The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-22
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ern City.
In company with Hon @. N. Brumm, of
Minersyille, Hon, D. d.. Phillips, of Cor
don, and Squire J. j. Coyle, of Mahsnoy
City, the writer and number of others,
while in Minneapolis recently, visited the
mammoth -four mills of Pillsbury &
Washburn We we're shown through all
the departments of the gigantic mills and
every thing was fully explained. The mlls
form one of the great attractions of the city
and no visitor fails to visit them Thou
sands must have visited them during the
week the Republican national convention
was held. They are five in number and
have capacity of 1850 barrels per day,
or over 1900 600 barrels per year. t. feed
these mills requires 100000 bushels f
wheat annually. Mill "a" is the eighth
wonder of the world. 1t has the largest
capacity of any mill in the world, 1t con-
sumes $4,000 bushels of wheat per day
Three hundred cars are required every day
to take wheat into, and -four and offal out
of the five great mills Of the company.
Among tine finest and most substantial
structures of Minneapolis are the Masonic
temple, the New York Life Insurance
Compsny's building, Lumberman's Ex-
change, Library and West House. A
magnificent view can be had from the root
of the New York Life Insurance CJm-
pary's building
The electric railway system of the city is
rs near perfection as it can possibly be
made and is a mint for the owners.
Among the numerous points of atrtac-
ton for visitors are Minnehaha Falls
Soldiers Home, Minnetonks Falls, Lakes
Como and Harriet and Fort Smelling
Schuylkill county people are surprised
when they visit Minneapolis to find so
many well known former Pennsylvanians
residing there. They are all prosperous.
They had headquarters at the Lumber
mans Exchange to receive the visitors from
the Keystone state.
All the lakes are large and beautiful.
Minnehaha Falls, aside from their history,
are not of much Importance, They are
very small in comparison with their
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have read of them.
The Soldiers Home is located on a bluff
overlooking the Mississippi river. The
buildings and grounds are admirable. A
dozen or more Pennsylvanians are inmates
OF the institution
A visit to the West printing office at St.
Paul is another surprise for stranger. Ii
is a veritable beehive of workmen. In
this establishment all the law books of the
great west, northwest and the south are
printed and bound, but the work is not
limited to law printing by any means.
The establishment is complete in every re-
spect and can handle any amount of work
in the printing, binding and stereotypinR
line. A large number of typesetting and
distributing machines are used in setting
up and distributing the type. Two kinds
of machines are used, the Thorne and
Mergenthaler, the latter seems to be the
best and most economical. The Mergen-
thaler, or New Linotype machine, is
adapted to produce and assemble, ready
for use, the so-called "Linotypes," that is
to say, type.bigh bars or slugs each bearing
on its edge characters to print complete
line. The machine is controlled by series
of fnger-keys representing, like those OF
the typewriter, the characters to be printed,
and as result of the manipulation of the
keys the machine produces and assemblies
the linotypes ready for immediate use
The speed of composition runs from 1853
to 9,474 ems an hour, according 10 the ex-
pertness of the operator. B.