, 1889-10-24
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
NEW YORK LETTER.
tFoRA OUR REGULAR CoRREsP..SDkNrl
A Wonderful Press--Working for the
Fair--A Gaeat Memorial
Meeting.

! NEW 1ORk, Oct. IA, 1oS.
With all the material progress which
has been made in this age of labor
saving and wonderful devices, / doubt
if there is any other machine which has
been brought TO greater perfection than
/ the printing press. l am led to this
remark by the fact that most wonder
full specimen of the printing press has
just been completed for one of the lead
i'll papers in this city. In order to con-
vey an idea of its perfection and super
iority it may be proper to state, for the
benefit of those not in the printing line,
| that all newspapers of large circulation
are now printed from stereotype plates
on presses which are fed by one contin-
uous roll of paper. These presses are
called ''perfecting" or "web" press, in
contradistinctiOn to the slower ones,
which are called "cylinder." They
print both sides of the paper at once,
the web going over one set of plates
and under another set. They are in
tended for rapid work rather than fine.
They are untitled for printing illustra-
tions except of very rough kind. The
fine work, such as done on Harper's
Weekly or Frank Leslie's must be done
from copper-faeed electrotypes on cylin-
der presses. An ordinary "cylinder''
press will print about 1,2OO to 500
copies au hour; the "web' press will
Drlnf IN, lo
length of time. This much being under
stood, an idea can now be given of the
superiority Of the new press above re
rerred to. 1t is fed from three rolls of
paper all at once, requires As plates
(each the size Of page) and prints $780,
600 four-page papers an hour. Each
copy is cut, pasted and folded, and the
machine will print paper of any size
from two to 4s pages. 1t is % feet long
and 10 feet wide, and cost the snug for
tune of 100000.
WORKING FOR THE FAIR.
The arrangements for holding the
Worlds FAIR of 1892 in this city are tax
ing more definite shape every day. On
last Thursday was held the second meet
ing Of the full general committee, and
reports were received from the four sub
committees appointed by Mayor Grant.
The finance committee recommends that
steps be taken Immediately to raise a
preliminary fund of s5,O00.0O0, to be
raised by subscriptions for stock. The
legislative committee recommends that
as all plans for an international exposi-
ton must be sanctioned by congress and
the legislature, a petition be prepared
and presented to congress, setting forth
the plan as far as can be stated and ask
ing for a charter as an incorporated
body. The site committee reported as /
have mentioned in previous letter, and
the committee on permanent organiza-
ton recommended Mayor Grant as
president, and the continuation OF the
present committees.
CONGRESSMAN cox REMEMBERED.
A unique memorial service was held
in Cooper Union last Thursday evening,
in memory of the late Congressman S.
S. Cox. The services consisted of a
prayer by the dead mans pastor, Rev.
DIR. P. F. McSweeney; an address by ex-
President Cleveland; the memorial adj
dress by j. Proctor Knott, and benedic-
tion by the Rev. DIR. Gottheil of the
Temple Emanu Ell. The hall was crowd
ed with an immense audience of the
dead mans friends of all creeds and
parties, among them being: Gen w T
Sherman, Mayor Hugh J Grant, Chaun-
cy NJ Depew, Gen Thomas Ewing,
Carl Schurz, Charles A Dana, Postmaster
Cornelius Van Cott. George w Curtis,
Patrick Ford, Gen Roger A Prior and
vice President Levi P Morton.
EDWIN ARLINGTON.