, 1877-10-19

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tn prevent aay b.uttif < W deiacrmrat
N1a tlry AFs rssIy Soc tl~ cutters. OF
which their hrr three, 81 tFr~sut By
The spt, which 10 TuiAFy cutter, ibe
sheet. are divided oro.srisc in tsn strip.
slnisiuing four postal cards each. The
sheets ps,s throngh this macbiue - rsp.
idly a. one can iO.iow another. The
strips are theu collected In packages Of
one haudred each, the edges are made ex.
sctlv even, and the packages are thea
placed on the iron tables of the cutters,
which sever them in the opposite direc.
tion. Of these cutters there are two, both
known AS the Cranston "under-cut.r Ten
packages of 100 sheets each, after leaving
the rotary cutter, are placed in the ''un'
der-cut;" lever is pulled which sets the
machinery in motion, and up comes
heavy knife with diagonal motion, and
there are 400 postal cards complete in
tsinkling A bit of brass is removed,
allowing the uncut packages to be moved
up proper distance under the knife, and
the process is repeated. The cards are
then taken in punches convenient u be
handled, snd the edges are carefully
brushed to remove all dust and Feather
They then pass into the hands of eighteen
girls, by whom they are counted out into
packages containing twenty-five cards
each. Twenty packages are placed in
pasteboard boxes, which again are packed
in wooden boxes, containing from 1000
to $4,000 cards apiece.
The presses are now printing about L.
100000 cards a day. The contract re.
quires that 100000 cards shall be made
in day if the demand is so great.
1t is not expected that many visitors
will enter the rooms in which the cards
are made, but precautions are taken to
prevent the loss or abstraction of cards.
Every sheet printed is registered by the
press, and the company is compelled to
give an account of every one. If few
cards were lost it would cause consider
able trouble, although the loss might be
trihing. Any cards that are spoiled in
the cutting or detaced in any way are re-
tanned aud destroyed by the Government
Inspector.
The post-office officials in this city do
not regard postal cards with favor, Post
master James expressed the opinion the
other day that they were emphatically
nuisance, and one of the subordinate
officials asserted that postal car DIS caused
a fallipg-Of in the sale of stamps of ST..
900 a DAY. The daily sales Of cards, he
said, would amount to $4,000 on an aver
age; on some days as many as 100000
had been sold. There was, a gradual in
crease in the sale of cards, and this had
been the case since they were first intro
duced Other causes beside the demand
for postal cards had affected the sale Of
stamps, the daily falling-otf in which
amounted to about $4,000. These causes
we're the hard times and the sale of stamps
by country postmasters, which had re-
Gently been exposed Postal cards in
this country could not fail to be loss to
the Government, because they were car
ried so far at triaing cost. In England
they had met with more success on ac-
count of the limited territory over which
they had to be distributed.-NeW York
Tribune.