The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-16
ADVERTISER
in NEW H0DII
Mechanical Department
Established.
MACHINERY TRANSEE1l
How the Big Task Was 81
cessfully Accomplished.
Editorial and business nepa1tmGnf
VIII Be Moved Today lfodayss
Paper Printsdon Jsussalss


the handsome three story struetuxe a.
the corner of Dexter Avenue ana Law
renee Street.. The big Goss pross, the
six linotype machines and the heavy s(s-s
reotyping machinery. had ct that hour
been moved fscn The Advertiaerse ia
home on South Perry Street TO the nsx
building. 4s 81
The erection Of the big pres had III
been completed ana IT HAD net BEEN ~
1usted so that today's issue Of The Al
vertiser could be printed upon Il. ~ arg
Ing the machinists and carpsnters Who
had been hard at the work Of xonnoVmx
for two days and nights the PRES couid
have been gotten In readiness tor to-
days issue. This. however, would havo
been accomplished with great risk whfcn
The Advertiser management deemed e
best not to take under the circumstances
The Advertiser received yesterday
morning from Mr.. Brame Hood Of The
Journal q letted In which he kindly o.
fered the use Of The Journals press ana
stereotyping outfit Mr.. Hoods courteous
offer was accepted and today's issue Of
The Advertiser Is printed on The Journal
press. The Journals stereofypInr ol1ff1f
is also used in the preparation OF the
plates for the press.
The matrices were made from the forms
In The Advertisers ONCE and then carried
to The Journals stefeotyping room where
the plates for the Journals large CYL
inder press were made.
The removal Of The ADVERTISER VIII b
completed today, All departments Will
be established In the new building, and
tomorrow's issue will be prepared ana
printed in the papers new home No at
tempt was made Sunday and yesterday
to remove the furniture. the files, docu-
mentsr and reference books OF the edEto-
rial department. Part Of the furnishings
OF the business effice have been moved.
but the larger part remains in the Perry
Street building. All OF shis win today
be moved to the new building.
The transfer OF the heavy and valuable
machinery OF the Goss press. linotype ma
cbin-ss and the stereotypinE departments
offered the serious difficulty OF the ro-
moval. Every preliminary preparation
that could be made was accomplished
when the work OF moving began early
Sunday morning. Powerful cranes had
been erected in the press room for the
lifting of the heavy machinery. A per-
ton of the rear wall of the composing
room had been cut out and a derrick had
been erected to let doyn the typesetting
machines from the second story 10 the
drays on the ground below.
In the new building the same prelimina-
ries for the lifting of the machinery had
and the heavy stereotyping machinery
were lifted into the third story by huge
derrick.
The removal Of the press was superin-
tended by the regular pressman. Nathan
Mcdowell and two experts from the
Goss factory at Chicago, j. G. Bodewig
and M Brudeshaber. who came to Mont
gomery for that purpose. They VIII re-
main In the city during the coming week
ha MI
deck on the press.
The transfer of The Advertisers prop
erty from the old to the new building was
accomplished by the transfer department.
of the Montgomery Brewing Company 10
this work Chief Engineer f.. ]. McAdams
OF the comp ny gave his personal super
vision. He remained throughout the long
job with the company's drays and large
force of hands In experimenting the re-
moyal Mr.. McAdams was assisted by
Walter Brooks and Will Hines and
large force of laborers. It was accom-
piished without loss or accident
The second problem in Importance which
confronted The Advertiser management
next to the transfer of the machinery,
was the establishment of the electric mo-
tors for the press. the stereotyping outfit
and the six linotype machines with cleo
trio and gas connection for. the machine
J. Chambers of the Montgomery Light
and Power Company assumed personal
charge of this work and 1t was promptly
done without the sembiance of hitch. a
twenty -five-horse power electric motor
was established in the press room. Ave-
horse power moter in the stereotypng de-
partment and an electric motor for each
of the typesetting machines with the re-
quired gas connections were put In. This
Ia rr~fw q n
c. NJ. Thompson, the company's electrt-
clans and Dan Downs the company's gas
filter, assisted by ]. C. Williams and John
Ryan.
The first actual work of removal was
done by The Advertiser Machinist H. A.
Roehn, before o'clock Sunday morn
ing AS soon as the last types for the
Sunday morning issue of The Advertiser
had been set he began the disnantling
of the first Of the typesetting machines
A little after o'clock he had the first
machine ready for removal and by
o'clock all of them were in pieces and
ready to be carted to the new building
All the machines were ready for opera
ton Yesterday afternoon and the type in
today's paper was set by them.
Stereotyper William CANNED had 49,
heavy machinery in his department rekAuy
TO be moved in a remarkable short time
af-er the plates Tor sundays AdVertlser
had been sent to the press room The
machinery is now establish In the stereo-
tipping room of the new building.
The dismatling of the big press began
at Z o'clock Sunday morning. as soon AZ
the final paper of that issue had been
run off Piece by piece. the big machine
was taken apart and made ready for the
draymen. BY afternoon it had been en-
tirely taken apart and large portions Or
It had been carried to its new room
The difficulties involved in the moving
of the machinery of The Advertiser may
be appreciated from the fact that por-
tions of the press weighed more than
800 pounds, while its total weight 10 more
than thirty tons The steam table used
in the stereotyplng department weighs
about 1850 pounds and thu base OF each
of the typesetting machines Neished lsoo
pounds