The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-01-25

sheet and felt alternating throughout,
and nut under heavy pressure. naru
naners were alternated with metai
mates. under pressure: sheets SIZED
separately by dipping, then loit ar!eu.
Two men could average about SIX
reams, daily, enough paper TO run
some of our modern presses four MIN
ntes. Ten reams, daily, was the output
of the Chester Creek, Delaware, mlil'
where Franklin bought his paper
stock. Rttenhouse and Bradford put
i'm the first mill in the country, near
Philadelphia, in 1910. Machine mace
paper was not on the market until
1885.
WHAT THEY LACKED.
What the print shop in Franklin's
time did not have, we prize the most
uniform and perfect type bodies, power
presses, telegraph. mail and transpor-
tation facilities. Franklin went by
boat and afoot to Philadelphia from
New York, and Bradford, the New
York publisher, covered the distance
on horse back and heat him there.
1t was twenty-four years after
Franklins death when Stephenson
built the Rocket" And Gridley Bry-
ants four-mile railroad-the first in
the country, from the quarrles to
Quincy, Mass. was not built until 1925.
Steam never turned a press wheel in
his country until 1922.
Franklins print shop knew the
plume-not the pen: 1t came in 1880.
It knew the candle and the dip-not
the kerosene lamp; it came in 1926.
The flint, the steel and finder. or the
potash sulphur splint and phial Of acid
not the friction match; 1t came in
1929.
STEREoTYPING.
Stereotyping came too late-1Sl3, in
this country; the papier mache. about
1850; and on dailies in 1861. Steel en-
craving, by an American. in England,
In 1923.
Franklin had been dead six years
when Alloys Senefelder wrote the laun-
dry list upon the stone slab in his Of
fee and gave to printing the art Of
photography; and fifty years when
Daguerre paired the chemicals Of his
cupboard and wrested photography
from the unknown.
The print shop came west with a
slow pace. 1t crossed the Alleghaneys
and was planted in Cincinnati in 1893
in ST. Louis in 1908. What won
ierful transformation the century has
brought to the art. The mechanical
marvels of Hoe, and Goss, and Scott;
Of Harris and Merrill; of Paige and
Cox and Mergenthaler; OF Goodson
and Thompson, and a hundred others
whose achievements are hardly less
noteworthy.
MACHINE SETTING.
Think Of mechanism whereby one
operator may set the type, siLiultane-
ously, on q hundred newspapers. in as
many cities, SIS widely separated os the
expanse of a continent; Thompson
invention will do this. Or the Wick's
type casting machine, of recent inven-
ton. which casts $4,000 perfectly finish
ed letters in sixty minutes, under
pressure of $50 pounds, making type
face so dense that it's life" overpasses
l 900, 600 impressions.
Or that other marvel, the teledio-
graph, whereby you can sketch for in
stance, your own "phiz," bringing out
the lines and features Of intellectual
ity-all the suggestions and iptima>
tons. face-written, of your strenuous
life and wire" II to your sweetheart
by the sobbing sea and know that ev-
cry detail viii be reproduced with ex-
act fidelity to the original. Wonderful
Is it not?
FAST DISAPPEARING
Hand composition ON straight
work" Is expiring all over the land,
and an excerpt from the plant Der its
passing by Robsrtus Love. In the In
land Printer, will bring fitting close to
my paper:
Il mark the mechanism of the Mergen-
thaler mill,
Grinding language In its hopper with
deliberative skill;
Turning out with measured speed
Thots that he who runs may read;
But the monotone is discord to the
click, click, click,
or the merry minion midgets in the
old time stick"