Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-24
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The London Times is the leading paper of
the world, and s recent letter 70 the N, Y. Her
aid sslls how the live London newspaper is
printed We abstract some Of the facts Of In
teTsst
The Times office is in Printing House Square,
9 dingy looking solitude within three minutes
walk Of one Of the great arteries Of London.
The paper is furnished from four paper mills,
the property Of the PrOPrietorB Of the Times,
Anl is made entirely Of linen. Nine tons, OF
ninety thousand sheets Of paper are used daily.
Each sheet costs penny and and farthing
and fraction, SO that the two sheets on which
the Times is printed, with the duty, cost fully
three pence, the price at which the paper after
it is printed is sold to the newsmen, the profits
being derived entirely from The advertisihg-
About l,5OO different advertisement 60 into
the paper daily, making up from eight to ten
pages of the sixteen printed About six col
umns Of these daily, are advertisements Of
servants wanting places. These are charged
eighteen pslce each, and are limited TO three
lines. All Advertisements are charged a. new
for each insertion.
The news sheets of the Times are worked
upon two Of ApPlegarth's eight cylinder vertical
presses, the two presses in two hours printing
forty thousand sheets. They cost $4,000 each.
The advertising pages are printed on two Of
Hoes ten cylinder presses, costing $4,000
each. They print IL. 400 impressions each an
hour.
The edition Of the Times is all sold 10 news
men, and the PrOPrielorI have nothing to dc
with furnishing subscribers with the paper
The principal newsman Of the Times in London
is naE7ed Smith, who takes daily tSenty-f
wagon IOads-abOut twenty-eight thousand
papers. Besides Smith, there are some on,
hundred and fifty newsnen in London who
purchase and circulate the Times. They pay
three pence and sell for four per copy.
The receipts for advertising are million ant
a quarter of dollars annually, and the receipts
for the pa, ,,er about the same. The receipts
from the sale of the paper being cancelled by th'
a,tual cost Of the raw material, and there being
an additional expense of 100000 yea
required TO carry on the establishment. th,
profits are pot at fI5O.OOO, OF seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Three hundreC
and fifty men are employed in the various
depaFEmuusa, sA---v-ss,.'r a
: boy.
! The pages of the Times are daily duplicates
J by a simple but ingenious process, so as to b.
worked on two presses with but once setting o
) the type. This invention is Italian, and is KEEP
secret by the disooverer. He prepares tn
material, pulp of paper Haehs, which is sprea,
on the form, and beaten into it with Iarg
heavy brush. This process and the hardening
of the mould occupies but minute and hall
} and when it is taken off the form, it, of cou Sc
presents perfect fac simile of the form itselI
1t is then placed in sort Of press, and Will
yet pliable is shaped in the circular form whcl
: 1t is necessary the forms should have to accom-
!, mOdate themselves to the cylinder presses, AM
then the molten type metal is poured in, an,
in two minutes more it is cooled, and, beinl
taken out Of the mould the impeTfectiOns whcl
3 have occurred in the casting are rectifed, an
in half an hour this form is ready for the press
1t would require the work Of seventy me-
seven hours to effect the same purpose as thi
little piece Of Work-Which is done IN thiIt
minutes.