The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-06-06

NEW YoaK JoraSALlsN-1ur readers Wy have
very little idea Of the progress which journalism
Is making in New York. which promises ut no dis
taut day, 10 become the great center Of news fer the
world, as London Is now. The changes tending &c
this supremacy have been aided and effected by the
restless genius e American inventors, who have
brought into service, rs fast as needed, such improve
meuts as enable publishers TO keep up with the IN
creasing demands for newspapers. Hoes lightning
press, which prints 10000 TO $1,000 copies an hour,
enables them to issue an edition Of lO0.O 900 copies each
morning, il called for. and this press now prints the
London T5ass, and Is considered indispensable in
every large newspaper office Of metropolitan cities.
- The New York Tribune Of April 18th, informs
Us OF another American invention, which Is destined
TO increase the facilities for getting CT large editions
Of daily papers, and reduce The cost Of them. The
following Is the Improvement referred 70:
The pages aitle Tribune are az LAST printed from stereotype
pilates. THIS is ths CAS- "Uh aa cur e4ia'as. Daily, semi
We-sy a.i Weekly. The process. which IS t-e invention OF
vi a - ., --< MY 3, Tsll~@Is from S~r which the
plates are cast are made. r: with plaster. as : usually te
plate, in wh5ca respect the process differs cru ,hac employed
.y some ot,as --at daily H~."sIaIes 90 London where each
.ra-a- 5mr.g-.r- variation from ordinary >,l-.a,ypiuc. The
page q, b- ,tereayu-d being prepared. Is covered with e sheet
.ta peculiar SiEi oi soft paper pulp This sheet is ueiea'ay
ouslly .a,e the rar.r. while VET We: ana sc1. y,her similar
sheets are laid uruu i. and the iuleut8uUu with te brush IS
repeated. This process : continued until the layers Of this
paper ARE sufficient o. make 90 strong cardboard upon the page,
thoroughly clmrac,-j. together and iuivutei 90 a proper depth
ly the tyne uf ,he page. Passed over a Steam-table. tis in
dentyd cardboard Is rapidly dried. Taken out. it Is ready for
the last process. waIch Is the reception ut hot fluid type-metal,
r.u--f IN. -. -F.r-1-a-Ds mad Inv every letter. word. sem
,, m"-' ~ .SrS ~ cc5Tsi
the stereotype plate from which the paper Is printed.
This is q great Improvement, as it saves the wear
of the types. and by having two sets Of plates cast,
enables two presses to be kept at work in printing
the same paper, where the edition is very large and
wanted immediately, as in daily or weekly papers.
Our readers will be surprised to hear Of the rapid
growth and circulation of one of the New York papers,
as shown by the statistics given in the Tribune Of
the date referred to. That paper was established in
1871 twenty years age, and now it has 4 daily cir
culation Of 5000 copies, and a weekly edition OF
2S7. 80. Its average weekly expenses wheni it began,
were S525; now they are $4,000 per week, or over
100000 a year. Great as are these changes.
they are likely to continue till the daily edition in
cJeases to 100000. and the weekly edition to $780,
900. The daily edition of the New York Herald,
and also that of the Sun, exceed the Tribune, but no
paper in the United States or elsewhere issues so
many daily and weekly papers combined as the Tn
buue. Compared with these heavy enterprises. our
paper, with its circulation of 1000 copies, may be
considered only a penny whistle, but even here, the
changes Of the last twenty years are comparatively
rs great. Let Us not desPjse the day of small things.
FIRE DEPARTMENT ELECTION.-The annual election
Of officers Of the Fire Department took place on Mon
day evening. The total number Of members is DIG,
divided rs follows: