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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

or change a presiding oflcer at peas
ure." the same rules be offered at to-
days meeting OF the joint assembly
and their considerat' on demanded prior
70 any ballot for United States sena-
tor This report is signed by nineteen
senators and 120 representatives,. four
more than attended the day meeting,
and was adoptsd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

La grippe is again epidemic. Every
it. Its specific cure is One Minute
Cough Cure. A. j. Sheperd, pub
Usher of the Agricultural Journal and
Advertiser, Eden, Mo, says: mo
one will be disappointed in using One
Minute Cough Cure for la grippe. "
Pleasant to take, quick to act. For
sale by L. II. Thomas, a. j. Reiss and
NJ. F. Bahnsen, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
Col Sexton Seriously Ill.

Washington. Jan. 19.-Colonel James
a. Sexton. commaEGer-in-c chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, who has
been i'll fo- some time, is in a serious
condition and his friends are alarmed as
to the outcome. His illness started from
an attack of grip which superinduced
kidney trouble ana other complications.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
Payne to Head of Ways and Means.

Washington, Jan. 10. - There is no
doubt that the Craftsmanship of the
ways and means committee made va
cant by the death of Dingley viii be
filled by Speaker Reed at the present
session, without waiting for the next
congress, and that the new chairman
will be Representative s. Z. Payne. of
New York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

contains provisions forbfdding, Cne hir-
ing of any persons to guard with arms
or deadly weapons any workmen or
property in this state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

Arnold's Bromo Celery cures head.
aches; 10, 25 and so cents. Reiss
drug store,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
IT DOES NOT IMPROVE,
The Political Situation in West
Virginia, Where a Sena.
tor Is Involved.
fwO Rival HOUSES IN PROSPECT.

Governor and Senate Have Avoided Rec
ignition OF the Democratic House So Far
Significant Remark-ouay Gains No
Votes on the Joint Ballot, but Holds His
IIa-Use Of Money in the Fight in Cali
fOrnia-0uarIes Leads in Wisconsin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
Physicians.

once Tremann block. once hours to II
A. m to 5 and to p N. 'fhone No. 1902
Rock Island, Ill. Night calls answered from
0fice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

To Cure Consripation Forever.
Take Cascsrets Candy CathGrtic- 1oc or SO
II c. G. c. fail 70 cure, druggists refund moneJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

j. r. BURKHART, NJ.
. MRS. HADA N. BURKHARr. N. d
DRS. BURKHART & BURKHART,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
PHYSICIANS.
F. H. FIRST, NJ. D.
Physician and Surgeon.

Phone 4 on 1857. once, 326 Twentieth
street once hours: 10 to IL a. m; to 4 and
ITO p. m. Sunday, $50 to $50 a. M; l:So to
p. m
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
j. A. BALL, M. d.
DIR. CORA EMERY REED,
Homeopathic Physician

Special attention to diseases OF women and
children also diseases of eye, ear, nose and
throat. once hours-q30 to IL a. m, TO 4 p.
m. 32l Sixteenth street, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
c. L. FOSTER, NJ. d.
Physician and Surgeon.

once between Third and Fourth avenues or
Twentieth street. once hours: to IL a m
2 to 4 D. m. and to p. M Night calls from
once. Phone 1854.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
DIR. S. II. MILLER,
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist,
DIR. n. E. STEEN,

Specialty-Diseases of the blood nerves
skin bladder, kidneys and diseases OF women
Hours: 10 to H. ? to 4, to s, Sundays 10 to ~
Southwest corner Harrison and Secon
streets, Davenport, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHICA9Q, ROCK ISLAND b PACIFIC RAIL
u wsy-Tickets can bs purchased or BAGGAGE
checked at X b Twentieth street deDot, or
G lisp depot. corner Fifth avenue and Thirty
drst street, Frank Il Plummer. Agent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-19

Passenger trains leave c d P moline
avenue) depot i've (5) minutes earlier than time
given. Trains marked daily, all other trains
daily except Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11
oCTUPLE STEREOTYPE PERFECTING PRESS AN D FOLDER.

