Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
A BIG GRATUTrOUS PUFF.
The Most Complete Printing House
In the State of Kansas.



Machinery which Prints, Cuts, Pastes and
Folds Forty Eagles" per Minute
Automatically.
So kindly has been the interest taken by
the patrons and friends of the EAGLE in the
past in all its improvements and increased
facilities, an interest which has at all times
amounted to personal pride, we take pleas
ure this morning in describing some of the
new additions which have been made TO the
offices The first thing is
CRANsToN TWO REVOLUTION PRESS
which, with its attachments weighs upward
of eleven tons. This press is undoubtedly the
finest and most perfect printing machine ever
sold or put up in the state of Kansas. The
press was made to order at the Cranston
works, in Norwich, Connecticut Every
casting employed being thoroughly tested be-
fore being allowed to go into the machine
1t was three months in course
of construction, and two-thirds of all the cast
ings made for it were condemned for one rea-
son and another, SO that when it was COM
plete it was not only the heaviest and strong
est, but most complete machine, probably,
ever turned out by the works. So determin-
ed was Mr.. Cranston that there should be no
mistake and that the press should hold its
claim of being the finest in the state that he
sent an expert, Mr.. James F. Foote, all the
way out from Connecticut to see that there
should be no mistake made in putting it up.
When all ready the belt of a counter shaft
was shifted to the new machine when it NOV
ed off without noise or trouble of any char
acter, the very poetry of motion. The many
expert machinists who have dropped in, all
unite in saying that the fact of a machine
weighing upwards of ten ton should move off
with less noise and less jar than a sewing
machine is almost marvellous. As for the
work it does, is it not now right under your
very eyes! Mr. j. H. Cranston, the inventor
of the machine, is the proprietor of the works
in which it was made. As none of the
two-revolution presses now in use met our
ideas of fast press, and as Mr.. Cranston had
built us a couple years since, combination
book and job press which has in its work
surpassed any drum cylender press we ever
saw, we laid our wants and ideas before him.
His reply through his general western agent,
Mr. Walter A. Potter, of Topeka, that he
could meet our demand, was a guaranty suf-
ficient that we should not be disappointed but
that we should be able to boast the most COM
plete press in the state, which boast we here
and now make.
THE DEXTER FOLDER, FASTER AND CUTTER
automatically takes the EAGLE as it comes
from the above machine, pastes, folds and
cuts the sheet, depositing the paper, COM
pleted as it reaches your hands, in packing
box at same rate and exactly as fast as they
are printed, is known as the Dexter Folder,
and is an intricate piece of machinery made
up of cogs, knives, pulleys cams and tapes,
but so delicate in its makeup that the whole
attachment weighes less than eighteen hum
dred pounds To describe this machine or
its work would be impossible. How forty
papers per minute can be cut in two, pasted
and folded as you see it, without tearing the
dampened sheets all to pieces would seem i'm
possible. Each sheet is successfully but I'M
erriningly snatched by steel fingers and tapes
and swiftly whipped this way pulled through
that way, doubled up another way run
through the paster and cut and dropped into
the packing box beneath the floor before you
can say sack Robinson"
THE OTTO POWER.
The power which will drive the above is
known as the Otto Gas Engine a machine
manufactured by Schelicher, Shuman & Co,
a powerful engine run entirely by the caloric
or explosive power of Illuminating gas, and
which while maintaining one exact motion,
regulates automatically its consumption of
gas. We have steam engine in connection
with the establishment, with this Otto Engine
there is no boiler, no steam, no explosion, no
coal, no ashes no pumps, no engineer, no
dangerr and no extra insurance. When
once started it runs itself.
- METROPOLITAN ESTABLISHMENT.
Taking the fine power presses, the two en-
gines, power paper cutter and power du-
pick ruling machine and one power multiplex
ruler, together with the two ging machines
and the other cutters, etc, ETC., the EAGLE
Printing House is the most complete job
book and newsper publishing house in the
state of Kansas, employing continually from
forty to fifty people, its running expenes be-
ing upwards of seven hundred dollars per
week. The EAGLE started nearly fifteen
years ago as the handsomest weekly paper in
the state, published at that time in border
village. Its character as a newspaper-as a
of Wichita, had much to do
with the city's subsequent triumps. As an
influence besides, in the development and
of this great valley, it has been
second to no other. These new improve
ments new OUTLAWS and this new form there
fore is but an earnest of our endeavor to keep
up with, if not at the head of the procession.
Furniture of seven room house, all or any
portion Apply at northeast cor. Topeka and
First street 53S3t
The board of education will receive sealed
bids for the purchase of three lots on Court
street until August =, 1856. reserv ing the
right TO reject any and all bids
dSS6t c. A. WALKER, Clerk.