Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-03
THE NEW YORK HERALD
What One Of Its ouintupie Editions
Means A Few Facts And Figures are
astonishing.

Saturday three weeks, the New York
Herald found it necessary TO print a
quintuple edition--ten sheets--of one hun
dred and fifty thousand copies, aud In an
editorial referring TO II says;
The number consisted of twenty pages
that Is one hundred and twenty columns,
OF which seventy-elght were advertise
ments, and forty-two reading matter.
A detail which will be perfectly new to
non-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 allowed, five re-
taTy Hoe presses o. eight and ten cylin-
ders each and two Bullock perfecting
presses were kept rolling of one thons-
and Impressions per minute. To drive
those huge presses two engines Of eighty
horse power kept in motion by burn
ing six ions of coal In the furnaces. To
form the stereotype plates for the cylin-
ders eight tons oftype metal were melted
down to cast one hundred and forty-eight
plates, weighing when finished aud
dressed thirty-eight pounds each. The
ink ON a single copy would not be taken
into consideration by the average obser-
yer, hut it required seven hundred and
hmNnAN-hNN EOhhbo W AhI AbAAtiH
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 il. Sheet by sheet 1t is passed
in by the feeders until seventeen 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 monument one hundred and
twenty-five teet high.
If you are a curious calculator you
may compute how far the four hundred
aud fifty thousand sheets would reach
placed end to end. The two eight-page
sheets are each thirtytwo inches by
forty-six, and the four-page sheet thitty-
two inches by twenty-three. Laid end to
end, they would form a strip over two
hundred and seyenty-twO miles long by
thiriy-twO inches broad. They would
reach from the Herald office 10 Albany
and back again. They would reach to
Boston. with thirty-six miles left for a
trip through the Bay State. They would
reach to Washington, with enough left
after circle round the Wkite House, the
Capitol and the TFeasury Department,
for a track to Fredericksburg. Three
such issues would reach Cincinnati, three
and a-half would reach Chicago, and less
than six would bring them to New
| Orleans. Placing the four hundred and
| flty thousand sheets so as to form a
square they would cover aye hundred
and fifly-two Million square inches, or
eighty 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 hundred and seventy-slx
acres, and five such issues would cover
Central Park. AS track of printed
matter, two pages wide, one such issue
would reach to Quebec.
We have already stated that the adver-
tisements on Sunday filed seventy. eight
columns. They covered every line Of
business and consisted of two thousand
nine hundred and sixty-two separate ad-
vertisements. Some idea will be formed
of the machinery to get these advertise
ments into shape when 1t is stated that
over twenty thousand words Of "ads''
were transmitted on Saturday from the
uptown and Brooklyn branches to this
office by ten telegraph operators over the
Herdld's wires. We could multiply thest
curious details through great mauy
columns of the Herald, but for the pre-
sent these must suffice. In this journal
growing power, resources and achieve
.. ments Americans take Just pride. IT.
,, further development in all these thing
= is only matter depending on the growtl
Of our rising nation"