Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-31

u
ana the live news was CLEANED from
Tie Northern papers. The editors of
the savannah dailies-there were
tnTee at that time-agreed that il
tne steamers bell rung after 6 o. M.
they would not take their Northern
papers outof the post Office until the
lOlloWlng morning. At the time we
many of the morning papers CLOSED
up their forms by 10 to u D. M, ex-
cept
ON EXTRA IMPORTANT OCCASIONS.
One to two columns of telegraph
news was considered a full service.
W TN many 1t was supposed the ze-
min OF newspaper publishing at
Ieast In the smaller cities-had been
attained. II was generally supposed
Inat the limit OF jUdicI0us eXpendi-
lufe mad been reached. L. had been
With many newspapers. There was
a remarkable decrease in the num-
Der OF papers III tue principal cities. =
Inc increased expenses could not be az
met by an augmented income, and -
t1e question was solved bY the death
OF many Old-time journals. The 3
''tttest survived" The demand for -
later news caused the single cYlin- !.
der presses to give way to the double "a
cylinders. Provision was made fas
against accidents, and duplicate 50
presses, folding machines. engines -
and boilers were added to the costly -
equipments. The telegraph service -
increased gradually from l,S00 words g.
per day until il reached 5000. These So
improvements were gradual. Two g
years ago, with one step almost, an
immense advance was made in
Southern journalism. This change
was necessiUated by the fast mails,
which placed the large dailies of the
North and West on the newsstands
IN many Of the Southern cities some
time during the day after their pub
LEGATION.
The newspapers had been improv-
ING, blt tee peoples desire for news
was still ahead of the supply. The
hTst move TO meet the new state Of
affairs was an increase in the SER
wee OF the Associated Press. The quota
of words per day was increased to al
most double what it had been and bet
ter system Of gathering news established.
Publishers VINO few years grOwled
when their assessments for telegraphing
was $50 per week. The cost Of this SER
vice
INCREASED THREEFOLD,
and where a column or two of
freshly-gatbered news suhiced, a
page and more now scarcely
supplies the demand. The MOREING
NEWS, for instance, in the place OF a few
irregular correspondents, has now al
accredited correspondents. To keep pace
with these improvements the entire inter-
nal arrangements OF the newspaper had
20 be cbeDgEG. v ays and means for a
quicker handling of the immense amount
q news accumuiaung after 9 p. N. had
10 be devised, and, instead of paper
going 10 press at Midnight. the working
hours were advanced clear into the morn
ing. Four O'Clock q. IN. became the clos
Ing hour, Here another difficulty pre-
scented itself-that of now to begin print
ny the edition OF a morning paper at
that hour ana deliver it to all Of
its subscribers at the usual time.
EVERYBODY WANTS TEE LATEST NEWS.
and wants 1t at as early an hour as
/ possible. \ paper mustnot only be printed
on time. but delivered N time, for The
/ average reader Of city papers would as
/ soon 20 without his breakfast as without
| bis taTOTite paper. The question OF pur-
/ chasing new AID expensive machinery to
! overcome the time lost in Waiting for the
| latest news. was the mex 20 present it
! sell 70 the newspaper people Some were
! in dOuss 5 % the wisdom OF investing a
/ large sum ef money ia a peTiecting press,
which might scarcely be put operation
before a better one WIS invented.
The price Of the improved ma
chimes ranged from $4,000 u
: $4,000. The increasing circulations OF
Lhr papers 81 the Northern ami Western
/ critics had long since developed the neces-
( sity for faster machines even tI&E the i'm
mense and 10 cylinder presses then used
/ % print the metropolitan dailies, and as
I snecessity IS the mother Of invention, =
! the peTfecting press was evolved from the
/ thoughts OF many brains. The II ED Per
fecting Press developed new and pre-
sumably
UNDERMINED or FACILITIES.
/ These machines print from az endless
I web OF paper. which once started MO- the
/ machine runs along, as il were, Of lts own
! accord. This dispenses with the fed
! ers." and permits of the papers being
! printed on both sides at the same
time. The idea Of PRINTING
from . long roll Of paper seems
/ ID have occurred TO manufacturers years
, before Ii was successfully applied
The question of original invention II
was patented by Sir Rowland Hill, the "a
nous advocate Of cheap postage, in Eng~
/ land. in 1885 but never came into pfacti-
/ cal use. wilkinson, Of New York. added
various improvements to the Hill ma
| chine between 1912 and 1859. In 1910 j.
! cob Worms, of Paris, patented a sinai
/ machine for book work, in which he use
/ curved stereofyped plates cast from
I curved Matrices made OF PAPER macne
} This invention made
THE PERFECTING PRESS PRACTICABLE
Worms machine, however, was NO
/ q success. because it could not de-
/ liver the sheets after they were printed
! In 1853 Victor Beaumont, of New York
Datented an effective cutting blade
/ which made the delivery Of the
sheet possible. This invention is
now used in all web presses. In 1855
Bullock invented the press called by MS
name. making at that time model from
which fair work was obtained. This
model was fed by rolls of paper at each
| end. double lines of paper passing each
| other at the centre, but no machine was
ever built on this plan. In 1903 Augustus
Applegate, well known English me
cbanic. invented a press something like
A Bullock, but made no provision Tor do
livering the sheet. No machine was eVel
built on his plan. Bullock in the mean
time had not been Idle, and iii 1861 put uI
his first press in Cincinnati. 1t was moi
\ Derfect machine, but it was step In the
right direction, and he finally improved Il
so that his press printed and delivered S,OOI
sheets Der hour. Messrs. X. Hoe ~ Co. haC
NOT been idle. Taking advantage of TIN
exnerinaents of others, and with their thor
ouah knowledge of what was needed by
newspapers, they set to work and produced
a thoroughly satisfactory and rapid per
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