West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-06-04
THE OLD HAND-PRESs.
\ rypc-Eoundry Agents Futile Enort- to
Bring u Into Disrcputr.

brlng " Into DiSrcputr.
\ large man with inustachc brood
ing over his mouth like some great.
National sorrow visited the BcH office
this week. lie was travelling for an
Eastern house which makes a speciality
of printing materials and sight drafts.
He tried TO sell us large press with
wheels on it aud strongly made and
binding chattel mortgage attachment.
lie spoke very highly of this latter
feature and said their mortgages were
never known to break. lie said the
mortgages they were now putting in
for printers i'm the Northwest were
alike satisfactory To themselves and
the sheriff. He also spoke incidentally
OF the press itself and we gathered that
10 was To bc set up and fed with white
paper, which would come out nicely
printed with tariff editorials and urigi-
nal clippings We Judged that either
q Democratic or Republican press
could bc ordered, aud that there was no
extra charge for an attachment to run
in am original poem.
Our first impulse was to seize u pen
and writ" out check sufficiently able
bodied TO cover the cost of recording
the mortgage. turning we caught n
| rcproachful glance from the dark cast
| iron countcnapcc of tho old Washing
ton hand-prcss and deSistcd Part of
the dcsst was caused by not being
| able to call TO mind the address of any
! bank which bad ever put in scaled pro-
| po,als for handling our checks.
To turn the matter off we asked the
man If he had Il sample press with him
| He said he had not Then we said that
we did not believe that his house would
| start him out on the road without one.
! and that 1t was our opinion he had
/ pawncd it, We told him that we pro-
posed to report him and that we had
! no further use for him He seemed
! agitatcd, and after leaving bill for
! some type we ordered of his firm last
week he went out
One of the kind of presses he sells
! doubtless has its advantages, especially
! for use in daily Offices i'm the larger
! places like New York. Still, i'm many
! New York offices where the circulation
| Is chiefly confined TO the affidavit OF
| the business manager il would seem
that the old hand-prcss would not
| he entirely out of place. When the
! press pcddler had formally put on
! his injured look and jumped the
Office we turned 20 the old hand
press with sigh of relief After
all that style of press seems TO
| give the greatest satisfaction No
one can write intclligcntly Of the
power of the press who has not pulled
1t. IL seems To have carly i'm life or
dcrcd IA large consignment of choice.
springy power and to still have most
OF it on hand. II is all used i'm hold
ing back The man who said the press
was the greatest power i'm the world
bad pulled the Washington hand vari-
! ETY. Some people may think that
Washington should have kept right on
crossing the Delaware and freezing to
death at Valley Forge instead of stop
ping to invent balky printing press.
The calm, dispassionatc historian OF the
future who is working by the day will
have 10 decide this point
All this will go to explain why we
still work of the paper on the station
AIRY press when we might have one
which would be amply competent to
! get up on the editorial tripod and put
It's feet ON the table. Some people
may prefer to have a press sitting
around the office blowing about having
more brains than the editor but we DO
not long for it. Give us rather the
simple society of the hand press which
! will not shy at the cars and was never
! known to kick it, hind feet through
! the dashboard ERciiHc (D. T) BcN