New-York tribune., 1872-02-14

"Ts S2 SIG 40 the expenditures in 1870 which
is due business DONE and the extraordinary
number passed by the Legislature Of 1871 necessarily involving
greater expenditure for the current printing for the volumes OF
laws nutes and for the publication Of the laws in the
newspapers 1t is estimated that $1,000 will be required for this
| pose n the coming year"
From the above extract it will your correspondent
slight Little 55JO)Oa a u comparison
| with Tammany fyuresl
Now look little into the character and qusuty Of the work
done by the public pner Take the volume Of soced pamphlet
begin Tie volume question contains ,6a6
page $50 pages set solid small plea type with ncnp side notes
pages ndcs solid BREWER type Each the a
2S ems 92j2 in sheet of l6 while
the BREWER pages 1913 each ot Of 50
The edition printed 5000 cOpe For this The State paid s4O
small plea and S5 sheet for the BREWER portion
total for printing Of the laws Of $3.50 UpOn
volume there have been used sbou $50 Of paper which
January 1871 selling about % pound for the quality
used would make the per l So total Of
s9 After this printing and paid for there bsaace
folding stitching and binding Of 347 Os only couple hundred
copies having been bound in sheep the remainder merely folded and
stitched together as the law provides.
But correspondent Of The TRIBUNE the price paid is
high cent larger than that ordinarily asked for such work.
Upon point will again the printers Of NewYo
Devinnes Printers Price List their hands the acknowledged
hory upon such this country least this section Of it.
the whole work be printed and delivered within
months after the printer receives the from the Secretary Of State
proof Is read and corrected in the printing from the
copy old law still in force proof and revise shall be
Office OF the Secretary Of STATE and there carefully
which every printer will readily understand adds little the trouble
and expense Of the work DevuDe G @ The cost Of careful
reading Of proofs be stated at per 900
In this State printing three proofs required two Of them
othe Office Twenty-Five cents thousand will than pay
cents thousand NewJe various for tbs kind Of work
6 thousand already accumulated The
be paid for his supenndeDce fuel interest capital
Which ae on os KIND rt and vii S ae up Is
gsei adsH Of hi. f"d and doab Sd vim Ss
q Ss sA'Ss 1 G p TS. % % 5 s dS .S worn sGI about
be printed from font Of type and my experience fully comedies With bic
5000 impressions upon each suppose the printer
time which sre many as can be done with 600 worth ofps
Items will under the best Of run up the cost Of compost
about the press says average number Of
tokens day work in the best Offices NevYO
ps. yo fU 80 Tke STa OF h
laws on each form twelve which vii suppose all printed
sSs SIS 8 hse .hd received % for s SRo Sss ass
a a i9a e. SS The %bo S cents prot. on M @ Of
Asse@b,y journals the docu%en and pdadns
be0-Brmsatck, NJ J., Peb II, 1871
while protesting to answer the abatement OF THE
TRIBUNE that the printing which now costs the State
nearly $4,000 could be done or at most $50 OoO
Mr. Babcock avoids all OF those parts OF the printing
which were mentioned as specially exorbtant dwes on
the only one Tor which the price paid approximately
just since there Is no fat in the work. and wastes
more space than We can afford him In generalltes We
give all OF his letter that In the remotest degree aecs
the case presented In our Trenton correspondence with
good deal that does not
Mr. Babcock cites evidence that the printnp which
was said to have the State nearly OF quite
did cost S265 81 and thereupon excairns your cor
respondent made slight mistake OF little over S53 0OO
Would II not be well for Mr. BabcOck 10 study arithmetic
n ltlef
And now as to the case which he defends. and on |