The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12

day upon "second editions" Sixteen
fremen and engineers attend the engines
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 p. m. on the previous day.
The wholesale price Of the Times is
24d. per copy (about Al cents gold) !;
the retail price, 3D., &c cents gold) For
the benefit of the employees, there are
established in the Office a saving fund, a
sick fund, and cooperative restaurant,
managed by five persons, at which all the
employees get their food and drink at
wholesale cost prices This is known
familiarly as "The Capteen." Stability
and comfort are great objects in Printing
House Square. The apartments, dingy
without, are clean and spacious within,
and faithful laborers remain there life
time, bcqnoathing their places to their
sons. Many now in the place have work
ed there five and twenty years, and
two in particular, still hale and hearty,
have been in the Office respectively 45
and SIS years. Father and son work side
by side, and all seem to regard the place
and it's directors with the greatest affec-
ton.
To print the Times 10 tons weight OF
paper, and two tons OF printing ink are
used every week, whilst the average
weight of the daily issue of the paper is
from II to II tons. The machines upon
which this large edition is printed arethe
best of their kind. There are two ten
cylinder Hoe presses, and two eight cyl
inder Applegath machines; the aggregate
actual work done by them being $1,000
impressions an hour, 10000 from each of
the former, and 10000 from each Of the
latter. Besides these there is now in use
the "Waltcr Printing Press" which is a
selffeeder, and managed by a man and
two boys, prints large share of the adj
vertising pages of the Times. Its capac-
ity is from $4,000 to 24,000 impressions
an hour, and it produces in that time from
II 900 to 1900 perfect sheets, printed
on both sides, and ready for the reader.
There is little more to say of this great
newspaper. 1t circulates not only through
out Great Britain, but all over the world.
It's policy in the treatment OF public
affairs is not fixed enc, but is governed
by expodiency. Towards America, its
former course of severe criticism has been
changed to one of great frendlness, and
it judges us now with far moro candor
and generosity than the majority of its
London contemporaries, besides paying
great attention to the collection of Amer
lean intelligence Who directs its course
or controls its opinions, however, is a
sealed book. The editor is invisible. nor
are the writer's known except by heresay
1t tries to draw an impenetrable veil over
the individuality Of all connected with 1T,
and what this or that writer may say is
buried in the great mass of leaders, news
and other matters which the Times pre-
sents to tho world on its sixteen or twen-
ty broad pages every weekday morning