The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-11-11

The London Times.
The reading matter of the London Times
is furnished by twenty-five law reporters,
twelve police reporters, nineteen Parlia-
mentary reporters, and numerous num-
Der ofwriters, known as 'penny-a-liners" in
London, at least one hundred correspon-
dents in various parts of Great Britain,
and some forty foreign correspondents in
other parts Of the world. OF the Parlia-
mentary reporters. sixteen are photograph
ers, two make summaries Of the debates
in the Houses, and one directs the force.
To set up the types there are one hundred
and thirty compositors employed. sixty
labouring 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
employed merely to pull" the proofs.
The advertisements are set up during the
day, and the reading-matter at night, the
advertising pages being made up at from
five to seven o'clock in the evening.
Reading matter is received until daylight
and afterwards, and the reading pages are
rarely put to press before four \. N. whilst
leading articles are frequently 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 demanded. In all this work the
greatest care is 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-marche
process, now in use in the Public Ledger
Office and in other leading newspaper
Offices in the United States, and these
machines are now run continuously from
eight o'clock in the evening until seven
the next morning besides work during the
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, hut the whole edition is sold out to
news-agents, the number of copies being
no more than the sum total of their orders
which have to be handed in by P. N. on
the previous day.
The wholesale price of the Times is ~
d. per copy, about AZ cents gold J the re-
tail price, 3d., Is cents gold.) For the
benefit of the employers, there are estab-
lished in the Office saving fund, a sick
fund, and cooperative restaurant, man
aged by five persons, at which all the EN-
ployees get their food and drink at whole
sale cost prices. This is known Familiarity
as 1.-The Canteen," Stability and comfort
are great objects in Printing House Square.
The apartments, dingy without, are clean
and spacious within, and faithful laborers
remain there a lifetime, bequeathing their
places to their sons. Many now in the
place have worked there fve-and-twenty
years, and two in particular, still hale and
hearty, have been in the Office respectively
forty-fve and fifty-fve years. Father and
son work side by side, and seem to regard
the place and its directors with great af-
lection.
To print the Times, seventy 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 IL
to II tons. The machines upon which
this large edition is printed are the best of
their kind. There are two ten-cylinder
Hoe presses, and two eight-cylinder APP
telegraph machines; the aggregate actual
work done by them being $4,000 impress
sions an hour, 10000 from each of the for
mer and 10000 from each of the latter
Besides these. there is now in use the
" Walter Printing Press, which is self
feeder, and; managed by man and two
boys, prints large share ofthe advertis-
ing pages Of the Times. Its capacity is
from $4,000 to $4,000 impressions an hour,
and it produces in that time from Ii 900
to 10000 perfect sheets, printed on both
sides, and ready for the reader. 1t is
somewhat similar to the American Bull
lock Press and prints from large roll of
paper containing $500 to 5000 sheets,
cuts them apart after printing, and then
delivers them by double motion into two
piles. 1t has been pronounced a success
by competent judges, and will probably
revolutionize the printing business in Eng
land.