The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-19
TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
MERGENTHALER IINGrYPE GQMPAN

"A'.>i hhLEit LlNOl1fE 1oMFaNl.
Gentlemen: beg to submit the following re-
port of the business operations Of your company
for the fiscal year ending October l. 1900:
Inc year has been in every way successful
one The net earnings exceeded those of the pre-
ced1ng year by nearly 100000; the output OF
machines from the factory was increased, and the
rental revenues from machines slightly
greater than in 1899. No losses or other msfor-
tunes occurred. No debts or obligations in.
Cured, except those incidental to the current
business. and there are no bills or accounts I'M
paid other than those OF the present month
The rights OF the company in its inventions
are universally recognized. There are no infring-
ing machines in the market, and no litigation in
progress Affecting the scope or validity OF your
patents. No new competing machine has appeared
within the year. The careful consideration dur
ing the year OF all experimental and other ma
chimes in America and Europe failed to disclose
anything which, in my opinion, ever become
a serious competitor OF the Linotype.
The Linotype remains the one successful ma
chine, and it is today doing substantially all the
machine composition of the world not only on
other machine so far produced approaches the
Linotype in the quantity, quality. or cheapness
Of its output It has displaced competing ma
chimes in every LANCE office in which they arc
used, and in nearly all the small offices. II Is
the only automatic ''one man. machine Of any
kind in operation in any Office in the United
States, and is the only machine operated with
commercial success and profit TO the user.
alton for all classes of work were continued. and
1t will soon dominate the fne book and misccl.
laneous printing, rs 1t does the printing of news.
Each month has witnessed the introduction Of
the machine into new and important places.
Would-be competitors, and others adversely in
terested, continue to assert that the Linotype Is
not adapted TO the book office, and wide pub
licity is given to these assertions. The fasity OF
the statement is shown by the fact that the fore
most publishers Of the country. houses with
worldwide regulations to maintain, are using
your machine with success
Among the many notable users Theodore L.
De Winnie Co., Harper & Brothers, D.. Apple
ton 4 Co., J. R. Lippincott Company, Burr
Printing House, the Methodist Book Concern and
the WeedParson Printing Company.
Thousands of books have been printed from
calls are printed In like manner; among them
Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, Lippincott's
Magazine, Munsey's, the North American, the
Argosy. and the Puritan.
The machines are also used in the public
libraries in Boston, Pittsburg, and Minneapolis
for printing in more than twenty languages.
Several hundred machines are used exclusively
principally for high grade book work The
increasing number and variety OF faces will in
evitably lead to their universal in this branch
Of the art.
A noteworthy and important fact is the in
creasing demand for the machine in small coun-
try and city Offices With single machine and
q varied equipment of matrices, the publisher of
the small country paper is enabled to set more
reading matter and also to do large variety and
quantity of general printing. In this way he is
enabled to build up his circulation, increase his
business and pay for his machine.
Recent replies from nearly 500 small Offices,
having only one. two, or three machines each,
show them to be highly successful and profitable
In the absence of skilled attendants mechanics.
No user indicated dissatisfaction, regret, or
desire to dispense with the machine On the
contrary, Of letters, expressing gratitude to
the company, recognized that the machine
revolutionizing and expanding the business OF
small Offices, and that under the liberal terms of