machines were erected, and finally it oc-
Cured to the experimenters that by placing
the type instead OF the paper on the cylinder
greater speed could be obtained. The re
suit was tn construction of a press known
as the Hoe type revolving machine" en-
bodying patents taken out by Richard M.
Hoe. The first one of these was placed in
the Ledger office in Philadelphia in 1916.
The basis of these inventions consisted in
an apparatus for securely fastening the
forms of type on a central cylinder placed
in a horizontal position. This was accom-
plished by the construction of cast iron
beds, one for each page Of the newspaper.
The column rules were made "V" shaped,
/ e., tapering toward the feet Of the type.
1t was found t6at, with proper arrangement
for locking up or securing the type upon
these beds, it could be held. firmly in posi-
ton. the surface forming a true circle, and
the cylinder r~evolved at any speed required,
without danger of the type falling out.
The first Of these presses had only four
impression cylinders, necessitating four boys
to feed in the sheets. The running speed
obtained was about 1000 sheets to each
feeder per hour, thus giving, with n
was called a ''four-feeder," or "four-cylin-
der machine, a running capacity of about
5000 papers per hour printed upon one side.
AS the demands of the newspapers increased
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

nection with color printing, which has re-
CURED the addition OF more new paris 10
the mechanism q the machine. \ SINCE
color press built last year for one OF &c
largest dailies in the country contained be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 Individual parts. It
seems as though this was carrying the pcs
slbilities Of one machine to its utmost
limits, but it is by no means certain that
still further additions may not be made.
Such machines as this cannot be con-
structed without great expense. The price
Of the most improved style OF quadruple
machine is S35. 600, OF a s~eNtuple S45. 900,
and so on. the price mounting with the COM
plexity Of the press itself, and the increase
in the work it is intended to do. In the
best equipped newspaper office in the coun-
try the value Of the machinery employed
falls little short Of S1,o00.oCo.
From the web press Of 1871 to the latest
improved form described at the beginning
Of this article. with its speed Of 10000 per
hour, there has been no radical change OF
style or form. The Improvements have been
in matters of detail and in the direction Of
an increased size and capacity. Even at the
present time no thoughtful man would ven
ture to say that the limit of speed has been
reached. In the future our successors may
smile at the designation Of a press which
prints less than 1000 0 papers per hour and
with cylinders revolving 200 times to the
minute as rapid" Nevertheless by our
present standards it is rapid and its con-
struction deserves to rank among the great
achievements of the century. r. HOE.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

lens in mathematics or military tactics.
1t is a concrete illustration of the saying
that no matter what the demand is, If it
is strong enough it will be satisfied.
The press which was constructed in 1871,
as a result of these Investigations, was fed
from a roll or web of paper over cylinders
carrying stereotyped plates which printed it
on both sides.
The sheets were not entirely severed by
the cutters, but were simply perforated
after the printing. They were drawn by ac-
celebrating tapes, which completely sepa-
rated them, into a gathering cylinder so con-
structed that six or any desired number
Of perfect papers could be gathered one over
the other. These, by means of a switch,
were, at the proper moment, turned off onto
sheet flyers, which deposited them on the
receiving board.
This press for the first time did away
completely with hand labor in the process
of printing. 1t was, therefore, the begin
ming of rapid printing as that term is under
stood today. The only duties men were re-
quired to perform in connection with 1t
were the starting of the press, watching to
see that its work was performed properly
and taking ava the papers after they were
piled fiat on the receiving board.
First Great Power Press.
The first press of this pattern was set
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

