Evening star., 1905-10-01
UNCLE SANS PRINTERY
NEWS NOTES FROM THE BIG Gov
ERNMENT SHOP.

Recently in discussing the question O
the cost of public printing L. C. Hay, fore
man of the job room, made reference to the
cost of several jobs selected at random
from bundle of jackets lying on his desk
The first called for 100000 quarter-sheet
cap blanks. The cost to the department
was $780, and from this amount was t.
be deducted S41 for the paper. The next
jacket indicated $3.50 as the price of 200 ,o0C
reference cards, of which over $21o was fol
the cardboard. Mr.. Hay next picked up a
bound blank book or Steam Log" as the
Navy Deartment called it. This order was
fourteen changes of the text and form OF
blank in the 256 pages, and the entire cost
was but $3.50 for the entire order. These
rates included press work and the paper.
In reference to the alleged excessive cost
of composition Mr.. Hay pointed out that
folding. inserting plates, etc." in the pub
lie printers report is included In the cost
of composition, whereas 1t Is the custom
in most offices to add this to the cost of
binding. 1t is said at the big prlntery that
this cost has been charged to the foreman
of printing for fifty years. Regardless of
this fact considerable criticism has been
leveled at the printing office on account OF
the "cost of composition" regardless OF
the volume of product turned out. case
in point is said to be the year book, which
requires over sixty-five carloads of paper.
John H. w. Thrust of the clerical force,
supreme representative of this jurisdiction
at the meeting of the parent body of the
Brotherhood of the Union at Niagara Falls
on October 1920 has been instructed to
favor the change of name of the organiza-
ton. The name Union" has been the
means of frequently giving the impression
that the body was a labor organization
rather than, a fraternal and social body.
General and Personal Notes.
William J. Maloney of the main press
room and Miss Mary e. Fitzgerald were
married at the parsonage of st. Aloysfus'
Church last Thursday. Both of the young
people have many friends in the Office and
were the recipients of congratulations from
ALL They will be at home in the near fu-
ture at their residence on Sd street near q
northwest ..'-
Six Lanston keyboards temporarily in
stalled in the Gazette division are being
used by two four-hour details of compost
tors from the specification division In order
that they might learn how TO manipulate
the per-perforating mechanism. 1t Is ex-
pected that by the time the pipes are laid
on the fifth floor of the new building there
will be enough operators broken in to
fully man the forty-six machines to be used
on that branch of the work.
Cornelius j. Lucy, an assistant foreman
of the main press room, has returned from
a fifteen days trip to Boston on the
Rachael Stevens four-masted ice BOAT
plying between this port and Penopscot,
Me Mr.. Lucy says that the trip was so
satisfactory that it will be- repeated next
summer.
The death of Thomas Doonan of the spec.
i6ca ton division recently removed one or
the most widely-known composttors in the
government printing office. Mr.. Doonan
was thoroughly acquainted with the work
in all it's branches and had many friends
throughout the printing service.
Huger Godbold of the bindery sewing
room recently celebrated his eightieth
birthday anniversary and received many
gratulations from his friends and CO.
workers
James U Mccormick of the specification
division was elected chairman of that divi-
sion Friday, in a four-cornered fight. by a
good majority. This is said to be the larg-
est chapel of printers in the world.
Joseph A. Burns, binder of the docu-
ment division of the bindery.- recently had
a leg amputated at a hospital at Philadel-
phia, a wound received during the civil war
being responsible for the operation.
The blank b;ndery sewing room is finish
ing for the Post Office Department the
gathering and binding of the contracts, re-
Gently expired, for carrying the mails for
the period from 1902 to 1905. Proper bind
ine of these contracts is said to be neces-
sary for future reference.