The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

STEAM UP-THE CLARION PRINTING
AND Book nzDrSo EsrAB1rsHMESr.-THu
CLARIoS presses are again operated by
steam. Our new establishments now com
plete In allrespeets; and, feeling pardona-
bic pride in what has been accomplished In
so short time. We also feel like letting oul
readers know something of the extent Of
our present capacity for business.
The Clarion Office was burned on the NOR
ming Of March LIST. On next evening the
paper was issued at its regular hour, by the
aid Of materials courteously rendered u.s.
But thanks to the promptness Of four Of the
Insurance Companies In which we ED poll
icies, we were enabled not only TO purchase
new type, presses and machinery for the
printing Office and bindcry, but to purchase
the present site for the Office and to erect
the handsome brick building which now
adorns it. The Insurance Companies refer
red to are the Underwriters, represented by
c. A. Brougher; the Etna and Home OF
Hartfortl,represented BY Barrows & Smythe,
and the Planters of this city. We held a
twenty-five hundred dollar policy in Vir-
ginia Company, which the Com pany, to our
particular regret, is not now in a condition
to pay.
IN THE PRESS ROOM
We have FIVE presses constantly employed,
their total value being upwards of seven
thousand dollars. The Hoe Press upon
which the paper is printed is capable of
1900 impressions per hour. The Hoe job
ber,-a large Cylinder press, super-royal
size-was made expressly to our order, in
April last, and cost at the factory, S2,550 co..
1t is beautiful and perfect piece OF ma
chinery. 1t is specially adapted for book
and circular work, and although supplied
with pointing" apparatus, perfect "regis-
ter" is secured without its use. OE this
press we haYe lately printed the Proceed
ings of the Masonic Grand Lodge, book of
PCS pages, and which has been very general
ly pronounced by the fraternity, as the best
publication of Grand Lodge transactions
yet made in this State. Indeed it il equal
to any, and superior to many, similar pub
locations in other States. We may add tn [
this work was being printed when the Office
was burned in March. About eighty pages
of printed matter, sent TO the bindery, all
the paper for the work, and some of the
Grand Lodge papers, were destroyed. For
lulldbclIs PIOOA ciECAS nd0 OCNu SAfNA va TIT
matter printed, enabling the Grand Secreta-
~ to again prepare the work for the press,
In addition to this, the press has turned off
a large edition of the Yerger Trial, various
Catalogues and pamphlets, thousands of cir
culars and is now printing a second edition
of the Mississippi Manual OF Legal and Blu
siness Forms and the Premium List, Rules
and Regulations of the Mississippi State
Fair.
We have also the Wells Nonpareil job
Der, made at Cincinnati Type Foundry,
favorite press, and duplicate of one de-
destroyed. 1t is capable of printing a full
fat-cap sheet, which cannot be done by any
other press of the price-S55O. For print
ing blanks, circulars and programmes, we
commend it to our contemporaries as supe-
rior to any other press for these purposes.
For bill-heads, letter-heads, cards and
small circulars, we have the Gordon Jobber
-deservedly the most popular press in the
country for such work.
We have also a Washington Hand Press,
which, though rather slow for this fast age,
answers good purpose occasionally.
The engine by which our presses are now
operated was ''reconstructed' by those
excellent machinists, the Messrs. Stewards,
of this city, from the remnants of the one
destroyed in the other office. 1t is perfect
piece of work, and highly creditable to
those gentlemen. The engine il supplied
with water by means of force pump, from
a cistern bnilt expressly for the convenience
of the press-room.
The Press Room is in charge of Mr.. Theo.
Beaullieu, who has served The CLARION in
that capacity for the past four years. and
who is certainly one of the most accom-
plished pressmen in this or any other coun-
try. He has been employed in some of the
leading establishments in Paris, New York
aud New Orleans. He is always at his post,
is himself the embodiment of industry, and
toIerates no drones in his hive. Mr.. Beaul-
lieu has permanently located in our city,
and has acquired by his industry and econ
omy, a handsome little property in West
Jackson. We are glad of this occasion to
let our many readers know to whom they
are indebted for the clear and uniform print
which they find in the pages of The CLAIR