The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-14
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New Machine Handles 10000
Pieces an Hour
READY FOR MAIL BAGS
Does Everything but Take TO
Office

New York, May l3.-More than two
centuries ago brainy German penned
that memorable phrase, Necessity is the
mother of invention" 1t was trle then
it is true today. and has seldom been
more clearly and foreibly exemplifisd
than in the gradual development, through
difficulty and encouragement, :nso u.ti-
mate perfection, of the Agnew Auto
Mailing Machine.
This remarkably simple. yet effective,
piece Of mechanism is the result Of mere
than twelve years or experiment on The
part Of Mr.. Lee Agnew, whose business
life has been spent in the service of the
modern newspaper and who has been am
ply rewarded for his years OF labor by
receiving one of the largest prices ever
paid for an invention in this new cen
fury.
The Agnew Auto-Mailing Machine re-
ceives the papers. magazines or any form
of publication, in lunches of fifty, more
or less, as they are picked up from The
press and automatically feeds, colds.
wraps. pastes and finally stencils upon
each wrapper its correct individual ad-
dress and asserts in predetermined num-
bers into the mail bag at the average
rate of 1000 per hour.
Nearly all complex highly effective ma
chimes require skilled labor TO operate
them, as in the case of the perfec&ing
press and linotype machine; but in the
case of the Agnew Auto-Mailing Ma
chine no expert work IS necessary. One
boy can operate a machine which viii co
the work OF eighteen competent men.
In many respects the Agnew Auto Mail
ing Machine is the most interesting and
striking invention connected with news
papers and magazines, accomplishing re-
suits so varied as to seem almost the
work of human hands, yet without, any
supervision or assistance save Of the'sim-
plest kind.
Its Importance can scarcely be over
estimated 1t does for the circulating
department what the linotype and per-
fecting press do for the me anical de-
partment. 1t reduces the handlins and
marketing of the edition to an exact Ec1-
cree and places it beyond the reach of
strike or ordinary accident, since two ma
chimes will, within two hours from the
time the edition leaves the press have
the daily issue of the larges- newspaper
ready for delivery at the posrofilce. Tor
magazines having large circulation one
machine will do the work of at least one
hundred girls.
So much for efficiency. Now for the
all-important question of expense. In
these days, when the C ost of newspapers
and magazines to the public has been re-
duced to a minimum; when u III peGe
high class morning paper is handed out
to you for one cent every week day in
the year; when such vast sums are spent
in the streuous effort TO surpass sharply
competing rivals. it is absolutely neces-
sary that every possible saving be made
in all departments.
The saving effected in this department
by the use of the Agnew Auto-Mailing
Machine may be roughly estimated when
it is known, as before stated, that each
machine accomplishes the work of eigh-
teen men on a daily newspaper outside
of the addressing department. and
hundred girls on modern magazine.
An expert wrapper, earning SIS weekly,
is able to prepare for mailing, without
addressing. not exceeding 700 copies per
hour. On the other hand, the average
capacity of the Agned Auto-Mailing Ma
chine is 1000 per hour. folded, wrapped.
pasted. addressed and assorted, ready Tor
the mail bags.
There is a saving of more than $500
week on a single machine. with an ad-
ditional saving of % per cent of floor
space and room, which are also slight
but important items. The machines need
never be all worked TO the maximum ca
pacity, which always leaves margin of
effectiveness in case of unavoidable break
age or repairs-an emergency not likely
TO happen. however. as the invention.
as before told, is extremely simple in
construction and operation.