Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-11

justifer is placed double case for sorts. etc..
containing on the operators side italics refer
ence marks etc., and on the justiher's side du-
plicate sorts OF the type played out on the ma
chine. Under this double case, convenient to
both operator and iustifeE, is third case con-
tanning small caps. Any character not played
out from the keyboard is placed in a chute which
delivers it to the disk and it is carried into the
line of the same way as any letter played out
from the machine.
In an iron case in front of the iustifer are held
the spaces required for properly iustifying the
Zines. This case is so arranged that one two or
three OF any particular space can be drawn out
by single motion. The machine is driven by
two small belts, one of which transmits power
to the revolving disk, packer and ejector appa-
ratus' and the other, by means of an eccentric
shaft, operating an index pawl, produces the
step-by-step motion Of the distributor
Three persons are required to operate the ma
bow to load the distributor. Proof co aIe
tons are made in the ordinary way. Among
other decided advantages possessed by the ma
taneously or separately, al will; (2) it only
Quires five feet square for the machine, operator
and justfer; l3l it is simple in construction and
made to the highest standard of mechanical ex-
cellcnce.
For over a year past the entire reading matter
for The Evening Post, an Associated Press daily,
BREWER Thorne machines. Minion machines are
doing very satisfactory work in the Office of the
Chicago Evening journal, and long primer
machine has for some time past been employed
on novel work in the Office of Street & Smith,
the well-known publishers of the New York
Weekly. The West publishing company of st.
Paul, Mimi, the largest law publishers in the
world, employing over 100 compositors, are using
two BREWER machines, and they have ordered
five more for BREWER and two for min
ion. In the Office of the Publishers Printing
company, 1877 William street, New York six of
these machines are now in operation and others
have been ordered, At this establishment sew
eral leading magazines. such as the Forum Cur
rent Literature, Woods Medical Monographs,
ETC., sre likewise set by the Thorne, as have
been 300 books varying from cheap novels to
such high class works as Clarence Cooks ''Art
and Artists of Our Time Several of the offices
referred to are under the jurisdiction of the
typographical union and such machines are
operated by union compositors, while in others
they are operated by girls.
As before stated, the West publishing COM
pany of st. Paul. one of the largest publishing
houses in the world, bought three machines at
first and recently put in six more. The union
struck upon them and compromise was finally
effected on the basis OF twenty cents per thou
sand, to be divided between the team. The op-
orators are now making greater wages than they
ever earned before, and the saving to the pub
fishers is over 80 per cent, as they were paying
between forty and forty-fve cents per thousand
for book work.
recognize anything meritorious in machinery
and adopt it, therefore it will be Of interest to
publishers and printers if stated in this connec-
ton, that at a recent session of the Interna-
tional typographical union in Kansas City, the
following action was taken regarding the use of
type setting machines:
Resolved, that the International Typograph-
zeal union favors the recognition of such ma
chimes as implements which are certain to be
used to the extent to which they can be prac-
tically utilized and recommends that subordi-
nate unions, in cities where the machines have