The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-21

Our London Csrrespsndsnss.

VISIT 10 NE OFFICE Of The LONDON XI1ESs
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Our London Csrrespsndsnss.
LONDON, March "A, $780,
Hsw Lipc London Naospapsr IS Printot-Tns Locality
Of the 06oe-TAe "Finishsny Rsons''-Compontors and
Proy Rsadss-1As Duplicate Forms and Ho'o aey are
Aade-1he Paper ROOM anniity Of Paper Used and
as Cost-7A> Wstsso xSchsns--rhe Pres Room-1As
american "Hoe'' Pyesxs-1hs First Steam Press-xeds
Of Circulating the Lonxsn 7inses-StGtishcs, dc.
Through The polsnsss Of the manager or the establish
mont was permitted yesterday to visit the mechanical
portion Of the ooe OF the London 7m and 10 spend g
ncent time there TO get tolsraby good Msa Of this I'M
msnse concern and the in which business done
n II. The ONCE ~ almost everybody knows ID located
n Printing House Square," and probably almost every
body has imagined that "Prnting House Square" ID
large and noisy rlaoe in busy horoughars OF Lon
don, and that the Times once would Of be in
locality whore could 1t least be easily found. Such,
however, u not the ease, and without . map, and con-
slant inquiry would DO almost impossible for stranger
10 nd IL, when placed within block Of the once
Striking towards the Thames from or Ludgats HILL In tho
vicinity Of Baskfrars BRIDGE Threaded half dozen
row streets, and whom tho river and satsdsd that
had lost my way, came upon little triangular space
iron side Of which rose Q dingy looking
brick building, over the door Of which was .
little sign The Times ofos" and underneath the arms
Of England. II perfect solitude, within three nj.
nus walk Of Of the great arteries Of london Upon
entering, was shown into small room, called the
finishing room" Here, upon presenting my card,
introduced TO very gentlemany man. who informed mo
that he had been connected with paper for than
forty years. and who offered 10 show the ssab
lshmsAt In his the FERNS al made up, the gal
lsys being brought down from the composing room, and
the adjoining, fsr<hat purpose Here alone were the
sasys Of matter and Advertisements len over, OF the lat
ter Of which my guide informed there often sixty
seventy columns for wkish space cannot be found
in the immense double shsM which Is daily published.
Tho day BEFORE two thousand advertisements taken
in at the once, which slongsds Of this "nushng room
and which devoted exclusively TO the reception Of ad
about fifteen hundred different 70
into the paper daily making from eight 70 ten pages Of
the sixteen printed About elk columns Of these daily
advertisements Of servants wanting places These
charged eighteen pence sach and limited to three
pes, many OF them being rewritten after coming TO the
ONCE and made 70 conform To the prescribed FORM No
difference in price made account Of any additional
number Of insertions. From here, We went into An
adjoining room where the day esmpositors" were ct
work upon the second edition Of the paper, which
printed at half past twelve O'Clock, and contains in I'd.
don 70 the morning news, the letter Of the Paris
respondent and such foreign matter arrives in the
this department, and who, after the evening edition y
worked s 90 to wsrk upon the advertisements, while
there seventy competitors employed upon the night
work. making In all one hundred and twenty competitors
10 correct their matter there employed twenty four
proof readers half the day ana tho other for the
night.
From this composing room We went into the foundry
The morning edition Of the Times varies from sixty to
seventy thousand sspss and in order 10 the time
printing and the expense Of setting up extra FORM
duplicate Of the original form ID made here To be worked
upon ore press, while the original itself 10 the other
This Effected in the following mannsr:-Ths form being
brought down here, pulp Of Sapier Achs prepared by
some secret process, ID spread it, and beaten into it
with large heavy brush. This process and the harden
ing Of the mould sosrpies but minute and half and
when 1t taken or the form It, Of course, presents per-
feet fGc simile Of the form ITSELF II 10 thea placed
in . sort Of q press, and while yet pliabls Is
shaped in the circular form which il neces-
sary the ferns should have to accommodate thsn-
selves 70 the cylinder presses and then the molten type
metal 10 poured in and two minutes more ID cooled
and being taken out Of the mould, the inperfscions
which have occurred in the casting reoned, and in
bali A hour this form ready for the press would
require the seventy men seven hours to effect the
same purpose ~ this little piece Of work-which ID done
in thirty minutes.
This apsr machs process Of moulding has been in use
In the Times once about I'VE years The secret of
composition knswn only TO the dscOverer, an Italian
named palegani, who lives London and who brings
has not been able to procure patent for his invention
being alleged that 1t 10 only Improvement upon the
They say they ind the oompositon superior in every
respect 10 plaster, being much cleaner and not ipurng
the face OF the type 20 much Six duplicates may be taken
from one Of these mouds before burnt through The
last page, containing the leading article OF the Ties n
sent down to the foundry about four O'Clock in the morn
tg, and at quarter past Six the impression il or
From here went into the room, which bv
the aide OF tho foundry, the basement floor passing
through large carpenters shop, where half men
neat little bath constructed for accommodation
efthe workmen Tho paper found filled up with
TO the amount OF the material consumed In tho publ
cation OF the Times.
The paper is furnished from four paper mills tho pro-
perry Of the propretors Of the e made entirely
Of linen. During the Russian war, (as great many Of
the rags from Russia and there being, therefore
offered reward of one thousand pounds sterling for the
discovery OF substitute for linen All Of Material
sr.M vegetable nor.s Of gr.a. many descriptions,
they found nothing which would purpose and
y som. mean: MANAGED 70 Keep up the supply esrags
thousand sheets Of th paper sssa daily and there 4
oHy Ioon here to kssp three days supply on hand
fraction 80 hat Ss two sheets On Which The pap.r
y printed with the duty, the guide niornsd me- cost
printed sold 70 prods o. oourss, then,
nust be derived entirely from ADVERTISEMENT and the
addition 70 the circulation Of the paper direct pecu
mary advantage. This circulation has, however, in
creased considerably within the past ten years In 1851
thirteen millions OF copies printed in 1857 sixteen
millions hundred thousand; In 1855 sixteen millions
seven hundred and eighty i've thousand four hundred
and hty ak and last year seventeen Millions An
ayersge OF my four thousand copies daily, were printed
on the day after the funeral Of the Duke Of Wellington
when seveny thousand copies were struck on.
used for wcng down tho old process OF doing this BY
nand having been about I'VE years SINCE and