The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-11-13
FREMONT SANDVSKY COUNTY OHIO FRIDAY NOVEMBER I3 1868

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, Of the Cabinet of General Grant.
Permission being promptly accorde
to look at the printing office, we fir
traverse this immense composing room
| 1t is amply and equally lighted, and j
perfect silence the work goes on. A
one corner is the corps of proof read
ers, at the further end are the stereC
typers, living in a great furnace-lik
room. Down stairs in the long pres
room, likewise the whole length of th
building, some forty Adams presse
standing in rows, and to every press
pair of girls for feeders. At the bottor
of the room is the mighty Bullock press
THE BULLOCK PRESS.
Do you know what the Bullock Pres
: is? It's the press that is going to wee
out Hoe most probably within FIVE year.
It is the invention of a Philadelphi
machinist named Bullock, who wa
caught in the shafts Of his machiner
and inundated upon his own offspring
1t is a press which, unwinding pspe
from an endless roll, carries it over an
: under a large rotary cylinder and print
both sides of sheet at the rate of sixty
three neutrality-suspicious. minute. Les
than every second it releases forty boo
: pages. Without the jangle and crasl
of the Hoe press, without a squad @
men to man successive stories, an,
heavy and dripping impressions lying il
delay to be turned over and fed to th
press again,-it requires but three mel
to manage it; its sound is a Cheerful
and energetic click,-short, sharp, de
cisive, and pleasing; it takes but littl,
comparative space, and its operations
are performed with such ease that tn,
eye incredulously sees the swift effect
iyeness of its work. The six cylinder
| Hoe press always looked to me in mo
ton like a crew of airy fremsn OF
ladders saving goods from second and
tbird-story windows. 1t begins work
with extraordinary pretension, start,
with the dignity of provincial stagt
coach, ships out poor little thin sheets
Of paper with the noise Of thunder
cloud, aud half the miracle of its per.
formance is forgotten in the miracle Of
Its buster.
The Bullock press Looks like black
draught horse hitched to roll of white
paper and walking up tread-mill. Over
its back one glistening roller turns, IN.
der its hams another flies like polish
ed muscle, aud beneath the fore paws
of the pony the printed sheets drop like
the flash ofs PAGERS shoes. The widow
and faz2ily of Bullock are proprietors in
part of this press, which is being manu-
faetured by company Of which Wen
dell, ex-pFinter. is a member, and
Knapp, rich Washingtonian, is Presi-
dent. The New York Herald took out
Hoe press some weeks ago and put
up Bullock. Colonel Hoe threatened
to bring suit against the Bullock people,
but did not do it. His own patent has
expired and Congress refused to renew
/ it, Hoe is a man Of versatile and plo-
life talent, and nobody will probably
attempt to compete with him in making
his presses.
A PICTURE.
If there is anything pretty it is to
see pretty girl on an Adams press,
feeding the monster so daintily Here
is double row of them-Uns and the
lion reduced to machinery-presses aud
girls the press looking as if it would
like to "chaw" the girl up if it could
only get loose from the floor, and the
girl dropping pair of black eyes into
the cold heart of the press, all warm
now with friction, ashamed of its grimy
mouth, burning to slip its belt aud
trample the paper to ribbons, aud turn
bondage into bliss. She, meantime,
touches it with her little foot thrills it
with the gliding of her garment, poises
over it on one white little finger the
plain gold ring of some more Christian
engagement, and black with jealousy
the press plunges into its slavery again,
with ink, dripping varnish,
cold and keen of teeth the imp goes on,
and the beautiful tyrant only smiles.
Where an Office is managed like this, |
with purity all around it, with chris
ian man at the head, no breath Of
icandle to ill its busy cloisters with
oul suggestions, it is an inspiration to
zee women and young girls at work.
Their interposition gives something of
to the terrible dreariness ofl
public documents.
The government printing Office in
7olyes a yearly expense of from one
million and a half dollars to over twoI
and this does not include the
printing of the debates of Congress,
which is done BY contract at the Globe
'flce, and which costs seven dollars a d,
olumn to report them and six dollars
| believel a copy per session for the
Ilabe, in which they are printed, Il
The five successive stages of this
uilding are busy in scenes aud sug- L
estions worthy Of our attention, but
be limits of your columns and your {
atienee demand more substantial mat !
81. d
Government printers get trihe bet D
IT prices than are paid elsewhere in P
le country. Steady work viii give 2
ne $500 a year in this mandatory. 3
be work girls get from nine to twelve 1
ollars week. The printers are almost P
ways in excess, however. 5
SOME FIGURES. g
The great Bullock press cost S25,49O. e
ppue year new type added cost $la,- d
d.; printing ink, $I9,H7; coal seven Il
1ndred tensi new machinery, IS, 900. ic
In the bindery four thousand Russian 81
aIher skins were used, seven hundred "
ID sixty packs Of gold leaf (eosting b
Early $4,000, nearly five thousand d
,llars worth of twine aud as much Of Im
qe, Paper for past office blanks b
one. cost $4,000. The binding of Iec
'oks consumed s73, 900, and binding "
aterials $4,000. Engraving and OF
hographing cost Sll1,OO0. III
These figures show an activity and W
tlay such as is witnessed in no single at
hitting office in the world. be
The paper that runs this huge print pr
9 office comes from various manu-
'turers, and it is not ordered by the
ngressional printer but by a joint ae
mmittee of Congress It is ordered bT
Feams of five hundred sheets and tb
Maid fnr hu the 1nnnnd Inlno