The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-12-07

Photo by Saunders & Muller. Buffalo.
THOMAS NJ MOORE
siOns will be marked by so radical a
departure from previous programmes
as to point a new era in exposition
work. In the matter OF exhibits the
exposition will be distinctively select
i've. the aim being to secure the very
best items. the most attractive and
those most ittingly illustrating pro-
gressive methods and artistic develop
ments in American skill. ingenuity and
enterprise.
Among the numerous original fea-
lures OF the Pan-American one OF the
most remarkable and important OF
these will be the division devoted to
the graphic arts. the exhibits In which
will comprise paper. printing engrav-
Ing. bookbir ding and their allied indus
tries. At the Chicago Worlds fair and
other great expOsitiOns these groups
constituting the graphic arts were d.
vided and scattered In various build
ings In such a way as to very material
ly destroy their value to the craft aud
their interest in the eyes OF the general
public. At tue Pan-American they will
De SO massed and arranged as TO cOnsti-
1ute n uniform and impressive total.
In no branch OF human industry on
the North American continent has the
development been more remarkable
than in those branches OF the graphic
arts comprised In the general terms
printing" and engraving" Printing.
Ike all other great inventions which
have been the Accomplishments OF eX
banding civilization. has grown step by
step. Gradually apparently insupera-
bic obstacles have been cleared away.
The old screw hand press or Guten-
berg. on which were labOriously work
ed off n few hundred copies day. has
slowly developed into the gigantic &C.
tuple steam color press which today
prints 100000 eight pages an hour. and
even steam rs Il motive power is being
supplanted by electricity, which is des-
tined 10 play an important part in the
expansion OF the newspaper producing
industry. The progress in all other
branches OF printing other than the
products Of the newspaper press. In
Guiding photography, ZincOgraphy and
the use OF aluminium plates. has been
equally amazing. and the enormously
productive paper mills Of the country
are being taxed 10 their utmost capac-
ity To supply the prodigiOus demand
which keeps thousands OF monster
printing presses working day and night
all over this great country OF ours
turning out newspapers. magazines and
books by the million.
Equally remarkable has been the
evolution or type. The merit or gluten
berg's invention. the thing which made
the wonderful subsequent achieve
ments or literature and learning posi-
BILE. was the fact that he made his
types movable. Modern printing until
very recently has been regarded as the
art Of printing from movable types.
which distinguish il from the block
printing OF antiquity. But the inven-
ton OF the linotype and its combination
with stereotype plates have resulted in
the displacement for newspaper print
ing purposes OF movable types and
reversion TO the old method or printing
from solid blocks newly manufactured
for each occasion. For general pur-
poses the ingenuity OF inventors is be-
ing exercised very actively in the pro-
duction OF machines for setting nova
BILE types aud also for their distribution
for further use. This is not the least
important and interesting feature In
the printing branch OF the graphic arts.
When the United States government