The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-22

is the only basis thoughtful man can
build on.
Indications that "TriIby" would be want
ed OF its manufacturers. the Messrs. Har-
per 4 Bros. were evident at an early
date.
AS the story was running in Harper's
Magazine. there set in a hungry demand
for back numbers. To be ready for the
book the first order given to the paper
maker In August vast was for sixty-five
reams. No sooner was half Of the first
lot paper printed that the real cali for
IT1lby began. Then another order was
given, and no sooner did It come to hand
than "rrilby' consumed the whole Of II.
Then followed orders fast and faster. loo
reams. 200 reams. until at the close Of last
month, 500 reams were sent for. to be
delivered at once.
Altogether the Unsuitable 'Trilby' has
devoured so far 1900 reams Of white paper
Now. lGO tons Of solid paper Is no small
mass Of material. II the original packages
OF the paper were stacked one on top OF
the other they would take up the room
of large house.
Four thousand reams OF paper. did you
pile IL up, would make a monument 666
Feet high. or just about twice as tall as
any building yet erected In New York.
III 1000 reams of paper were applied
sheet by sheet 10 the streets OF New York,
the commissioner whose duty It is TO clean
the thoroughfares would think there had
been an extensive snowstorm.
When printed and made into books to
transport "Trilby" by the wagon load
would have been a slow process Suffice
II TO say. for the moving OF the whole
bulk OF "Trliby." as a printed and bound
book. ten good sized eight-wheel freight
cars would about suffice
Trilby" has been on the presses OF the
Messrs. Harper & Brothers ever since
August, and ten men have been incessant-
~ at work on it. As II Is an illustrated
book, the very rapid presses, such as are
used for newspapers. would not turn out
satisfactory work. Stop presses. which
slower ones, are used. In the bindery
the average of finished 'Trilbys' has been
1000 volumes every day. Sometimes,
when there has been a chance 800 have
been turned out in twenty-four hours.
There have been all along ten men employ
ed in the bindery. known in the business
as binders, pastors and forwarders. Books
are folded by machinery, and in the work
room attached to the bindery half OF the
women have always been hard at 1t, with
their folding machines. creasing from the
pig printed sheets the pages Of "Trilby"
On the cover of 'rrilby" as the decora-
tion is a spider in its web in gold. with gold
title on the back. For the work 100000
superficial inches OF gold leaf have already
been consumed, and there are five women
"Trilby." Then there are more machines
constantly impressing the stamped design
1t takes not less than ten landings be-
fore the outside decoration Is perfected
not counting the manipulation in the reg
uar binding.
used for the covers and as TO the binders
boards, the weight OF that gone into Tril-
by has been twenty-five tons.
Now, II this pasteboard were laid out In
straight line on a footpath, and were
put down twelve inches wide, you might
walk ON 1t from New York to Tarrytown.
The stitching alone In the binding occu-
pies many hands. and the flax thread, IL
stretched in a straight line. would reach
from Boston to Savannah.
There have never been such things as
successive editions of "Trilby." "Tril-
by" as an output from a manufacturing
standpoint. has come straight along like a
flood, giving the publishers neither time
nor inclination to mark It off into so many
editions.
The presses are always trying their best
TO fill the demand. and bookbinders keen
pace with the printed matter and hun
dreds of men and women hurry up 'Tril-
by" regarding IL as n commodity, a some
thing people want. and the elevators creak
as they carry up the reams of blank paper
and they squeak as they lift printed sheets
again to higher regions to be bound
When "Trilby" is finished. the volumes
are hurried TO the other parts OF the es-
adjustment where they have TO be boxed
and marked. Finally there rumbles into
the courtyard express or other wagons
that carry "Trilby" off to remote regions.
and to the expressman or truckman. who
takes a materialistic idea OF things, the
books are simply goods in transit
1t Is methodica1 process of manufac-
ture. So many pounds Of paper, or bind
ers' boards turn OUT just so many pounds
OF "Trilby," so that to all intends and pur-
poses a pound of the book or a pound Of
threepenny nails is quite the same thing.