Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

comics. and the printer concludes to
print 1000 copies, or any number, what
Is the printers rule about that? A..
The printers rule, as far as have
hIlOwh tiff the printer sees fit he can
print as many thousand as he likes, on
the suppOsitiOn that they will be need
ed. If they are needed he is so much
III; and if not he is so much out be-
cause, ii is a total loss to him if they
do not take them.
Q. Have you had any experience or
illustration of that very thing i'm your
own business! A. Well, l have had a
great many. l remember one in parti-
great many. l remember one in partic-
ular. | had case at the termination
of the last century. i'm 1899. l had a
job on a draft book, an order book that
il concern would order every six
| months, and thought l would print up
| extra. On the heading is a date-line-
Portland, Maine (blank) 1899, (hlank)."
| So | printed up the extra book, and
bound 1t up and when they wanted 1t
on the LIST of January l delivered it.
They returned it to me because it was
1899" and should be 1900 l lost it
and had to print it over again. rec
| ollect it because it is quite recent.
q. What is your experience as to a
| good worlsman,-how much he will set
up in a day? A. My experience is that
in nine hOurs-that he has got to be an
awfuliy good man to set up 5000 a day
and keep his case up-he has got to be
an awfully good man.
q. In press work, which under this
| statute | believe is ninety cents, is it
not for 500? (Mr. WILLIAMSON. l
Ethnk sO)
| @. What is the ordinary price for
that. Mr.. Loring, in your business? A.
Well. I'm my business ! usually base my
| prices per thousand. If ! had a job of
500 impressions | would not look at 1t
for less than $500. / mean by that, of
course. no, all classes of work. One Of
these little compliments that you have
been talking so much about here would
not come under that head. but it would
be an average blank, or something Of
that kind.
| Undergraduates by Judge FOSTER.),
q. Do you agree with Mr.. Berry as
to the number of places in Portland
where they are competent to do the
printing if they had the privilege? A.
| should believe anything that Mr.. Ber-
ry said.-anythin2.
Q. So should l. and I do. ! do not
question it hair. Now will you name
the places that you recall where they
are capable of doing job printing such
as these reports you have seen here
| these Department Reports. and the
come under the head of job printing; it
would be book work.
Q. If the State Printing was divided
among different printers. how would
it be? A. l do rot question but what
there are several Offices in the city of
Portland that could do any part of the
State work if it We're divided up into
parts. as you speak of.
Q. Have you any doubt that there is
one or more in Lewiston? A. l never
vas i'll printing Office II. Lewiston in
my life. Lewiston is place that is Off
the map as far as / go. The only time
I go there is when the shrine is in SEES
sion.
@. You nave heard of the Lewiston
journal. haven't You" a. Certainly.
Q. That is doing SORE of the fines.
job work in the State. ii not the best?
A. That is matter OF opinion. Judge.
Q. Have YOU heard of it? A. Yes,
sir.
Q. ! don't want you to say it is any
better than yours. Don't you do it.
How many men do You employ in your
Job printing office for job printing? A.
I employ six.
=. What do you pay them? A. I
pay the best of them SO per week
@. And the poorest A. I pay the
cheapest man in my Office S. week
Q. Seven to fifteen? A. Yes sly.
q. Do you have any girls there? a.
I have one.
Q. What do you pay her? A. pay
her 81 u week.
Q. Just the same as the poorest
man? y. Yes. sir; l pay her what |
think she is worth.
q. The best girl in your office is
equal to the poorest man? A. The
best and the poorest seem to be good
deal alike; they are about che and one
q. You furnish envelopes. do you
not: \. Yes, sir.
Q. Is not that a part Of your bust
ness: a. I furnish all kinds of NOR
camille printing, and some kinds of
book work.
Q. Will you take that and tell us
what you will furnish that for, printed
as it is. one thousand or five thousand,
both ways: A. ] should prefer not to
answer that question.
Q. [ would like to have you. A. +
know you would. l prefer not to an
Swer il.
@. Why? A. Well because I think
it is not called for I do not think I
need to give my prices away. to be adj
vertised in the papers.
Q. do not know as you need to. A.
1 have a business to maintain. | am
not doing the State Printing.
JUDGE FOSTER. L can reason from
that, l guess.
Testimony Of Herbert II. White.
EXAMINED BY MIR. BAKERY
I reside in BrOoklne, Mass, and am
engaged in the printing business in