The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15
AUTOMATIC NBw sDBAbER
You Drop Your Nickel In the Slot and
Get Your Sunday Newspaper.
From the NetO York advertiser,

You Drop Your Nickel In the Slot and
Get Your Sunday Newspaper.
From the Ne1O York advertiser.
One OF the latest pieces of automatic
machinery invented for practical purposes
is the automatic newspaper seller now being
manufactured extensively in Ohio. 1t
Will be placed IN hotels, depots and other
public places, where it is expected it will
largely do away with the enterprising
and interesting newsboy. IL is
not possible to describe the mechanism,
but its ingenuity can be imagined
when it is known that it will sell
any size and weight of paper from the forty
page Sunday blanket sheet 70 the four page
penny daily, and will return proper change
when the price is under a nickel. 10 can
also be set to make change for any ooin,
aud it cannot be cheated. II the buyer sets
it for change for a half dollar and then puts
in quarter instead, the machine outsharps
the would-be sharp by returning no change
at all.
The company manufacturing the seller
has met with remarkable success. The
first machine, an experimental one, was
not put in operation till in the summer and
now the factory is running day and night,
and has orders three months ahead. The
first fifty machines made went to Cleveland,
and equally large orders are being filled for
other cities
The idea originated with A. ]. Hazlett
two years ago, while be had charge OF the
circulation department of Russell Harrison's
paper, the Helena (Mon.) Journal He
noticed one shrewd but lazy newsboy made
considerable money by leaving papers in an
open box with directions to drop the price
into closed drawer in the end and take
paper. This convinced him that an auto
thing, and he set about to devise one. He I'M
folded his ideas at last to H. K. Hawk, OF
Bucyrus, Ohio, who had invented several
automatic devices, aud between them they
perfected this machine. The great difficulty
was in the different weights.
The'mechanism is entirely original. AL
though over seventy patents for automatic
| Observation-Disclosures machines had been issued
before application was made for this one,
there was found TO be no conflict, and the
letters patent were issued promptly.
While 1t is not expected that IL will sup
plant the newsboys, it will undoubtedly
greatly lessen their number. II is easily
loaded and unioaded, and one boy can man.
age fifty for morning and the same num-
| Der for an evening paper. The saving in
commissions over the newsboy is very large,
and is expected to run 10O per cent. annu
ally on the st of the machine, which is
$50. The first machine put in operation
paid for itself in three months.
1t Is built in two styles, one for the street
corners and the other for hotels, depots and
| inside locations generally. The single ma
chine can only sell one paper, but they are
built so that two. three or four different
papers can be sold from the same machine.
| It is in outside appearance little more than a
walnut cabinet 25{ feet square by high,
but it can sell ne wspapers as readily as any
| newsboy who ever cried an extra or shouted
''de last edeshun" down the street