The morning call., 1893-05-29

the past hour or more. They have been
olIlng and cleaning the big creature of
motion that is so soon TO make its famous
run of 90. 600 copies an hour.
No prize racehorse was ever treated with
more consideration than this giant ma
chine Of sneed. TenGerly, carefully. with
thought and skill the monster is handled.
almost fondIed. And why not? 1t cost
more than many good racehors-s and does
lar greater service. 1t has star pie record
and may be depended upon to make that
record when emergency calls for it.
1t Is marvel OF mechanical skill, the
present day evolution Of all previous print
ing expresses. In years to come faster and
better press may be made, though it is
hard to imagine how that can be: but TO-
day the Hoe quadruplex is the grandest
production of the printing-prcss than man
car conceive of.
a score of busy men have been climbing
and crawling all over it, oiling, busting
cleaning. setting, preparing it for the great
feat. 1t Is nearly midnight, and before
daylight hundred thousand 52-page dailv
papers must be oa their way to the
readers.
1t is Il gigantic undertaking. even In this
day of mechanical skill and proficiency.
But IL can be done. The thing is 10 do it,
Well. the stereotype plates are coming
down now. and the busy pressmen are
locking them onto The revolving cylinders
Sixteen plates go on single cylinder, and
there are many cylinders.
Already two big rolls of white paper
have been attached to the press One roll
feeds in from the side and the other from
the rear end of the press. In each roll
there is paper enough for 10000 COPIES.
Other rolls stand behind those already
affixed. so that when the press stops for
lack Of paper there may be no time lost in
supplying it.
in cfn ,,int
eurely locked on the cylinders. and then
the work of running through the white
paper is commenced.
This is very particular piece of work
that requires high degree of Skill and Il
nicely of judgment. Slowly, very slowly
the countless wheels and cogs of the
monster press are turned. and ms they turn
the pressmen lead the white parer from
the rolls through tie thousand intriracies
of the machinery till it has been firmly
grasped by all the parts OF the press and is
ready 10 drop out printed, pasted and
folded paper
1t takes a tile time to do this, though
time is very precious ut this hour. Still a
half hour or more spent we'll at this stage
a { the proceedings NAV save several hours
in the total run. 1t is impossible for a
layman to follow the curvings and wind
lngs of those two strips OF white paper,
much less describe it comprenensively.
OuS hit6f ali KS tilIIlHk anu LWiSIIH0 y0u
see the paper from the roll at the end of
the press come up to the surface several
wards ahead at the front Of the press.
Hero it must turn somehow. must make
complete angle in order 10 be cut, pasted
and folded in its proper place in the whole
fms he'd paper.
To do this it runs over a polished steel
cylinder that is set diagonally across the
front of the press and above the surface
When the paper has traversed this angle it
moves down ono or the other of Two Steel
plates called formers.
They are triangular and are set almost
perpendicular at the side OF the press.
just few feet above where the finished
paper drops out.
Moving over these formers the paper is
folded, and when it goes on below grip
pers catch it and set 1t inside or outside of
the other Sheets
AT the bottom OF the press, on each side
of these formers, is where the printed
pasted and folded narers drnp out. How |
rapidly they Go fall! You could not begin |
to count them as they fall, unless you can |
count 500 minute. That is nearly the |
rate at which the copies OF THE CALL fell |
from the press Sunday morning And
there were two piles of papers coming
from the press at this rate. The finished
papers fairly poured forth in a steady
stream for over two solid hours.
One man stood at each roll of white
paper. one man stood at one side of the |
press ana announcer stood at the other side |
One man stood in the little opening be- |
tween the two parts of the hinge nress |
And none Of these men dare leave their
posts or look away from the press.
LII was the trial test of the big press for
speed, and 1t was watched closely and at
tensively through the big run to see that
all should 60 well, or to report at once