New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-08
OFFERS TYPE MACHINES.
Proposition TO Install Them in
Government Printing Office.

Washington. March The House COMMITTEES On
Appropriation to-day received proposition from
u. T. Dodge, president % tie NerEe-tla-er Limo
type Company, ami J. L. Kennedy. representing
that company la Washington. 20 equip tho Govern
Ment Praurs once with ty4cscuiaE ma-hiacs.
TEa specific proposition was for fle committee 90
u..sE srr-.. red La ireu of $1,000. which aIl pay
tac Ilr- .ase price and supplies iug forty rl-a-.e'
mated taat 80 aii take 20 ua. r.t-F On etl.F me
ono" e.i o.. Plan ll.9os-i Is ler i.e pun. , -
number has been secured AAe statement VAS
made % tAe committee oy Nr. seemed. taa, me ne
Kennedy said
The MergentAa.e.r laotyPe machine is o. almost
-f-'' L' , o.. ~. E'....'e . '- 49, ~
into which tAs linotype has not been introduced
mo Inc da.iy neWslSfer branch ~ tas grlata.-
trada It's progress IA that branch has been steady
IN me United States, Canada aad Eu-lAHd quite
named that are not printed from linotype compost
ton arc EO few that % 10 not al injustice ta ,Hl-
ige yeI fully 81 Ter cent OF This work throusaoul
weekes. in this country are scr up Oh t1s linotype.
a large percentage OF these papers have Ea COM
Los'ns TQgi9 81 J-er %" "a ot' 'o WORK '7 cone GA
Tho ratio OF work tho linotype w4I accomplish,
averaEe Is Jour 20 one general averls. II 300
ems yer hour IS maintained or daily newspaper
'..'. re. -..N.
nal Rc,1rd 4oJj to- s15 cHs "a hour
would Ia IA very rca sGrabIe estimate On very Gus
book work where time Is consumed In plIucl-ar
i5 I4aS' ''''' 10 '''' ems al '''-' -
cleaner copy Is turned out By tho machine op-
type II the wrong key IS touched. tho wrong ma
tho proper one placed ia before the line Is cast
The absolute perfection or the dlztrl1CtiHE mech
ceItage Of errors which occur IN hand composition
BY errors Of distribution. as the "a. getting into
b. box etc and such a thing inverted letter
raised spaces between words Is not known IN
character can be made in from - 20 CD per cent
less Time than by the old hand set method and AZ
The finished printed matter from linotype COM
yGstaGaatIon and aignmeat are both Gut5ma5 IN
tho linotype, and where machines are properly
Inc queries may arise in your minds: Why Is II
has been adopted and approved generally in The
industry, has not yet found its way into the Gov
ernment Printing once is the only lmportaHt
iaagard In tie march Of progress? From Informal
tion which has come TO ne from many sources
In the printing business, when they think Of and
tax about the Government Printing Odico. IS. why
10 answer the queries further than % say that I
and has been. Hitherto. ne has held that type,
government TO introduce Thorn until their adapta-
ibsf bs Is now OF The opinion thlt lie acfiTSs
assures their adaptability to q large part OF the
government printing.
Not the least important reason why the linotype
| nachlnes should be in tho Government Printing
Omca is the great and constant growth Of tho work
of government printing. This consideration makes
II imperative that instead OF running altogether 70
/ floor space by the acre. approved mechanical de-
/ vices. which labor saving, time saving and
space saving, should assist in taking ~ the
Z Increases.
I The Mergenthaler linotype machine is as much
Of a dxture in thH printing industry as the power
. the approval Of the employing printers and the
iourneymen printers. il Is no exaggeraton TO saw
that fl has the approval OF the entire daily press
OF the United States. The fact that one prominent
daily paper among all tho papers of the country
does not use the linotype machine can scarcely
said affect the force Of the statement OF fact
I contained IN the preceding sentence.
AIr. Chairman, ] wish to say. passing. that
under the old system 81 printing from movable
; tvpes we had good typography and Door tvpoyra-
+ phv in books. periodicals and uevspap ers. You
. paid your money and got what YOU wanted IL Is
. SO to-day when competition IS almost universlIly
I done on the linotype machine. You may have good
p printing OF poor printing That e. a matter Cor
i every ono 10 determine for himself Good vor <
+ and moor work are characteristics OF .-er,- frN
/ duatry.
/ For some time there have been Indications that
, the printers r. the Government Printing ONCE
! would oppose the Introduction OF the machines.
Bor the sake OF the good name OF the craft hons