Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-23
MANY SEE IT WORK
Operations in New Print Building of
the Woodmen Prove Very
Interesting.
Mechanics Get 1t Adjusted Nicely in
One Oay-Mailins of Paper Is
a Difficult Problem.

Thousands of copies of the official
paper of the Modern Woodmen have
been printed since the starting of the
press yesterday morning and the press
is running them off at great rate
and doing excellent work. j. A Comp
ton. the representative of the Walter
Scott company, which built the ma
chine, stated this morning that in all
hi, wide experience in setting up
presses he has never known one to
iehave so well at the start as this
che has. Mr.. Compton has >set up
some 600 presses in his time and he
is Immensely pleased with this one
Some of the presses have taken as
much as six months before they could
do the work cut out for them in a
satisfactory manner and few of them
have ever taken less than q week.
Thousands of Copies on.
The gigantic Woodmen press, how
ever. ran satisfactorily before a day
had elapsed. E. A. Adams, the day
and who had charge of the printing
of the paper while the work was being
dole in Indianapolis. is also we'll
Pleased with the way the machine
runs. At present it is printing at the
rate of about 5000 copies per hour
and every copy is almost perfect. The
capacity of the machine, which is 16,
900 an hour, will not be taxed for q
long time unless something should
har pen to delay the work for a few
days and then it would be run faster
Mr.. Compton stated that what the
press was built for was to get perfect
work rather than high speed and he
believes the machine will give its best
work when printing at the rate o.
7,00C or 5000 az hour, which is the
rate it will be run at after the bear
iigs and gears have been given 4
chance to Timber up with month OF
so of running.
Attracts Much Interest.
About noon yesterday the press was
i'll proper working order and since
then il has not been stopped except
to put on more rolls of paper. Abou'
$4,000 copies were run off YESTERDAY
and by noon tomorrow the total viii
he about 10000. The giant printin:
press has attracted no small amount
of interest throughout the city ans
MANY visitors are watching it all thu
time
Mailing Is Big job.
The printing of the paper is conf
paratively small task to that of dis
trituting it, and tho postoffice authori
ties have spent much time in prepar
ing. the scheme" for work. The mali
ing clerks of the local postofTice anj
the railway mail service authoritie.
have now completed system whereof
the work is being handled with dis
patch, and when the packages go on
they are in order so that it is not nee
essary to touch them until they reaCl
the distributing point for the stat
TO which they are intended. Wor
wa; first begun on papers for Main
and California, these being the farthes
points to reach. The local copies wi
be the last sent out.
Wagon Loads at Time.
The big force of clerks mailing OF
the papers is turning the papers OF
to the postoffice at fast rate, an
wagon loads are constantly leavin
The printing building. Postmaster
\. J Mcdonald is watching the wor
closely and a clerk from the loo
office is constantly on duty, weighir
the wagons as they leave. The empi
wagon is weighed, the gross weigh
of the loaded wagon is taken, and Il
weight of the sacks is computed. tt
Woodmen society is then charged Il
postage for the difference 1t is esi
mated that the two issues. the ModeI
Wcodman and the Royal Neighbor
which are to be issued each mont
VII increase the revenues OF ii
Rock Island postoffice $500 mont