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

been or shall be introduced, take speedy action
looking TO their recognition and regulation, en-
deavori1g everywhere to secure their operation
by union men, upon scale of wages which
shall secure compe nsation equal to that paid
hand composition, Adopted.
At Denver the foil owing general law was en-
acted.
1.-THE International typographical union &i-
reefs that in all offices within its Jurisdiction
where type-setting machines are used, practical
printers shall be employed to run them; and also
that subordinate unions regulate the scale of
wages on such machines.
The saving in distribution alone is 20 per cent.
which represents an average of about ten cents
on the 1000 ems. For instance, daily paper en-
ploying force of thirty printers would effect a
saving with the Thorne type setting ma
chine of from $3.50 to $500 per week. A
large country weekly could be set up in
for use in brief work at extra the balance of the
week. A practical newspaper man estimates
that the saving in good weekly paper employ
ing from three to five printers would be from $50
to SIPS per month, and in addition the paper
would increase the amount of its matter 100 per
cent. Why the publisher can run weekly pa
per all by himself without calling in Sallie and
the babies to help him.
The Chicago Inland Printer. in late issue
upon the subject of type-setting machines says,
THAT the ThoTne is the only one that is per-
pect success. might add that the Chicago In
land Printer is considered the best journal for
publishers in the United States; COM
mittee from the Printers Register Lon
don. who had been examining into the merits of
the Thorne machine-in an editorial report of
some eight columns IN their April issue, sums
mp: 'That the great publishing house of Allen,
Scott & Co., who among other features publish
It'd Bits and Answers, periodicals.. with phe-
nomenal calculations, have many Thorne ma
chimes stating that it is evident that unless re-
munerative, the Thorne would not be permitted
to cumber ground, have in the heart Of the city
of almost fabulous value, adding that they
found several machines in the Manchester Even
ing News. Allow me to say in conclusion:
/. The Thorne is thoroughly adapted for all
kinds of book and newspaper composition, with
the exception Of headlines and displayed adver-
tisements.
2. All sizes of body type, from nonpariel to
plea, are set with equal facility, although any
given size of the machine will set only its cor
responding size of type
3. Ordinary type, as it comes from any foun-
dry, is used, but 1t must be especially 'nicked''
before its introduction into the machine; and it
Is proper to remark that the Thorne company ia
using at its factory, and has supplied to several
type founders nicking machine by which at
nominal cost any size OF type may be quickly
and properly nicked.
4. The shortest ''takes'' can be handled as ex-
peditously on the machine as by hand compost
tors, which feature Will be especially appFecia-
ted in its use by daily newspapers.
o. The speed attained by the machines in daily
use in the Office of the Hartford Post averages
nearly 5000 ems per hour to each machine, under
the severe conditions imposed here: but the re-
room have resulted in the deliv cry on
zalleys Of more than 5000 ems in 3 single hour.
The capacity of the machine is dependent SIM
ply upon the expertness OF the person oper-
ating it.
6. The economy Of using the Thorne machine
in that office from January l, 1889, to January l.
1890. as determined by the payroll Of the COM
posing room during that period, and by COM
evening papers in Hartford has been equivalent
TO AZ. per cent This result Will vary in other
localities according to current rates OF wages
and VII range from e Der cant. IN places Hhern