Smyrna times., 1868-09-02
The London Times.

The reading matter of the London Times
is furnlsed by twenty-five law reporters, nine
teen parliamentary reporters, twelve police re-
porters, and an indefinite number of miscella-
ne0us writer's, know as penny-a-liners' in
London, at least one hundred correspondents
IN various parts of Great Britain, and some
forty foreign correspondents in other parts of
the world. Of the Parliamentary reporters,
sixteen are photographers, two make summa-
rles OF the debates in the Houses, and one
directs the force. To set up the types there
are one hundred and thirty compositors em-
piloyed, sixty laboring by day, and seventy at
night whilst eleven fOremen and assistants
direct their movements. Twenty-four persons
are required to read proofs, and three are EN-
ployed merely to pull the proofs. The ad-
vertlsemeDts are set up during the day, and
the readlng-matter at night, the advertising
pages being made up at from five to seven
O'Clock In the evening. Reading matter is re-
celved until daylight and afterwards, and the
reading pages are rarely put to press before
four A. NJ, whilst leading articles are frequent
ly written on Parliamentary debates and other
events happening after midnight, and appear
In print the following morning. England is
different in its habits from the United States,
and very early newspaper issues are not de-
manded. In all this work the greatest care j.
taken to guard against mistakes, and every
line printed is read over by proof readers, four
or five different times.
| Ten stereotypers prepare the plates for the
printing machines, by the papier mache pro
cess now in use in the Public Ledger Office and
in other leading newspaper offices in the Uni
ted States, and these machines are now run
continuously from about eight o'clock in the
evening until seven the next morning, besides
work during the day upon second editions. .
Sixteen hremen and engineers attend the en-
glneS and boilers, six men prepare the paper
| before printing, ninety are employed on the
presses, and seven deliver the paper to the
news-agents after it is printed. No carriers
are employed, as in the United States, but the
whole edition is sold out to news-agents, the
number of copies printed being no more than
the sum total of their orders, which have to be
handed in by two PM. on the previous day.
The wholesale price of the Times is 24d pei
copy, (abOut Al cents gold y the retail price,
3d., (6 cents gold For the benefit of the en-
plOyees. there are established in the Office a
saving fund, and cooperative restaurant,
managed by five persons, at which all the en-
ployees get their food and drink at wholesale
cost prices. This is known familiarlya as 1.-The
Canteen." Stability and comfort are great ob.
jects in Printing House Square. The apart
ments, dingy without are clean and spacious
within, and faithful laborers remain there a
lifetime, bequeathing their places to theirsons.
Many now in the place have worked there FIVE.
and-twenty years, and two in particular, still
hale and hearty, have been in the office respec
lively As and 55 years. Father and son work
side by side and all seem to regard the place
and its directors with the greatest affection.
To print the 1inIeS seventy tons weight Of
paper and two tons of printing-ink are useC
every week, whilst the average weight of the
daily issue of the paper is from eleven t.
twelve tons. The machines upon which this
large edition is printed are the best of the
kind. There are two ten-cylinder Hoe presses
and two eight-cylinder Applcgath machines
the aggregate actual work done by them bein,
1000 impressions an hour, $4,000 from eacl
of the former and TO- 900 from each of the latter
Besides these, there is now in use the "Waltol
Printing Press" which is a self-feeder, and
managed by a man and two boys, prints larg,
share Of the advertising pages of the Times
Its capacity is from $4,000 to $4,000 impres
sions an hour, and it produces in that time from
. l l,000to $4,000 perfect sheets, printed on botl
sides, and ready for the reader. 1t is some
what similar to the American Bullock press
and prints from large roll of paper containing
2500 to 5000 sheets, cuts them apart afte
printing, and then delivers them by doubl
motion into two piles 1t has been pronounce
a success by competent judges, and will proba
bly, revolutiOnize the printing business in En-
gland. Public Ledger.