Smyrna times., 1873-04-23
M SceIIu N e o as.
The Immense Circulation of the N. Y
Herald.
JoHx G. sAxR.

On Saturday week the New York Herald |
printed quintuple edition-ten sheets-and |
issued one hundred and fifty thousand copies |
for that day alone. 1t says:
''The number consisted of twenty pages, that |
is one hundred and twenty columns, of which |
seventy-eight were advertisements and forty |
two reading matter. A 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 allowed, 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 engines of eighty-horse
power are kept in motion by burning SIX tons
of coal in the furnaces. 10 form the stereotype
plates for the cylinders eight tons of type metal
we're 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 cOnsdera-
ton by the average observer, but it required
seven hundred and twenty five pounds to keep
the rollers prepared to leave the imprint of
G their kisses on the eighteen million virgin
d pages that were to glow at daylight with the
|. news. And those rollers were composed OF five
e 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
n presses handling it. Sheet by sheet it i:
d. passed in by the feeders until seventeen tons
or thirty-four thousand pounds, are printed OF
he both Sides If you were to pile those sheets VI
ne one upon the other they would make a monu
ment one hundred and twenty-five feet high
at If you are q curious calculator you may com
~; pute how far the four hundred and fifty thou
nd sand sheets would reach placed end to end. Tn
y; two eighth sheets are each thirtytwo inche
ds by forty-six, and the four-page sheet Thirty tw
'" inches by twenty three. Laid end 10 end, the
Ts i0r would form strip over two hundred an
seventy-two miles long by thirty two inche
he broad They would reach from the Heral
sts Office to Albany and back again. They wOul
reach to Boston, with thirty six miles left for
the trip through the Bay State. They woul
A.. reach to Washington, with enough left after
'H' circle round the White House, the Capitol an
the the Treasury Department for track
the Fredericksburg. Three such issues would rcaC
1--WE 1--we Cincinnati, three and a half would reac
Chicago, and less than six would bring them
s of New Orleans. Placing the four hundred al
sSe sSe Fifty thousand sheets SO as to form squa
they would cover five hundred and fifty tv
ndi million square inches, or eighty-eight acre
t,o Of That is more than all the open squares al
and parks OF the city, exclusive of Central Par
and The area of printed matter would be, OF cours
one hundred and seventy-six acres, and Fl
pom pom such issues would cover Central Park. AS
and and track Of printed matter two pages wide, Of
aiof such issue would reach to Quebec. We ha
itsS ies already stated that the advertisements
the the Sunday filed seventy eight columns Th
asiS covered every line Of business and consists
uch- | of tuo thousooJ o.ro buaJ.oI - A.
cept VI Wv" '"V"o""c ""0 n1iou anu siAty.I'
separate advertisements. Some idea will
formed of the machinery to get those adv,
a., tisements into shape when it is stated that ov
ers,S twenty thousand words Of lads" were tran
'n" mitted on Saturday from the uptown
ss Of Brooklyn branches TO this office by ten telegra
the the operators over the Herdlds xires. We col
'uSs Ss multiply these curious details through gre
Idsd many columns of the Herald, but for {
the present tneSe muSG Sutnce. In this l0urna
Ands, | growing mower resnurces and achiavma
Americans take just pride. Its further dev
) topment in all these things is only matter
:: pending on the growth of our rising nation.