The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-05-18
BUSY HOTEL PRINT SHOP.
THRNS OUT TWELVE MENUS
DAILY AND MUCH OTHER
WORK.
Plant Completely Equipped-Many
Regular and Special Forms Made,
With No Service From Outside
Presses Run bv Electric Power,


With No Service From Outside
Presses Run by Electric Power.
Publicity has been described as the
newest of modern industries, and
while it is nothing of the sort-the
basic idea being as old as the time
when Noah warned Shem, Ham and
Japhet and their wives of the ap-
preaching flood-the appreciation of
its value grows so rapidly as to cause
constant changes in the printers
trade, and an ever-increasing use of
printers ink. Already the plan of
separate printing establishment, de-
voted wholly to the affairs of one
concern which maintains it, is an old
one and from publicity in the ordinary
sense of advertising matter, such
printed matter needed.
Among establishments which have
fallen into line with this idea are the
big hotels of the country, but 1t is
doubtful if any of them have such
complete and busy plant as that at
hotel in this city, where is permanent
ly established shop capable of cater
ing to all the wants of the concern.
The Bellevue-Stratford printing shop
employs steadily four men besides
the foreman, Stanton S. Foulkes, and,
sometimes, in busy seasons, the num-
Der is six. There is on hand never
less than $1,000 worth of stationery,
or stock, as printers call it, and the
capacity of the plant is as great as
improved machinery and power can
make it. The type used consists OF
more than 800 fonts and the presses
of Golding, which will print form
Is by % inches, and Colts Armory,
with a chase of 10 by Is inches.
There is also a paper cutter, worked
by power which will make a 26-inch
cut What the shop turns out In
year, at current commercial prices
for such work, cannot be estimated,
but the business of a concern with
such an equipment and such force,
making a full day every working day,
would be sufficient to keep the wolf
from several doors besides those OF
the workmen engaged. The shop Is
only maintained, however, because
of it's great convenience in producing
instantly, without pauses or promises,
the particular thing desired.
On a first glance the question might
arise as to how even so large con-
Germ as this hotel can fully occupy
the time of such an extensive print
cry. for the daily menu is about the
only need which first occurs to one. But
there is more than one daily menu,
and so unnumbered forms, such as
forms in the way of account blanks
and so unnumbered form, such as
wine lists, writing stationery and
menus and programs for special
events. Of the regular menus there
are two a day-one for luncheon and
one for dinner-for the restaurant,
the roof garden, the cafe, the buffet
and the tables of the first and second
officers of the hotel, making total
of II every day. These are exclusive
of the wine lists.
Then there are, besides four regular
kinds of bill heads, many sorts OF
blanks used daily, such as registers,
cash books, departure books-tor the
name and address by which depart
ing guests may be communicated
with-books for listing articles lost
and found, time books, salary books,
laundry lists, and others of similar
purpose. All the floor clerks send IN
their lists of what they want every
morning, and if there ever happens
to be a time when these lists are light
the several grades of writing station
cry are repleted.
The menus for special occasions,
banquets given in the hotel to private
persons or to societies, are all printed
here. and may be as elaborate as the
giver of the feast desires. Generally
they are CT sufficient elaboration to
serve as souvenirs of the occasion,
with engravings and other artistic
establishment, and cost sometimes
as much as 25 or 80 cents apiece.
Such work, wnen requiring it, Is
bound in the shop, as are some OF
the other small forms of more than
one sheet, but the books are sent to
an outside bindery. Arrangements
are now being made to put in an en-
bossing plant.
The shop is as pleasantly located
as all the other work places in the
great hotel with plenty of light and
all conveniences. The power which
runs the presses is electricity furnish
ed from the hotels own plant.-Phila-
de1nhia Record