Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-09
BUSY AS BEES.
What is Being Done at the State Printing
Office.

is Being Done at the State Printing
Office.
One of the fnest-appointed printing Of
fees and book binderies in the Union is
that of the State Printing Office in this
city. The large building, from basement
TO garnet, is all in use, and every depart
ment is working full-handed. A reporter
visited that institution and found 100 en-
ployes at work. They are divided as fol-
lows Composing rooms, SO; press rooms,
s; State bindery, official documents, 20 /;
text book press room. s; electrotype room,
4 State textbook bindery-male 20, fe-
male IS engineer, Waterman, janitors,
clerks, etc, II. Total, 1863.
The annual reports of the different State
officers are being printed and bound.
About the most interesting part of this
thoroughly complete institution is the
bindery, where fifty-one lady operators are
al work and about half as many men. The
ladies are engaged in sorting, folding,
stitching and ruling, while the men handle
the heavier machinery, making the backs,
enclosing them, doing the press-work, etc.
The rooms are a marvel of neatness, the
work is clean and the operators, unlike
most workshops, are all neatly and tidily
dressed. Mr.. Cummings, the Superintend-
ent, is very proud of his bindery, and well
he might be, for it is most thoroughly sue
cessful, and then again most any man
would be proud Of the position of Superin-
tendent over fifty such ~fine-looking Young
ladies. Many of the girls when they first
went to work for the State were green hands
at the business, but have since become ex-
pert in the different lines, and now earn
first-class salaries, as well as having learned
a good trade. There perhaps is not another
bindery in the Union where the trade in all
its parts can be better or more speedily
learned than in this. All of the latest and
best improved machinery that is known to
the art is here to be found. All is upon one
floor, and under the management OF those
who thoroughly understand the business,
Yesterday they were working upon the
First Reader of the State series. OF this
book 5000 copies have already been bound.
and they are binding at the rate of 1900
per day. Of the State speller the first edi-
tion Of $4,000 has been finished. OF the
Third Reader 1 200 have been bound. and
5000 are stitched, ready for the covers. All
of the spoilers, some 10000, have been
stitched. The books are sewed with wile,
which makes a strong and flexible back.
The force will finish during the coming
week 10000 First Readers, when they will
take up and complete as many Of the
Third Reader. The Second Reader will be
ready for stitching within ten days. Neither
the Geography nor the Grammar has been
commenced. The Arithmetic is almost
completed, and as soon as the Second
Reader IS finished an edition of 10000 will
be bound. Of the Geography, $4,000 of the
elementary and $4,000 of the independent
course are being prepared. The engravers
are now at work on the last part of the
Second Reader. AS soon as that is COM
pleted, which will be in a very few DAYS,
they will enter upon making the wood-cuts
for the Biographies.