The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-12-06

In making the eleventh annual re.
port OF the National Baptist Publish
ing Board, 4ocated in this city, to the
National Baptist Convention, which
convened in Washington, ID. c., Sep
tenlber ILL, 1907, DR.. r. H. Boyd
stated that contracts had been made
for about S20,OUO worth Of the latest
improved machinery; that new build
ihgs were being erected, and that ALTO
gether about $4,000 would be spent
. during the ensuing fiscal year. thus
I adding to the facilities for getting
out more work and better work. A Wis
it to this plant by your correspondent
reveals the fact that the buildings are
now complete. One three and a half
story brick with an eighteen-inch wall,
double floors, inlaid with fiber, win
doWs on the four sides, is to be used
as manufacturing building
On the first floor is an up-to date
pressroom with nine printing presses.
On three Of these presses is to be seen
the new cross automatic continuous
paper feeder. The capacity Of the cyl.
inder presses is from $4,000 to $4,000
Impressions every ten hours. There
is one new Miehle printing press,
regular book press, which will enable
the Board at least to keep up with the
enormous increase in the demand for
its output of Sunday school song
books and periodicals. This is an ad-
dition in presses to those now in oper-
alton. There is not more complete
pressroom in the city of Nashville,
Notwithstanding it is the home Of pub
fishing houses.
'The second floor is occupied by the
bookbinding department, complete and
we'll managed. New machinery, con-
sisting of a Dexter folding machine
and Fuller's folder paper feeder, has
been added to this department, which
already could easily boast of being the
most complete bookbinding establish.
ment operated by Negroes in the
world
The third floor will be the compoS
q ing and proof departments. The ad
dition to these departments Is Wash
ington hand press to be used for TAX
ing impressions, printing banners, etc
The two linotype machines, the stereO
typing outfit, with the scores of cases
of type, will be in place the latter par
of this week. There is an elevator
in the building and basement, on,
new 45.horse power engine that viii
run the machinery and make the elec
trio lights for the plant.
- s.oo.,l L,,sI53,r. l. 49,
stories, the mailing rooms, the count
ing rooms and sales department will
occupy the first floor, while the ed
torial rooms, the field secretary's OF
flee and the chapel will occupy tn
second floor. One Of the unique feS
lures of this institution is its devC
tional exercises, which are held a
$50 each morning, it being earnestl
requested of each employee, unless e.
pecially excused, to be present. d
Boyd, the Inauguration and founder {
the institution, as we'll as the promo
ter of the movement, pays a high con
pliment to these devotional exercise
declaring that on this hinges wha
ever success the institution has a
tained.
When all of the departments sha
have moved to their new quarters Il
entire BAPTIST publishing plant wi
be practically under one roof-that
you can 90 through four of the bull
ings without going out of doors. Y
six buildings are occupied, namel
one threestory, three two.story al
two one-story buildings. The indie
tions are that during the next fsc
year the circulation in the periodics
will reach 12,0O0000 while the outu
as a whole Will be about Is per Gel
aloye that Of this year. Nothing h