The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11

tested beforehand, and its makers were
confident that il would do all that they
claimed for it. Nevertheless conslderdpie
excitement attended its first practleal OPP
Grafton. "a
When the lever was thrown back anu
the cylinders began to reVolVe, the paper
reeled off the web in perfect form without
interruption and delay, while, at the otheI
end of the press, the papers were iald
ort in nerfectly even pile, ready to be
folded for delivery. The new press de-
uohted ALI who saw its operation, ana
earned the encomium of "a mechanism OF
almost human intelligence and more imam
human accuracy. .,
When the first of these web perfecting
presses was put into successful opera
ZION il was claimed that there was no mint
to its speed except the aplllty OF lhe
paper to stand the strain OF passing
through the press. This claim seemed 70
he justified by the fact that 1900 an
hour were printed from single feed
hoard This was, however, the maximum
sneed obtained by this press. In most Of
Gees 12.OOO per hour was the actual run
ming speed. ,..
One feature In the later improvement
Of the web press illustrates the way In
which demand has acted to stimulate
invention In this field The first press dld
not fold the papers, but delivered them
fat They were given to the carriers m
rolls, and it was left to those VINO soiu
them to fold them.
Here was a chance and a demand for
n time-saying mechanical device. The
newsmen wanted the folding done in the
offices. AT length a folder was devised
ana nut in operation. 1t was found I'M
mediateIy that men hurrying to their
offices or trains would purchase the foid-
ed papers In preference TO the others.
OF course, such an advantage OF cohPe-
tition could not be allowed 70 remain IN
the hands of a single publisher. All the
Offices had to put in folders. Inc adVah-
tage of combining this operation with the
others performed by the press was clearly
annarent. And so one more function was
added to the already complex duties OF the
printing machine.
60 II has been with every advance. The
enlargement of papers by the addition or
eunnlements or odd pages, brought about
the necessity of pasting or stitching these
napes into the main body OF the paper.
a press had to be devised to do this work,
To-day the 100000 copies OF Tlt-Bits ana
other London weeklies are printed cover
ana ALL folded, cut ana stitched into a
complete pamphlet on a single machine
at the rate of 5000 per hour.
Color fFintthSs
The latest Innovations have been In con-
neetion with color printing, which has re-
oIired the addition Of more new parts TO
Inc mechanism of the machine. A single
color press built last year for one Of the
largest daiIies in the country contained be-
tween 600 and $1,000 individual parts. II
seems as though this was carrying the
possibilities OF one machine to its ut
most limits, but it is by no means GER
tain that stil 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 quadrup.e
machine is $35 ,0O0 of a sextuple $45, 600, and
so on, the price mounting with the COM
plexity OF the press itself, and the in
crease in the work 1t is intended to do.
In the best equipped newspaper office in
the country the value of the machinery
employed falls little short of 100000
From the web press Of 1871 to the latest
improved form described at the beginning
to this article, with its speed of 96 900 per
hour, there has been no radical change
of style or form. The improvements have
been IN matters of detail and in the direc-
ton of an increased size and capacity.
Even at the present time no thoughtful
man would venture to say that the limit