Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-01

ated by experienced operators, who set
most of the reading matter for this
issue. Regular employees are being in
structed to use the machines, and the
latter are so easily learned and operated
that it will not he long before the be-
ginners become experts.
The first day of machine work on
Every Evening" has proved emf
nently satisfactory, and this paper will
have no difficulty whatever, with the
improved facilities to maintain the re-
putation for being the best newspaper
between the Delaware and Chesapeake
bays. There is no question about
Every Evening's'' position in the
journalistic field on the Peninsula.
Seven years ago a Goss perfecting
press, manufactured in Chicago ex-
pressly for Every Evening was put
in operation and has worked success
fully ever since. Printing, as it does,
from stereoptyped plates clamped on
cylinders, instead of from type on
level bed. very high speed is possible,
without danger of accident. The paper
is fed from a web, and the folder is a
marvel of accuracy, which puts the
printed copies of Every Evening" in
convenient shape before they leave the
press. The perfecting press was a
great lever in the production Of first
class newspaper.
In consequence of having facilities
for rapidly printing the paper, it is pos
sible to take news later than when it
WAS slowly printed on cylinder presses.
Indeed, the Chicago printing machine
has given cause for parClonable pride.
But all the while the type was set by
hand, and to get the type up it was
necessary to employ largo force of
men, With the introduction OF the
Thorne machines comes concentra-
tion Of the facilities for putting the
type together, and the mechanical
method of composition will, in the main,
be more accurate and give much
quicker results than by hand.
As was noted above, the Thorne ma
chine sets the type, instead of casting
lines, as some machines do. BY the
use of type, good matrix, from which
plates are cast, is assured, and there
will be no fear Of imperfection on the
eve OF going to press When the type
has been set up, the remainder of the
work in getting the paper to the public
is a known quantity, and this knowl-
edge is of great value to the newspaper
publisher.
The new acquisitions to : Every
Evening's' equipment are exception
ally interesting pieces of machinery,
and the modus operandi is readily
understood, after one watches them in
operation for a short time.
THE THORNE MACHINES.
The mechanism of the Thorne Type
Setting Machine is simple. 1t consists
primarily of two vertical cyclinders 16
inches in diameter, placed one above
the other, on the same axis. In the
surface of the cylinders are cut 90 YER
teal channels, extending the entire
length of each cylinder, in depth nearly
equal to the length of type, and cor
responding in width to the body of the
| type to be used.
The upper. cylinder, which revolves,
forms the distributor, and into its
channels is loaded tpye, face out, from
a special galley. This operation is very
simple and rapid, less than five min
utes being required to load 6,000 ems
Of minion.
Type used in. the machines is the
J same as used for hand work, but is