The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-03-27

rivals. What is SO conspicuously true of
this press is also, in less degree, true of
all others turned out by the Campbell Press
Works, which hold confessedly higher po
sitions than most other presses built. In
1869 and 1870 Mr.. Campbell built the
rotary perfecting press, now in use in many
offices. This press is run by three persous5
and 1t is said that none of whom ever had
any experience with a rotary press. 1t is
said that they do the whole work, make the
plates, wet the paper, count it, and print it
at the rate of 10000 per hour.
Some of the first efforts to make a fast
press were on the rotary principle, but for
the want of many improvements in the
arts, or new arts, the enterprise returned
no reward. But since they have been gen
orally advanced, and we find them to-day
as follows:
First, we have the Applegarth & Cowper
press. This is the first rotary or type re-
volving press successfully used, and was
built for the London Times The large
type cylinder was set upon the end, with
the impression cylinders surrounding it.
The sheets were fed to tapes by drop
rollers from feed boards, the same as are in
ordinary use to-day They were then car
ried down until opposite the form, when they
were taken by second set of tapes and
carried horizontally to and around the i'm
preston cylinder and out again to third
set of tapes, which discharged them, where
they are received by hand and arranged by
a fly boy.
r. Hoe & Co. afterwards took this press
and placed all the cylinders in horizontal
position, by which means they avoided the
crooked tapes. They also, in connection
with this press, used the Adams fly. By
these means the press was much simplifed.
There have been other versions Of this in
vention. These presses run about 300
impressions perhour to each cylinder. The
Messrs. Hoe enjoyed the monopoly of fast
presses for some twenty years or more,
when Mr.. Moses S. Beach, of the New
York Sun, designed fast press, which was
built for him by Andrew Campbell in 1860.
1t was able 10 run about 10000 perfect
sheets per hour. There are other inven-
tions of presses that print from 8 8 TO
10000 per hour.
Trials of speed of the fast presses were
made in presence of judges-R. Hoe &
Co. total number of saleable sheets per hour,
1920; Bullock, 1900; Walters, 10,520.
1t would occupy too much space to give
complete history of all presses, and that of
the county presses.
The Baltimore American, double sheet,
printed on the "fastest press in the world, "
so said, is now the queen of beauty in the
newspaper kingdom. However, let us see
how its neighbor compares.
The Baltimore Sun is one of the most
complete establishments in the United
States 1t has sixteen steam presses, from
the old-fashioned screw press, run by hand,
throwing off few hundred impressions, to
the magnificent cylinder printing machines
of the Messrs. Hoe, capable of printing
10000 impressions an hour.
PRINTING EXTRAORDINARY.
1t was regarded as very remarkable
feat of printing, when large newspaper
office in Glasgow, Scotland, issued 1925
600 small hand bills in half an hour. The
Sun JOB Printing Establishment Of Balti-
more, with its superior facilities, can sur
pass that, by printing in the space of one
hour, 3,218,000 such bills, or by over a
million more than "their brothers across
the sea.
The Sun establishment, with its fast run
ming presses, not only runs off large num-
Der of sheets per hour, feeds, cuts as the
iron hands of the great press pass out the
papers folded and counted, they are taken
and delivered to the carriers and the mails.
About month or so ago The World
published chapter on the journalistic rev.
olution in New York. 1t published also
fifteen engravings of the various workings
of that office in every department. 1t is
said to be running ten perfecting presses.
The giant presses, with an aggregate ca
pacity of 1000 eight-page papers per min
ute. 1t is said that there is no establish
ment in America to compare with it.
In November, 1883, The Worlds estab-
ment was but meagrely equipped in all its
departments. In November, 1885, it has
the best machines and appliances of all
descriptions that money can procure or in
genuity devise. As regards present capac-
ity they produce 120,0 eight-page papers
every sixty minutes. The amount of type
in cases of The World composing room is
over seven and half tons on hand. This
roughly estimated comprises about IA, ,000,-
900 pieces of metal A 'sdress" of type
for the paper costs about $4,000. The
motive power of the Worlds establishment
is at present furnished by three large en-
gines The forms are quite heavy, weigh
ing about 125 pounds. The total cost of
the machinery introduced to date by the
present management of the World is about
S247, ,134. Since January 1, 1885, over
105,024 pounds of ink have been used on
the presses. The amount of paper in this
time is 6,579,733 pounds, and the cost of
the same being S344,774.S2. The total
circulation of the World from January l.,
1885, to November l, 1885, was Al Ito, ,606
copies The copies issued since January
/, 1885, would belt the earth nearly eight
times, or, if made into paper bags, would,
as far as size is concerned, contain New
York city from Harlem river to Castle
Garden, houses and people, chimneys and
spires, wharves and shipping, elyated roads
and the Brooklyn Bridge included, and
still afford room for several other munich
palities may continue this some day in
reference to other establishments.
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