Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-23
DECEMBER as. 1880
Weather Forecast,
THE REcoRD-UNIoNp FOR 1891.

from the Goss PRINTING Press Company of
Chicago, standard size web perfecting
lightning press and complete stereotyping
outfit. The press, an elaborate description
OF which will appear hereafter, was made
to the special order of the RECORD. UNION.
and ranks with the foremost presses of the
age, being deficient in no essential or device
that inventive genius has yet designed or
the needs of publishing demanded for the
rapid and perfect printing of a newspaper.
This splendid example of mechanism
will be put in place in few days, and the
REcoED-UNIoN will then appear in a new
form 1t will contain six pages daily, for
six days in the week, the pages being cut
and pasted, so that there will be no more
annoying folding and unfolding of uncut
sheets. The SUNDAY UNION will appear
In an eight-page form of cut and pasted
pages, while the old style eight-page Sat
urday RECORD UNIoN will be displaced
by the six-page form. There will thus be
given to readers of the RECORD UNION
twelve additional pages of matter in each
week of publication, or 624 in year. The
WEEKLY UNION, which has so long been
an eight-page paper, will be enlarged to
twelve pages, cut and pasted
There has been added to the outfit Of
the REcoRD-UNIoN Office also complete
new dress of type, rules and all the things
essential to frst-class newspaper Office,
all OF the latest and most approved styles.
The type has already been 'laid," and will
be used for the first time when the press
does Its first regular work. The fine dress
OF type and material, which for clearness
and general excellence is not surpassed by
any, was made 10 the special order of the
RECORD UNION by MacKellar, Smiths &
Jordan's Foundry of Philadelphia, and
purchased through Tatum & Bowen of San
Francisco.
In the basement story of the RECORD
UNION Office foundation of complete
solldity and great strength has been laid
for the new press, which will thus be
wholly disconnected from the floors and
walls of the building. This distinct
foundation rises nearly to level with the
ground floor, upon which, also resting
upon an independent substructure of solid
masonry, a new and powerful steam engine
has been placed, it coming from the manu-
factory of NJ. r. Rose Sacramento, and
was made to the special order of this
paper. Upon the third floor of the build
ing stereotyping-room has been fitted
up, with furnaces, iron floor and all neces-
sary attachments. Power is conveyed
from the engine below, through an exte-
rior power-channel, to this stereotyping-
room, and the plates descend to the press
room by means of an elevator.
We barely refer to these matters now,
which will be described in detail at a later
day, to indicate what changes in the ap-
pearance of the RECORD UNION, WEEKLY
UNION and SUNDAY UNION will presently
be made. The new material and ma
chinery will enable these papers to go to
press much later than heretofore There
will, therefore, be much additional time
gained in which to receive news and send
it to print, and as result our readers
will be given the great benefit of much
more extended Geographic news reports
and accounts of local events happening at
or after an hour at which the RECORD
UNION has heretofore been sent to press.
The news facilities of the RECORD
UNIoE-coast, Eastern and foreign-are
not surpassed by those of any journal
upon the coast, but we have been unable
in the past to publish news as fully as we
desired, solely because of the necessity Of
going to press at an early hour and the
comparatively limited speed of the presses
heretofore employed. With stereotyped
forms and lightning press capable o.
Issuing 10000 papers an hour, cut, pasted
and folded ready for delivery or for mail
1t will be seen that the news-printing ca.
pacity of the RECoRD-UNIoN will be de.
veloped.
No feature of this journal that has dis.
tinguished it in all the past as a clean
fearless, independent news journal, will be
found lacking under the new conditions
but there will be added new department,
one which will be exclusive to the RECORD.
UNIoN-the publication in full, with such
rapdity as it is possible to attain, of the
full text Of the opinions filed by the Su
preme Court of the State The Justices Of
that tribunal have been requested, and
doubtless will do so, to send down these opin.
ions with authoritative syllabi, which We
will reproduce at the head of each opinion
These decisions cannot be SO early OBJ
tanned in any other journal, and will mo-
appear in any daily newspaper in the
State, until the REcoRD-UNIoN has pub
Iished them. The legal fraternity will
readily understand how valuable to then
will be this new feature of the RECORD
UNION, or rather, this resumed feature
for in earlier years, when the Supreme
Court was located at the Capital, we pub
lished the Supreme Court opinions a
rapidly as rendered, and in full.
In a few days, therefore, the RECORD
UNION, SUNDAY UNION and WEEK.,
UNION will appear in their ney
dresses, from a lightning press of tn
first order, and with greatly amplife.
means for giving the news to tn
people. The papers named, by the en-
Iarpement made, will afford all the dc
partments more space, and as natura
result there will be greater spirit an
more of energy manifest in all tn
departments of the journal. Thu
with all the restrictions removed tina
inadequate space rendered necessary, ther
will be work done in the several dep ar
ments that will give to our readers tn
news more in detail. enlarge the quantit
and broaden the variety; and the same vi
prove true of all the general reading ma