River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-02-07
How Magazines are made.

and so the other day l determined to
crafty my curiosity, and on casting my
eyes about me, soon fixed upon Woods
Household Magazine, as the object Of
my visit
This popular monthly, as perhaps
onr readers are aware, is pub lished in
the beautiful hillside city of Newburgh,
on the Hudson. Could natures sur
rounding beauties in any way affect
magazine, then FOODS indeed, would
be the grandest IN the world.
But it is of my visit more especially
that | Intend at this time 90 speak. 1t
was on the last day of the old year that
! presented myself at the editorial sane
tam seactorum Of this noted monthly.
The'omens were propitous, and present
ly / was enjoying social chat with the
editor Of the magazine. A more pleas
ant and retiring man it has never been
my good fortune to meet, and | could
scarcely credit that the modest. unpre-
tending gentleman seated in the chair
before me had unaided by either friends
or money, aud under circumstances
most discouraging, in less than ten
years established on firm foundation,
one Of the most popular Dollar Month
lies Of our day.
Having stated the object of my visit,
Mr.. Wood very kindly volunteered to
initiate me into the mysteries of the
art, i SO we may call it, and forthwith
proceeded to dose by saying that the FIRST
thing in order was thegathering of ma.
cerial. / was not little surprised
when ne quietly informed me that his
''matter" for the pas, year cost him no
less than six tbuusapd dlllars. Said
be, Il paid Gail Hamilton three thou
sand djllar. u year; have given Ilar-
riet Beecher Stowe two hundred dollars
per article; James Parton Fifty; TiItQn
the same; T s Arthur, one hundred,
Horace Greeley, Que hundred; joel
Headly, ffty; Wakely, thirty; I. K
Beecher, thirty six; Virginia Townsend,
thirty; Harriet. Prescott SpofDrd, sew
enty five, and Rsbecca Harding Davis,
one hundred ani twenty-five dollars,
etc. All of these articles vary in
length from one and half to six pages
OF course selected matter does not cost
anything
The material being now all obtained
IT is sent to the compositor's department,
which, being in another streer, and not
In his main building we did not visit
The matter" being "set up" the forms
are stereotyped, and the plates are re
turned TO tho press room, situlted on
the first floor of the main building IN
this department we found four large
book presses, valued at from three
Thousand to three thousands five hun
dred dollars apiece. These presses
print sixteen pages with every impress
sion.
The paper being now printed, it is
placed upon an elevator in tie corner
ofthe room. and with it we assembled to
the fourth floor, where these sheets OF
sixteen pages we're quickly folded BY
means of large folding machines at
tended by girls; these sheets are then
taken where they axe gathered, stabbed
aud stitched
And now it remains only to paste on
the csver, and the magazine is ready
for mailing. aad of course it is no little
work to post over three hundred thou
sand magazines The mailing depart
ment alone gives constant employment
TO six female maiIers. AIr Wood IN.
formed US that he mailed thirty bags in