up in the Office Of the New York Tribune in
1871. OF course it had been thoroughly
tested beforehand and its makers were con-
fdent that it would do all that they claimed
for it. Nevertheless considerable excite
ment attended its first practical operation.
When the lever was thrown back and the
cylinders began to revolve the paper reeled
off the web in perfect form without inter
ruption and delay, while, at the other end OF
the press, the papers were laid out in a per-
fectly even pile, ready TO be folded for de-
livery. The new press delighted all who saw
its operation, and earned the OF
"a mechanism of almost human intelligence
and more than human accuracy"
When the first of these web perfectlng
presses was put into successful operation it
was claimed that there was no limit tc its
speed except the ability Of the paper TO
stand the strain Of passing through the
press. This claim seemed to be justified by
the fact that Is, 900 an hour were printed
from a single feedboard. This was, however,
the maximum speed obtained by this press.
In most offices IL, 900 per hour was the actual
running speed.
One feature of the later Improvement Of
the web press illustrates the way in which
demand has acted to stimulate invention in
this field, The first press did not fold the
Ilpers, but delivered them fiat. They were
given to the carriers in rolls and it was
left to those who sold them to fold them,
Here was a chance and a demand for a
time-saying mechanical device, The news
men wanted the folding done in the offices.
1t length a folder was devised and put in
operation. It was found Immediately that
lnen h~urrying 10 their offices or trains
would purchase the folded papers in prefer
ence 70 the others. or course, such an ad-
vantage Of competition could not be allowed
to remain in the hands OF a single pub
Usher. All the offices had to put in folders.
The advantage Of combining this operation
with the others performed by the press was
clearly apparent. Ana SO one more func-
tom was added to the already complex
duties Of the printing machine.
SO it has been with every advance. The
enlargement Of papers by the addition OF
supplements or odd pages brought about the
necessity Of FASTING CT stitching these pages
into the main body OF the paper. A press
had to be devised to do this work. Today
the 100000 copies of It'd Bits and other
London weeklies are printed, cover and all,
folded, cut and stitched into a complete
pamphlet on a single machine at The rate OF
As 1000 FER hour.
The latat innovations have been in con-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

different phases Of the problem. Time,
money and effort were expended without
g int In tho study OF existing models. In
erecting experimental machines ana trying
all manner " devices suggested to meet
the requirements OF the situation.
New Ink and New Paper
Tho difficulties were not wholly OF a me
chanical nature. One was in the set-off OF
he first side Of the sheet printed. This was
avoided by the cooperation Of the n k
makers, who were induced to devise special
rapid-dryiug inks.
Another drawback was In obtaining paper
in the roll OF uniform perfection and
strength. The paper-makers were led to
make a study Of producing large rolls OF
paper meeting these requirements. They
solved the problem Of finding a strong and
cheap paper. such as could be afforded by
the daily press.
While these Improvements were being
wrought out the press manufacturers were
working on the problem of a rapid sever
ance Of the sheets after printing and the
reliable and accurate delivery Of the printed
papers.
The most important device relating to
this matter was the patent OF stephen D.
Tucker. a member Of the firm OF r. Hoe a
Co. 1t was called a gathering and deliver
ing cylinder, and was aOle 10 haulule the
papers as fast as they were printed. II Is
the mechanism on which the great speed of
the modern press depends. Without it one
Of the great machines would block a press
room with papers before it had been in
operation fifteen minutes.
Thus it will be seen the rapid working
web press is a composite for which no one
man deserves the entire credit. 1t is one
of the most notable examples OF a really
wonderful mechanism constructed in re-
Spouse to a specific demand. The expert
mechani-iaLs engaged in the manufacture
of presses knew what they wanted. They
sat down and figured to these results Just
as experts in other fields might solve prob
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

The Carnegie company alone produces
nearly 1000, 900 tons of pig iron per annum,
which is almost as much as the total Joint
output of Germany, France and Belgium
thirty years ago. and more than the total
output of the United States up to the year
1872. The same works produce annually
about 1000 600 tons of ~rails-fgures which
exceed the annual output OF all the works
in Great Britain up to lSSO-and the same
firm has lately made arrangements TO pro-
duce at Homestead about 1,O00,O 900 tons of
open-hearth steel annually, which is more
than the total open-hearth steel output of
France, Belgium and Germany combined,
and considerably more than the total output
Of this description of steel in the United
States as a whole up to 1894. This gigantic
corporation does not stand alone. The I'LL
nois Steel company has also much larger
resources Of production than any concern
in Europe, and SO also has the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company in another and not
less interesting region.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11
MODERN PRINTING PRESSES
Facts About the Construction Of the First
High Speed Printing Machine,
R, HOE TELLS THE STORY OF PROGRESS
Wonderful Development in the Me-
%chnnical Necessities of Modern
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
the Invention.

