The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-24


say tina on the first days running it WIS put
/ to a speed Of 2,400 an hour. and the motion
was so true that the machinery was almost
noiseless and the slight jar almost imper-
cepsible. We may incidentally say that be-
sides newspaper work our COttren win DO
the finest Of book and job work. No similar
press equals it in this respect. We have in
| our Office several pieces of color work-show-
| ing about % different colors all beautifully
blended together, making handsome pic
ture-all printed by the "Cottrell."
rHE DsxTEa FOLDING MACHINE.
Heretofore no paper in Emporia has ever
been folded by machinery, and We believe un-
til ithIn the last few months no paper in
Kansas has been folded by machine at
tached to the press. AS in the purchase of
the press, so in buying folder, we procured
what We deemed The best. Our folder is
known as .'The Dexter" and is made by the
Dexter Manufac; uring Company" Des
Noises, Iowa 1t was patented in the TALL of
Isl and he latest improvements have
been aided quite recently. Among the
pape,s which are using the Dexter Folder
are the Texas siftings, Peck's Sun, The Chi
eago Interior. Council Bluff Noppareil and
many other well known and widely circnlat-
| ed newspapers
The "Dexter'' is exceedingly simple for
machine which has the duty dcvoiving upon
it OF folding paper perfectly four times and
doing iss work rapidly as The press prints
| the sheets. The printed paper Is carried by
TAPES Directs from the delivery wheels and
deposited folded. ready for the carrier boy or
mail, the various copies being packed to-
gether evenly n the rear OF the machine,
which occupies the space usually devoted to
the Fly" table In printing the first side OF
~. E1n.N
machine to receive the sheets when the In
side pages are being printed, few hours be-
fore the last pages go to press.
The "Dexter'' is all and more than we ex-
pected of it. IT Will fold our
large ten column weekly with
the same ease and speed with which the Cot
treIl press prints it, and will deliver the pa
pers at the third or fourth fold, by an instan-
taneous adjustment. while the press is run
ming. Mr.. Ben Mccain, the gentlemanly rep
resentative of the Dexter company, erected
/ the folder for us and explained the simple
| and wonderful workings and adjustments.
TIE NEWS is the first paper in the state to
introduce the "Dexter,'' and we know no
newspaper man can come into our Office and
sec the folder work without determining in
| his mind that he Will have one If possible
and do his utmost to make the possibility q
| ASOb- LAN OSNtoA AOluSA - AAAASOASO anu ~
mistake.
Our counting machine is q small and SIM
pie continuance patented by II. f. Hart, of
Rochester, New York, and counts the papers
as they are printed and folded, with an &C
curracy beyond the ability of fallible man.
1t makes no mistakes and counts mp to
100000.
OUR POWER.
We have yet to mention the prime mover
and motive power which drives all the ma
ehinery above mentioned and without which
it would be as motionless as "a painted ship
upon a painted ocean" We refer to our
Patent THerk Water Motor. To Emporia
people this machine Is perhaps the mosi
marvellous mechanism that they have the
opportunity of seeing here at home. 1t
stands up next to the wall and occupies nj
more room than a small heating stove-or il
other words-hoor space two feet wide and
three feet long. The working parts, (eXcep
} the governor, valve and belt) are entirely in
visible, being eneased in a strong cast iroI
case about the size of q small wheel to
dray. its power is immense. The pressure
; of the water from our water pipes, rushing
through hole less than three-quarters of ar
inch in diameter against series OF buckets
on q wheel in the interior OF the motor
, drives pRlley belte1 to our shafting. Thi
; wonderful motor is made by tie Tuerl
: Hydraulic Motor Co., Sycamore, H., ant
while the m achine is in ex
tensive use in eastern cities wher
9 there are water works-ours is the first ii
. Emporia The size We have, the largest, 1
1 supposed to equal six horse power engin
: on the lowest pressure carried by the EN-
= porIa water works; on a high pressure IL /
Y eauat to twelve horse power The motor