The National tribune., 1882-03-18
Improved Facilities for Publishing
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The Fastest, Largest, and Most
Perfect Press in Washington.
Interesting Description of its
Operations.


zealously in behalf Of the soldiers rights
and contributed, as we believe, in no small
degree towards securing an adjustment o.
many hundreds of long delayed claims
against the Government, has not only been
established on firm foundation, but that its
increased and rapidly increasing circulation
necessitates improved facilities for its publ
cation. 1t is clearly apparent, from the
widely-extended constituency of THE TRIB-
UNE and the accessions that are daily being
made to Its list of subscribers that it fills a
place In the ranks of journalism that has
been hitherto almost entirely neglected, and
that the efforts now being put forth by its
proprietor will still further extend its sphere
of usefulness and add materially to its
influence for good. Fully appreciating the
Importance of not only presenting to our
patrons an entertaining journal replete with
all that interests and instructs, and guarding
zealOusly the interest of those heroes to
whom the Nation owes a debt that it can
never adequately discharge, and also recog-
nizing the necessity of issuing the paper in
tor has had erected expressly for THE TRIB-
UNE one of the most modern printing
presses in use in the United States-the onIy
one of the kind ever utilized by any journal
at the National Capital, and as complete in
all its appointments as those upon which
the great dailies of the country are printed.
The composing room of THE TRIBUNE is
one of the most thoroughly equipped in
Washington, and now that our facilities for
printing the paper rapidly and in attractive
shape-cut, pasted, and folded-are COM
plete, we propose to tell our readers some
thing about the new home of THE TRIBUNE,
and also give them brief description of the
really wonderful invention which turns out
from ten to twelve thousand copies per hour
In an eight page form, or from twenty-five to
thirty thousand papers of four pages
THE SITE SELECTED
as THE TRIBUNE's new home is on the
north side of G street, between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets northwest The Ioca-
ton is one of the most eligible for such a
purpose in Washington, being almost in the
heart of the city, and within stones throw
of the Treasury building. The lot has a
frontage of thirty-two feet and depth of one
hundred, giving ample area for all necessary
purposes. On the rear of this site q new
and substantial brick structure has been
erected, extending across the entire width
of the lot and back distance of sixty-nine
feet In this building we have placed our
splendid Scott perfecting press, together
with all the appendages necessary, including
the machinery for dampening the great rolls
of paper, the stereotyping apparatus &c. A
mailing department, enabling the paper to
be forwarded with the least possible delay
as fast as they are thrown from the press, is
also provided.
The cash outlay involved in this improye- |
ment is in excess of thirty thousand dollars
and the fact that the proprietor of THE |
TRIBUNE feels justified in making this ex-
penditure is, in itself, evidence of his confi- |
dence In the future of this JOURNAL conf |
dence not alone in its financial prosperity.
but in the equally important fact that with |
its wide circulation, both in the city of its |
publication and throughout the entire conn.,
try, its influence in behalf of the soldier will |
be felt in the halls of Congress and full |
Justice be meted out to the gallant men |
whose cause-in the future as in the past
we shall continue to fearlessly espouse.
AS we have indicated, the new press ia a |
MARVEL OF MECHANICAL INGENUITY.
and of modern invention, of compactness.
icif e
the highest skill in it's designer
and builder. Such perfection has only been
reached after years of experimenting. In
1868 the well known Walter press, on
which the London Times is now printed, was
imported into this country. This machine,
two OF which are in use in the United States,
cut the web of paper into sheets after being
printed, which was quite an improvement
over the former style of printing presses
But these machines when first made. did
not fold; and since their introduction MANY
attempts have been made to construct q
machine which would fold the sheets as fast
as they are delivered by the press and work
IN combination with il. In
1872 Walter Scott, of Chicago, invented his
and folding machine, to work
in combination with web-perfecting presses.
Although delayed for some time, vet he was
5he first to produce a machine with one sat
,f folding devices throughout which wopld
fold the sheets as thev came
rom the printing press without reducing IFS
speed. Since then he has made manv inn
which are included in the
TRIBUNE press. The marvellous success at
ending this machine is owing princinalIv ,
o its rotary motion, the folds being made ,
~ revolving creasers. Mr.. Scott also intro ,
luced the pasting and cutting arrangement ,
lie having been the first to combine a print ,
ng, cutting, pasting, and folding machine 1
o that, from roll of paper, perfect copies {
u newspaper are produced automatically,
With the leaves cut and pasted In book form. (
'eSeral makers have constructed combined {
'nntlng and folding machines, but none of t
hem seem to have the same success as Scotts I
machine, probably owing to the fact that 7
ney employ the old method of tapes and I
oilers with vibrating creasers Some have
ven found it necessary to employ two or {
hree sets of folding devices to each press so 9
to get up fair rate of speed. q