The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1891-11-19

Sp0keS from the Hub.
WHICH II is HOPED WILL NOT MAKE TIE READER
TIRED.
Oar downeast milliners and dressmakers visit
Boston at least twice year to inspect the latest
fashions and the newest novelties and no doubt
to the benefit of themselves and their customers
The down east editor would do well to follow their
example. The evolution of the newspaper is con
stantly in progress Just now the tendency is in
the direction of smaller pages and more of them
but in the case of the Sunday papers it is to be
hoped that, in the latter direction, the limit has
been reached. In printing machinery there is an
even greater revolution. The big dailies outgrow
their presses and call upon K. Hoe 4 Co., for
4 what would seem to be impossible but only to
have a machine produced that fully meets their
| requirements. For example, the New York Herald
has had press built by Hoe & Co. that will pro
| duce 10000 complete newspapers per hour At
one end Of the machine is roll OF white paper at
the other end the complete newspaper of l6 pages,
more or less, folded, trimmed and pasted, is turned
4 out AT the rate of more than Thousand copies
| per minute Think of it, AS the Hoe presses
never out, 1t will naturally be asked what
becomes Of the machines capable Of printing 30 :
4 900 to $4,000 per hour which the Herald dlscards.
| Well, they go first to the shops of the company
and undergo the process of rebuilding. That is
the word used, but In fact they seldom need more
than general overhauiing. Then they 90 to
some newspaper to be used in place of presses of
less capacity and 50 the process of exchange goes
on, and While the first cost Of these web perfect
ing presses Is large, the smaller dailies get their
second hand, but really first class machinery on
very reasonable terms The New York Herald
would pay at least 100000, and probably a good
deal more than that, for the press mentioned
above, and The machines they discard will go into
new hands at less than fifty per cent Of the origi-
nal cost
/ A short time spent In the Office OF W +. Smart,
/ l93 Devonshre street, Boston, the New England
Agent of r. Hoe 60, would convince you that
/ the demand for faster presses, and the exchange
of machinery, is not coniine to the great cities.
/ Nj Smart has been in the employ of Hoe 4 Co.
for eighteen or twenty years, and believe he can
I tell you to-day Just what machinery Is used, its
condition and capacity IN all the newspaper offices
/ OF this section. DO you wish to make change or
exchange, it must be difficult problem indeed
that he cannot solve promptly and satisfactorily.
| Tell him Your wants and he will supply them, and
in dealing With him, or the house he represents an
| ron-clad contract is not necessary. The word Of
4 X. Hoe X Co, or their representatives is better
/ than il written guarantee from lesser concerns.
4 In company with Mi, Smart visited the press
| room of the Boston journal, and saw their new
I presses at work. | had similar machines
| clsewhera, but frequent Inspection will only in
/ crease ones admiration and wonder at the rapid
itv and perfection of their work. 1t is impossible
1 even on the closest examination to follow the pro
cess in detail or to describe 1t unders andingly,
The machines wholly unlike the old style cylin-
/ der press IN appearance. You what is appar-
entya solid ana intricate mass of machinery, made
up in large part, You take a side view, Of small
4 and swiftly revolving cog-wheels. And while In
/ the old cylinder press Of few thousand per hour
you can mark the revolutions, these modern ma
chimes when at fun speed go whiz. making appar-
! emily continuous sound. The Journal presses,
! two in number, placed together at right
angles. Al one end Of the larger machine was a
rol! Of paper and at the other a smaller roll The
| first machine was printing an eight page paper,
! the second a two page supplement. As the rcspec
| tive sheets We're printed they met somewhere and
were delivered As a complete ten-page paper cut
| and folded. As they came from the folder the
fttieth paper projected beyond the others, that
! the Papers were counted as delivered. The Jour.
nal does not have the sheets pasted together, al
though it has the facilities for doing this This
machinery cost the snug little sum of 900.
| The leading Boston dailies are hourishng The
journal since It's recent change Of form and man
4 agement has made substantial gains in circulation
IA just recognition Of its greater value as news
/ paper-and Its continued growth ami prestige may
/ he confidently predicted. As the representative
| Republican daily of New England it should, and
WILL holt the first place il the journalism of this
| section. The Daily Advertiser, long authority
I with our business men, has outgroWn its mug
/ Wumpian mi9tortuncF and is again on solid and
prosperous footing which IS shared by its offspring
I the Evening Record. The rivalry between the
Herald and Globe still continues with varying for
| tunes bu always with a handsome cash balance
| on the right side in both establishments. Which
Is The better newspaper is an open question-with
some people. But comparisons are odorous. The
new Post has moved onto Washington street, the
better TO elbow Its way among its rivals, but
whether it has succeeded in reducing the weekly
letc that has depleted the pockets Of successive
prorrieors for some years past We did not learn
The Boston Daily News Is another occupant Of
Newspaper X Nv, but of this paper, and the two
evening papers, the Traveller ana the TRANSCRIPT
saw and heard nothing.
What whirlpool Of humanity IN Noung's Hotel
seat yourself the news stand about noon and
you Will see hundreds OF notable men, politicians
and Journalists of the city, state and nation. There
passes Mr.. Dumphy, tie publisher of the Boston
lpTa an n and
tier" in the current term, to whom the recent
financial success Of these papers is largely due.
Here is Col. Taylor Of the Globe looking but the
tinge 0f gray In his hair ten years younger than
few years ago, as friend at my elbow remarks
He has not the grth OF the Globe as frequent
II pictured in that paper-indeet is rather slight
and dapper, with a bright, smiling face as If at
with himself ana the world. Now comes
along a rather portly man with grey hair and side
whiskers, wearing black SLOUGH hat, and having
the appearance of prosperous farmer. Ny com
panion addressed him as Mr. Grinnell. and turn
ing to me introduced him with the remark "You
may have met this gentleman III Washington" Ii
SO happened that 10 years ago l was sojoulning at
a watering place down the Potomac river about
one hundred miles from Washington and had a
call from Mr. Grinnell, who WAS then the chief
cltIh u Inc ~ = Iatenl OInCP4 ana was spending
his vacation at Point Lookout, eight miles farther
down the river, where the Potomac river merges
into Chesapeake Bay. The call WAS returned and
not long after Mr.. Grinnell left Washington His
home is now in Greenfield, Mass, and he has been
prominent IN the politics OF the State. He was once
candidate for Lieut.. Governor on the ticket with
General Butler, and was the Democratic candidate
for Auditor at the last election.
The atmosphere at Young's was surcharged with
politics, and one heard good deal of political
talk everywhere. If private conversations could
be repeated it would not be difficult to account for
Massachusetts having SO far drfted from her Re
publican m0orings to re-elect Democratic
New York and It hehooyes the Republican man
ayers In both States to look to the causes of dis
satisfaction and unrest within the party and apply
the remedy which suggests itself to those familiar
with the situation. The Senatorship question at
tracts much attention, and 1t looks as though Sena
tor Dawes may find it no easy matter to succeed
himself.
But to return to newspaper matters. 1t may be
news, and will be good news to some of our coun-
try contemporaries, that for cash down they can
get printing material sat their own price" Ger
tainIy, type has not been cheap for years. The
place to buy Is at the Dickinson Type Foundry
$50 Congress street. Boston, where may be found
pV n Ipb fora