Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-19
Press and Mailing Room.

| The location of the press room is new
departure from usage in metropolitan dallies.
! Instead of setting the presses underground,
| rs has been customary, space 3Oxi5
| feet was set apart on the
northwest corner Of the ground floor divided
| by partition. In one of these rooms the
two lightning presses of THE BEE are in full
operation, while the other room, with access
directly to the mail wagon on the 20-foot al
| ley, is used as the mailing room.
The ground floor, on which the press room
| is located, rests on 12inch steel beams,
| arched with brick and covered with bed of
concrete. This support would have been
ample, but IN order to render the vibration
| incidental to the rotation of presses harmless
| to the walls of the buildings, separate walls,
resting upon the ground III the sub basement,
and running transvcrsely between the steel
beams, up to level of eight inches above the
| first floor, were constructed. Upon these
walls the frames of the presses rest and sup
port the entire weight The result is that
the presses are comparatively noiseless and
run without the least contact with the main
walls of the building.
With its five windows on one side and
| three transoms looking directly into the
court, the press room is as light as the COM
posing room, and will require no artificial
lighting between dayorcak and sundown.
| Another feature of this press room is that
there is no overhead shafting or betting. The
| belts that connect with the main shaft come
up from the engine room in the sub.base-
ment through the floor over the main pulleys
| Two large vaults connected directly with
the press room, furnish ample facil-
ties for the storage of inks, lubricating
| Directly in the rear of the press room is a
broad passageway leading to the freight and
plate elevators-tbe former, down to the
paper storage vaults in the sub-basement;
the latter, up to the stereotyping room. The
| freight elevator also can be utilized for
sending up large numbers of plates from the
press room whenever they accumulate.
Two Scott web-perfecting presses are en-
ployed. These magnificent machines each
have capacity of 1900 elght-page and 2i,-
600 four-page papers per hour. They were
built expressly for The BEE by G. Potterj r
& Co. at their factory at Plainfield, M j.
These two presses have a capacity OF 24,-
600 eight-page or $4,000 four-page papers per
hour, printed, folded pasted and counted.
The press room is IN charge Of Fred
Youugs, who commenced his career as
pressman at The BEE office about ten years
ago.
AS has been stated above, the mailing
room is practically an annex of the press
room. 1t is well lighted by windows on two
sides and transoms on a third side. The
mailing clerk is In position to throw the pa
pers upon the wagons in the alley. A new
feature has also been introduced in this de-
partment Ordinarily mailing tables are
merely planks nailed TO wooden frames. Iu
this room the tables are polished marble
slabs resting upon frames of wrought iron.
The advantage of these IS that the tables are
indestructible by fire and their perfect
smoothness greatly facilitates the work Of
wrapping. Besides this, such mailing tables
can be cleared Of all paste which adheres to
wood.
The magnitude OF the work performed in
the mailing-room will be readily appreciated
when it is stated that nearly 0,000 copies
Of The BEE are stamped and mailed there