The San Francisco call., 1897-12-20
Something About the Great
Edition OF "The
E. CaIl''
Everybody Praises the Journal=
iStiC Feat That Has Never
Been ExCeIled on the
Pacific Coast

g.. Inc Call has reason to congratulate
user upon the success which attended
:, IFS efforts to produce the best paper
ever published on the Pacific Coast.
:<the unremitting toll of weeks is at an
! teAu, and yesterday witnessed the con-
summation of the stupendous under
taxing. Three hundred and fifty thou
sand papers have been sent out. and
line entire civilized world will hear of
. Ntalhornla through the pages of this
: ana gnlflcent production.
8: ::1here were 100000 copies of eighty
pages each printed. Each CODY EQUALS
n bulk ten copies of Du Maurier's
-. lrllby-" In other words, the entire
~eHition equals three and a half million
copies of that celebrated book.
:. w ere the matter to be taken from
one paper and the columns pasted end
td end the Slip of paper would reach
-cWo and tWo-thirds times around the
N0rId. Were this slip laid in straight
p me and railroad track built along
Slee OF 1t II would take a train travel
Ing at the rate Of forty miles an hour
seventy days to go from one end to the
olhef We're the lines to be set end to
End they would make the trip to the
Jinoon and back ten times
had the paper been printed in Chi
nese, and by the usual methods en-
4loyed by that race in their publica-
IONS, the work would have been SO
great that had a Chinaman began if
Waen the waters receded from Mount
e. .4Arrarat the edition would not be com
.pleted yet, and 200 years more would
.elapSe before the last copy came from
stone.
:, Wnen the old Washington hand press
was IN use in newspaper offices it was
estimated that the most rapid press
man could print $50 pages in an hour.
d 70 I
.lIe more than half an hour to print one
= copy Of the New Era edition. and
: :cWoIIang ten hours a day it would take
.1orty-flVe years to print the entire
edition.
= Each copy weighed one and one-uuar-
~ Ter pounds, the entire edition pulling
down the sales at 229 tons In order to
get these papers to the Postoffice more
than 1000 mail sacks were required
ana TO haul the entire edition over the
railroads necessitated TWENTY-FIVE
1relght cars For the Los Angeles
, readers Il required three cars, and for
those at Sacramento one car to carry
the papers. As each paper called for ;
cents as tribute to- Uncle Sam for car
=. rylng 1t through the mails the postage
. on the entire edition amounted to S4380
q. :.When the time taken in compilation
-.and printing is considered this was the
largest edition ever published by any
IN g Hspaper in the world
=. ALI day long there came to the office
: Of: The Call unsolicited Communications
; from all classes Of people, while con
;gratElatory kilograms We're received
: from all parts of the State reached by
the: morning trains carrying copies OF
= |&llis. New Era paper. Not alone was
q. tl5e magnificent edition praised. but
the memory of the illumination of the
= previous night remained, and that
beautiful display, too, came in for its
share of commendation.
=: :.*Fle Sonntagsblatt des California
:: DeHokrat Sunday edition of the Cali
.toTniS DemokraO, in it's issue of yes
.teTday, says: