The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-02-06
HOW MAGAZINES ARE MADE.

/ have always had desire to know
how our freside monthlies were made,
and SO the other day | determined to
crafty my curiosity, and on casting my
eyes about me, soon fixed upon hoods
household Magazine, as the object of
my visit.
This popular monthly, as perhaps our
| leaders are aware, is published in the
beautiful hillside city of Newburgh, on
the Hudson. Could nature surround
ing beauties in any way affect maya
zine, then Woods, indeed, would be the
grandest in the world
! But it is of my yi;it more especially
| that intend at thi. time to speak. 1t
was on the last day of the old year that
| | presented myself at the editorial sane
tum sancto1Am Of this noted monthly.
The onens we're propitious, and present
! ly was enjoying a social chat with the
| editor of the magazine. A more pleas
ant and retiring man II has never been
my good fortune to meet, and / could
scarcely credit that the modest, UMPIRE
tending gentleman seated in the chair
before me had, unaided by either friends
or money, and under circumstances most
| discouraging, in less than ten years es-
tablished on firm foundation, one of
the most popular Dollar Monthlies' OF
our day.
T Having stated the object of my visit,
MIR. Wood very kinkly volunteered to
initiate me into thu mysteries of the art,
if so we may call it, and forthwith pro-
ceeded TO do, By saying that the first
thing in order was the gathering of ma
terial. | was not little surprised when
he quietly informed me that his mat
ter for the past year cost him no les.
than six thousand dollars. Said he, II
payed Gail Hamilton three thousand dol
lars year: l have given Harriet Bee
cher Stowe two hundred dollars per ar
ticle James Parton fifty Tilton the
same; L. 5. Arthur, one hundred
Horace Greeley. one hundred Joe
Headly, fifty Wakely. thirty; L. K
Beechsr, thirty-six; Virginia Townsend
thirty Harriet Prescott Spofford. sew
snty-6ve. and Rebecca Harding Davis
one hundred and 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
r The material being now all obtained
. 1t Is sent to the composition dc partment
which, being in another street, and no
in his main building We did not visit
The matter being ''set up" the form
f are stereotyped, and the plates are re
turned to the press room, situated on tn
FIRST floor of the main building. In thi
department we found four large bool
presses, valued at from three thousan,
to three thousand five hundred dollar
apiece. The presses print sixteen page
every impression
I The paper being now printed, it
placed upon an elevator in the corner @
the room, and with it we assembled t
the fourth floor. where these sheets @
r sixteen pages were quickly folded b
, means OF large folding machines after
d. by girls, these sheets are then take
where they are gathered, stabbed, an
: stitched.
a And now it remains only to paste o
! the cover, and the magazine is ready 70
mailing, and of course it is no little wor
s TO post over three hundred thousan
magazines. The mailing department
, alone gives constant employment to 81
: female mailers. Mr.. Wood informed U
Il that he mailed thirty bags in a day.
9 La all, the establishment gives employ
j.. ment to about fifty hands. The runnn
expenses of the house must be immense
:, and yet very large subscription lis,
{ enables the manager to send forth Do
( | lar Monthly, that is read and enjoyed
!, no doubt, in thousands of homes froI
Maine to California.
q Should any of our readers ever chanc
:. to come to Newburgh, take our advic
q and see for yourself what we have trie
to describe From the Democratic r,
: publican, Hamilton, n. Y, Jan. 9H
a 1873.