The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-10
The Reception Roam


and women who prepare the weekly
edition of THE World" the chambers
of mystery, where the varied features
OF the big Sunday paper are prepared;
the studio OF the artists and the me-
chanical quarters of the photo-cn-
gravers. who prepare the work of the
artists for print.
a floor lowe: brought them to the
composing room, the largest and best
equipped home of the art preservative
In the world. They were shown the
forty typesetting machines-those mar
wells of inventive genius that can set over
2On,WO ems in an hour.
In addition they were shown an army
or printers at work at more than 100
cases; the stereotyping department,
Impressed upon sheet of papier- ma che,
called the matriX
Reaching the eleventh floor they came
IN for glance at the grave and astute
editorS and smart reporters who write
me Evening World aud took "A glance
at the quarters of the morning papers
active makers across the hail,
Thence their journey lay shcerly
downward two hundred feet. where, from
the galleries, they could look upon the
great camp OF clerks and accountants
advertising and subscription. They were
amused by glance at the subscription
books to run over the names of men of
national Importance at home, and some
the World" in other parts of the
world, even to the remotest isles of the
Frederick Krupp Essen, Germany
Dr. John Thompson, british Honduras
-, Right Hon, William T. Gladstone. Hawarden
CASTE, Cheshire, England
Cot J. G. lliNun Fuchau China
lanes W Allen cape Town. Africa.
shepherd Hotel Cairo Egypt
John IL Mcleod, IhihushuS Mexico.
Judge Palmer. st. John, ~ H.
MN llauscr Frerrs Luocrne switzerland.
INplantue Hotel, bombay. India
baroness salvador Paris France
In the deep cellar they met the matrlX
| descending from the upper floor to the
stereotype casting room, and saw the
| largest melting pot ever made for steroo-
tEprmSS a1l fourteen casting boxes that
plates that printed the intelligence OF the
VIDE worlds daily activities.
| laSSihS out upon an non gallery, they
locked down upon the huge machinery
| torth from endless bales of paper the
! Journal whose range of field is only
| bounded by the limits of human ai-
| N1ntNr" and thought.
They saw in fact, the greatest print
| inS plant in the world-a scXtuple press
s sh4t , E1S Z, capacity to print cut, taste
s a,l ioIa 90 g. nm e'ght-page, 5000 twelve
| hour, and Is capable of evolving with
! iEhthlhB rapidly great follus of TWEEN
,E,toIr, am, and thirty-two pages, This is
| the s"iltest and most complete printing
press ever made 1t is not ~ large US
many inferior machines. and runs as
| lightly as a sewing machine
| 1hty saw the great battery of six
| quadruplc presses, equal each to four or
| dlnary machines, two double presses and
| two-color presses, capable of turning out
| Tour eight and sixteen pages in tiNc
| colors at one impression. \ brief estl-
| mat showed them that, moving stimuli
! taneouSly, these presses exclusive of
the color presses could print and prcpar,
| Tor delivery StnTU fDur-pppc or lOI. On
eight page newspapers within sixty min,
mtrS after the word to start is given
| this orb.
It. was with reloublol concentrations
ana many uNrr' -rInu- of esteem thai
THE Evening Wor,d's" guests Quilted
the palace OF curhantm,ui, in which
they had been welcomed and enter,
tanned.
Among those who were invited ana