The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-08
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY 1s7s-QUADRUPLE

APRIL 8, 1873.-QUADRUI
district by majority of ], 249-a gain of forty
seven over the democratic vote of last year.
The gains Of the opposition, SO far as reported
this morning, are upwards Of 5000, including
about 1900 of the temperance vote.
Some Herald Quintuple Notes for tho
Curious.
With the promptitude which characterizes
the American mind when bent on inquiry
number of letters on the subject of Sundays
quintuple issue of the HERALD have reached
U.S. Queries reaching from the roof down
to the Utmost recesses of the cashiers depart
ment have poured in upon us, and in defer
ence to the wide wish we present few replies
The Sunday edition was one hundred and fifty
thousand copies 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 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 rotary Hoe presses Of eight and
ten cylinders each and two Bullock per-
fecting presses were kept rolling off one thou
sand 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. TO form the
stereotype plates for the cylinders eight tons Of
type metal were 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 consideration by the average observer,
but it required seven hundred and twenty-five
pounds to keep the rollers prepared to leave
the imprint of their kisses on the eighteen
million virgin pages that were to glow at day
light 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 ham
ding it. Sheet by sheet it 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 feet high. If you
ore q curious calculator you may compute how
far the four hundred and fifty thou
sand sheets would reach placed end to end
The two eight-page sheets are each thirty-two
inches by forty-six, and the four-page sheet
thirty-two inches by twenty-three. Laid end
to end, they would form strip over two hun
dred and seventy-two miles long by thirty-two
inches broad. They would reach from the
HERALD Office to Albany and back again.
They would reach to Boston, with thirty-six
miles left for trip through the Bay State
They would reach to Washington, with enough
left after circle round the White House, the
Capitol and the Treasury Department for a
track to fredericksburg. Three such issues
would reach Cincinnati, three and half
would reach Chicago, and less than six would
bring them to New Orleans. Placing the
four hundred and fifty thousand sheets so
as to form square they would cover
five hundred and ffty-two million square
inches, or lightweight 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-six 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 advertisements on Sunday filed seventy
eight columns. They covered. every line Of
business and consisted Of two thousand hine
hundred and sixty-two separate advertise
ments. Some idea will be formed Of the
machinery to get those advertisements into
shape when it is stated that over twenty thou
sand words of 'ads' were transmitted on
Saturday from the uptown and Brooklyn
branches to this Office by ten telegraph
operators over the HERALD's wires. We could
multiply these curious details through great
many columns of the HERALD, but for the
present these must suffice. In this journals
growing power, resources and achievements
Americans take just pride. Its further devel-
opment in all these things is only a matter
depending on the growth of our rising nation.
Affairs AT THE LAVA BEDS, according to
the HERALD special dispatches published
to-day, are anything but satisfactory. Judge
Rosborough and Mr.. Meacham, of the Peace
Commission, had lengthy interview with
Captain Jack and select party of Modocs on
Friday afternoon, the 4th inst, at which the In
dian Chief stated his desire to remain in the lava
beds, promising, in the event Of any change in
the Modoc Council to the contrary, to send and
inform the peace men the same day. No mes
senger came, consequently it would seem they