Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-01

TEE EvEyISG STAR celebrates It's first year in its
new quarters by the Introduction Of a second fast
weI-gri t..E-lnd-folding machine at an additional
cost OF SS.t.o. Last July, when it purchased one
OF the Est presses did not 1o-esee the extraOr-
binary demand which the District OF Columbia
and the adjoining cities AMI towns, for distance
OF ffty miles, would make upon its circulation. 1t
expected q steady growth in increased circulation
and business with its increased facilities but IL
had hardly got underway with the new ma chinery
when the great crime which was eXpiated only
yesterday burst upon the city and country The
second ana third of last July the circulation went
UP with a bound 10 62,OC0 copies, and from that
time on T. the day OF President Garfeld'S death,
when issued IL eco copies, the excess over what
was the regular circulation OF last June meas
ursd only by the events OF the day. Since public
affairs became more settled it expected only
Reasonable Increase. The fact Is, however, that 1t
has permanently retained a large percentage of
that increase which has neceSsitated net only its
being printed more rapidly, But ENLARGED TO
MEET The VERY GREAT DEMANDS UPON IT'S ADvER-
TIsISG SPACE, which every reader OF The STAR has
noticed during the past year. BY putting IN
second machine it is bled print dOuble-sheet
or eight-Dage paper OF fity-siX columns every day
In the week month or the year, il necessary, to
furnish reading matter and advertising space as
well.
TIE SCOTT WEE PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINES.
No paper of any circulation is now printed rom
type. It has been found that type placed upon
large rotary cylinder, such as The STAR once used,
can only make so many revolutions with safety;
and IL IS only duplicating the forms OF type by the
stereotype process, thus making the impression
plate upon which the paper is printed one solid
piece, that increased speed and double forms can
be secured. The Boston Herald, New York Her.
all, New York S'u Philadelphia Ledger, Baltl-
more S1ni The STAR, and all other papers of large
circultion print from stereotype plates, and not
from the type. Then, again, the stereotype plates
can be Clamped To smaller cylinders, which
reyOlve faster than a rotary type cylinder
which must be large to hold the type. Another
important feature OF the stereotype presses is that
they fold the paper as fast rs they print it. This
enables large editions 10 &c handled rapidly and
Delivered promptly.
1thes only been within a very short period that
amachEe has been invented which would print
and fold folio and print and fold the same shape
and size qUartO. The reader viii see that one
being twice large the other, it was naturally
very difficult 70 accomplish this by one machine,
ard IN the fist STAR press this IS partially shown
In the l9l Of the folio AM the double sheet But
Mr.. Scott has solved this problem thoroughly. His
new machine prints four and an eight page
paper. and folds each 50 that they are lust the
SANE -ze when ready for delivery. It does more
than that. r. yoidS az eight page paper, pdSteS one
shat ifse ne ofle- Ike book cltS ope,itte eads
o. each aye Gltd cJ,'S 10 ia bundles Of % 80 on
1OJ rs may b9 desired. Possibly, next year an
attachment VIII be invented furnishing eyeglasses
AM SpTctlc.-s u soHc OF the readers OF THE STAR
who have read 1t during the thrty-one years OF its
existence: though it really seems as If human in
yenticn could go further.
HOW TIE FOUR AND EIGHT-PAGR STARS ARE PRO
DUCED-GILES or STARS.
The form or page OF type comes down from the
coIlF oe.E- TO the stereotype room on an elevator
\ damleaad sheet Of paper about as thick as Orli-
nary biottHs paper Is lii uoon its face and thor
ou5hiy "Hi uniformly beaten into every depres-
Sion with 4 stir brush. over it a second sheet IS
spFeat aai also beaten into it. The page, still on
Its table and covered with this matrx is rolled to
the Cr ng press where IL Is covered with blankets
heated by steam AMI brought under a powerful
screw pressure % dry it. The surface Of the mat
Fix having been prepared with powder to aid the
flow OF the metal, it goes 70 the casting box where
the molten metal IS poured into it and stereO-
type plate IS obtained This is cooled, trimmed
and finally shaved by q machine 10 the requisite
thickness TO be fitted TO the plate cylinder OF the
press In about eleven minutes from the time the
type came down stairs the slab OF metal almost
Too hot for the hand 70 touch, has gone
70 the press, its fifteen fellows ION double-sheet
days. following il at intervals TO be meas
Ued literally by seconds only. Previously the
paper, which comes in webs from three miles
10 four miles and half long, has been run from
one wheel or core to another over water cylinder
This moistcns ii thoroughly at the rate OF from
eBht 10 fifteen miles an hour, and the daInpen
roll Is placed ut the end OF tue press as seen In the
engraving The plates having been clanped on
the type cylinder and the end OF the half ton roll
OF paper drawn up into the press, the machine IS
starred. ON goes the web over a roller which takes
Out all the cre2ses, against cylinder which prints
the nrSt, third, sixth and eighth pages, then over
large cylinder TO the second plate cylinder where
IL Is printed on the opposite side The web thus
printed and cut passes over turner placed NJ
tha
right angles 70 It's former course and down to the
cutting and folding cylinders. These cylinders are
placed 81 right angle to the printing cylinders and
adjusted so cut the webs at the marginal por-
ton imprinted by the printing cylinder and also
10 fOld The sheets thus cut two times. The twice
= folded sheets then pass along tapes TO be subse-
quently folded by two (lf four page paper sets
OF ereaSeFS and rollers These creaSers driven
py an eccentric, which IN turn is driven by eccen-
tr1c gearing. This device gives the creaSer quick
motion, when acting on the sheets and also a
continuous motion, which is much better AMI can
be worked faster than the usual cam movement
When the sheets are thus folded, the one near
est the end OF the machine falls into the receiving
trough; the other travels along tapes, which are
30 timed as tOcause 1t TO meet the following sheet
atthe same point of delivery. The two sheets are
mus delivered together IN the receiving trough.
when by a very ingenious and simple Continuance
they counted into bundles OF s5 so or 100 copies
each. There Is no thunderous rattle or ciang but
smooth, steady hum as the great paper serpent
onwtnds, becomes dark with ink, falls apart into
sections which chase each other with lightning
IKE rapidity over the cylinders, under the folding
blades and into the packing box. When the four
page paper Is being printed the eye cannot follow
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