Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-26
WEDNESDAY. APRIL %. 1873
The D,snatch,s New Outfit.

The DISPATCH very often nowadays
fnds itself compelled 10 resort 10 the use
of tyne a size smaller than its ordinary
seading.matter type so as 20 crowd the
news into ITS four pages TO PRINT SIX
page paper with our present press-room
Facilities puts US TO the risk OF losing ire
early mail that mail which leaves on
Che Danyillc road at 1880 A. Nj. and for
which we print first edition and also
snakes soma delay IN the delivery OF Our
espcrs % the Richmond and Manchester
carriers.
Our four-pace sheets, printed az that ol
Yesterday morning was printed, contain
utmost rs much matter rs one OF our oLii-
nary six.paso editions and quito as much
MS some IF the small-sized eight-page
papers now in vogue. Our trouble Is that
some Of our readers q" do not Ike the smaH
tyne" II they were able to diagnose their
cases in the nomenclature of the printers
tbey would say: I'VE have been brought
up from infancy on your minion type. ana
we find your nouparei type trying TO our
yves. winch are no longer as good as they
once were. GIVE rs your minion type a.
Ways, unless indeed. you can give MS the
bourgeois which we observe that you
sometimes use in your eleht-page papers,
us YOU DID during the sessions Of the Gov
trnors' Convention
We have one Of the prettiest perfecting
dresses over turned ont from the factories
OF Hoe a Co., and 10 was only bought IN
1857. but ALREADY ~ has been superseded
bv later inventions. Ours, printing from
stcrcotvped forms placed on cylinders,
and drawing IT'S paper supply from spools
Tor rollsl. prints. folds. and counts 4,OjO
6our-pape papers per hour, or l2,OOO eight
MAGE papers per hour. But 1t does not
Aucet our wants. We live IN q growing
"a ty and have growing patronage-our
susiuess last month was unprecedented
DOR any like month IN the history OF the
J,aper-qnd what We wish Is
lrrss that will permit Us TO PRINT
a. one impression. as II were,
-four. six, eight. ten. twelve, fourteen,
sixteen, cignteen-, twenty, or twenty
four-pace paper and at high rate OF
speed. Such press we feel tho need OF.
such a press we have ordered from K.
IIoE 4 Co., and we expect 10 have It IN
slace IN a few months. With 1t, and with
the tvpe-settlng machines. which we will
ebout the same time put IN use, we shall
siave an equipment that In all human pro-
liability will anticipate our wants for
great many years and which has no supe-
slor in the South, or in the North for that
matte-.
Ii is our purpose TO "modernize the
DIsPATCHs form, hut we expect TO do so
without destroying its familiar features.
10 most Of our people those features are
the features Of a dear old friend and no
eo-called improvement would compen-
safe them for lost identity.
Equipped thus. as We soon shall be- we
ehall never issue less than SIX pages (they
Will be smaller than the present pages,
and except IN profoundly dull seasons we
shall usually issue eight pages daily and
on Sunday from twenty TO twenty-four.
Our readers are getting almost the same
amount of reading matter now, If they
did but know II but then they Will have
no cause If complaint against what they
term small type "a size. by the way,
which people in some other cities having
been brought up on" admire very much
sndeed. and which is beautiful 10 the eT-
pert eye. However. gratitude for friend
chip with which no public ever more
favored a newspaper than ours hos
the DISPATCH, and for patronage
which was never more liberal than now,
empels us TO conform our ideas 10 the
public's desires. and this we shall soon be
able 10 do. Meanwhile We are fast ap-
preaching a season when, for many rea-
cons. the demands upon our columns are
less than in the winter and early spring,
and hence We shall not be long compelled
90 obtrude the so-called small type upon
the vision of our good friends who do
not like to be compelled to draw out their
eyeglasses III public.
The press which Is now under construc-
tion for the DIsPArcH by Messrs X. HoR *
TO-. of New York. is marvel of the in-
ventor's brain. combining great simplicity
If construction with wonderful printing
capacity. II IL "double-suppiement,
stereotype, pertecting printing machine.
With three-page- wide supplement and
double folder" IL will print and deliver
folded and pasted $4,000 siX-page papers IN
one hour. and eight. ton, twelve. or four
teen.page papers at 2.OOO per hour. or
sixteen, twenty. or twenty-four-page pa
pers at the running speed of T.
200 per hour. The papers are ell
cut at the top and delivered from
two deliveries counted in bundle.
The machine is beng built so that one de-
livery will furnish papers in quarter fold,
while the other. at the same rate of speed,
is delivering hali-page fold for carriers and
newsdealers.
Anoyel possibility of the press will he
O. print IL three colorS should that be de-
sired.