Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-06-07

half Hours Hurry Orders for Roots
by the Prussian War Department.
Many astounding feats have been
performed Ia races against time, but
probably never anything more wonder
full than that of producing printed
newspaper from trees. which were
growing two hours and half only be
fore the papers were in the hands OF
their readers.
This feat was performed by a firm Of
paper pulp manufacturers at Essential,
In Austria. At I :35 in the morning the
three sturdy trees were cut down and
carted 10 the paper mills. The bark
was stripped from them, they were
| split and pulped, and sent to the de-
| tibrators, where they were quickly con
yerted into paper pulp. At twenty-slx
minutes to ten the trees had been con
verted into sheets of paper which were
quickly taken to the newspaper office,
and at 10 o'clock thousands of copies
We're In circulation.
| An American publishing firm not long
ago achieved feat of rapid book pro-
duction, which Is not only unrlyaled
but almost Incredible An order reached
copies of an illustrated book of $50
pages by the following Wednesday
evening. The task was begun early on
Monday morning, and before the day
closed the entire book had been re-
duced to type, and electrotype plates
prepared for the press. On the follow
Ing day printing began. and number
of presses were so busily at work that
by noon of the following day all the
1000 copies were printed. The book
binders had been equally expeditions
In preparing the covers. and the whole
edition was bound and delivered by
Wednesday evening.
| A short time ago the Prussian war
department made II very interesting ex-
pertinent In the rapid manufacture OF
boots under war conditions. An army
| of 200 b0Otmakers was collected In
Berlin from the eighteen army corps,
and commenced n course of four weeks
work under the supervision of num-
Der of commissioned officers.
The men were divided into two sec
tions, one section working from IA. III.
to p. M, and the other taking up the
work from = p. IN. to n. m. with two
intervals of half an hour each in each
period of twelve hours. The men
worked. ate and slept in the barracks
of the First Field Artillery Regiment
of the Prussian Guards. In the four
weeks the men made no fewer than
completing fifty pairs within the
month.
The most remarkable feat in bridge
building stands to the credit of Messrs.
Handyside, who substituted new rail
way bridge for an old one In the in
credible time of four hours. The new
bridge was one of steel, weighing over
200 tons, which replaced an old bridge
spanning the Stroud Green road. near
the Great Northern Station at Fins
bury Park.
Commencing operations In March
last, the contractors built by the north
ern side of the old bridge new one
resting on six carriages, which ran on
/ tiny railroad under the ends OF the
Orders. AT o'clock one afternoon
enormous cranes removed the Orders
of the old bridge; its successor was
hauled along the lines into its place by
means of steam crabs; and within four
hours the bridge was made firm, the
roads connected and traffic was re-
sumed.
An engineering feat still more re-
markable was performed not long ago
at the Stratford works of the Great
Eastern Railway. The engineers had
set themselves the task of building a
luggage engine and tender in the quick
est time on record.
All the component parts had been
carefully arranged and placed at hand
and when work commenced early In
the morning the engine quickly began
to assume shape. BY dinner time 1t
was practically completed, with the ex-
ception of painting. and within ten
hours the engine and tender In all the
glory of new paint, and perfect in every
detail, were taking trial spin on the
line.-Tit-Bits.