Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-24
Some Herald Quintuple Notes for
the Curious.

luC Sui lOtaSs
With the p; omtitude which charac-
terizes the American mind when bent
on inquiry number of letters on the
subject of Sundays quintuple issue of
the Herald have reached us. Queries
reaching frsn the roof down to the
inmost Tsciapss Of the cashiers depart
ment have poured in upon rs, and in
Difference to the wide wish we present
a few replies. The Sunday edition was
one hundred and fifty thousand copies.
The number consisted of twenty pages,
that is one hundred and twenty columns,
of which seventy-eight were advertise
ments and torty-two reading matter.
\ detail which will be perfectly new to
professionals is. that to produce
one hundred and fifty thousand full
copies it was necessary to take nine
hundred thousand impressions. To
accomplish this, in the short time al
lowed, five rotary Hoe presses Of eight
and ten cylinders each and two Bullock
perfecting presses were kept rolling off
one thousand impressions per minute.
TO drive those huge presses two en-
gines Of ei"hty-horse power are kept
in motion by burning six tons Of coal
in the furnaces. To form the stereo-
type plates for the cylinders eight tons
of type metal were melted down to
cast one hundred and forty eight plates,
weighing when finished and dressed
thirty eight pounds each. THE ink on
single copy would not be taken into
consideration by the average observer,
but it required seven hundred and
twenty-five pounds to keep the rollers
prepared to leave the imprint Of their
kisses on the eighteen million virgin
pages that were to glow at daylight
with the news And those rollers were
composed Of five hundred pounds Of
glue mingled with one thousand pounds
Of honey. Then the virgin pages-the
paper on which all this is printed.
There are eighty men and boys about
the presses handling it. Sheet by sheet
it is passed in by the feeders until sew
cntcen tons, or thirty-four thousand
pounds, are printed on both sides. If
YOU were to pile those sheets up one
upon the other they would make a mon
uneut one hundred and twenty-five
feet high If you arc curious calcu-
lator you may compute how far the
four hundred and fifty thousand sheets
would reach placed end to end. The
two eight-paee sheets are each thirty
two inches by forty-six, and the four
page sheet thirty-t two inches by twen-
tv-thrce. Laid end to end, they would
form a strip over two hundred and sew
entv-two miles long by thirty-two
inches broad. They would reach from
the HeraId Office to Albany and back
again. They would reach to Boston,
with thirty-six miles left for trip
through the Bay State. They would
reach to Washington, with enough left
after a circle round the White House,
the Capitol and the Treasury Depart
ment Tor a track to Fredericksb sburg.
Three such issues would reach Cincin
natl, three and a half would reach
Chicago, and less than six would brlng
them to New Orleans. Placing the
four hundred and fifty thousand sheets
50 as to form square they would COW
er five hundred and fifty-two million
square inches, or eichty-eight acres.
That is more than all the open squares
and parks Of the city, exclusive Of
Central Park. The area of printed
matter would be, Of course, one hun
dred and seyenty-six acres, and five
such issues would cover Central Park.
As track Of printed matter, two pa
ges wide, one such issue would reach
to Quebec We have already stated
that the advertisements on Sunday fill
ed ed'teventy-eight columns. They COW
cred every line Of business and consist
cd 'Io5ff' soff two thousand nine hundred and
sixty y-two separate advertisements. Some
idea will be formed of the machinery
to Get those advertisements into shape
when it is stated that over twenty
thousand words of "ads'' were trans
mtted on Saturday from the uptown
and Brooklyn branches to this office by
ten telegraph operators over the Ter
aId's wires We could multiply these
curious details through great many
columns of the Herald, but for the
present these. must suffice. In this
journals growing power, resources and
achievements Americans take Just
pride. Its further developments in all
these things is only matter depending
on the growth Of our rising natlon.--
~ 7. Herald.
When we have done that we came
for, it is time for us to be gone. This
earth is only made for action, not for
fruition; the services Of Gods chill
dren should be i'll rewarded if they
must stay here always. Let no man
think much that those are fetched away
which are faithful to God !; they should
not change. if it were not to their pre-
ferment 1t is our folly that we would
have good men>live forever and ac-
count it hard measure that they
were. He that leads them to the world,
owes them a better turn than this earth
can pay them. 1t were injurious to
wish that goodness should hinder any