during the time an edition is
being printed, it travels an actual space of about
fifty miles
Perhaps, however, the actual service il rem
ders in its allotted duty, is the greatest feat of
the ten cylinder press. 1t prints, in q correct
and accurate manner, twenty thousand copies of
the HERALD per hour, say three hundred and
thirty three per minute, nearly six copies per &C.
cond Such a velocity would require for its
measurement one of the scientific machines in
vented by ingenious philosophers to time light
ming flashes. Watches-even of the finest me.
chanism-could not keep a record of such speed
as this.
To ourselves the new presses will be of no
small service. We are now enabled to print an
edition of one hundred thousaud copies 10 the
same space of time which it took US, formerly,
to print fry thousand. Our present edition of
some seventy thousand-sometimes few less,
sometimes few more-we throw Off with ease
in less than the time allotted Our carriers and
the mails can now be supplied in ample time
without any extraordinary exertion on our part
We shall feel the consequences in our city
circulation. Our complaint book has long warned
Us that many Of our uptown subscribers, after
exhausting every method they could think Of to
procure the HERALD at their residences at an
early hour in the morning, had at length given
up the attempt, and subscribed to paper which
was only their second choice. We have, we
fancy, been not little instrumental in building
up one of our juvenile cotemporaries in this way
The reaction will now begin; and journals whose
has been caused by our incapacity to
supply the demands for HERAIDs in time, will
now, we fear, discover that they rest on q pre-
carious basis.
This, however, is Of no consequence. The
main points to which we desire to draw attention
at the present time are the admirable machinery
which we are using, and which reflects no slight
credit on the Messrs. Hoes and the country: and
secondly, our increased capacity for supplying
subscribers with the New YoaK HERALD. The
former may well be considered credit and an
honor to American genius, and deserves as much
public attention az any of the admirable fruits Of
our inventive and mechanical ability; 1t is his
torical standpoint as well in the history of me
chanics as Of machinery, and above ALL of news
papers. For the second we will only say that we
propose TO pursue the same course as we have
followed heretofore, which, we think. is the only
course that Is worthy Of a paper in the leading
position of the HERALD. Believing that that
course is better calculated TO advance the true
interests Of the country than any other, we con-
graduate the public on the prospect of a wider
diffusion Of the principles which are it, guide.
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