Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-27

expense OF setting up an extra form, a dupli.
ate of the original form is made to be worked |
ipon one press, while theorIglnal itself is on
he other. This Is effected In the following |
The form being brought down, a |
pulp of papier mache, prepared by some Sc,
,ret process, is spread on ii and beaten into 1t
with large heavy brush. This
process and the hardening Of the mould,
occupies but minute and a half, and when 1t
Is taken off, the form of it, of course, is per-
feet fac simile of the form itself. IL Is then
placed in a sort of a press, and, while yet
pliable is shaped in the circular form in which
1t is necessary the forms should have to accom-
modate themselves to the cylinder presses, and
then the molten type metal is poured In, and in
two minutes more it is cooled, and, being taken
out of the mould, the imperfections which have
occurred in the casting are rectfled, and in half
an hour this form is ready for the press. 1t
wohld require the work of seventy men seven
hours to effect the same purpose as this
little piece of work, which Is done in thirty
minutes"
l give this process somewhat in detail, be-
cause the same method obtains in nearly all
our large newspaper offices in this country,
and this will explain to my hearers the nodus
operandi of very important and very yalua-
BILE discovery.
Two immense ten-cylinder Hoe presses are
now used, and two smaller ones, in the publ.
cation of the Times, making four in all, to
turn off the regular edition Of sixteen pages of
matter. The Applegartb presses, an English
invention, were formerly used, but have been
suppianted by American ingenuity. Eight
sheets are issued from theNorcss every second,
or consuming about two hours in running
off 100000 papers. The aggregated cost
of the four presses, was not far from 800, 900.
When 1t is remembered that 1t was In the
London Times office, in the year 1915, that the
first two cylinder steam press was used, and
by hard work, was made TO print twelve hun
dred impressions per hour, one can readily
perceive the vast and grand advance which has
been made, even in comparatively short Pc
riOd of time,-only sixty-six years in this one
branch of the printing and publishing bnsi-
ness. The whole edition of the Times Is sold
to news men. One man takes twenty-four
wagon loads, or $4,000 papers per day. The
circulation of the Times in London is only
about 25 900, and yet this is more than the
whole thirteen daily papers circulate in
Constantinople. Three hundred news boys can
be seen daily waiting for papers around the
counter. None but the very ablest writers in
Europe are employed upon the Times, and
they are paid literally The best literary
and the best political talent grace its columns.
Even members of parliament write for 1t. tits
noted for its finished and exhaustives articles,
which have gained for it the name of THE THUZ-
DERER, and it is really, all things considered
one of the greatest newspapers in the world
Its annual profit is not far from $500, OOC
to 100000 per year. The Times was
established in 17ss, and is the
oldest paper in London. The daily
Telegraph, started in 1855, has circulation Of
100000 papers per day: the daily STANDARD,
200, 600 per day; the daily Netcs, 160, 900 per
day. The four daily papers in the United
States, which have the largest circulation, Is
the New York Herald, Boston Herald, New
York Sun and New York Ncgs, each having
100000 daily circulation, to offset their English
rivals. The aggregated circulation of the mint
dailes In London, is $4,000 papers per day
against twenty-nine daily papers in New York
| with a circulation Of 65S.OOO. Three papers
| published weekly in London, circulate 100000
each; one $50, 600; two 200, 900 each; two 800,
| 600 each, and one 100000. The four daily
papers in Liverpool, average 45 900 copies pei
day. While, THEREFORE, America has more
papers than Europe by nearly 5000, yet in TIT
| aggregate, the circulation of the papers in thu
two countries are about even, LOndor
| leading in daily circulation, 600
over New York.
| In a general sense the progress of thu
American press has been very satisfactory
One who traces its onward march from the LITTLE
! Meas Letter In Boston, in 1104, up to the pa
| ternal relationship of tine New York Herald, Of
| Sun, the Chicago Times, the Cincinnati Com
n,ercial, or even the Pioneer Press and GLOBE
of this city, is lost in bewilderment at its rapit
| strides, not only in Its materiality, its types
its presses, its necessary adjuncts for business
| but in its overpowering, silent forces it
| brain 1rork-which breathe into life and being
the mechanism and mind-powers of man 10 DE-
| its bidding.
| From a lecture written and delivered sever
| years ago, quote the following, as then some
what prophetic of what now exists:
Thought will fash around the world i,
less time than it took our grandmother to ad
just her spectacles. And while her good oh
husband is engaged pulling on his boots,
flying machine will leave New York and reacl
the shores of Europe. 1t will not be Ion;
before every family will boast of home
machine; every street in our large cities o
its electro motor cars, and every parlor of it
self singing and self-playing piano. TIL
whole country will then be heated by steam
and lighted by gas, brought from the bowel
of the earth, or by electricity drawn from tn
clouds, while the editor who should fail t
supply a reading machine with his news
paper. every day, would be considered an ante
| deluvian, away back in the past generation
Pneumatic tubes will be run from newspape
offices to subscribers houses, and papers, a
! they come folded from the press, will b
sent by air throughout the city, and the ring
| ing of bells at the ends of tn
tubes, will announce their arrival, 81
that important news will be in tn
hands OF the people almost as soon as it come
from the click of the telegraph. Grocerie
and dry goods Will be sent home in the sam
way. Machinery will be invented to take tn
wooden thread and weave 1t into whole suit
of mems clothes, while other machinery o
like nature viii dispense with the everlastin!
stitch, stitch now employed on female ap
| parel, for this is an age Of progress, and VI
| must keep moving. Why. even now the car
run in the streets of New York by compressed
| air, and the horses stand on the sidewalks ant
| laugh at the innovation The telephone is il
! almost every. house; electric lights CLEAN be
| fore us; cities are being warmed by hca
through. tubes in the streets; tn
! printing press and the telegraph are running
neck and neck; papers are delivered by car
| riers on horseback, and l can see no reason
! why the balance of the prophecy SHOULD no
be fulfilled. 1t certainly will be in that of tn
press. We eat by steam live by steam-warn
by .team-print by steam-preach and ever
sing by steam, or some other motive power
and it is useless for Inc TO cry $50 slow" anC
folly to say, "Hurry up"
While, therefore, Philadelphia had the third
paper on the American continent, New Yorl
journalism ranks to-day as first, both in its
energy and in its ability, lis magnitude and il:
| news. My memory of the press of that city
dates back forty years. Then broad sheet
vas published daily, called the Courier ana
Enquirer, edited by James Watson Webb. II
was devoted TO commerce; had heavy leaders
with Il fair sprinkling of news, obtained by
post-riders outside of railroads or telegraphs
as of the former there we're but
a few miles, of the latter, none
Webb fought duel, went TO Europd as a
minister, returned to New York, where he now
lives. The Albany Journal, daily, published
at Albany. was an ordinary sized paper, under
the especial charge Of Thurlow Weed, devoted
almost exclusively tothe politics of New York,
and in subsequent years dabbling largely in the
politics of the nation. 1t was conservative 10
It's tone, and is now. Weed still lives In New
York City. A paper, inferior to the other two,
called the Express, was published daily by the
Brooks brothers, and edited by Erastus Brooks,
who sI,bsnnuenflv hacomp member 0f (-op-