The morning call., 1893-04-02

perfect presses IN the world. 1t is the very
latest product OF Hoe & Co. and EN- bodies
the best and latest improvements. When it
is In operation San Francisco people will
be enabled TO see one of the most compli-
Gated marvels of ingenuity ever devised by
man.
1t combines immense size and extreme
delicacy of both construction and adjust
ment The press weighs forty-seven tons
and stands twelve feet high. Its length is
twenty-five feet and its width sixteen feet.
But, though 1t is thus massive in size, thou
sands OF Its exact parts must be adjusted to
the fraction of hairs breadth. The har-
mOny OF operation as the marvellous ma
chine runs at lightning speed must be abso-
lutely perfect.
One of the marvels Of the Quadrup@x Is
that though there are 1000 oiling-holes in
the machine, and though the most thorough
fabrication is an absolute necessity 20 the
perfect working of the press, so exact is its
mechanism and construction that not a minim
OF oil ever soils the paper running through
It's paris with the speed of a mile minute.
There is no treachery about this wonderful
mass OF mechanism. 1t Is as true as the
fine steel Of which it Is composed, subsery-
lent to the touch Of the masters hand at
the leVer-a child could govern it-and
sensitive as the human body to a derange-
ment in any of its parts. The motto of the
great machine might well be IAN injury to
one is an injury TO ALL" II one of the infn-
itesimal parts gets cut of gear a protest
from the other parts is at once plainly
beard.
The adaptability of the press to any re-
quirements is another striking feature and
an illustration of the ingenuity and skill
displayed in its plan and construction. 1t
will turn out printed, pasted and folded,
papers OF two, four, six. eight. ten, twelve.
fourteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four or
twenty eight pages.
Its capacity is $4,000 papers of eight
pages or less per hour. Under ordinary
| circumstances the press will probably turn
cut $4,000 or 10000 papers per hour.
This addition TO I HE CALLS press facili-
ties Will enable it to meet more promptly
and satisfactorily the demands of its rapidly
increasing circulation, which have made
the best and fastest press obtainable an ab-
solute necessity.
With the installation of the new press
will come further improvements in THE
CALLS appearance, which Will be appre-
eated by its readers. It's sizs will be made
about the same as majority OF the great
dailies of the country Its pages will be
shortened in length and will be seven col
umns in width instead of eight Its columns
will be reduced to the standard width of
thirteen ems. The CALL will be the most
attractive as we'll as the brightest morning
daily OF the Pacific Coast.
The quadruplex press covers an area
larger than the most fashionable drawing
room, and man can walk about through
its machinery without STOPPING, surrounded
everywhere by moving wheels and cogs
and cylinders and rooted in by the flying
papers.
Ascending the iron steps on the side of
the press one comes to wooden platform
that lies like f0Otboard alongside of the
boiler of locomotive. Still higher, and the
curious investigator reaches a wider board
with an iron rail behind, called "the obser-
walton platform" He is then on roomy
space at comparatively lofty height look
Ing down upon an astounding sight. All
about him at his feet lies a network of tapes
and guides" cogs and brass work, and
huge black objects like monster rolling-pins
and shining steel with Intricate webbing.
Close to the observation platform are two
clean. glistening wooden rollers, guiltless
OF fieck Of dust or a stain of oil. They
play their part in the miracle which the
great mechanism accomplishes of amalga-
mating the product of two printing-press
prodigies, playing apparently at cross
purposes with each other. The great press
never makes mistake and works with an
accuracy with which the operations of a
watch cannot be compared.