Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-07-05

The y-hoy sits to take it off In this way eight sheets
ale turned off from the press each second and bali
amounting to twelve thousand five hundred an hour
the two presses in the morning. in two hours printing
fifty thousand sheets These presses have been IN ope
alton since 848 and have never been out OF order bu
once when Prussan officer, who examining one
of them little too infinitely, had the cape OF his CLOAK
caught ia the main cylinder and would himself have FOL
lowed it bad ne not retained sufficient presence OF mind
to unclasp lis outer garments which he must have done
with ghtnng-like quckness. AS it was, his cloak was
torn into very small rags There second edition
OF the Times that day. and the propretors were subject
ed to little bill of repairs, amounting to $780, These
machines cost $4,000 each and superintendent by the
brother of the inventor Each requires sixteen men
to feed and fly it.
In the adjoining two of Hoes ten cylinder
presses. These were built in Manchester and one has
been in for two three years. and the other has just
been completed These used for printing the adVer-
Using pages which go on at Z o'clock in the evening"
and the first side of the news, which commences at In
the morning. These machines cost $4,000 each. They
throw off each 16400 impressions in hour, and have
been made to print 10000; but they complain with
them that they had them manufactured with the under
standing that they would print 30 900 hour but that
they found when they struck off over 900 some OF the
more delicate portions Of the machinery were liable to
breakage Notwithstanding this, however, 1t seems
they had another machine built at double the cost of
their Applegarth 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 November,
1914 the first steam pr two cylinder machine was
put up and by bard work they managed to make it throw
off twelve hundred impressions hour What change
10 the facilities for multiplying impressions between that
time and this.
From the press room we entered the publishing room
he edition of the Times is all sold to newsmen and the
prOprletOrs have nothing to do with furnishing subscr
bers with the paper No mailing is done at the Office
neither are the names OF subscribers taken there Should
person in America send draft or the money to the
| IInEc for
would he Immediately handed over to a newsman. The
principal one OF these in London is named Smith,
who takes daily from the Times Office twenty four wagon
loads-about twentyeight thousand papers day. He
gets sxeen thousand OF these at batpast five in the
morning, to send Of to his agents and subscribers all
over Engaud by the first trau. About 900 only of
the edition OF the Times is circulated in London Be
sides Smith, there are about hundred and fifty news
men 10 London who purchase and circulate the Times
ma the town publication is usually delivered about
clock III the publishing roOm-each uewsman taking
lis turn to be served fist, an alphabetical list being
made out aud A served first one morning, b the next
md so on to the end of the list The newsmen pay three
Dence each for the papers and sell them for four pence
ne neWsmen order their papers the day beforehand,
nd no more are printed than they call for The pub
shing office presents very lively scene The most
pacous portion OF 1t is in front of the counter and here
re Two or three hundred boys waiting for papers
hey are counted from behind by a young man who
ounts three hundred papers minute and the boys Tod
hem on the tables in front
few statistics, and | am done with the mechanical
apartment OF the London Times The receipts for ad-
are about e250,O00, or million and
larter of dollars annually and the receipts for the pa
r about the same The receipts for the sale of the pa
r. beng cancelled by the actual cost of the raw ma
ra OF course amount to nothing and there is an ex-
Use OF about 100000 year required to carry on
estaDshment, leaving therefore profit of 9l5OOOO ,
100000 per annum. Three hundred and fifty men
employed in the various departments flom the ed ;
down to the Hy-boy. Twenty of these are Parlia- Il
7ary reporters, engaged in reporting the debates
se each take notes fifteen minutes at tme and then
Ire to in the rear of the renorters' gallery to
lie them out, and four cabs are kept constantly RIM
1g during the time of session between the London .
mes Office and the Houses of Parliament to bring the
~ which these interchangeable workers furnish But q
getting on to another branch of nv subject and shall
We the editorial characteristics of the office for G1 10
e etter'-C Correspondence Nepc York HERALD q