The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-06
of place at this point
Th4 4oelk &c A. -

The cost of the plant from which the
Penny Press" was first issued, reached
in round numbers. twenty-five thousand
dollars. BY the LIST of January, 1895, it
above it's earnings. By the LIST of June,
1895, the requirements of new machin-
cry had added to the fifty thousand"
We desire it to be most emphatically
chinery had added to the fifty thousard'
already named, nearly fifty thousand
more-making the total cost, by the las:
NAMED date, "a round hundred thousand
dollars
We desire it to be most emphatically
understood by every business man of
Minneapolis and every patron of this pa
per, that the Penny Press of Minneapo-
lis in spite of all that has been done and
said against it by rival publishers and
personal enemies has today the Finest
plant for the publication of "a fifty
thousand edition." housed in the two
cities OF course, if the penny Press"
were blanket sheet"-publishing
twelve to thirty pages a day-its type
setting machines in number would have
to be increased-but not in quality, nor
its press facilities; for the Three Decked
Walter Scott perfecting press-equal to
three separate printing presses-is capa-
BILE OF printing twenty-four thousand
complete papers of the size of twelve
pages per hour, and capacity Of twelve
thousand per hour for complete papers
OF sixteen, twenty and twenty-four pages
each-and all papers, no matter what the
size may be,-from a two-page to
tWenty-four,- together in book form
and delivered in the same manner.
1t is worthy of note, that the Mergen-
thaler typesetting machines were only
made in the year 1895, and first put into
operation on the LIST of April 1t is also
true that the Walter Scott press was
manufactured and first set up in the shops
at Plainfield, N. j., on the 18th day of
March, 1895, and put in operation in the
press room of the Penny Press" on the
18th day of April following. 1T goes
without saying that Walter Scott is
the gareatest perfecting press inventor of
found in the press-room of the Penny
Press
1t is also true that, during the past
two years, this paper has employed from
sixty to eighty men and women daily
in its building by the way affords
twelve thousand square feet of operating
rcom-eighty odd carriers and four tray-
cling men in the country. The books of
the Penny Press" will show that the
paper has paid to it's employees more than
SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN
CASH, in the two years last past-and
that 1t does not owe a single person con-
nected with the entire institution, lone
penny today"-the pay roll made up to
Saturday night, November End, having
already been liquidated
The influence of the Penny Press" has
been felt everywhere for good rather than
for evil. It has not only saved the enor-
nous sum named above to the patrons of
the daily papers of this northwestern
country, but it has acted as "leveller"
Iol al Otuer newspapers. IL mas prevent |
ed combinations to raise the price of
advertising among the merchants, it is
saving $4,000 to the taxpayers of the
city-and has increased the dispensation
of daily news and literature among fifty
thousand more people than were patron
izing the daily papers in 1898.
Much more might be said of the paper,
but we believe the foregoing to be an
ample justification for the organization |
and maintenance of a penny paper" in
Minneapolis which has succeeded to a
patronage, within the space Of two years,
never gained by any other paper west of
Chicago in ten years.
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