Were It not FOR the high speed pcrfecting
press this newspaper could not be printed
and placed before you in its present FORM;
certainly not at Its present cost. The
modern newspaper, with its wonderful seFv-
ice In spreading information and moldins
opinion, is perhaps the greatest ciyiliz.ns
and controlling force Of the time. The
rapid printing press, by making the news
paper possible, deserves to rank as one OF
the great achievements in an age OF me-
chanical invention. Certainly there is no
other machine OF such power and compleXity
that possesses at the same time such ac-
curacy and d~elicacy, handling, printing and
folding sheets Of paper that can be torn be-
tween the fingers without an effort.
Consider for a moment the work done
by one OF tho great presses known to print
ers as "octuple" machines. To begin with,
It is composed OF about 10000 separate
pieces, and r]equirc9 eighteen months for
its construction in the largest mandatory
in the country. 1t is more complicated
than a locomotive or a watch, or airy of
the forms OF mechanism to which we or
dinarily refer as remarkable for their in
tricacy or nicely.
This press is fed from three continuous
rolls of paper, each more than five feet
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

more impression cylinders were added, until
these machines were made with as many as
! ten grouped around the central cylinder,
giving an aggregate speed OF about 10000
papers per hour printed upon one side. A
revolution in newspaper printing took place
Journals which before had been limited III
their circulation by their inability to furnish
the papers rapidly increased their issue,
and many new ones were started. Inc new
presses were adopted not only throughout
| the United States, but also in Great Britain
The type-revolving machine marked "a
great advance in rapid printing. 1t was be-
lieyed that the problem had been settled,
at least for a long time to come. 1t was
| scarcely conceivable that any paper would
| want to print more than 10000 copies per
hour.
The type-revolving presses had scarcely
been nut into general operation In this coun-
try and Europe before the constant growth
in circulation figures demanded still further
improvements.
First Curved Stereotype Plates.
Various experiments had demonstrated
| the possibility OF casting stereotype plates
on a curve. The process was brought TO
perfectio2 by the use OF flexible paper ma
trices. upon which the metal was cast In
curved moulds to any circle desired. These
plates were placed upon the type-revolyins
machines instead OF the type forms. The
ne newspaper publishers were thus enabled 10
duplicate the forms and to run several ma
chimes at the same time, with a view 10
turning out the papers with greater ~rapidlty.
In some OF the large London and New York
offices as many as five OF these machines
were kept in constant operation.
The difficulty in obtaining high speeds
with these machines was not in printing fast
enough, but in getting the sheets to the
machine rapidly and in disposing Of them
quickly after they had passed through the
press.
The demand was for a press which
would print from a continuous roll of paper
leaving the sheets 10 be cut and folded after
they had passed through the machine. II
was necessary. too, to insure satisfactory
| results, that the machine should perform
all these operations itself. 1t was found
that human hands could net work fast
enough TO keep up with the requirement:
OF the modern newspaper.
In 1871 r. Hoe & CO. set 10 work q
study this problem in a comprehensive man
ner ana to solve the difficulties in the wa!
Of attaining much higher speed than ha'
ever before been attempted.
Expert mechanicians were set to work Of
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11
Discovered nv a woman.

