Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-10
Cincinnati Type Foundry.

1t has been our intention Tor Seyera
weeks past to give full account of thi:
most interesting and enterprising estab-
. lishment. Wishing, however, to give
our Presses fair trial before doing so
we have deferred it until the present
In the latter part of August, we pur-
chased one of the 'sDouble Super Royal
31x46 inches bed. We have now run of
twelve issues, and find that the Press
works in the very best style. 1t is
strong, well made, and easy running.
The workmanship and materials
throughout are of the best quality. So
far it has given perfect satisfaction, and
We unhesitatingly recommend it as one
of the most desirable, and most durable
presses made.
We also have in our office a aNew
Nonpareil Press" of their make, which
We have been using for about seven
months. This is undoubtedly one of the
very best presses of the kind in exist
ence. 1t does its. work satisfactorily,
and beautifully. A greater variety of
job work can be done upon this press
than any other we know of. The finest
kinds of work i'm colors can be wrought
upon it. This is not only the best but
the largest Bed and Platen Jobber built.
Then there is the "Nonpareil Jobber,"
small size. This is beauty. For fine
work, such as cards, letter-heads, bill
heads, &C., it is not surpassed. Five diff
ferent colors can be printed at one i'm
preston.
This establishment is now doing a |
very large business, indeed. Below we
give few extracts from the Specimen
Book, published by the Cincinnati Type
Foundry Co:
Fifty years ago John P. Foot and |
Oliver Wells brought to the then Far
West the little beginning of the Cincin-
natl Type Foundry-the whole outfit be-
ing q few sets of duplicate matrixes,
from Whites New York Type Foundry,
a half dozen hand molds, a little pot,
pair of steel rods, used in those days in
the manufacture of Brass Rule. Title
and display type, of which the speci-
mems of those days show almost doz-
en- varieties, were wagoned from New
York to Pittsburg, and thence fioated
down the Ohio. Transportations was
slow and costly, and the young institu-
ton soon found that it must make also
Presses and Cases for its customers. We
still meet occasionally a printer who
has worked on those primitive presses
with limestone bed and wooden platen
and frame, mixing with balls and print
ing five column sheet at two pulls. In
those days our Eastern friends were very
little in advance of this-the elder Hoe
Of New York was making very similar
and, in fact, our own pion-
eers put in their full proportion Of the
steps of the march of improvement.
Here they built the first platen lathe for
turning the beds and platens of presses,
doing to perfection in a day, work that
had required before months labor of a
skilled mechanic. They had the honor
too of the first stereotype shaving ma
chine for equalizing plates-the same is
in use to-day-and also several import
ant improvements in type casting.
The old foundry has lived through
three generations; has had successful
and unsuccessful administrations of its
Affairs; has grown from three or four I
men in room over Mr.. Foot's store to
TWO hundred hands occupying floors
,qual to $1,000 square feet, carrying con-
'tantly stock of numbered thousand
iollars worth of printers goods. The
I'D tools have been discarded or hung q
up as mementoes of the olden times, and
heir place supplied with the newest and
he best, and with skilled workmen at
he head of each department; whatever 3
nay have been our past condition or ca
,acity, We were surely never before pre-
,ared to supply our customers with so
Taried and excellent an assortment ofl
,Oods. We have no hesitation in broad
y warranting everything we sell, salts =!
actory in style, quantity and price, and
We beg that every article which does not q
Justify every reasonable expectation, be
eturned to us at once at our cost, thus
loing justice to the purchasers, to our
elves and to future customers, for de-
ects have only to be pointed out to be
DIRECTED, and eternal vigilance is the ]
,rice of excellence"