Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

l nave IlWaNS mao Il QeSlFt ~ MO"
how our tireside monthlies are made,
and 50 the other day | determined o
satisfy my curiosity, and on casting
my ewes about me, | soon fixed upon
Woods Household Magoz,ne, as the
object OF of my visit
This popular monthly, as perhaps
our readers are aware, is Published IN
the beautiful hillside city OF Newbulgh,
Oh the Hudson. Could natures sur
rounding beauties in any way effect
magazine, then Woods, indeed
would be the grandest in the world.
But it is Of my visit more especially
! that I intend at this time to speak
| It was on the last day Of the old year
that presented myself at the editorl-
al sa2}ctuna sohcto2An1 Of this noted
monthly. The omoas were propitiors
and presently | was ENJOYING social
chat with the editor of the magazine
A more pleasant and retiring man it
has never been my good fortune to
meet, and l could scarcely credit that
the modest, unpretending gedtlemaE
seated in the chair before me had,
unaided by either friends or money,
and under circumstances most t!Ascour-
aging, III less than ten years establish
ed on firm foundation, one of most
popular Dollar Monthlies Of the day.
Having stated the object Of my Wis
it, Mr. Wood very kindly v2lunte r
ed to initiate me into the mysteries
of the art if so we may call it, and
forthwith proceeded to do, by saying
the first thing was the gathering
of material l was not little sur
prised when he quietly :Aformel1 me
that his matter for tie past year
cost him not less han six thousand
dollars. SAID ne, Il paid Gail Ham
ilton three thousand dollars q year !;
nave given Harriet Beec.ler Stove
two hundred dollars per article !;
James Patton fifty; TilteA the same
T. s. Arthur one hundred Horace
Gseely one hundred Joel Ilea1ly,
fifty; Makely, thirty Y Beecher,
, thirty-si Virginia Townsen, thirty
Harriet Prescott Spohord, seventy
Eve, and Rebecca Hard ing Davis, one
hundred and twenty-five dollars, etc
All these articles vary from one and
half t, SIX PAGES. OF co; rs, select
ed matter does not cost any thing.
The material being now obtained
it is sent to the composltors de-
partment, which, being on another
street, and not in his main building
we did not visit. The Matter being
set up, the forms are stereotyped,
and the plates are returned to the
: ass room, situated on the FIRST floor
of the main building. In this depart
ment we found four large presses, val
ued at from three thousand to three
thousand five hundred dollars apiece
these presses print sixteen pages with
every impression.
The paper beng nov printed, it is
! placed upon an elevator in the corner
! of the room, and with tive assembled to
the fourth floor, where t.ese sixteen
pages We're quickly folded by means OF
large folding machines attended by
girls these are then taken where they
are gathered, stabbed, and stitched.
And now it remalnes only to paste
on the cover, and the magazine is rea-
dy for mailing, and of course it is no
little work to post over three hundred
thousand magazines. The mailing de-
partmont alone gives constant employ
ment to six female mailers. Mr.. Wood
informed us that he mailed teirty bags
in day.
In all, the establishment gives employ
ment to about fifty hands. The run
ing expenses of the house must be i'm
mense, and very large subscription
list enables the manager to send forth
a Dollar Monthly, that is read and en-
joyed, no doubt, in thousatds of homes
from Maine to California.
! Should any of our readers eve,
chance to come to Newburgh, take
ous rdvice and see ;or yourself what
we have tried to describe-Ffoan til,
Democratic Repubhcan, Hamilton, "
Y, Jan. 9th, 1878.