The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1860-05-23

thousand sheets. These presses have
been in operation since l848, and have
never been out of order but once. when
Prussian officer, who was examining one
ofthem little too minutely, had the cane
of his cloak caught in the main cylinder.
and would himself have followed it had
he not retained sufficient presence Of
mind to unclasp his outer garments
which he must have done with lightning
like quickness. As it was, his cloak was
torn into very small rags. There was no
second edition of the Times that day, and
the proprietors were subjected 10 a little
bill of repairs, amounting to E300. These
machines cost $4,000 each, and are super
intended by the brother of the inventor.
Each one requires sixteen men to feed
and fly it.
In the adJourning room are two of Hoes
ten-cylinder presses. These were built in
Manchester, and one has been in use for
two or three years, and the other has Just
been completed. These are used for
printing the advertising pages, which 20 on
At seven o'clock IN the evening and the
first side of the news, which commences
at two in the morning. These machines
cost 5000 each. They throw off l6,4OO
| impressions an hour, and have been made
to print 10000; but they complain of them
that they had them manufactured with
the understanding that they would print
| 5000 an hour, hut that they found
when they struck off over II 600, some 81
the more delicate portions of the machin-
| cry were liable to breakage. Notwith-
standing this, however, it seems they had
| another machine built at double the cost
Of their Applegrath machines, and thus
| John Bull pays homage to the inventive
| genius of Young America. 1t was IN the
office of the London Times that in No
vember, 1914, the first steam press, a two
| cylinder machine, was put up, and by
hard work they managed to make it throw
off twelve hundred impressions an hour
What a change in the facilities for multi
| plying impressions between that time anC
this.
From the press room we entered the
publishing room" The edition of tn,
| Times is all sold to newsmen, and tn,
proprietors have nothing to do with furn
ishing subscribers with the paper. n,
mailing is done at the office; neither ar,
the names of subscribers taken there
Should person in America send a draft O.
the money to the London Times office fo
>
Immediately handed over to newsman
The principal one of these in London is
man named Smith, who takes daily, from
the Times office twenty-four wagon loads
about twenty-eight thousand papers a day
He gets sixteen thousand of these at halt
past five in the morning to send off to hi
agents and subscribers all over England b
the first train. About $4,000 only of tn
edition of the Times is circulated in Lon
don. Besides Smith there are about on
Hundred and fifty newsmen in Londol
who purchase and circulate the Times, an,
town the publication is usually delivere,
about seven o'clock in the publishing
room-each newsman taking his turn t
be served first, an alphabetical list bein
made out, and A served one morning
the next, and so on to the end of the lis
The newsmen pay three pence each for tn
papers and sell them for four pence. Tn
newsmen order their papers the day h
torehand, and no more are printed tina
they call for. The publishing office pre-
sents very lively scene. The most sp;
ciOus portion of it is in front of the cour
: ter, and here are two or three hundre
= boys waiting for papers. They are coun
ed from behind by young man VIII
: counts three hundred papers minut,
{ and the boys fold them on the tables i
7 ! front.
e A few statistics and | am done with tn
= mechanical department of the Londo
e Times. The receipts for advertisement
: are about G250,000, or a million and
e quarter of dollars annually, and the r
f ceipts for the paper about the same. I'll
= reseipts for the sale of the paper, beir
4 cancelled by the actual cost of raw mate
e ial of course amount to nothing: an
a there is an expense of about El00,U0O
n year required to carry on the establish
: ment, leaving therefore profit of EljC
5 900, or seven hundred and fifty thousan
e dollars per annum. Three hundred an
r fifty men are employed in the various d.
s partments, from the editor down to Il
= hy-boy. Twenty of these are Parliame
Ie tary reporters, engaged in reporting Il
e debates. These each take notes fftee
g minutes at time, and then retire to
C room in the rear of the reporters gale
t to write them ont, and four cabs a
is kept continually running during Il
p time of session between the Lond,
n Times Office and the Houses of Parli
is ment, to bring the copy which the ind
n fatigable workers furnish But | am @,
ting on to another branch of my subie,
lg and shall have the editorial character
1t tics of the Office for future letter.