Another great discovery has been made,
and that, too, by a lady In this country.
Disease fastened its clutches uDon her and
for seven years she withstood its severest
tests, but her vital organs were undermined
and death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed necessarily and could
not sleep. She finally discovered a way to
recovery by purchasing OF us a bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption, and
was so much relieved on taking first dose
that she slept all night, and with two
bottles has been absolutely cured. Her name
Is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes w. c.
Hamnick & Co, OF Shelby, n. c. Trial
bottles free at Kuhn & Co.'S drug store.
Regular size SOC and Sl.00. Every bottle
guaranteed.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

ciues in the hands of only y partially eN-
perienced doctors make a feeble, "small-
calibre" sort of resistance to the enemy.
DR.. Pierce's magnificent Golden Medical
Discovery" with It's splendid blood purify
ing, liyer-toning, strengthening power,
hurls the fortress of disease from its very
foundations, and searches and drives out
the lurking symptoms Of weakness and de-
bility from every secret hiding place in the
entire physical system of mankind.
The work of this grand Discovery" IS
thorough; il gives the health that is all
health; the strength that is solid and sub
~stantial and lasting not habby fat; not false
stimulus; but genuine, complete, renewed
vitality and life.force.
81 had been a sufferer for fifteen years nearly
ali the time" SAYS Mrs. Sarah i, Taylor, OF
Eureka, Greenwood Co, Kans., IN a inendlyletter
TO d.. Pierce, "In August, 1890, was taken win
severe cramping pain in my stomach, The doc
tor here said ii was due to gall-stones. lie re-
lieved me for a short time, and then there was q
hard lump about the size of a goose egg lormSd
In my right side. II became so sore could
scarcely walk about the house, aud ! had no ap,
petite. / consulted the best doctors IN town ana
they said medicine would do me no good. l
gave up all hope of ever getting well again.
You advised me 10 take your Golden MEDICAL
Discovery and Pleasant Pellets which l did
according to directions. / began 10 feel better,
aud my appetite came back. Now 1t Is a little
over a year since l began to do my own work.
am stronger than ] have been for i've years"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11
value derived from the great region known
as the Yukon district.
ImnorInmce of AImsLn.

DIS the lukOH ulSlIltl.
Economic importance of Alaska.
or the economic Importance Of the Alas
kan region it may be said that the informa-
ton which this expedition will obtain Is
sufficient to warrant a confident belief in It's
great value.
The country is known to be rich in furs,
well supplied with timber and is trayersed
by a great length OF nayigaS%c rivers. II Is
already yielding a considerable yearly pro-
duct in gold and presents every indication
Of q country rich as Wen in other metals,
and in coal. Its southern portion, comprIs-
ing an area Of not less than 5000 square
miles, is suited for eventual agricultural
population.
The natives Of Alaska are TIE most inter-
estiRg study Of etEnologists, and this branch
OF science will now be sure 10 receive an
important contribution, and as all branches
OF scientific knowledge are well represented
in these Investigations. the Hartman expe-
dition will not only rebound 10 the credit OF
its promoter and patron, but win leave a
lasting impress on the annals OF scientific
researches.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11

wooden screw press used by Gutenberg back
iu the middle q the Rftecu.h century.
But while thore Is no hard and fast line
separating the new from the old or the
perfect from the primitive In the history OF
printing ;here are certain dates that are
marked by notable advances and improve
ments In the art.
One important change took place in 1906.
when a Saxon named Frederick Koenig de-
yised e form Of press In which the paper
was carried on a cylinder and received It's
Impression from a form OF type carried
backward and forward on a fiat bed.
The first Of these cylinder presses was
little more rapid than the earlier hand and
lever forms, because the cylinder had to
stop three times-that Is, had tbree separate
motions-to each impression. But in 1911
Koenig improved on this by a continuously
revolving cylinder press which attained the
rate Of 500 sheets per hour. The advance
from $50 sheets per hour, the record Of the
old hand presses, to 500 sheets, was a de-
cided advance. Moreover, it introduced a
new principle which has been OF the first
Importance in developing the modern high
speed press. /,
Many improvements in the method OF
handling the paper were devised after Koe-
mig > press came lhlp use auu IHuusauus
Of presses constructed upon this plan are
in use today. An American Improvement
on ,niss style Of press, known as the double
cylinder, attained a speed of 1000 per hour.
These presses answered the requirements
Of the newspapers when they were small II
size and circulation. But with the advent OF
the daily, with its circulation running up to
many thousands, they proved inadequate,
There was a demand for something better
for greater speed.